“The enemy is all around us. You must report your neighbours. Your children must report their parents for any indiscretion. You are all now being watched very, very closely and thanks to the Woolwich killing by some brainwashed young angry men, we will enforce the Snoopers Charter which we have been waiting to introduce for a while. It’s rather coincidental that these easily controlled killers were of course pawns in a much larger game. Who knows who was really controlling them? Islam got the blame, as in every other terror exercise, that religion is a very useful tool for our own needs. Remember, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength,” a member of the Inner Party said yesterday from the Ministry of Truth.

Totalitarian Creep

The Inner Party source then added: “First we create the problem, then we create the reaction, and then we swan in with the solution. Remember we are doing this for your own safety. You are all guilty now and your every move will be surveilled and analysed. Social surveillance websites are already being used against the proles and we want to take your every Thoughtcrime and incriminate you at every juncture of your pathetic lives. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. We will have total power over the proles and we will utilise every weapon in our arsenal to achieve our goal. It is not enough to own your property, as it is the property of the Party, but we want to own your every thought, including your mind, body and soul. Remember, Sector 1 is not exempt from the revolution.”

The next step after the Snoopers Charter will be RFID chipping for the whole population. For your own safety, of course.