A dozen London boroughs have implemented a "risk assessment" policy for live music that permits the police to ban any live music if they fail to receive personal details from the performers 14 days in advance. The demand explicitly singles out performances and musical styles favoured by the black community: garage and R&B, and MCs and DJs.
However all musical performances - from one man playing a guitar on up - are subject to the demands once implemented by the council. And the threat is serious: failure to comply "may jeopardise future events by the promoter or the venue".
UK Music chief Feargal Sharkey told a House of Commons select committee that the policy had already been used to pull the plug on an afternoon charity concert of school bands in a public park organised by a local councillor.
Elem, ... ako hocete da svirate u UK, 14 dana pre svirke bi bilo preporuceno da organizator popuni "formular 696" i prosledi ga policiji, sa sve vasim licnim podacima... sve to kako bi policija proverila da slucajno niste terorista, jer je opste poznato da se terorizam POSEBNO siri na R&B koncertima i prilikom DJ-sanja...
Ovo je jako tuzno :( Pre svega zao mi je UK koja se polako ali sigurno pretvara u orvelovsku zemlju, a drugo ... prosto je neverovatno koliko su ljudi u nekim zemljama nezainteresovani i spremni da prihvate mere koje su bile popularne u SSSR-u zarad fiktivne "sigurnosti". U Evropi razmatraju X-Ray senzore na aerodromima koji ce policiji omoguciti da gledaju vase privatne delove tela, i ne bih se zacudio da UK bude prva u kojoj ce to proraditi :(
Da stvar bude jos vise ironicna - ovakve mere su bile klasican razlog za ismevanje i plasenje od komunistickih zemalja istocnog bloka za vreme hladnog rata - kako se stvari menjaju za samo par decenija :( Zamislite ovo u istoj toj UK pre samo par decenija, u eri panka sta bi se desilo i ko bi bio... izgazen? A danas... no problemo... sigurnost pre svega.
Teroristi su pobedili.
Na svu srecu, ostatak zemalja u Evropi ima Ustav, kojim su garantovana prava - UK, na zalost, nema Ustav i njeni gradjani su "subjects" koji slobodu imaju na poklon, ali koja malo po malo biva oduzimana od njih.
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