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Terrorists
Apologies for the long text but i thought you'd like the transcripts. The spelling is rough as it was never my intention to post this.
What does it mean to be a terrorist? Terrorists are people who use the plight of others to justify their existence. Who justify their extreme acts by claiming they are acting to protect others but in truth they use fear as a weapon, to try to control others. They claim the ends justify the means, that those who are hurt, those innocuous looking by standers caught up in their onward march to victory are clearly guilty by virtue of their race, the company they keep, guilty of the hanus crime of not being one of us, like the rest of us. They do not care about the individuals they lead but sacrifice them to the greater good with out a second thought as if they were ants to be stepped on.
By all these definitions our own government is nothing more than a bunch of terrorists. That is my accusation. They ride rough shot over the rights and liberties of their people and call it a necessary evil. They draft laws that make us presumed guilty until proven innocent. All for the unforgivable crime of looking suspicious, being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Let me tell you how they make these laws. They wait until you're scared, until the media and their cronies have whipped you up in to a frenzy over the hook handed terrorists in every mosque and asylum seeker que. The pandemics on the tv the cheaters in the benefit que, the world is full of tricksters and murderers out to get you, and who will protect you? They will of course, for a price, the price of your freedom. Doesn't that make them the biggest thief's of all?
You want to know what the governments, the laws definition of a terrorist is? Any one they want arrested. They pass laws promising their discretion and desernment citing evidence they conveniently can't show you or present in court. When a mans personal liberties are infringed on what he might have done on the basis of evidence that never sees the light of day i call that extra judicial process and kangaroo court. That no judge is necessary to throw some one behind bars for 48 days doesn't make it less of a sentence. Who is going to prosecute these policemen for wrongful arrest when they can just turn around and say they acted on evidence they can't disclose. The governments discretion can be remarkably indiscriminate but it is more frightening when it's application makes perfect sense.
Old men heckling prime ministers, public minded crusaders taking photos of illegally parked police cars. They have one thing in common, they're clearly all likely fronts for terrorist activity, at least the police seam to think so. Those camera men recording some police man beating a protester at the recent London riots would probably be terrorists too if it weren't for the inconvenient fact that they were media men and the footage was potential evidence. The government not wanting us to be able to go where we want when we want and take photos of what we want may not seem sinister until you realise the plethora of cameras has become a threat to their ability to reinvent the truth after the fact.
In our modern society from the cradle to the grave is about a different sort of security. It's about almost every action we take being taken down and used in evidence against us. Indeed the government has sought the capability to know everything we say, everything we do and as much as possible everything we think from the cradle to the grave. It is us the cameras are watching most of the time. Jeramy beadle doesn't have a patch on this government. It's all one big joke at our expense with a very nasty punch line.
It's not the ability to watch you in public in one place at one time. It's that they watch you almost every where all the time. 1000nds of hours of you shopping, picking your nose, making out with your girl friend on some public bench is indiscriminately captured and lovingly stored in police archives with little legal constraint as to what it can be used for and how long it can be kept. As we speak government spooks are salivating over the possibility of linking all these cameras up under the watchful eye powerful analytical software. Watchmen that never sleep diligently scanning number plates and faces tracking their movements. Your expression, your tone of voice, your ethnicity cross referenced and correlated to determine how much of a threat you are. Not so much anything you say as anything you don't say can be taken down and used in evidence against you. This is the future they want for you, These security men who promise you peace in our time.
So long as you're carrying your ID card that is. Have the misfortune to be found tied naked to a lamp post with your pubes dyed orange and we'll have to book you for not carrying identification, you've clearly a nefarious reason for that sort of behaviour. After all only the guilty would want to hide their identity. Well the guilty and any activists who worry about what lists they might appear on if their face turns up at the wrong protest when something kicks off.
Yes we can say with Calgacus they make a desert and call it peace. A desert barren of controversial statements aberrant behaviour and tasteless jokes. They are all hate crimes now. By any means do not let the precious ears of the masses hear anything that might offend them, that might cause them to become impassioned or provoke debate, that is clearly a hate crime. Do not allow them to see anything that may offend their sensibilities or question their own feelings. They might not stop questioning and that is subversion.
Obey the rules, don't walk on the grass, especially if it's the grass up at menwith hill and you object to your conversations being taped.
