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kneeshooter) wrote2006-02-08 07:00 pm
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Fear
I was at a conference today on e-Saftey (the old term "Internet Safety" not being sexy enough) and the first main speaker was from the National Crime Squad. Superficially he made a lot of sense, anecdotes about armoured Land Rovers during his service with the RUC and talking about the internet as "any public space". But then he started going off as police officers sometimes seem to - trying to shock us and, I realised after, instill a real sense of fear.
Fear about paedophiles; fear about babysitters; fear that we had to help the police and fear that we're probably all criminals in one way or another.
It was all faintly distasteful. Another copper I wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.
Later it lightened up a bit later with the Juvenalian question "Quis custodes ipsos custodies?" which had been put up as "Quis custodiet ipod custodes?" - "Who's guarding the guard's ipod?".
I don't like fear. Instilling it is just rude.
Fear about paedophiles; fear about babysitters; fear that we had to help the police and fear that we're probably all criminals in one way or another.
It was all faintly distasteful. Another copper I wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.
Later it lightened up a bit later with the Juvenalian question "Quis custodes ipsos custodies?" which had been put up as "Quis custodiet ipod custodes?" - "Who's guarding the guard's ipod?".
I don't like fear. Instilling it is just rude.
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Nathan, the Toxic Pixie
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Maybe they have experimental proof that frightening people is more effective than plain facts? Or maybe they just meet a disproportionately large amount of dead people, and it gets to them after a while.
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Plus the police musty get frustrated that their jobs would be so much easier without all this civil rights crap ;)
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e-fear
JmC
e-bastard
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I know several you men who love me to instill fear in them.
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Insert appropriate comments about consenuality, circumstances and desire.
Is that better?
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I shall put the riding crop back in the wardrobe.
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Or I'll run a cold bath and threaten to drop the radio in it.
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I think a radio in a bath would be the latter though.
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He wanted to be terrified, I delivered.
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I'm scared.
I'm not scared of terrorists.
Somehow, I doubt that this is what the fearmongers have in mind.
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Someone I know/like/love being stabbed/mugged/kidnapped etc in broad daylight and not enough CCTV being around to provide a culprit.
Smack them up everywhere I say.
Oh - and while I'm on the subject - if you put speed cameras up *everywhere* then the roads would be much safer as we wouldn't need to keep speeding up and slowing down...
Right-wing rant over...
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IMO there are very few drivers who don't exceed a speed limit on a regular basis.
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It's not difficult to ignore the fools who try and intimidate you from behind, slow right down even more and let them overtake. Don't let them get to you, they'll be in the next pile-up, not you. And buy a tank, people don't try and intimidate tanks.
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Forget a tank - buy a cute car then everyone notices you - especially if you also use it to advertise your business at the same time :-)
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And I generally approve of speed cameras as well.
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