In America, it's gotten really jingoistic at times. The whole "you're either with us or you're a terrorist" bit. So the government putting up antagonistic things that where you can only agree with them is not as ridiculous as it should be, although I did think it was odd it was happening in the UK rather than America, since I'd thought they were the saner ones.
(In fact...putting up signs like that as bait, and then prosecuting protesters as the smaller text seems to suggest, would seem unbelievable except our own government agents infiltrated environmentalist organizations and encouraged members to commit illegal acts and destroy property and murder people so they'd be able to arrest those members. And we put anti-war activists on terrorist lists. And we want to bug Muslims' houses, and when they complain we say that's reason to believe they're terrorists.
(I'd like to believe that there'd be protests if there were signs like that here, but then, I believed we'd never go to war with Iraq.)
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Date: 2006-11-23 04:11 am (UTC)In America, it's gotten really jingoistic at times. The whole "you're either with us or you're a terrorist" bit. So the government putting up antagonistic things that where you can only agree with them is not as ridiculous as it should be, although I did think it was odd it was happening in the UK rather than America, since I'd thought they were the saner ones.
(In fact...putting up signs like that as bait, and then prosecuting protesters as the smaller text seems to suggest, would seem unbelievable except our own government agents infiltrated environmentalist organizations and encouraged members to commit illegal acts and destroy property and murder people so they'd be able to arrest those members. And we put anti-war activists on terrorist lists. And we want to bug Muslims' houses, and when they complain we say that's reason to believe they're terrorists.
(I'd like to believe that there'd be protests if there were signs like that here, but then, I believed we'd never go to war with Iraq.)