War against terror is a big thing everywhere and civilian casualties are plenty. In the UK police shot a brasilian man 8 times in the head because he was thought to be a suicide bomber. In the USA CIA arrested a canadian man and sent him to Syria for torture(www.ararcommission.ca). There are a lot of examples like this.
Ingsoc's great idol Vladimir Putin got even further. Some think that the FSB(=KGB) blew up a couple apartment blocks killing more than 200 people. The blame was brilliantly put on chechen terrorists, nevertheless after seven years the bombers have not been found.
But now TA-DAA! The anti-terror war has finally landed on small Eastern European country called Finland! While the big countries fight against bloodthirsty terrorists by killing and torturing, our brave policemen are fighting kids with the hoods and piercings.
Aren't they scary?
Ingsoc admires intelligent use of media and control, but our domestic minister Kari Rajamäki is merely pitiful compaired to the genious of Cheney or Putin. I'd still like to explain Rajamäki's so-called strategy to the readers who are not aware of what has happened in Helsinki during this summer.
1. In may, there was an anarchist party for the benefit of the old railway station. Media and police stated that there was heaps of 'molotov cocktails' to burn the station down.
2. On the next day the station burned. Police stated that it was an arson. Media wrote about anarchist arsonists for the next couple months.
3. Later police said that the investigation showed that the fire was an accident, propably caused by some unlucky sparks from the anarchists bonfire.
4. Tabloid media was not so interested of the fact that the fire was an accident or about any other facts. Police had got their domestic enemy, all right.
5. On 9th of september there was an anarchist demonstration of a handfull of kids, hundreds of bystanders, and a few drunken idiots. Police interpreted this as a threat to the national security and brought in busloads of men with full riot gear.
In this interesting but too long videoclip you can see how busloads of police arrive to a virtually peaceful city center:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr1mawW2v-0&mode=related&search=
6. Police arrested 126 people of which propably most were bystanders or peacefull protestors. Among them was a photographer for Suomen Kuvalehti, politician from Leftist party, and my workmate who was put to jail because he looked like a punkrocker.
In this funny video a couple hundred police is fighting against some kids, a few drunken idiots, few journalists and some other scary people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3236m1QAXhM7. The polices intentions are of course beautiful. They tried to create an enemy, which didn't exist. They tried to get more rights for the use of violence against citizens, more control, cutting of the freedom of speech etc. etc. They only forgot that the city center was full of videocameras and people who clearly saw
what actually happened.
For now, ingsoc just wanted to give a brief history of the summer 2006 in Helsinki. Next time he will give you an analysis of why there are conflicts in the society and how the conflicts could be(and will be)
stopped.
