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IndyBay: Santa Cruz
Date: 10/20/2008
At stake: Your privacy, Happy Meals, eyeballs

While we typically frown on copy and pasting entire articles into posts, we're going to make an exception here; it's lack of context is the context. If that makes any sense. Anyway, something went down at a McDonald's in Santa Cruz that, it seems, could have international repercussions. Or not.

Santa Cruz Indymedia | Police State and Prisons
McDonalds' Surveillance Cameras Stolen
by anonymous
Monday Oct 20th, 2008 2:03 PM

On October 18th both exterior surveillance cameras at the McDonalds on Ocean Street in Santa Cruz were stolen in a follow-up to the action in August. This time the cameras were removed and disposed of.

McDonalds is a major sponsor of the 2010 Winter Olympics which are flooding the city of Vancouver with increased surveillance and police presence (and invading native lands that have never been surrendered with rapacious corporate development and profiteering). Our enemy has technological eyes everywhere, but that only means that it is easier to gouge them out anywhere.
http://www.no2010.com

Wheels within wheels, people. Wheels within wheels.