Big Brother doesn't like to be watched!

You have been warned!

Black helicopters. Obviously

Eh?

"posters of a cat and another of Curious George, photographs of Karl Marx and Lenin".

Since when were Marx and Lenin anarchists? Not sure about the cat and I haven't a clue who George is.

Methinks our friend needs to learn a little more about politics. Write out 1000 times "Communists are not anarchists."

What do do about Baby Carl Marx...

--- According to the New York Times, Madison said yesterday: "They arrested me for doing the same thing everybody else was doing, which was perfectly legal.

Everyone else sells cocaine, everyone else does it, is it perfectly legal?

Throw his buttocks in jail!

Can you say ...

"Someone should put a bomb under them." nowadays?

Commentards

Do you have no work today ?

It appears you are not able to think for your selves.

Poor IT sods, Tick Box clods.

Please try to think outside the box you were born in, muppets.

ALF

Grease Monkey

Hey mate, anarchists and communists have long had an alliance, especially at protests. These hardcore Marxists rely on anarchists to bring down society and create chaos, and then along comes communism as a solution to the disorder (with capitalism and liberty taking the blame for letting things run wild, when in fact the chaos is planned.) It's called subversion.

So are communists anarchists? No, but many anarchists are communists. And many greens are communists. And many polar bear savers are communists. There's nothing they won't latch on to in order to further their agendas.

There goes another one....

".....a social worker and self-described anarchist......"

There should have been an irony alert on that. Waste of damned good coffee there.

So much for being allowed to watch the watchers...

The police work for us. We pay for them out of our taxes to protect us. So its very interesting how they no longer want to be watched by us. But worse still, its got very scary how much the law can now be used to prevent anyone watching them. It shows they have twisted the legal system to prevent anyone watching them. That is proof of corrupt self interest to protect themselves from scrutiny which means they are now beyond scrutiny by normal people. Thats just wonderful, because now how can their corrupt self interest be stopped from getting even worse if we can no longer watch over them!

This has all gone way far than enough. What is needed is a national campaign and flash mobbing (say in a month from now) to educate the police they still work for us. I suggest getting everyone on a certain day throughout the entire day to relentlessly photograph all police with their phones where ever they are seen. That'll shock them and the MPs back into listening or they will try to silence all cameras in which case, public anger will make them back down. They work for us. Enough with this self interested corruption. We need the national news papers behind this as well. With millions of people behind it they can't punish us all. Its time to show them who they work for, before we are all silenced by their growing corrupt arrogant self interest. We are not supposed to be living in a police state so they cannot be allowed to get away with this.

Maybe The Reg could champion a call for a national day of “watching the watchers” (say in a month from now). It'll give time for a massive campaign to build up (especially via social networking sites) . (Plus throughout this time it'll also have the side effect of drumming up a lot more publicity for The Reg ;) ... IT people needs to lead the way, because we see how technology is changing faster than others, so we see the dangers of the new technology first. Its time we all made a stand and a massive passive protest like this is something long over due. This has gone far enough. We need to act now before it gets even worse. The UK is leading the world into a police state. Its time we all made a stand against it.

Keep at it Comrades!

Of course, most bankers are Communists as well, notice how they are carefully subverting the Capitalist system, bringing it to its knees while laughing madly into their vodka. Many IT people are also Communists, they want to bring down "big business" and replace it with something they call "Open Source". Then there are the lunatic fringe of anarchists led by the evil Freetard faction, they want to give it ALL to the masses. Crush them's what I say and send them to be re-educated in the dreaded Microsoft "Campus".

Videos of the Pittsburg G20 protests...

...make for some interesting viewing.

The police were out in force (thousands of them) and equipped with full riot gear, tear gas, gas masks, plenty of plastic handcuffs and truck mounted LRADs barking out canned messages form the chief of police.

Other than that the city was deserted. It was surreal.

The cops outnumbered the protesters in most places, and no one managed to get anywhere near the actual summit (which I suppose was the overall goal of the protesters)

It almost doesn't matter that someone with a scanner and a laptop was giving them tips, they were outnumbered and outgunned.

