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The Witchhunt Tendency
Thursday, 29 September, 2005 - 06:50
Watching Scorsese's biopic of Bob Dylan, 'No Direction Home', one thing stuck out was the fact that guidelines issued to the FBI on recognising communists was that they might be carrying guitars.
This pattern - that a person's use of technologies of communication sifgnifies their nefarious intent - is repeated endlessly, most recently in the case of a man with an interest computers and telecoms who became a suspected terrorist.
And today I hear that a man who heckled Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary, at the Labour Party conference, was held under the Terrorism Act.
Guitars, amateur radio kit, and now your very voice, are all weapons of dissent which you may want to think about twice before using.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Thursday, 14 July, 2005 - 21:01
This is a collage of found sounds and music in response to the events of July 7 in London.
When it happens so close to home, the impact is telescoped, and we sit up and take notice.
It happens every day in Iraq.
Shownotes:
- Music: This Mortal Coil, Ivy and Neet
- Music: Kate Bush, Waking the Witch
- Clips from BBC News
- Clip from Off the Wall, 12 July 2005, 2600 Hacker's Quarterly
- Extracts from The Power of Nightmares, including an interview with Jason Burke, who has argued that al-qaeda is a creation of western politicians
- Music: Faithless, Mass Destruction
- Music: This Mortal Coil, I Come and Stand at Every Door
Self-fulfilling Prophecy podcast mp3
I wouldn't describe this as podsafe
