Is Britain that much a police state already?

[Skybird]

But tell me, Oberon - what exactly had your question and your earlier reference to Somaliland to do with the FAZ's or Specator's essays? Didn't I make it sufficiently clear that I was interested in getting feedback from British people about their thoughts about the author's perceptions, and whether they would agree or disagree?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Garion

Do yoo know how to use the Three Sea Shells?

On a more serious note. I hate the cameras with a vengeance, everywhere I look in Haddington (my local town) a camera is pointing at me. I wonder if I could charge the company running them modelling fees....

Haddington is and always has been a low crime area, most of which happens after dark in somebodies house or down a vennel (translation: close, narrow enclosed passageway) where the cameras don't go.

Cheers

Gary

Do you also have those loudspeakers the essay mentions that call offenders to order that are guilty of "non-conformal" or "anti-social" behavior? I think a police system where surveillance is used to lecture people on not spitting on the pavement or that they missed that waste bin, is... well... Would make me wonder whether the state will lecture me next on how to bind my cravat correctly (good that I do not have a single one...) or that I should not pick my nose.

All in the name of security, of course. We do not want another London attack happen.

For the defenders of total surveillance and state monitoring, nothing better than a terrorist strike could happen.

[Garion]

No, no loudspeakers yet, I think they would cause more hassle than they are worth.

The last thing yoo want to do to a bunch of drunken Scots on a weekend is to shout at them. Coz they may, just may..... SHOUT BACK!!!! with bits of street furniture.

Or even worse.... lift their kilts up

Cheers

Gary

[Skybird]

We live in post-democratic and increasingly Dickian times (refering to Philip K. Dick). It seems he has forseen so many details of our modern present - and I do not mean the technology, but political control, brainwashing and media potential.