Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, August 1, 2011
The London Metropolitan Police is encouraging businesses and the general public to immediately report anyone who holds anti-government political beliefs to the authorities as terrorists, calling on people to become volunteer informants as the state prepares for widespread social unrest.
“This was the surprising injunction from the Metropolitan Police issued to businesses and members of the public in Westminster last week,” reports the London Guardian. “There was no warning about other political groups, but next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police’s “counter terrorist focus desk” called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: “Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police.”
In also calling on people to report Al-Qaeda paraphernalia to police, the briefing conflates “anarchists” with terrorists.
“It unfairly implies that anyone involved in anarchism should be known to the police and is involved in an dangerous activity,” said Jason Sands, an anarchist from South London. “There is nothing inherently criminal about political philosophy whatever it is. The police work under the convention on human rights which disallows discrimination against people because of their political beliefs and even the request for information would seem to be in breach of that.”
Of course, the “anarchist” label could apply to a whole range of political beliefs, but the fact that the state is now openly criminalizing anti-government sentiment and encouraging people to report on their neighbors for expressing dissent or displaying any sign of their political philosophy is a clear indication of how paranoid the British government has become of its own citizens.
As anarchist Sean Smith told the Guardian, “It’s pretty absurd, but not surprising, when the state seeks to criminalise ideas it deems to be dangerous to its own survival.”
Indeed, if you want an insight into where the British government thinks this is all heading, look no further than a 2007 Ministry of Defence report which foresaw “the middle classes becoming revolutionary” and “taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat” within three decades.
“The world’s middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest,” warns the report, predicting mass unrest and social dislocation.
This is why the authorities are already putting the squeeze on any kind of political beliefs that could be construed as anti-government. They are aware of the fact that the increasingly dangerous, unjust and economically deprived post-industrial revolution now being used to eviscerate the middle class in the west will provoke a hostile and radical reaction.
Encouraging people to report on each other for political beliefs deemed undesirable by the state is precisely what happened in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.
One common misconception about Nazi Germany was that the police state was solely a creation of the authorities and that the citizens were merely victims. On the contrary, Gestapo files show that 80% of all Gestapo investigations were started in response to information provided by denunciations by “ordinary” Germans.
“There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors,” wrote Robert Gellately of Florida State University.
Gellately discovered that the people who informed on their neighbors were motivated primarily by banal factors – “greed, jealousy, and petty differences,” and not by a genuine concern about crime or insecurity.
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The former boss of the NSA and the CIA, Michael Hayden, has called for a “digital Blackwater” to deal with so-called cyber threats.
“We may come to a point where defense is more actively and aggressively defined even for the private sector and what is permitted there is something that we would never let the private sector do in physical space… Let me really throw out a bumper sticker for you. How about a digital Blackwater?” Hayden told the Aspen Security Forum.
The Aspen Security Forum was held last week by the Aspen Institute, a globalist organization largely funded by the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation has documented links to the CIA.
It is also funded by members of the Trilateral Commission and the first chairman was the late Robert O. Anderson of the oil transnational Atlantic-Richfield. The largest institutional shareholder is Chase Manhattan, now JPMorgan Chase Bank. In 1969, the chairmanship of Aspen moved over to Joseph E. Slater, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly of the Ford Foundation.
Hayden was speaking for the bankers and the globalists when he said there needs to be a mercenary army to attack enemies of the private sector, i.e., enemies of the banks and their transnational corporations. It is not incidental that Hayden is a former spook who ran the largest cryptologic intelligence agency in the world. The NSA specializes in vacuuming massive amounts of data from the internet. In 2006, former AT&T technician Mark Klein revealed just how much data the secret agency wasgathering from non-suspecting internet users.
The Pentagon recently indicated it will send missles down the “smokestack” of suspected cyber enemies. “We reserve the right to use all necessary means — diplomatic, informational, military, and economic — as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law, in order to defend our nation, our allies, our partners and our interests,” a White House international strategy on cyber-security paper stated in May.
Blackwater, now Xe Services, has faced numerous accusations that it has wantonly killed civilians while working for DoD in Iraq. It’s founder and owner, Erik Prince, was accused of murdering or facilitating the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company, according to a former employee and ex-Marine. In January, a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit blaming the security company for the deaths of four contractors killed in a bloody 2004 ambush in Iraq.
The cyber terror narrative was contrived in large part to demonize the alternative media and manufacture consensus for physical attacks on ideological enemies. The global elite are perturbed by the popularity of the electronic medium invented by the Pentagon and initially deployed as a surveillance mechanism. The plan went awry, however, when activists turned the medium into a highly effective activism and informational tool.