Shane Croucher

Thanks, Benedict.

One of the founders of modern propaganda was Edward Bernays, an American  who believed that people in free societies could be lied to and regimented without them realising. He invented a euphemism for propaganda – “public relations”, or PR. “What matters,” he said, “is the illusion.”

John Pilger speaking on public relations.

Further to my post on the DNA database, here’s an interesting article in The Times.

Arrests are being made ‘to expand DNA files’

“It’s now become pretty much routine to take DNA samples on arrest, so large numbers of people on the DNA database will be there not because they have been convicted, but because they’ve been arrested.”