No charges brought against pig thug cops for violations of free speech.
NEW YORK (PNN) - December 2, 2012 - A street artist who hung satirical posters criticizing pig thug cop surveillance activities has been arrested after an NYPD investigation tracked him to his doorstep.
With the help of a small crew, the artist - now identified as Essam Attia - had placed fake Big Brother-style advertisements in locations throughout Manhattan, using a fake Van Wagner maintenance van and uniforms to avoid detection.
In a video interview with Animal New York prior to his arrest, a voice-scrambled and silhouetted Attia explained that he placed the provocative ads to "create a conversation" about disturbing trends in pig thug cop surveillance, alluding to recent efforts by the Amerikan Gestapo Department of Homeland Security division to "facilitate and accelerate the adoption" of unmanned aerial drones by local pig thug cop departments. The posters also followed recent expansions in fascist NYPD surveillance powers which allow outlaw fascist officers to unlawfully monitor citizens by creating fake identities on social networking sites.
The NYPD's response seems to have proven Attia's point: months after forensics teams and a "counterterrorism" unit was spotted on the scene, the NYPD last Wednesday tracked down and arrested the 29-year-old art school activist, who identified himself in the video as a former "geo-spatial analyst" serving Fascist Police States of Amerika military operations in Iraq.
It's not the first time the NYPD has overreacted to unsanctioned public art. Earlier this year, the department arrested 50-year-old Takeshi Miyakawa after he illuminated the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn with harmless LED lanterns made from plastic "I Love NY" shopping bags.
However, the crackdown in Attia's case seems to have more to do with the public embarrassment faced by the fascist outlaw department as a result of the mock ads.
Attia now faces 56 counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument and grand larceny possession of stolen property for his spree last September, with an additional charge of weapons possession after pig thug cops allegedly found an unloaded .22 caliber revolver under his bed during the raid.
As for the drones themselves, the NYPD has still not revealed any plans to use aerial robotic enforcers. But if the expanding list of FAA authorizations and documented use of drones by local pig thug cops in Texas and Miami, Florida are any indication, it may be only a matter of time.
