1.9K views Oct 2009
A satirical protester uses a megaphone to mock consumerism and confront private security guards in Canary Wharf, urging bystanders to hug and question authority.
0:00 Everything you read in the mainstream media is 100% true. Please go back to your jobs. 0:07 If you have not got a job, you are a worthless human being. Consume, consume, consume until we have no planet left to consume. 0:15 What you need to do is buy things that you don't need. That's the best way to support the economy. 0:21 Smiling is bad for the economy. Please do not smile. Sir, please move swiftly to your next shopping experience. 0:29 It's very important for children to be trained in ripping people's bodies to shreds. 0:33 So come and buy some games with lots of killing and destruction and war. 0:37 Independent thoughts lead to chaos. Thinking is boring. Thinking is hard work, and it's not worth the energy. 0:45 If you see a Buddhist on the street, try and get them to leave their religion. 0:49 Buddhists are trying to get us to meditate. Meditation is a waste of good shopping time. 0:55 Miserable people shop more, so please remain as miserable as you can. 0:59 You know, other aliens on my planet, they call you sheeple, not people, but I will not stoop so low. 1:06 It's very nice that we have security in a corporate zone imitating public servants. 1:12 It's been nice to me. 1:13 You're not allowed, not allowed, not at all. 1:15 What are we not allowed to do? 1:16 What, let's have a look at your paperwork. 1:18 My paperwork? 1:19 Can I ask you, sir, why are you dressed up impersonating a police officer? 1:23 I su- I suggest you put your megaphones down and stop protesting, please. 1:26 You're suggesting 1:27 Yes, I am. 1:27 that I put my megaphone down and stop protesting. 1:30 Now. 1:30 I am not protesting. I am just speaking through a megaphone. 1:34 Well, you're not allowed. 1:34 And what I do is give people like you hugs. 1:37 No, you won't. 1:38 What you need is a hug. 1:39 No, you do need a hug, honestly. 1:43 Excuse me, sir. You calm it? 1:45 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Keep it calm. Keep it calm. Get back inside and get back to work. 1:50 That's what you should be doing. Stop putting your head out of bed. 1:52 Never mind your lunch hour. The more you work, you better. Because when you die, you'll regret that you haven't worked more. 1:58 Uh, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, if you're told not to film this, that is an abuse of power. 2:03 You are completely entitled to film whatever you like, and that is on the Metropolitan Police website. 2:09 So please. Isn't it amazing when people are in uniform, they completely lose their mind. 2:14 I want to listen to you without the megaphone, you don't want? 2:16 I know you do, but I prefer to speak on a megaphone so everybody knows what I'm saying. 2:20 You haven't got permission to be up there. 2:22 No one has got permission to be up there. Hold on a second. Excuse me, madam, do you have permission to be here? 2:27 Do you have permission? Do you have permission? You're a very, very naughty lot of people. 2:31 I think we're going to have to get a lot of police out here. 2:34 See something, something's happened about the police force in the last 30 years. 2:38 A lot's happened. 2:38 And what's happened is that instead of them being here to protect us, 2:42 Mm. 2:43 yeah, what you've started to become 2:45 Mm. 2:45 is a corporate gang, a gang of corporate security people that go around fining people for saying words. 2:52 You, you, you've, you've sort of lost touch with what you're really here to do, which is to help us. 2:57 Have I? 2:57 It feels like it, yeah. 2:58 Really? 2:59 Because you're not help really helping anybody by, by fining him for saying the word shit or whatever other words. 3:06 Does anyone else notice how Canary Wharf security uniforms look suspiciously like public servant police uniforms? 3:13 Yet they are private employees of a private area, yet they are allowed to wear a uniform which looks exactly like a police uniform because we are entering what some people call a police state. 3:26 I would call it a Canary Wharf security state. 3:29 Capitalism is a wonderful system. OK, a few billion people get nothing, but still, think of all the people that get lots. 3:36 Don't worry about the fact that the Chinese people had to work for 50 cents a day. 3:41 They're Chinese, who cares? There's a billion of them. 3:43 What I'm going to say to you guys impersonating the police is this is nothing personal, and I'm going to show you how much this is nothing personal. 3:59 Do you know that? 4:02 We've met before, haven't we? 4:04 We have. 4:05 Ladies and gentlemen, the true thing is, I know we're creating a scene, but the creating a scene is not illegal. 