Come on, what the hell is going on in our society nowadays? How long are you planning to sit back and relax as if nothing is happening to you? How long will you accept the government to steal your identity, log everything you do with your mobile, on the Internet? How long will you accept being videoed for no reason when you walk the streets? How long do you plan to accepts extra roadtax because of flashing speed camera’s
Just an overview of last weeks political efforts to get a grip on your life and mine. The gov’t decided that email, surfhistory, mobile phone traffic and sms metadata should be archived for a year. Amsterdam decided to start using parking meters where you have to enter your licenseplate information, Lindsan Lohan turns out to be lesbian – oh sorry, other subject, in Huizen two abstract nude paintings were removed after muslims complained, a political cartoonist was thrown in jail ‘to be interrogated’ for some drawings of years ago killing of freedom of speach in the process. I am worried and somehow I feel we should fight this interference in our personal lives. Always arguments like anti-terrorist and anti-crime policies and freedom of religion (in fact that’s the other side of NO freedom of speech nowadays) are used. Honestly, these arguments are not ok. Should we all hand over our individual freedom to be untraceable when we want to. Should the government know everything of me because everyone is supposed to be scared shit of terrorism and crime? Those have always been there, for centuries actually. Should we handover freedom of speech and publication just because what we say, write, draw or sing might offend someone in his or hers religious feelings? Crap! I don’t want to limit anyones freedom even if they offend me. Sure, fighting discrimination is essential. But that’s a fight of not accepting people being set aside from society.
For some no good reason this government is trying to slowly turn the clock back for some 40 years. Back to the nice and quiet but ignorent sixties. When everything looked nice, but wasn’t. When homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders were labelled as being sick and needed to be ‘cured’. Back to the cold war era where we were all scared for the A-bom. Current terrorist fear is exactly like the A-bom fear in those days.
Well I don’t want to go back in time, I don’t go there, I wan’t to move forward in the direction I choose. Free as bird, able to speak for myself, write, publish, be crazy or offensive. No government should be allowed to take that away from me. I will not live in a police-state. I’ll stand straight, how about you?
(m)alice
The simple answer is Yes, they are forming a police state. In the 1700’s Thomas Malthus created a theory that the population would grow to the extent that we would outstrip our resources. Famine, war and general nastiness would follow.
Malthus’ ideas shaped both Darwin and Freud. Freud believed that human beings had inbuilt violent tendencies from our evolutionary past. The Elites feared that, like the French revolution, these violent tendencies would upset their hegemony (which of course benefits them best).
They then began to develop methods to appease these tendencies until they could construct a scientific cage through electronics and pharmacueticals that would prevent revolution.
The consumer culture is the appeasement, the police state is the control mechanism or cage.
You are right, this is being constructed at a fast pace, and not only here, but the world over. This must be destroyed before it is completed.
Comment by antireptilian — September 10, 2008 @ 7:33 am
Thanks for your comment. I’ve read Malthus on this. Question is how do we counter this government policing of society.
Comment by Alice — September 10, 2008 @ 7:54 am
Alice
The initial phase is dissemination of information through mediums such as this one. The two challenges for the “revolution” are authoritarian personalities among the population that need conformity and leadership, and who subsequently follow the lead of government without question.
The other is the disinformation through the mainstream media.
We need to work at tipping the balance of peer pressure so that it will not be seen as strange to speak of these subjects. When the weight of peer pressure swings to “our” side, the apathetic and authoritarians will follow the new concensus.
Individually, writing and attending council meetings and bringing this up at every turn will sooner or later add impetus to the calls for answers and accountability and eventually, reversal.
There are many that feel as we do at the moment. Almost everyone i speak to is vocalising the same concerns. We must all be prepared to act in our own capacities, and in turn en masse as the situation requires.
Can we entertain the thought of hundreds of thousands decending on the capital to demand a reversal of this Nazi like system. Can we imagine the great feeling of making the sacrifice of time and money for the greater good of this nation.
Imagine we had already done it and succeeded.
Comment by antireptilian — September 10, 2008 @ 11:31 am
Thanks a lot for this.
If I am able to get to the core of what you’re writing I guess you mean that we need to speak up when we see injustice. Keep on battling politicians that do not hear us. Publish our opinions and not back of.
If that’s what you mean, I agree. Wholeheartedly…
Alice
Comment by Alice — September 10, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
Hm, just discovered this. jhowever, a heads up! the sixotes was also the time of the Provos and of the paris, Berlin etc. Rebellion! Spaßguerilla! lets make some Spaß ;o)
love
Comment by vreer — October 17, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
Alice, I know you wrote this article a few months ago, but I throught the latest move by the UK government was relevant to what you have said.
Because the news that the UK government now wants to track our mobile phone calls, texts, emails and internet browsing habits has got me enraged. For the past 11 years, the UK government has sought more and more control over its citizens, from installing 4.2m CCTV cameras, to the suggestion that we must respond to more and more intrusive questions when they complete the next census. It has simply got to stop.
On this occasion, I have done something about it, in my own small way. I have written an article outlining what the government is seeking to do and my views. But, I have also produced a ‘draft’ letter that can be personalised and sent to local MP’s. I am urging other likeminded people in the UK to reproduce the article, to include their own comments, after all, not everyone will agree with all my comments and then publicise it. Maybe the electorate can start a programme where people start to bombard their MP’s with a demand that they do not support the latest data communication bill. The link is here if you would be interested in supporting this move.
http://www.power-to-the-people.co.uk/2008/10/public-call-time-big-brother-britain/
Comment by UK Voter — October 24, 2008 @ 9:02 am