UK = complete police state (party like it's 1984)

[Guybrush Threepwood]

CCTV cameras everywhere, it's illegal to take pictures of police officers, and now this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/16/extremism-arrests-police-liberty-central

The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) insists that its confidential intelligence unit – reported last week to be now coordinating surveillance and infiltration of "domestic extremists", including anti-war protesters and strikers – is not in fact a new organisation, but has been part of its public order intelligence operations since 1999, liaising with MI5 and its 44 forces' special branch outfits across the country.

But yes, Acpo's spokesman tells me, it is in the business of targeting groups such as those involved in the recent Gaza war protests, trade unionists taking part in secondary industrial action and animal rights organisations – though only if they break the law or "seek to break the law".

I'm glad I don't live there.

[Flannel Boy]

Sometimes I think the only book posters on the internet have read is 1984.

[Eric P]

I couldn't even read the whole book, I just kept reading and re-reading the sex scene over and over again.

yeah the bit at the end with the rats was so fucking hot

[The Fake Shemp]

Sometimes I think the only book posters on the internet have read is 1984.

Atlas Shrugged!

[Flannel Boy]

Sometimes I think the only book posters on the internet have read is 1984.

Atlas Shrugged!

* Malek shrugs

Two books, Willco. TWO

Three if you count "asperger's guide to getting laid"

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i think i made that up

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[The Fake Shemp]

I think we should compare everything to 1984, regardless if it's accurate or not.

[Eric P]

I think we should compare everything to 1984, regardless if it's accurate or not.

that's just like what happened in 1984!

[Flannel Boy]

I think we should compare everything to 1984, regardless if it's accurate or not.

that's just like what happened in 1984!

 

[Cormacaroni]

The Damian Green arrest last Nov. was a bit scary as well. Arresting an MP of the opposition party and searching his office without a warrant?

[Madrun Badrun]

Sometimes I think the only book posters on the internet have read is 1984.

in gaf's reading threads there is like five books that always make up half of the posts. 

I think we should compare everything to 1984, regardless if it's accurate or not.

that's just like what happened in 1984!

 

[Boogie]

Hmm, I'm not sure if I have a problem with CCTV surveillance of public areas.

But searches w/o warrants = bullshit

and making it illegal to photograph officers is just silly.

Calling the UK a police state is a little extreme, but clearly things are just a little.....bizarre in Brit-land.

[BlueTsunami]

Sounds more like The Children of Men. Lets start referencing that when we're talking about a police state!

[brawndolicious]

I'm glad I don't live there.

The US has had Red Squads for decades.

And nothing on that list seems that messed up other than the no warrant thing cormacaroni said.  The no pictures law sounds a bit weird but maybe that was meant for under cover police officers.

[Phoenix Dark]

I couldn't even read the whole book, I just kept reading and re-reading the sex scene over and over again.

You should watch the movie

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actually, don't watch the movie. it's horrible, despite full frontal nudity

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[FlameOfCallandor]

Yeah England sounds pretty gay.

[EmCeeGrammar]

Even the guy who wrote 1984 prefaces his book with how he screwed up his prediction because he didn't account for nuclear..... wait that was Brave New World I think. God, I hated the dystopian literature segment of English class.

[BlueTsunami]

Bring on the Police State, I say. Just so I could join a violent radical group that was first about taking down authority but then started considering civilians as a necessary form of collateral damage so I opt to leave it takes me a thrillride of my life and I find love along the way but she's the girlfriend of my former friend who is the leader of the radical group I had left. We all die in the end but the unborn fetus of my child of the girl I was with is transplanted into another girl so my seed lives on.

The sequel would involve Boogie blowing apart shit in Canada.

[drozmight]

I never read 1984... I think it was banned at our school because kids have sex in it and parents were like, "NO!"

maybe I'll read it.

[Tieno]

I once saw an abstract/experimental play of 1984 in school. (the ones where there are no set pieces to make it cheap) Didn't like it.

[ToxicAdam]

Do you agree with these sentiments?


“modern technology is a unified system in which all parts are dependent on one another. You can't get rid of the ‘bad’ parts of technology and retain only the ‘good’ parts.”


“freedom and technological progress are incompatible,”


Who wrote them:

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Unabomber

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http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/the_unabomber_w.php

[drew]

“modern technology is a unified system in which all parts are dependent on one another. You can't get rid of the ‘bad’ parts of technology and retain only the ‘good’ parts.”

one of the few correct things to come out of that dick's diatribe of crazy

you should read it sometime for the lulz:  http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt

[Tauntaun]