4:10 You were born free, you will live free, you will die free. You are allowed to make a scene, you're allowed to scream for joy. 4:14 You're allowed to complain, you're allowed to cry, you're allowed to love people, you're allowed to hug people. 4:19 And we're starting to live in a world where we're starting to feel scared. 4:22 We're starting to forget just how divine and special we are as human beings. 4:26 Every single one of you is the only example of you that will ever exist, and there's not a single authority on this world, especially not private security men, who can tell you how to behave in any time, 4:36 any place, anywhere. You are free, you will live free, you will die. 4:40 The only chains that exist are in your mind. You can do anything you want if you put your mind to it. 4:46 Stop filming, stop filming. 4:47 There are CCTV cameras all over. 4:49 Yeah. 4:50 How come you've got the right to film me? 4:51 Stop, please. Stop. 4:52 Tell me what the law is. Tell me what the law is. 4:54 Stop recording. 4:55 You can't take it off you, that's private property. 4:56 It's a brief of history, you're not actually allowed to record me. 4:59 Let's spend the 5:00 Next 2 minutes, hugging as many people as you can. 5:07 Oh. 5:09 Okay, that's enough now. Go back to your work and your jobs, and go back and do what you're told. 5:13 Please carry on, you're wasting valuable shopping time. 5:15 Security. 5:16 Checkers. 5:18 It goes into the wrong hands, but I know who we are. 5:20 He's coming in? 5:22 Excuse me, can you stop? Film me, film me, it's fine. Your picture's being taken by CCTV all the time. 5:27 Why does it bother you if we take it or if the British Transport Police take it? 5:31 Guys, have you lost your minds? Because all we're doing is just filming in the station. 5:34 Yeah, but you, you ain't got permission. 5:36 The reason behind that is, for example, things like terrorists, okay? 5:40 Just to give you an example. 5:41 Uh-huh. 5:42 You know, they could be filming sort of undercover. 5:44 Do you think perhaps we might be terrorists? 5:46 Don't say nothing, sir. Let's go. 5:47 Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not allowed to tell you what this man just told me. 5:51 It's top secret. It's something to do with terrorism. Just to let you know, terrorism is just a word, and it's a very clever word used to control you. 6:01 Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism, Al-Qaeda, Mohammed, terrorism, terrorism, war in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Tora Bora, Afghanistan, terrorism, stay scared, 6:13 stay separate, terror, terror, terror. Terror is bad, you are bad, go shopping, stay scared. 6:18 There is no difference really between terrorism and war, and therefore the war on terrorism is like having a war on war. 6:25 Also, what the gentleman said is that our footage from our friends here filming will be downloaded by Al-Qaeda, who will then single all of you out and blow you all up individually with an airliner. 6:37 Ladies and gentlemen, drinkers of Bar 38, if I may have your attention for a second, this is a message from the architect of the Matrix. 6:45 We would like to thank you all for having no imagination and picking a corporate chain bar. 6:50 Hold on a second, Charlie. This guy looks a bit like a terrorist, doesn't he? 6:54 It's the dark skin, the long hair, and the tie makes him look, he's trying to make out that he's not one. 6:59 You're, are you a terrorist, sir? 7:01 No, I'm definitely not a terrorist. 7:02 You're not? Well, that's what you would say if you were a terrorist, wouldn't you? 7:05 You wouldn't say, yes, I am. That's exactly what terrorists say. 7:09 If you see a terrorist or someone looking like this man, report him to the police immediately. 7:14 We need to rid the world of terrorists and people with swine flu. 7:18 Always do what the police tell you to do, and everything will be fine. 7:22 I'd like to thank the City of London Police for doing a wonderful job in their fluorescent jackets and protecting us all from the terrorists. 7:28 The media is telling us to always be scared through terrorism and like the economic recession, so we're just trying to do the opposite and say that everything's fine. 7:35 Ah, okay. 7:36 So true happiness can only come from within, and um, so we should stop looking to like other things to try and make us happy or scared or full of fear. 7:43 Uh-huh. 7:43 And if we just realize for one second that everything that we want in life is infinite and within us, we could spread love and tell everyone that everything's okay. 7:50 Ah, okay. 
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