Tuesday 21st October 2008
Hi,
I have an idea for a new TV show if anyone from a production company is reading this, imagine this an East German Secret Policeman, falls into a deep freezer for 20 years and re emerges in England after the old Freezer was brought over to the Tate Gallery as a Turner Prize candidate.
He wakes up after defrosting (no one can afford to pay the bills in 2008) he walks around London and sees the Bin Police throwing people into Prison for not recycling (how to put people off serious issues - no carrot just a stick). A good start he thinks damn greenies!
The East German is very impressed at the amount of CCTV Cameras covering everything! The roads seem to have hundreds at certain junctions. Fantatsic this future world!
The air of menace is there he remembers so well, not from hordes of his colleagues but from hooded sinister strangers on each corner. Maybe they are secret Police in plain clothes…or unemployed monks as the monastries must still be frowned upon he wonders as he walks along.
There is a lot of Graffiti though, maybe he has woken up on the wrong side of the wall (there is still a wall right?).
He reads the newspaper headlines (he learnt English when spying on visitors to the GDR - East Germany), he reads how an innocent woman can be locked up by ‘experts’ who have never proven their theories and get paid to do so, and some it seems only ever stand for the state, meaning all must be guilty (wow just like home he thinks). Good none of this innocent until proven guilty nonsense, that seems to be still gone.
But the best bit is they can now lock people up for 42 days without trial. Wow - Life on Mars, the GDR Files or Life in England 2008. You decide on a title.
One final thing the Secret Policeman is surprised at how the fuel is still allowed to be sold to mere mortals, but he is pleased to see it costs more than an old rusty Trabant car per litre! Mind you he has just seen how the Police are treated by the Brown and Smith Politbureau so he may have to get another job ‘expert witness’ for the CPS perhaps? The pays good and you get to travel…….
What do you think/ A possible show, obviously we can have cool East German pop music of the time and the coolest vehicle on the roads at the time - a Trabant. I say cool cos’ the heater doesn’t work! The hero walks around in a cool Leather Jacket with Satsi on it .
I may have said this before but why go for 42 days? Will all the mountains of paperwork be done by then? What happens if you need 43? Why didn’t they ask for this during the IRA Bombing camapigns, Or the others across London and the UK over the years? Not sure I trust this government to sort out anything, especially ancient liberties, we are making our society something the Taliban might be impressed with?
We will soon lose our ancient right to practise Archery every Sunday morning after Church, although Father Will has said Health & Safety have asked that i don’t do it in the church!
The thing is the more you read the more depressing it, as they are also saying they want powers to pick up any of our DNA lying around on cans, cups, stirring sticks etc. Massively increasing the DNA database there then……East Germany welcomes you!
Sleep tight Comrades.