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Lancaster, PA ( August 26,2009) The Constitution Party has joined a massive effort to stop the country’s largest (per capita) “spy cam” program in this city of 55,000 . A protest is planned for Saturday, August 29th. The event is gaining national attention as individuals and groups join forces to end an Orwellian surveillance camera program that tracks the movements of ordinary citizens as they move from place to place within the city limits.

“These cameras must come down. Social engineering and surveillance cannot be allowed to continue. What happens in one American city will surely spread, like a cancer to other cities unless we, the people, demand an end to it. This is a grave infringement on Americans’ 4th Amendment rights”, said Constitution Party National Committee Chairman Jim Clymer who will speak at the rally and march Saturday at 2:30 pm in Lancaster Square.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons and papers shall not be violated” means what it says, added Clymer who noted “The Founding Fathers were clear that warrantless intrusions such as the network of Lancaster’s city-wide cameras have no place in a free society”.

Clymer will join Citizens Against Public Surveillance (CAPS), RepublicMedia and a host of others committed to protecting Constitutional liberties in protesting the public-private partnership between Bosch, a global surveillance product manufacturer and the city of Lancaster.

RepublicMedia’s Sam Ettaro who has been exposing under-reported issues with the network of surveillance cameras in Lancaster wrote: “Concerns of conflict of interest include a Bosch employee on the board of the [private group that operates the camera system]... Executive Director of the company, Joe Morales’ [who holds a] seat on the [Lancaster] city council”. Ettaro has reported that the “Camera Monitor was FIRED after a background check revealed a history of harassment and impersonating public officials”.

The on-going protests demand “the full removal of the surveillance system, investigation into conflicts of interest, funding sources, and the use of gathered video surveillance data”.