Well those in the UK are – and should be concerned because Orwell’s predictions (and even Alan Moore’s in V for Vendetta) are seemingly comng true. With The Fear this time being terrorism – despite a terrorist attack happening last nearly 4 years ago – they are clamping down on a variety of things. They might seem small, even trivial – but the right to photograph protests, or anything you like in a street – have already been eroded, and if they think you might be a terrorist however spurious they can lock you up for a long time – stop me if you can see the way this can be politically used to oppress people?

And if they take any DNA off you, they can store it in their beloved police database against EU law:

And now with the new Coroners and Justice Bill the State want the right to use that information, or any other information they collect however spuriously for anything they like and use it for something else – as Boing Boing put it:

Clause 152 allows any Minister to take any information gathered for any purpose and use it for any other purpose

So now councils can spy on you to see if you’re emptying the bins correctly (ooh you terrorist) you can guarantee this clause WILL be misused, whatever they say – they said that about the anti-terrorism laws and there is a mounting pile of abuses that go FAR against the intention of that law and with all this CCTV, DNA databases and soon to be ID cards, we have become the most snooped country in Europe, if not the whole world.

What can you do? Well those in the UK can write to your MP – no don’t yawn and switch off it’s REALLY PISS EASY, I mean a muppet like me could do it, so can you – I did it and got results and a shiny letter from Glenda Jackson AND a big warm feeling that I had actually DONE SOMETHING – so can you. You can do it by email via WriteToThem and takes a few minutes. And you can join this Facebook group. – publicise, Twitter about this, bother friends, talk, phone – get the word out.

That’s not hard is it? Or are you going to be the kind of stupid person that Pastor Niemoeller wrote about? These are YOUR laws, if you just sit there eating your grub and shrugging then don’t moan at me when they come through your door.

Also word to my pirate radio bruvs (and gals out there – they’ve just raided about 30 of them in the UK and shut them down, heard via John. Keep going, keep the faith, don’t let em win. And that bullshit about emergency frequencies – they still using that as an excuse? As a former frequency scanner and radio geek, I can tell you the ambulance and other systems moved to higher frequencies from publically accessible radio waves (ie. on your dial) back in the 80′s – they use special frequencies with digital encoded systems for the ambulances, and obviously the police realised being listenable on a normal radio wasn’t really a good idea, so they did too. So I don’t see how the pirates could affect this unless some faulty transmitter is sidebanding. I call bullshit on that until I hear otherwise.

You see what I mean? It’s easy to shout fire in a crowded theatre, but since before Gordon Brown and that Weapon of Mass Distraction called a war where they ignored us, politically things have been shifted to make a whole bunch of people seem they are a potential threat, rather than the necessary watchguard (and yes the watchers?) to try and keep an increasingly distant and corrupt set of politicians accountable…ignorance and apathy just gives them the power to eventually really fuck up your day (or life).

This current state of affairs is really bugging me, there is a real danger we are going down the path of 1984 – you may scoff but do some research about what laws have been passed recently – and it will chill your blood.

Are you looking at me?, originally uploaded by BinaryApe.

No2ID and Open Rights Group are doing a Fear Not Freedom day on the 11th of October. Those in the UK – they need your pictures of the surveillance state!

Those of you outside the UK might not know there is the biggest density of CCTV cameras here in the whole world…and with the new yet STUPID ID coming in attacking migrant workers, it’s just Nanny State 1984.

I’ll try and take some pictures locally over the new few days – not hard since there are so many cameras everywhere now, entryphones and card entry systems…

Here�s how you can help:

1. Spot something that embodies the UK�s wholesale transformation into the surveillance society/database state. Subjects might include your local CCTV camera(s), or fingerprinting equipment in your child�s school library
2. Snap it
3. Upload it to Flickr and tag it �FNFBigPicture� – please use an Attribution Creative Commons license*
4. That�s it!

*We need you to license it this way because we want to give the image to newspapers to run on the day.

Dangerous liquids on planes (and I’m not talking their terrible wine), chaos in the skies and on the ground, Israel vs Hizbollah (and that aint no mashup except the people caught between). Crazy stupid times.

This podcast is meant to be one long scream for equality and righteous justice. Yep I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore…

Inspired by the likes of BicycleMark (who I just seen has also done a show about this) and YeastRadio who do this ranty thing much better than I.

Click your mouse in the air peace sign yeah (50Mb, 85mins): http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_84.mp3

Notes

• V for Vendetta excerpt
• Instamatic - Electric Loop (demo)
• Jarvis Cocker – Cunts are still Running the World (thanks to Puritan Blister)
• Super Furry Animals – The Man Don’t Give a Fuck
• Clash – Hate and War
• Shut up and Dance – Poor Man Fed Up
• Specials – Man at C&A (from More Specials)
• Sharon Jones – This Land is Your Land
• Leonard Cohen – Democracy
• Pirate Altern-8 gig
• Carter USM – While You Were Out (from 1992:The Love Album)
• Chumbawamba – We Don’t Want to Sing Along (from Un)
• Dead Prez – We Need a Revolution (from Turn off the Radio mixtape)
• essexboy – I found lovin’ (not war)
• Johnny Clash (aka Billy Bragg) - Bush War Blues (more about this)
  
• Crass – Bloody Revolution
• Donovan – The War Drags On
• Negativland - track 3, disc 2 (from It’s All In Your Head FM)
• Bob Marley & The Wailers – Revolution
• The Meditations – No Surprises (from Radiodread LP)