Is this a description of what we were told happened in the Soviet Union during the Cold War? No.

Perhaps Nazi Germany? No.

It was in Basildon, outside both doors of The Moon on the Square public house at 1pm today, Saturday 28th February 2009.

No one took photographs. It is now illegal in the UK to take pictures of the police. One supposes that any one who attempted to take a photograph, his or her camera would have been confiscated. They may even have been arrested.

The official reason for the police being on guard outside the pub is that they were searching for weapons. That explanation is absurd.

This is why:- A person carrying a knife or gun approaches the pub. They see metal detectors and police:- decide to walk through?

Absurd.

So, what is the real reason? Intimidation comes to mind. But why would the police deliberately intimidate the public? Seems crazy to alienate the very public without the co-operation of whom crime prevention cannot possibly succeed?

But, this is not about normal crime prevention is it?

Jack Straw, MP for Blackburn, and now Secretary of State for Justice said in a newspaper article on February 27th 2009:- “Our record isn’t perfect, but talk of a police state is daft.”

Any citizen who passed The Moon on the Square public house today would beg to differ.

So, what is going on?

Let’s make an intelligent guess, based on facts. “Police are preparing for a “summer of rage” as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions“ reported in the Guardian on 23rd Feb 2009.

The police action today is part of a softening up process. The action outside the Moon started at 11am and finished at 4pm. We saw it and were shocked.

We will see it again and not so shocked. Soon, longer and more often and everywhere. We become used to it.

“Oh well, that’s the way it is, let’s have a cup of tea.” some might say.

The ordinary copper does what he is told. So do the police all over the world. The four policemen outside the Moon looked nervous. Why? They don’t know what is going on, they just ‘obey orders’ – where have we heard that before?

Those poor coppers, like our poor troops who each one is following orders for a rich man to get richer, not fighting for their neighbours or friends, indeed if ordered to fight their own people they would.

We the mugs of this Nation and a World are gradually awaking from our long sleep. The rich unelected elite are being found out. Found out how they plunder us and our sweet Earth for their own selfish rewards.

The bankers have been robbing us for years. The elite in government help them. Eton and Harrow, Cambridge and Oxford, funny how all that learning cannot make a just man, some yes. We are beginning to know something our parents never realised. Suspected, but were half asleep. Now that the rich who rule the UK know this awakening is happening to the British people, as it has in some countries in the past, but not the UK, and are preparing to bash us down by the force of our own brothers and sisters who dress up in uniform and prefer themselves to be ordered about instead of an individual soul. Though brave they are, many will testify to their unflinching devotion to the wrong people. Dived and conquer. A very old rule used by many Emperors and Monarchies in the past.

Basildoneye spoke to a staff person in the Moon by telephone today and they didn’t like what the police were doing. Nor did the customers, nor passes by. The American owned ‘local’ newspaper The Echo had no one to comment and so far have not mentioned the police action on their online site.

What do the local councillors think? Basildoneye rang one. Unavailable. You ring too.

Basildoneye supports law and order, supports the police, who we know are just ordinary folk like us. But the rich of the UK don’t give a fig about the coppers just as long as those thousands of mostly good men and woman do their fighting for them.

In fact the four policemen outside the Moon on the Square looked invalid and they felt it. They will be lied to, they will be used, they as much as us will be victims. They will have to deal with the animosity of the crowd, not their commanders, who ordered this provocative action. If a fight flared up our rulers would no doubt be pleased, because that would prove that we need more metal detectors, more surveillance cameras and tougher police laws.

What did our forefathers fight and die for if not our freedom.

If we allow their bravery to go for nothing, then we should hang our heads in shame.

Jack Straw says that the UK is not a Police State, well we sure saw the beginnings of one in Basildon today.