Anti-surveillance camera activist caught by surveillance camera
Bo Raxo
Guy is all bent out of shape over surveillance cameras, and he gets caught
making obscene phone calls from his temp job by - a surveillance camera!
Link includes a photo - looks like a complete loser.
Bo Raxo
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-licam0124,0,3714980.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
Surveillance Camera Activist Charged in Harassment
By Samuel Bruchey
Staff Writer
January 24, 2004
For a recent newspaper article on the potential ills of surveillance cameras
in public places, Bill Brown led a reporter on a walking tour of Manhattan,
deploring the mechanical eyes disguised as street signs or affixed to
buildings that infringe -- "like mushrooms in a forest" -- on personal
freedoms.
"This is warping human beings," said Brown, 44, at one point, narrowing his
eyes to a "conspiratorial squint," according to the Jan. 17 New York Times
article.
What the self-styled social activist did not mention was that two weeks
before the article was published, he was the one caught on camera, then
arrested for making hundreds of obscene phone calls from inside a Manhattan
law office where he had a temporary job, investigators said.
On Jan. 8, Brown, of 20 Fairview Place, Brooklyn, was charged with
misdemeanor aggravated harassment after being taken into custody by Suffolk
County district attorney investigators. He is scheduled to be arraigned
March 11 in First District Court in Central Islip. If convicted, Brown faces
up to a year in prison.
"I was absolutely appalled when I saw the article," said a Huntington man
whose 9-year-old daughter answered the phone and allegedly was subjected to
one of Brown's sexually explicit screeds. "If you were doing a story,
wouldn't you at least do a basic background check?"
Catherine Mathis, a spokeswoman for The New York Times said Friday, "We are
not aware of any past criminal activity on the part of Mr. Brown." Brown
could not be reached for comment.
Brown, who was an assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design
between 1990 and 1994, was arrested six times in Rhode Island for calling
random telephone numbers in hopes that a young girl would answer the phone,
investigators and school officials said.
The Huntington girl's father, who asked that his family not be identified,
said Brown must have coaxed his daughter's name from her when he made the
Dec. 28 call. When the girl answered, Brown allegedly threatened to rape her
and her mother, investigators said. Investigators say Brown had repeated his
earlier Rhode Island pattern of making random calls, threatening young girls
who answered the phone, in the hundreds of calls he made.
The Huntington call was traced to Debevoise & Plimpton, a prominent midtown
law firm where Brown had occasionally worked as a temporary proofreader,
investigators and firm officials said.
Investigators pulled phone records and discovered that more than 700 random
calls had been made over several hours that evening. They also used employee
access cards to trace movements inside the firm, which occupies 15 floors.
But it was a surveillance camera inside the lobby that nailed him,
investigators said.
Brown, who -- according to the newspaper article -- has mapped out
surveillance cameras in parts of several cities, knew the location of most
cameras inside the office. He deliberately covered his face or averted his
glance as he walked by, investigators said.
But one camera in the lobby he didn't notice.
It recorded Brown entering the firm that night in the same blue knit cap and
scarf he would be pictured wearing in the Times article.
Brown was arrested on Jan. 8, outside a temporary employment agency and
later admitted to making the calls, authorities said.
"If he's leading people around on tours like he's some sort of patron of
human rights," the Huntington girl's father said, "they should at least know
who they're standing beside."
George Orwell
"Bo Raxo" <invasio...@thepentagon.removethis.com> wrote:
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> Link includes a photo - looks like a complete loser.
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> Bo Raxo
Is there a link with your photo?
Scroll down for my comments on this story.
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> What the self-styled social activist did not mention was that two weeks
> before the article was published, he was the one caught on camera, then
> arrested for making hundreds of obscene phone calls from inside a Manhattan
> law office where he had a temporary job, investigators said.
>
> On Jan. 8, Brown, of 20 Fairview Place, Brooklyn, was charged with
> misdemeanor aggravated harassment after being taken into custody by Suffolk
> County district attorney investigators. He is scheduled to be arraigned
> March 11 in First District Court in Central Islip. If convicted, Brown faces
> up to a year in prison.
>
> "I was absolutely appalled when I saw the article," said a Huntington man
> whose 9-year-old daughter answered the phone and allegedly was subjected to
> one of Brown's sexually explicit screeds. "If you were doing a story,
> wouldn't you at least do a basic background check?"
>
> Catherine Mathis, a spokeswoman for The New York Times said Friday, "We are
> not aware of any past criminal activity on the part of Mr. Brown." Brown
> could not be reached for comment.
>
> Brown, who was an assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design
> between 1990 and 1994, was arrested six times in Rhode Island for calling
> random telephone numbers in hopes that a young girl would answer the phone,
> investigators and school officials said.
Seven arrests for this bizarre offense and they think a year in jail will
stop him?
It's obvious this guy is mentally ill so why isn't he being sent to a mental
hospital for treatment?
bill...@lawyer.com
> stop him?
>
> It's obvious this guy is mentally ill so why isn't he being sent to a mental
> hospital for treatment?
Yeah the same sicko also used girl's panties to set a church on fire
back in '90:
"Underwear used to set church fire" from Buffalo News, May 11, 1990
(LINK BELOW)
A Black Rock man was charged with setting a fire at Assumption
Catholic Church, 435 Amherst St., early today by stapling women's
underwear to the church and setting it ablaze.
The rectory's housekeeper was awakened by noise and telephoned police
about 3:20 a.m. to report a prowler.
After a short chase, police arrested William J. Brown, 30, who lives
across the street at 436 Amherst, and charged him with second-degree
arson, criminal mischief and criminal trespass.
Hertel Station Officer Kathleen Plesac doused the flames, which caused
some damage to one wall of the wooden walkway between the back of the
church and the rectory, police said.
"He wouldn't say anything when we asked him why he stapled the
underwear to the church and burned them," Officer Mark Makowski said.
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