Secret Police Documents Reveal Extent Of Police Surveillance Of Festivalgoers
Autonomy Media - Gavroche | 15.03.2012 18:28 | Culture | Repression
"This is a wake" they said, and the two stoned hippies stood confused and swaying in the wind, posing a terrible and shamefaced threat to society.
Secret Police Documents Reveal Extent Of Surveillance Of Festivalgoers
Various documents have been discovered in abandoned police stations relating to historical persecutions of the activist and hippy community by police. These documents include some quite interesting information about surveillance, performed unwillingly against various members of the population who believed they were engaging in a non-violent protest against society and yet regularly had to face batons. Festivals such as Castlemorton Free Festival, included various different communities and brought together many tribes of people from around the UK, and nobody now would deny they were an essentially positive influence on the development of our present culture. Glastonbury and other festivals are now mainstream news after all…
The magazine ‘Drugs Review’ was distributed to certain members of the police force apparently as a casual read for the train. In an issue of Drugs Review dated 1992 it is possible to discover that the police were concerned by the “mobs of people descending on the countryside” enough that they were considering a variety of measures to deal with them, and that their major concern was the use of recreational drugs. It’s strange that now we can go to nightclubs where various sanctioned and yet extremely dangerous ‘legal highs’ are sold, the ‘rave scene’ has been incorporated into mainstream culture by those who wish to make money out of everything decent.
This article goes on to state that their primary method of dealing with the travellers was to be massive undercover surveillance operations. In a sinister twist to the tale, various persons under the influence of mind-bending psychedelics at the time must have discovered evidence of such operations following them, yet upon informing their friends they were not believed, and would often to have to face an ‘inquisition’ at the hands of their family – “have you been smoking? Look it’s making you paranoid!”.
When these people were driven to their wits end, quite large numbers either committed suicide or moved to desolate places where they live out their days occupied with theories about impending alien invasions.
God bless our police force.
Various documents have been discovered in abandoned police stations relating to historical persecutions of the activist and hippy community by police. These documents include some quite interesting information about surveillance, performed unwillingly against various members of the population who believed they were engaging in a non-violent protest against society and yet regularly had to face batons. Festivals such as Castlemorton Free Festival, included various different communities and brought together many tribes of people from around the UK, and nobody now would deny they were an essentially positive influence on the development of our present culture. Glastonbury and other festivals are now mainstream news after all…
The magazine ‘Drugs Review’ was distributed to certain members of the police force apparently as a casual read for the train. In an issue of Drugs Review dated 1992 it is possible to discover that the police were concerned by the “mobs of people descending on the countryside” enough that they were considering a variety of measures to deal with them, and that their major concern was the use of recreational drugs. It’s strange that now we can go to nightclubs where various sanctioned and yet extremely dangerous ‘legal highs’ are sold, the ‘rave scene’ has been incorporated into mainstream culture by those who wish to make money out of everything decent.
This article goes on to state that their primary method of dealing with the travellers was to be massive undercover surveillance operations. In a sinister twist to the tale, various persons under the influence of mind-bending psychedelics at the time must have discovered evidence of such operations following them, yet upon informing their friends they were not believed, and would often to have to face an ‘inquisition’ at the hands of their family – “have you been smoking? Look it’s making you paranoid!”.
When these people were driven to their wits end, quite large numbers either committed suicide or moved to desolate places where they live out their days occupied with theories about impending alien invasions.
God bless our police force.
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