I won't comment on whether or not either group had a right to be doing what they were doing because I really don't know. I'll let other people speculate on that.

Planarchists are media whores

"Of course anarchists do believe that we can get by without a large, centralised authority which with modern communications technology and social networking tools, we're closer to being able to do than ever"

So I guess you're saying: The structure required for anarchy... is finally in place.

These central planners of anarchism must track the press too. It seems there is always a TV crew around, when the garbage can goes through the window (but no cops).

contd

"Errr...anarchists believe there should be no government. Communists believe in strong centralized government (think Big Brother)."

You prove the point completely. Anarchists do the dirty work of bringing chaos and disorder, communists then appear to offer the solution to the chaos. This is what has happened in Greece. Anarchist terrorist attacks, riots and bombings have helped the socialists to power even though they were allied.

Can't have been very good at it...

...otherwise he'd have known they were coming.

B.B. for obvious reasons.

@aron

"Many anarchists are communists" ???

Anarchist believes in not having a centralised authority.

Communists believe in having a centralised authority.

No anarchists are communists.

Did you mean to say that some communists pretend to be anarchists? Not likely.

AC 11:21

That's quite possibly the biggest pile of steaming gibberish I've ever seen here, well done!

IF everyone sold cocaine and everyone else did cocaine (aside from the fact that the 2 are juxtaposed) you'd be burying your head in the sand if you thought that participation in either should remain illegal. Maybe you should pull your head out of your (sandy?)buttocks.

@What do do about Baby Carl Marx..

"Everyone else sells cocaine, everyone else does it, is it perfectly legal?"

No, you stupid idiot. That's not what the quote said. Go back to second grade. He didn't say everybody is doing it, therefore it's legal. He said it's legal, and everybody else is doing it too. Huge different that anyone with an IQ higher than a chimp's would promptly spot.

Now, whether what they were doing was legal or not is another, completely different story.

@anti-anarchists

You guys have no clue what you are talking about, apparently.

Lack of a government, in an anarchist ideal, does not mean "chaos and disorder", stop projecting your behavior on others.

The big problem is that anarchism (and it's close cousin, American libertarianism and its unbridled free market) is impossible in practice due to human nature.

The next logical step...

...would be for those directing protesters in this manner to do so from outside the jurisdiction in which the protest is occurring. Ironically, they would use the same technologies which enabled the outsourcing of many of our IT jobs to protest the actions of those who are, directly or indirectly, perceived as responsible for it in the first place.

Of course we will undoubtedly see areas of "limited mobile phone service" at the next G-<whatever> summit, intended to preclude just such a possibility.

The black helicopter - because this can only escalate further as time goes on as more and more angry people have less and less to lose.

Everyone has a conspiracy theory, apparently.

"The big problem is that anarchism (and it's close cousin, American libertarianism and its unbridled free market) is impossible in practice due to human nature."

Exactly. But that doesn't make the libertarian end goal of "anarchy" pointless. A 100% efficient engine is not a poor goal just because it is impossible. The engineer works towards maximum efficiency, knowing that it simply isn't going to happen. In the same way, a good conservative works towards zero government interference, knowing that his representative will be selling out his ideals to the highest bidder, and then redefine "conservative" to mean something completely different. Ugh.

So the point is that as an /ideal/, anarchy does not equate to blowing up buildings for fun, any more than capitalism equates to secret police organizations orchestrating the blowing up of buildings to give the government additional mind share when starting a war. As an ideal, anarchy is good; it is the is the ultimate "100% efficiency" goal of conservatism, even though we know it is really impossible (because people are such amazing asshats).

Of course, to many people anarchy means "destroy the government with no plan for what happens after". This is clearly not a good thing. I'm pretty sure Curious George would not approve, although he might do it by accident without meaning to, and end up soaking wet and shivering outside in the cold, somehow learning a valuable lesson about why you should read about the issues before you go to the polls to vote.

(Jolly Roger, reminding you that you can't break the rules if there aren't any.)

Re: Can you say...

> "Someone should put a bomb under them." nowadays?

I believe the correct turn of phrase is "Somebody should set up them the bomb".

@Danny 2

Speeding is debatable, but exactly when is it sensible to drop litter?