[Army Air Corps]

"...people will realize that the gates are an anathema to a democratic, open society,..."

Translation: "privacy is antithetical to the collective good."

Sounds like a group of neo-socialist busybodies to me.

[Abathar]

Heavy Trash, a coalition of "anonymous" architects, designers and urban planners, erected the bright orange, 12-foot viewing platforms outside the gates of three upscale Los Angeles neighborhoods.

Sounds like a group of liberal arts students who never made it on the starving artists tour and found that their degree was useless. Had to get real jobs and then do this "Anonymously" so their friends don't find out they stooped so low as to work to pay the bills.