… that the State seeks to encroach upon our private lives and condition us into accepting the “surveillance society”. See this blogpost… Let’s all spy on our neighbours shall we? Then we come on to the other aspect of those advertisecons… the fact that they’re encouraging us to snoop on people! This is even nastier, [...]
How often have we heard that sentence, or words to that effect, used to justify the proliferation of CCTV, the proposed introduction of ID cards, and other encroachments on our freedoms and privacy? Well, basically its just not true. And its certainly not true in the case of State- or State agency-administered centralised databases. When [...]
With the publication by the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights of their seventh Report “Demonstrating respect for rights? A human rights approach to policing protest” on 23rd March it would seem that many of the points I was discussing in “Britain 2009” regarding the police misuse of “anti-terror” legislation in dealing with protests and [...]
The repercussions from last year’s Climate Camp at Kingsnorth in Kent (or rather, the repercussions from the policing of said event) just seem to be going on and on. We now have an article by Tracy McVeigh published in The Observer on 1st March “Police ‘over the top’ at climate camp“. Whilst the article focusses [...]
The ongoing saga of the so-called “Summer of Rage” sees another instalment with the publication in The Guardian on 27th February of the following comment by Kevin Smith, a participant in the Camp for Climate Action: “Summer of rage? It’s a figment of febrile imaginations According to your news report, there is concern at Metropolitan [...]
