Almost prophetic?
Many years ago I used to be an avid reader of Private Eye. Not so much in recent times, admittedly (variety of reasons: availability, time, blah blah blah). But I’ve always held a fondness for it in my heart, and it still ranks fairly high on my list of “worthwhile reading”. But I think its finally been nudged out of that position by a recent find… the Daily Mash!
One particular article in the latest offering from this… er… “journal” especially caught my eye:
POLICE TO TARGET HIPPIES WITH VIDEO CAMERAS
POLICE officers on crowd control duty have been ordered to give priority beatings to anyone holding a video camera.
going on to say, in a… hmm… “quote” from an “ACPO spokesman”…
The police have a very difficult job to do while at the same time preserving the democratic right to knock the absolute living shit out of communists and hippies without some bastard filming it on their phone.
In future officers will refrain from unprovoked and indiscriminate attacks and instead focus their violence very precisely on anyone holding a camera.
You can read the full article here.
Only problem is, I get this rather uncomfortable feeling that this spoof article could turn out to be all too prophetic.
-- fotdmike
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