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Police terror posters at G20 demo try to turn us all into McCarthyite witch hunters


On the way back from the G20 demo on Saturday I came across this poster on the London Underground.

It reads: "A bomb won't go off here because weeks before a shopper reported someone studying the CCTV cameras. Don't rely on others. If you suspect it, report it."

No coincidence that this campaign has started in the week of the G20 jamboree for world leaders. (The government is the biggest spender on advertising in the UK).

The levels of state-directed McCarthyite paranoia the government is trying to create is horrendous. There is another version of this poster urging us to search our neighbour's bins!

What the fuck is going on in this country?

If they want to stop terrorism, stop terrorising the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine (by selling arms to the IDF war criminals)... and stop criminalising Muslims and protesters who dare to criticise UK foreign policy or this mad economic system that seems to benefit no-one except the rich and powerful.

The police should do something useful for a change such as catching rapists which they seem decidedly uninterested in doing as they failed to apprehend two serial rapists in London that they allowed to carry out countless assaults over many years despite a mountain of evidence they refused to piece together. Institutional sexism, as well as racism is rife in the London Metropolitan police. They prefer beating up Muslim men such as Babar Ahmad, fighting extradition to the US.

And above is the other version of the poster suggesting we search our neighbour's bins to stop a dirty bomb attack! Unbelievable. The poster reads: "These chemicals won't be used in a bomb because a neighbour reported the dumped containers."

These posters are going to keep the police busy answering calls to investigate perfectly legitimate reasons for using chemicals or appearing to stare at CCTV cameras.
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  1. Anonymous30 March 2009 at 17:33

    Fair comment mate, I moved back to Britain from mexico in 1987 and thatcher had innitiated a campaign of shopping your neighbour if you suspect theyr'e working and signing on, in itself, individuals doing this are taking out from the system, but the underlying psycological impact of shop[ping your neighbour, whatever they up to is one of the reasons crime waves occur, trust is lost...I remember knocking on my neighbours doors whenever I moved to let them know who had moved in, and if it was an older person to offer assistance if they ever needed it! This state has made it frowned upon to engage others around you....time for change huh~

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