Fifteen years ago a weird programme was shown on Channel 4 TV called Big Brother. Contestants in a house were watched and watched and watched and then watched some more. Twenty four hours a day we could watch and watch and watch the contestants as they talked, argued, snuggled up together under the sheets, or romped in the shower. Viewers voted those contestants they didn't like out of the house. The fifteenth series ended in August last year. More are planned.
In addition there have been 14 series of Celebrity Big Brother, with the same format.
And over the years there has been a deliberate attempt to bring sex into the show, with some contestants deliberately chosen for their career or uncontrollable sexuality with the aim of turning us all into voyeurs and perverts watching a live sex show on national TV.
So over the last decade we as a nation have basically been spying on other people for weeks on end.
Meanwhile this entity called al Qaeda has been running around committing terrorism, but with the support of our intelligence agencies. We created them. We sustained them through a Covenant of Security. We supported them in Libya and now in Syria.
Now the Surveillance Camera Commissioner Tony Porter is warning us that we are being reduced from individuals to trackable numbers in a database.
But where are the protests?
In 2013 Ed Snowden was plastered all over the newspapers. Front page headline news for weeks, with each revelation repeated in every media outlet. The newspapers leading the race to tell us we were being spied on were The Guardian and The Washington Post, the same newspapers who are not telling us the General Wesley Clark revelations of seven wars in five years.
Can you not see how the two, C4 Big Brother and Snowden, are linked?
When told we are being spied on, how can we protest against the surveillance when we have been spying on the contestants in the Big Brother house for years, and this bogus monster al Qaeda is on the loose?
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