Transactional analysis... the trigger was the response from bad... she used the same ":hook" for @firetown and with several others. She was desperate for "followers" to escalate the drama and move into the next phase of the "game" she wanted to be the "victim"
no. more. drama.
http://powersthatbeat.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/victims-of-cyberbull-defending...
Wikileaks: Who Rules by the Code, Will Fall by the Code
Tuesday 14 December 2010
by: Luis de Miranda | Liberation | Op-Ed
The human being is an animal of protocol. Our behaviors – whether consciously or not – obey codes. Until just recently, protocol was an instrument of hegemonic power. The more one mastered the rules and their construction, the more one controlled the population. The writing and policing of protocols were the privilege of the dominant elites.
Today, the Internet is the site through which humanity is in the process of realizing that freedom occurs by the collective reclamation of the construction and reinvention of protocols. Wikileaks' name will remain one of the milestones of this democratization. In the word Wikileaks, leaks is important: it is thanks to the leaks that the decision-making circles which once appeared solid as rock liquefy and lose their magnificence. But wiki is just as significant: it means that everyone and anyone may contribute to this active demystification of protocols.
What do the Internet and diplomatic circles have in common? They are two worlds governed by very strict protocols, but in opposite ways. Diplomatic rigor is a surface varnish which enables every sort of hypocrisy, low blow and betrayal underneath. Protocol is a stage set, while the action remains in the shadow. The Internet's rigor, to the contrary, is located in all that one does not see: in its source codes, in its universal standards for program writing and data treatment (for example, on the Internet, RFC standards, TCP/IP or HTML). What is immediately visible on the Net is a joyous chaos, turpitude, freedom of expression, all the manifestations of the human kaleidoscope. We have long been more or less familiar with the codes which govern the more or less muted life of embassies, those more or less tacit rules of etiquette, precedence and relations between states and their emissaries. We are less familiar with the recent operating logic of digital technology.
Wikileaks is the product of hacker culture. A hacker is not some pimply miscreant who provokes the Third World war by fiddling around with computers. A hacker is an actor in the real: his practice is based on "reverse-engineering," or retroconception. Which is to say? It's a matter of deconstructing the programs, the rules or the protocols constructed by groups with a monopolistic purpose in order to understand how they are engineered at the source, in order to modify them and become an actor with one's own communication instruments, if possible, in open-source, that is, in conformity with the spirit of free software, modifiable by all those who take the trouble to learn the protocols' digital logic. However, hackers don't limit this modus operandi to digital programs: by dint of spending most of their time on the Internet, the younger generations have by now totally absorbed algorithm. They know the extent to which our worldly protocols, our political and social rules, our behavior, our tastes, our beliefs and our identities have been constructed and are instruments of control.
The diplomatic world, the world of the rulers, is certainly not sacred. Many people have repeated in their analyses: the Wikileaks leaks are not very surprising in their content. But let us not forget that "the medium is the message," according to Marshall McLuhan's famous and still-illuminating formula. The power of the historic event underway, of which Wikileaks is a particularly potent manifestation, resides in its form rather than its content. This event is called numerism. To wit, the global codification of our representations into binary electronic sequences is a new universal DNA. This numerism, through a contrast effect, brings evermore to light a complementary human tendency: crealism, that is, the will to make oneself autonomous, to freely eschew automatisms, all the while taking in hand a democratic re-creation of protocols. In English, that's called empowerment; in classical French, capacitation.
Confronted with this double logic, the old elitist analogue worlds of doubletalk and bluff – notably, those of politics and diplomatic institutions – cannot but be rattled. The message Wikileaks, among others, is sending to those who rule is the following: At present, you may resort to digital logic to organize the world and control the masses; know that, like you, the masses shall be able to access - like you - this universal protocol to divert or unmask its uses for hegemonic ends. This democratization seems inevitable, unless all those who know computer programming are to be put in jail, a temptation some leaders, including in France, seem to be itching to succumb to.
Who rules by the code, will fall by the code. Those who mean to control the masses through biometrics and electronic control must expect to see these digital protocols backfire thanks to the vigilance of some - provided the Internet and the press remain free. A freedom must not be technical only, but critical and constructive. Let us, along with Orwell, never forget that numerism alone, in the absence of collective crealism, will not lead to more and more democracy, but only to the best of all worlds.
Translated by Truthout's literary editor, French translator and sometime book reviewer, Leslie Thatcher.
http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-who-rules-code-will-fall-code66157
England riots: What's the meaning of the words behind the chaos?
From shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan referring to the police as "feds" to the nuanced use of the word "community", the language of the riots and the response can tell us something.
It may have been England that was shaken by violence, looting and disorder.
But many of the terms used by its perpetrators came from a very different place altogether - and, due to coverage of the rioting, they have found a wider audience than ever before.
"If you see a fed... SHOOT!" read one message circulated on BlackBerry Messenger, imploring readers to riot.
Another, widely reported in the aftermath of the chaos, urged everyone to "up and roll to Tottenham [expletive] the 5-0". There were myriad references as well to the "po po".
Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police sparked the violence, himself sent a text message shortly before his death which read: "The feds are following me."
Continue reading the main storySlang for the police
- Slang terms for the police, often hostile and originated by criminals, go back a long time
- "Pig" was first used to mean police officer in 1811, the OED says
- "Peeler" was in use to refer to Irish constables by 1817 and was widely used for Robert Peel's prototype force in 1829
- The "fuzz" is first recorded in the US in 1929
All these terms used to express antipathy towards the police share a common feature - all are derived from the inner cities of the US, not of the UK.
To outsiders, it appeared incongruous that these terms were commonly used by youngsters who were straight out of comprehensive, not Compton.
But when politicians and pundits used such terms to argue that the pernicious influence of hip hop and rap was responsible for fuelling the riots, they themselves ended up using vernacular gleaned from their box sets of The Wire.
When Michael Gove, the education secretary, discussed the possible causes of the disorder, he attacked the instant gratification of "gangsta" culture. Reporters transcribed the word as it might appear on the lyric sheet of a Dr Dre CD, instead of "gangster", as once would have been expected when deployed by an Aberdonian Tory MP who represents a constituency in Surrey.
However, Jennifer Blake, a youth worker who runs the Safe and Sound anti-gang project in Peckham, south London, says such commentators miss the point.
The Wire included terms "po-po" and "5-0"
"When kids talk about the feds, it's obvious that they're not talking about the FBI," she says. "They know that's not how things work over here. It's like a code - politicians and the media don't understand."
She highlights home-grown phrases like "bully van", meaning police van, and "shank", meaning knife, as evidence that UK street culture is not just passively replicating the language of the US inner cities.
Indeed, Jonathon Green, author of the Chambers Slang Dictionary, points out that many of the messages which circulated during the riots included non-US phrases.
These included exhortations to defend one's "yard" - used in its Jamaican-derived sense, meaning home - or one's "end", a home-grown term referring to an area of a city.
Exclusive blend
All, he says, are examples of Multicultural London English (MLE), a dialect identified among young people in the capital which blends the phonetics and vocabulary of such diverse influences as West Indian, south Asian and traditional cockney.
He says the use of "feds" to mean the UK constabulary dates back no further than 1997, and the English deployment of "po po" - which originated in Los Angeles during the 1980s - is even more recent. Such Americanisms, Green says, have to be understood in this context, at least within London where the riots began.
The Sopranos series regularly used the term "feds"
"It's an ironical use," he says. "Obviously there's been an increased Americanisation of our language since the war, but MLE doesn't just come from one source. It just so happens that rap music has lots of terms for the police."
Of course, the language of hip hop and rap has been adopted far more widely than just among the inner city black youths who form its target audience.
Professor Gus John of the Institute of Education, University of London, has long worked with young people associated with gangs and has studied changes in language within England's multi-ethnic communities. He argues that such terminology has the function of setting its users apart from the mainstream.
"It has its own resonance. It's also exclusive, it becomes an internal language to people who share particular lifestyles. That's part of its potency.
"The fact that it is internal, the fact it is not commonly used by everybody, helps to define the group."
Opponents of the rioters have their own terminology
Certainly, those who know little of hip hop culture, and would themselves reject violence and rioting, might have their own nicknames for the police, such as Old Bill or Peelers.
And among those attempting to speak for the majority appalled by the disorder, one word was regularly repeated.
Tottenham's MP David Lammy spoke of "a mood of anxiety in the local community". Sikhs who gathered in west London to guard against looters said they were "here to defend our temple and our community". Richard Mannington Bowes, who died trying to prevent looting, was quickly hailed as a "hero of the community".
The "community", it appeared, was everything and everyone that did not include the rioters.
Indeed, the focus on "gangsta" terminology tells us just as much about the media as it does about the perpetrators of disorder, suggests lexicographer Susie Dent.
