RoboKopter Zamieszki I

Werner Presber wernerpresber at yahoo.de
Tue Nov 15 10:37:06 CST 2011


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9vOor1xmVDs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dce0XV4kwTM&NR=1

„{…} Looking around us at the present moment in the US, for example,  
we note the popularity of helicopters as a
resource of "law enforcement," familiar to us from countless televised  
"crime dramas," themselves forms of social control - and for that  
matter at the ubiquity of television itself. The two-way telescreen  
bears a close enough resemblance to flat plasma screens linked to  
"interactive" cable systems, circa 2003. News is whatever the  
government says it is, surveillance of ordinary citizens has entered  
the mainstream of police activity, reasonable search and seizure is a  
joke. And so forth. "Wow, the government has turned into Big Brother,  
just like Orwell predicted! Something, huh?" "Orwellian, dude!"

Well, yes and no.…“


Thomas Pynchon : The road to 1984 From The Guardian, Saturday May 3,  
2003





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