The Kraken: Going for Gold

Force and control on display.
The perfect accompaniment to economic hardship. 

Come and see 

Lockdown London

featuring the 

UK's biggest mobilisation of military and security forces since the second world war"

I've read enough action and adventure books to know this has something to do with stolen Nazi Gold. At the very least, I would like to take this opportunity to let the French shrug their shoulders and deny everything.

The imminent Olympics will take place in a city still recovering from riots that [...] were partly fuelled by resentment at their lavish cost. Last week, the UK spending watchdog warned that the overall costs of the Games were set to be at least £11bn – £2 bn over even recently inflated budgets. When major infrastructure projects such as Crossrail, speeded up for the Games, are factored in, the figure may be as high as £24*bn, according to Sky News. The estimated cost put forward only seven years ago when the Games were won was £2.37 bn.

The Paparazzi said they took these candid snaps
after rumours of athletes crack spread

In case anyone decides to protest again it's proposed this time we gas them. I remain to be convinced that anything but shooting them will act as a significant enough deterrent. But there is a real reason to feel terror in the streets of the crackdown city. Any form of crack addiction usually leads to bankruptcy. 

During the Games an aircraft carrier will dock on the Thames. Surface-to-air missile systems will scan the skies. Unmanned drones, thankfully without lethal missiles, will loiter above the gleaming stadiums and opening and closing ceremonies. RAF Typhoon Eurofighters will fly from RAF Northolt. A thousand armed US diplomatic and FBI agents and 55 dog teams will patrol an Olympic zone partitioned off from the wider city by an 11-mile, £80m, 5,000-volt electric fence. 

A prototype for the London 2012 mascot

That, by any measure of a society claiming to be civilised, is extreme and speaks of a people under a terrible state of fear. There is a reason John Yates scampered out of the country. I have seen the people that live inside the walls of this city and I did not see fear when I looked into their soulless eyes. They do not know what is going on and are bewildered hoping only to be allowed to vote in the next round of Britain's Got Talent

Beyond these security spectaculars, more stealthy changes are underway. New, punitive and potentially invasive laws such as the London Olympic Games Act 2006 are in force. These legitimise the use of force, potentially by private security companies, to proscribe Occupy-style protests. They also allow Olympic security personnel to deal forcibly with the display of any commercial material that is deemed to challenge the complete management of London as a "clean city" to be branded for the global TV audience wholly by prime corporate sponsors (including McDonald's, Visa and Dow Chemical).

They are blind to the danger that threatens them. Where there is gold the Kraken can never be far away.

* these are sacred numbers and foretell of intense reactions as illusions are maintained, shattered and great paths are forged into the pages of history. This apparently doesn't come cheap when all the kings are in town. Who would have thought the Olympics were supposed to be about peace? I vote we scrap the Olympics as is and return the athletes to running in the nude - it's not as if their costumes leave much to the imagination anyway.