For Sale: I'm a Terrorist not a Photographer

There are bound to be officers of the law who will get neither the allusion to the original nor the joke and take it completely literally. I hope that I'm wrong, of course. I have to admit that I also don't find the mere inversion of the original slogan particularly funny. I can't think of anything better, though.

It's not particularly funny, I think it's more of a 'fuck all this nonsense' type thing. Well that's how I imagine it - sometimes it's just good to stir up an issue - provoke a reaction, any reaction rather that allow the culture to grow and embed itself.

I find it incredible how afraid the mere mention of the t-word makes people.

Tit-job ?

When we ran into trouble at Gatwick on the last Brighton overnighter, I remember the police officers' scared reaction when the t-word was even mentioned--and I was only asking whether they thought we were terrorists, as the reason they advanced for their behaviour was clearly not the real reason, just the legal mechanism they were proposing to use to evict us.

Of course, the decade of statist legislation - RIPA, Terrorism Act 2000/2006, Anti-Terrorism Act (etc) are incredibly damaging pieces of woefully drawn up legislation - they are routinely abused (according the government's own reports) - they are free reign to every state goon who woke up in a bad mood.

I then also asked if they thought we were anti-airport protesters, which, judging from their reaction, wasn't far off terrorism--but they denied it again, of course, with the exception of one junior officer who was a bit more sensible and seemed to be the only one to realise that he wouldn't be giving away a state secret if he admitted it.

Indeed the public is slowly being lead to believe that lawful protest is somehow criminal - largely due to the efforts of ACPO - whose efforts include an attempt to rebrand protesters as "domestic extremists".

The recent announcement that the Home Office is planning a significant expansion of covert state surveillance of the public with the routine use of 'spy drones' - listed as it's target *'antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers*'.

Here we see the the planting of a perfectly lawful activity into a list of petty criminals. This only needs to be kept up for another few years to make restrictions on protest enter law without much of a public outcry.