"I think journalists have adopted it because it distils the mood and the type of person perceived to be behind the past few days, and also because there's been a distinct uncertainty, almost nervousness, about what to call the perpetrators," she says.
"Are they rioters, which implies a political objection, looters, which doesn't, or vandals, etc? It's interesting too that a lot of the people cleaning up embraced the Sun's 'scum' so readily, a reflexive response of anger."
Whether it comes from the criminals themselves or the law-abiding majority, the words used to describe England's riots tells us much about the society that produced them.
What is becoming increasingly clear is that far more than language divides the two sides.
England riots: What's the meaning of the words behind the chaos?
From shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan referring to the police as "feds" to the nuanced use of the word "community", the language of the riots and the response can tell us something.
It may have been England that was shaken by violence, looting and disorder.
But many of the terms used by its perpetrators came from a very different place altogether - and, due to coverage of the rioting, they have found a wider audience than ever before.
"If you see a fed... SHOOT!" read one message circulated on BlackBerry Messenger, imploring readers to riot.
Another, widely reported in the aftermath of the chaos, urged everyone to "up and roll to Tottenham [expletive] the 5-0". There were myriad references as well to the "po po".
Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police sparked the violence, himself sent a text message shortly before his death which read: "The feds are following me."
Continue reading the main storySlang for the police
- Slang terms for the police, often hostile and originated by criminals, go back a long time
- "Pig" was first used to mean police officer in 1811, the OED says
- "Peeler" was in use to refer to Irish constables by 1817 and was widely used for Robert Peel's prototype force in 1829
- The "fuzz" is first recorded in the US in 1929
All these terms used to express antipathy towards the police share a common feature - all are derived from the inner cities of the US, not of the UK.
To outsiders, it appeared incongruous that these terms were commonly used by youngsters who were straight out of comprehensive, not Compton.
But when politicians and pundits used such terms to argue that the pernicious influence of hip hop and rap was responsible for fuelling the riots, they themselves ended up using vernacular gleaned from their box sets of The Wire.
When Michael Gove, the education secretary, discussed the possible causes of the disorder, he attacked the instant gratification of "gangsta" culture. Reporters transcribed the word as it might appear on the lyric sheet of a Dr Dre CD, instead of "gangster", as once would have been expected when deployed by an Aberdonian Tory MP who represents a constituency in Surrey.
However, Jennifer Blake, a youth worker who runs the Safe and Sound anti-gang project in Peckham, south London, says such commentators miss the point.
"When kids talk about the feds, it's obvious that they're not talking about the FBI," she says. "They know that's not how things work over here. It's like a code - politicians and the media don't understand."
She highlights home-grown phrases like "bully van", meaning police van, and "shank", meaning knife, as evidence that UK street culture is not just passively replicating the language of the US inner cities.
Indeed, Jonathon Green, author of the Chambers Slang Dictionary, points out that many of the messages which circulated during the riots included non-US phrases.
These included exhortations to defend one's "yard" - used in its Jamaican-derived sense, meaning home - or one's "end", a home-grown term referring to an area of a city.
Exclusive blend
All, he says, are examples of Multicultural London English (MLE), a dialect identified among young people in the capital which blends the phonetics and vocabulary of such diverse influences as West Indian, south Asian and traditional cockney.
He says the use of "feds" to mean the UK constabulary dates back no further than 1997, and the English deployment of "po po" - which originated in Los Angeles during the 1980s - is even more recent. Such Americanisms, Green says, have to be understood in this context, at least within London where the riots began.
"It's an ironical use," he says. "Obviously there's been an increased Americanisation of our language since the war, but MLE doesn't just come from one source. It just so happens that rap music has lots of terms for the police."
Of course, the language of hip hop and rap has been adopted far more widely than just among the inner city black youths who form its target audience.
Professor Gus John of the Institute of Education, University of London, has long worked with young people associated with gangs and has studied changes in language within England's multi-ethnic communities. He argues that such terminology has the function of setting its users apart from the mainstream.
"It has its own resonance. It's also exclusive, it becomes an internal language to people who share particular lifestyles. That's part of its potency.
"The fact that it is internal, the fact it is not commonly used by everybody, helps to define the group."
Certainly, those who know little of hip hop culture, and would themselves reject violence and rioting, might have their own nicknames for the police, such as Old Bill or Peelers.
And among those attempting to speak for the majority appalled by the disorder, one word was regularly repeated.
