CelticBear’s Musings

BoingBoing recently posted an article on UK police spreading fear and suspicion:

♦ London cops declare war on photography

It links to the “2008 Counter-Terrorism advertising campaign” where you can see three posters that advises you to keep your eyes open and report suspicious activity, in a snazzy way that reminds me of the “fictional” posters in Children of Men advising people to “report all suspicious behaviour.”

BoingBoing then more recently posted an article featuring people’s parody posters, such as the one I’ve displayed in this post:

♦ Remixing the London police’s anti-photographer terrror posters

Now, I’m all for reporting crime. And preventing crime, absolutely. But there’s a marked difference between the advocation of being a normally responsible citizen of a cooperative society, and the plays on the psyche the UK (and US) governments currently use to create an underlying tone of anarchists communists terrorists around every corner. It creates a general feeling of baseline fear and acquiescence to police control that makes citizens into quiet and submissive sheep, susceptible to any parently acts by government to wrest control and privacy from us “for our protection.”