Via qwghlm, some posters being used by the Metropolitan Police.
Far be it for me to sound alarmist, but this sort of thing was exactly what the Gestapo did; encourage petty little busy bodies to report their neighbours to the authorities for “suspicious” – i.e. “different” behaviour.
As Chris points out:
The endless calls for heightened vigilance and suspicion of your fellow citizens, in the absence of evidence of a specific threat may be in the name of security, but they lead to a form of mass insecurity.
Indeed. And if I was of a cynical bent, I might just suggest that that is the whole point of the exercise…
No… They’re doing it for our own good…
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Keep taking the tablets… 😀
We didn’t have this sort of hysteria when the IRA was blowing up London and it was the beeb and Labour Party that insisted on keeping a sense of perspective.
Now we have the beeb cheer leading so of the worst forms of authoritarianism in the so called free world.
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Would these be the same ‘experienced officers’ that shot a man on the tube when he was NOT a terrorist?
Andy.
An authoritarian government needs the people to live in fear – whether of terrorists, obesity, global warming, unemployment, crime, whatever does not actually matter. This gummint is ticking all the boxes – Tony Blair explained it all most eloquently on the Andrew Marr show back in September 2006.
Fucking hell, during the Cold War there was indeed a small risk that we’d all be blown to smithereens in our beds, but there wasn’t the same atmosphere of paranoia was there?
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