Party Vibe

not just the cops – us “alternative types” what dare to buck the system are a small minority of the 60 million here, less so than even ethnic minorities.

even cops are just pawns in the game. for instance in the 1990s three cops died of tumours caused by the first generations airwave radio comms sets as they had the power turned up too high initially. the only real reason airwave was brought in (at millions of pounds expense of taxpayers money) is so people like us couldn’t listen to OB on radio scanners.

there are so many normal people what aren’t outwardly fascists etc but totally disagree with protest of any kind as its “not the British way”.

I even once worked with this old boy what wouldn’t join a campaign for road safety for cyclists because he was a Tory voter and “he didn’t want to become a political activist”.

He said he would rather give up riding his bicycle and that the Council and the free market should decide how the roads (which were dangerous for cyclists) should be laid out – and that cyclists were lower down the chain as they didn’t pay as much taxes.

This isn’t even true as its your council tax and normal tax on wages and VAT what pays for roads, even if you don’t have a car.

unfortunately unless you’ve got your family to bail you out you can’t just ignore it as those in power fight back hard – two mates of mine tried exactly this, got stitched up for a rave and done 4 months in jail… cat B as well, not “holiday bay”…

yep the protesters are often just as naive..

what does make a difference is people taking individual action without drawing attention to themselves in a ostentatious manner – such as using your brain and a map to avoid dangerous roads, and just getting on your bike instead of driving or using the bus – growing your own plants (not just weed!), fixing and recycling things instead of always buying new stuff… but lots of even so-called “alternative” people don’t do this even if they talk about it…

as for surveillance/cameras etc if the feds say people can’t point obvious cameras/phones at them (and they are backtracking on this now) people will just use cameras hidden in less obvious things.

A major difference between now and 25 years ago is that a trip to any electronics component place such as Maplins will allow you to purchase everything the military industrial complex use for their surveillance, for very affordable prices.

I also think the media (even the “leftie” media) talks up the paranoia. A few months ago I was waiting for my mates to pick me up from the train station, and I saw a odd train of ballasts(?) and railway stuff, so out of curiosity took a picture of it on my phone. I am British Asian, and there were loads of National Express staff watching, I half expected one to quiz me or even dob me into BTP. None of this happened.