Big Brother IS watching

I get a chuckle whenever I see Victoria’s Green Meanies rumbling around town in their armored personnel carriers, or anonymously staking out the McDonald’s parking lot

you know? the burly guys in those unmarked Ford sedans, painted a shade of military green no one else has bought for 2 decades, with big bars on the passenger windows, more antennae than marked patrol cars have, a black bullhorn on the front bumper, and those silly tiny hubcaps you only see on cop cars? in Québec they run snow tires year-round

now that’s camouflage, eh! do these guys really think they’re "undercover"? they’re about as subtle as the helicopters that buzz James Bay non-stop with klieg lights blasting into backyards and through living room windows every time there’s a couple of people around the inner harbour or someone’s held up the 7-11

somehow I find the Green Meanies more menacing than marked patrol cars; you can’t miss the fact they’re police, so why the camo? because they want to send the subliminal message “We are Everywhere!” why don’t they buy the bumpersticker?

don’t believe in the police state?
link:
www.planetfriendly.net/police.html

and if you ride a bike in Calgary, better buy a damn good radar detector
link:
www.ffwdweekly.com/article/news-views/news/city-cracks-down-speeding-cyclists

btw, speaking of anonymous self-serving omnipotent authority, The Orwell Trust has started posting George’s diaries, 70 years later to the day; George Orwell [né Eric Arthur Blair] foresaw the Big Brother syndrome in his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published less than 5 years into the Cold War

the diaries started in early August 1938; he was home from the Spanish Civil War after 6 months recuperating in Morocco, just in time to watch the early days of Europe’s descent into evil; they begin dully, with misty days and snakes in Blair’s English garden, but I’m looking forward to the political comments which start in September
link:
orwelldiaries.wordpress.com

more next time

Blessed Be