It's an open secret our phone conversations are being snooped upon by speech recognition search engines looking for potentially seditious key words and key word combinations. Things like Gordon, Brown and tosspot. It's part of ilets, or that's the usual claim. The brain child of an american sponsored international conference on wiretapping held regularly in the 90s. Even if this extra judicial snooping isn't taking place it could be. Every ISP, the telephone operators, are all now required to fit their Digital systems with black box computers supplied by the government that can access all data moving through the system automatically with out the companies intervention. No one out side of the intelligence service has to sign off on a wire tap any more. There is no one out of the system to ask to see the warrant or blow the whistle. Proof of the abuse of this power is unnecessary, the fact the potential for it exists is bad enough.
You can look all of this information up on the internet, for the time being, until the internet censers decide such confusing information is best kept away from your precious ears. These black boxes don't just access the information moving through our ISPs they modify it. Like a photoshop touch up artist they airbrush out anything that offends their sensitive pallets. Webpages they do not approve of disappear behind 404 messages. You'd imagine it was hard core porn or instructions in pipe bomb building wouldn't you? Not wikipedia web pages on discography's. Those beloved guardians of public decency the internet watch foundation, in truth a semi official quango not a public interest group, decided that the image of a naked 10 year old smiling girl with her genitals obscured appearing on the album cover constituted child porn. Clearly the thousands of people who bought that album all those years ago are dangerous pedophiles and need to be rounded up. Even if the image is illegal what kind of state do we live in when items bought over the counter of Woolworth's 10 years ago, junk lying in peoples attics that they've forgotten they have, now makes them dangerous sex offenders under law. And if it is not illegal what kind of government allows an unaccountable organisation to censure legal material at its own discretion? When wikipedia complained about this censuring they were informed and appeal had been made on their behalf and it had failed. An appeal lodged on their behalf and adjudicated by the very organisation that censured them with out any public discloser of procedure or judicial oversight.
This kind of power is a busy bodies wet dream and most people don't even know they have it. I ask you would they have used this power to suppress god save the queen that rather tame song that seemed so shocking all those years ago. They banned mention of that song in the chart list if I recall. This establishment does not have a good track record when it comes to wheeling powers of censorship. It's even tried to ban rave music, not just loud parties, the public performance of a particular style of music. Perhaps the government should use the 1994 Criminal Justice Bill to ban that irritating bangra music with its repetitive never ending drum beats.
Listening to the wrong kind of music, not speaking good English, walking around with a bit of used wire in your pocket, all de facto crimes in a security mad age and the last 2 carry the death penalty. Of course we all know why those policemen shot Jean Charles de Menezes. It was not concern for the lives of civilians but their own that motivated them to shoot a restrained man at point blank range in a contained space. The policy to shoot if in doubt, the so called Kratos policy merely exists to legitimise the fear that exists in members of the police force. Fear of dyeing in the line of duty. As one philosopher said all we have to fear is fear its self.
There is no fool proof method of preventing a terrorist from detonating their bombs. It takes little skill and no imagination to produce a dead mans switch a device that automatically detonates a bomb when its carrier dies. That's if the terrorist even bothers to carry it them self. With remote control technology the modern terrorist has the option of securing the bomb to an innocent hostage compelled to act for them under threat of harm to him self or others. The best you can do is grab them before they know you're there and try to restrain and contain them before they have a chance to detonate. Something these plain clothes officers were well placed to do.
They didn't because of fear. Fear of becoming the human blast absorbers piled on top of some mad bomber who's hand gets loose in the scrum. Its easy to have sympathy for them. Not many of us would aspire to that level of heroism, but not many of us get given a gun and the right to use our discretion as to who is a bomber and needs a bullet in their brain. So many people wielding melee weapons have died because the police wanted to engage them at range rather than hand to hand with non lethal force. So many people supposed to be carrying weapons have been shot unarmed be cause the police did not allow them selves the time to doubt weather it was a toy, a replica, a chair leg.
Fear has an awful way of twisting the human mind. It will never change until fire arms officers realise picking up a gun is not a licence to kill but be killed. Until they come to understand the definition of bushido, that it is not a way of living but a way of dyeing. It will take such men, men whose minds are not ruled by fear, to truly beat the menace of terrorism.
And it is our government that has become the pedlar of fear. It was the system of fear that fed those police men the worst case scenario developing with out rational checks in the heads of their lords and masters that led them to differ the personal judgement that might have saved Menezes to frantic voices literally shouting in their ears.
Our institutions are ruled by men possessed by fear and self interest. men who want us to believe ID cards are going to stop people prepared to turn them selves in to living bombs. That powers to detain and spy on the general public are purely for antiterrorist detection. Are we to suppose they thought koffy anan was a terrorist when they taped his phone line? This is a government that has demonstrated that it can not be trusted with the power and prerogative it has and now seeks even more. The question is, who is going to stop them?
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