New counter-terrorism campaign by Met - report everyone you see, just in case

[cockneyrebel]

I seriously can't believe how rubbish that campaign is. Report someone if their behaviour has changed recently?! WTF!

 

[ymu]

I seriously can't believe how rubbish that campaign is. Report someone if their behaviour has changed recently?! WTF!

I've got my eye on you.

 

[Brainaddict]

I seriously can't believe how rubbish that campaign is. Report someone if their behaviour has changed recently?! WTF!

Or if they have too many mobile phones!!


Fucking horrible innit? How much authority does Ken Livingstone have over the Met? I wonder if it woudl be worth complaining to him?

 

[emanymton]

When I hear stories like this for some reason it always brings to mind an old red dwarf episode (I loved it when I was 14 ok!?!).
The one where they wake up from a video game in a fascist state and there is a poster on the wall ‘betray your friends and family, fabulous prizes to be won”

 

[Yossarian]

TERRORISTS NEED PLACES TO LIVE.
Are you suspicious of your tenants or neighbours?

Dear Metropolitan Police, I noticed this building behaving oddly, please have it destroyed. Yours, etc.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Hmm, I wonder if this hotline is covered by the laws against 'wasting police time'. Anyone care to hazard a guess?

How come the police never get done for wasting police time eh?

 

[Brainaddict]

How come the police never get done for wasting police time eh?

Same reason they never get done for beating the shit out of people I guess

 

[SpookyFrank]

Same reason they never get done for beating the shit out of people I guess

Touché

 

[kabbes]

George Orwell really knew what was coming, he was just 25 years out apparently.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've noticed a lot of shifty-looking people in suits negotiating the sale of weapons to disreputable dictatorships all around the world, should I ring the pigs and tell them about it? Last time I saw them they were in Westminster running the fucking country

Any terrorists want to blow up those fuckers, I'd hold their coats for them.

 

[poster342002]

I seriously can't believe how rubbish that campaign is. Report someone if their behaviour has changed recently?! WTF!

Quite. This is pure Stasi stuff.

 

[SpookyFrank]

My behaviour has changed recently. I'm spending a lot more time cursing the evil, demented government than I ever used to for a start

*reports self*

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Good poster garf

If you're going to print them or anything, there are a couple of full stops that could be added - after 'interest in' and 'understanding'.

original PSD can be found here for you to DL and play about with

 

[CyberRose]

Shit!

This is a photo I took when I was in London last year (I thought it'd make a pretty cool photo, but now somebody might be shopping me as a terrorist!!!)

 

[Roxy641]

Back to Reality

Hi Emanymton,

I remember it well...well I should, it is my very favourite episode of Red Dwarf. The episode is called "Back to Reality". This episode saw the introduction of Duanne (spelling?) Dibley

Roxy641

When I hear stories like this for some reason it always brings to mind an old red dwarf episode (I loved it when I was 14 ok!?!).
The one where they wake up from a video game in a fascist state and there is a poster on the wall ‘betray your friends and family, fabulous prizes to be won”

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

this bloke looks suspiscious should i report him?

 

[stat]

one point of this might be that if the coppers want to arrest/charge someone in future, chances are someone will have reported them as being a terrorist-suspect way back whenever for doing something innocent, and then the cops'll use it against them to make their trumped-up case stronger and qualify for terrorist-legislation.

like when they arrest people and say 'oh yes, but he had dangerous material on him [Das Capital/Koran/Private Eye]'

 

[Roxy641]

Shades of that "Not The Nine O'Clock New" sketch, where a overzealous policeman has over a 100 charges....against the SAME MAN. And as far as I know it isn't illegal to "Walk around in a loud shirt in a built up area".

Roxy641

one point of this might be that if the coppers want to arrest/charge someone in future, chances are someone will have reported them as being a terrorist-suspect way back whenever for doing something innocent, and then the cops'll use it against them to make their trumped-up case stronger and qualify for terrorist-legislation.

like when they arrest people and say 'oh yes, but he had dangerous material on him [Das Capital/Koran/Private Eye]'

 

[stdPikachu]

Shades of that "Not The Nine O'Clock New" sketch, where a overzealous policeman has over a 100 charges....against the SAME MAN. And as far as I know it isn't illegal to "Walk around in a loud shirt in a built up area"

Life no longer imitates art. Life has now become a rather painful satire of satire itself. It's only rewarding on a quasi-reciprocal level. Being mad also helps.

 

[In Bloom]

God, I hate the Met so much. They've actually managed to take the all joy out of ridiculing them.

I mean, what's the point in satire when they come out with shit like this?

 

[emanymton]

On the 27th of March 2007 a member of the journal's editorial collective was stopped and searched by men of the Anti-terrorist Unit whilst on the 0830 coach from London to Leeds. He was subsequently held, searched and questioned further at the Milgarth Police station in Leeds. The individual in question posed a serious threat to Britain's national security, given that they were reading an article containing both the words "airportising" and "images" in its title. This individual was therefore rightfully stopped, searched and interrogated - all thanks to a fellow passenger being “un-British” enough* to snitch on them.

Thora do you have a link to this story by any chance?

 

[ymu]

Thora do you have a link to this story by any chance?

I found this one: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/publicdisclaimer

 

[emanymton]

Thank you

 

[DotCommunist]

The met reaches a new low.