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London Police Encourage Citizens To Report Contents
Of Each Others' Bins To Prevent Terrorism
Looking back at big brother cameras is also terrorism
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A new London Metropolitan Police anti-terrorism
campaign is encouraging law abiding citizens to look through
each others' bins to check for "suspicious" items
such as chemical bottles, and to report any troubling findings
to the police.
"Don't rely on others. If you suspect it
report it," the Metropolitan
Police press release states.
"Londoners are being asked to trust their instincts and
report suspicious behaviour to help combat terrorist activity."
The posters will be displayed in newspapers, at
tube and rail stations as well as on the back of buses. A suitably
Stasi-like radio
ad has also been produced.
A second poster has been produced outlining how
returning the ever-watching gaze of one of the 4.2 million CCTV
cameras in the UK should also be considered suspicious behaviour.
Staring back at big brother is a no-no, the authorities
can watch you but you cannot look back at them - you must practice
cognitive dissonance or engage in "doublethink" as
Orwell called it, pretending that the cameras are not even there.
This is somewhat difficult to avoid, however,
considering there is one camera for every 14 people in Britain.
A post on BoingBoing.net
highlights the insidious and disturbing nature of this campaign:
Even worse, though, is the idea that you should
report your neighbors to the police for looking at the creepy
surveillance technology around them. This is the first step
in making it illegal to debate whether the surveillance state
is a good or bad thing. It's the extension of the ridiculous
airport rule that prohibits discussing the security measures
("Exactly how does 101 ml of liquid endanger a plane?"),
conflating it with "making jokes about bombs."
The British authorities are bent on driving
fear into the hearts of Britons: fear of terrorists, immigrants,
pedophiles, children, knives... And once people are afraid
enough, they'll write government a blank check to expand its
authority without sense or limit.
The Met Police campaign follows a similar line of previous anti-terror
initiatives, encouraging citizens to become Stasi-like operatives,
mistrustful of everyone around them and ready to report each
other at the drop of a hat.
A 2007 campaign, which we
covered in detail, urged the public to be mindful
of anyone who uses a phone, carries a bag, drives a van or takes
pictures with a camera, because they may be terrorists.
A 2006
campaign consisted of five different posters designed
to drill it into the minds of all Londoners that anyone they
know could be a terrorist and they should report anything they
don't like the look of to the authorities.
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These kind of campaigns would be fitting in Stalinist
Russia or Cold War East Germany.
Even before the London bombings, we were subjected to
the same kind of propaganda.
In 2003 We were treated to the
"Watchful Eyes" campaign with all seeing eyes in the
sky above an iconic London bus. We were told that Big Brother
was watching and keeping us all safe.
In
March 2004, I wrote "It seems that London
is gearing up for a major terrorist attack very soon."
as it became increasingly apparent that the fear factor was
being upped considerably.
The "Life Savers" campaign featured a number of different
posters, one for each different race, that encouraged us to
report any suspicious activity. It also rather ominously directed
our attention to the London Underground and unattended bags.
Just over a year later in 2005, the July 7th Transport bombings
took place.
Once again I feel the same kind of pervading atmosphere all
around the city.
Headlines warn of an impending dirty
bomb attack, with the Home Office urging that the
country is at an increased risk of attack from nuclear and chemical
devices.
The Home Secretary has stated that an event is very likely
to occur soon, while revealing the details of a major new initiative,
known as CONTEST
TWO, which will see 60,000 security guards, train
conductors, store managers and the like trained by MI5 as part
a civilian
network of "terrorist" spotters, a practice
the security services have
been engaged in for sometime previous to last weekend's
announcement.
These anti-terror campaigns do nothing substantive to prevent
terrorism and only encourage fear and suspicion of everyone
and everything amongst the British public. They are a huge waste
of funding and above all are community dividing and socially
destructive.
POLITELY and INTELLIGENTLY voice your complaint
with the London Metropolitan Police here.
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