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New London England Anti-terror posters

By David Canton

Thats the title of my Slaw post for today.   It reads:

Cory Doctorow writes on Boing Boing about the latest anti-terrorist campaign in England.

His entire post is a worthwhile read - but to get a flavour of it:

The London police have bested their own impressive record for insane and stupid anti-terrorism posters with a new range of signs advising Londoners to go through each others? trash-bins looking for ?suspicious? chemical bottles, and to report on one another for ?studying CCTV cameras.?

Essentially, this redefines ?suspicious? as anything outside of the direct experience of the most frightened, ignorant and foolish people in any neighborhood.

So in addition to being suspected of being a terrorist if you take a photograph of a police officer, or of a public facility, or of a surveillance camera, you are a suspect if you even look at a surveillance camera!

Full post as published by eLegal Canton on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).