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niallmcc — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:43:16 CST

2008-03-07 Anti-anti-terrorism posters

Great mickey takes of the met police campaign. Found onBoingBoing. Loved"Nonsense. If you suspect it, ignore it."

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niallmcc — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:22:49 CST

Hello. This is the wiki for sorting out the Flash Mob event mooted in Adam Curry's Daily Source Code in February 2008 (anyone got a better ref?). Please feel free to sign up and join in or lurk and read and be there when it happens.

The post that finally got me worked up enough to call in and create this wiki was about the Met Polices new report everything campaign.

I suggest a tag of youworkforus on del.icio.us, flickr, blog posts, etc where you post or find something relevant. There's a you work for us aggregate pipe and rss feed that pulls delicious, flickr and technorati stuff together

Stuff that needs to be sorted out:

A Logo
A Philosophy statement - the basic premise
Maybe get a domain name -youworkforus.co.uk ?
Tee-shirt supplier
Date of the flash mob
Photography - still and video
PR?
A clue :)
Some idea of consequences so people know what, if anything, they're letting themselves in for?
A list of DSCs and timecodes where youworkforus is mentioned
Partners? Maybe No2Id or Liberty might be worth approaching

Philosophy

niallmcc — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:27:18 CST

The key tenet is that the politicians and the security services of the United Kingdom seem to have forgotten that they work for us, the little people that employ them, not the other way round.

Each of us is becoming more insular, more beholden to the state for handouts, for permission to do anything, and more fearful of doing anything not officially sanctioned. We are craven and fearful, begging the state to look after us and protect us from the bogeyman... at least, that's what the current government would like us to be like, allegedly.

Some of us rebel by carrying two mobiles (take two mobiles out of the house? You might be a terrorist!) and taking photos of the Palace of Westminster or the DVLA wearing dodgy fake beards, but that's really not enough I suppose. It's not really rock and roll is it?

Or something. Needs (a lot) of work.

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niallmcc — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:13:48 CST

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