Tottenham's MP David Lammy spoke of "a mood of anxiety in the local community". Sikhs who gathered in west London to guard against looters said they were "here to defend our temple and our community". Richard Mannington Bowes, who died trying to prevent looting, was quickly hailed as a "hero of the community".
The "community", it appeared, was everything and everyone that did not include the rioters.
Indeed, the focus on "gangsta" terminology tells us just as much about the media as it does about the perpetrators of disorder, suggests lexicographer Susie Dent.
"I think journalists have adopted it because it distils the mood and the type of person perceived to be behind the past few days, and also because there's been a distinct uncertainty, almost nervousness, about what to call the perpetrators," she says.
"Are they rioters, which implies a political objection, looters, which doesn't, or vandals, etc? It's interesting too that a lot of the people cleaning up embraced the Sun's 'scum' so readily, a reflexive response of anger."
Whether it comes from the criminals themselves or the law-abiding majority, the words used to describe England's riots tells us much about the society that produced them.
What is becoming increasingly clear is that far more than language divides the two sides.
England riots: What's the meaning of the words behind the chaos?
From shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan referring to the police as "feds" to the nuanced use of the word "community", the language of the riots and the response can tell us something.
It may have been England that was shaken by violence, looting and disorder.
But many of the terms used by its perpetrators came from a very different place altogether - and, due to coverage of the rioting, they have found a wider audience than ever before.
"If you see a fed... SHOOT!" read one message circulated on BlackBerry Messenger, imploring readers to riot.
Another, widely reported in the aftermath of the chaos, urged everyone to "up and roll to Tottenham [expletive] the 5-0". There were myriad references as well to the "po po".
Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police sparked the violence, himself sent a text message shortly before his death which read: "The feds are following me."
Continue reading the main storySlang for the police
- Slang terms for the police, often hostile and originated by criminals, go back a long time
- "Pig" was first used to mean police officer in 1811, the OED says
- "Peeler" was in use to refer to Irish constables by 1817 and was widely used for Robert Peel's prototype force in 1829
- The "fuzz" is first recorded in the US in 1929
All these terms used to express antipathy towards the police share a common feature - all are derived from the inner cities of the US, not of the UK.
To outsiders, it appeared incongruous that these terms were commonly used by youngsters who were straight out of comprehensive, not Compton.
But when politicians and pundits used such terms to argue that the pernicious influence of hip hop and rap was responsible for fuelling the riots, they themselves ended up using vernacular gleaned from their box sets of The Wire.
When Michael Gove, the education secretary, discussed the possible causes of the disorder, he attacked the instant gratification of "gangsta" culture. Reporters transcribed the word as it might appear on the lyric sheet of a Dr Dre CD, instead of "gangster", as once would have been expected when deployed by an Aberdonian Tory MP who represents a constituency in Surrey.
However, Jennifer Blake, a youth worker who runs the Safe and Sound anti-gang project in Peckham, south London, says such commentators miss the point.
"When kids talk about the feds, it's obvious that they're not talking about the FBI," she says. "They know that's not how things work over here. It's like a code - politicians and the media don't understand."
She highlights home-grown phrases like "bully van", meaning police van, and "shank", meaning knife, as evidence that UK street culture is not just passively replicating the language of the US inner cities.
Indeed, Jonathon Green, author of the Chambers Slang Dictionary, points out that many of the messages which circulated during the riots included non-US phrases.
These included exhortations to defend one's "yard" - used in its Jamaican-derived sense, meaning home - or one's "end", a home-grown term referring to an area of a city.
Exclusive blend
All, he says, are examples of Multicultural London English (MLE), a dialect identified among young people in the capital which blends the phonetics and vocabulary of such diverse influences as West Indian, south Asian and traditional cockney.
He says the use of "feds" to mean the UK constabulary dates back no further than 1997, and the English deployment of "po po" - which originated in Los Angeles during the 1980s - is even more recent. Such Americanisms, Green says, have to be understood in this context, at least within London where the riots began.
"It's an ironical use," he says. "Obviously there's been an increased Americanisation of our language since the war, but MLE doesn't just come from one source. It just so happens that rap music has lots of terms for the police."
Of course, the language of hip hop and rap has been adopted far more widely than just among the inner city black youths who form its target audience.
Professor Gus John of the Institute of Education, University of London, has long worked with young people associated with gangs and has studied changes in language within England's multi-ethnic communities. He argues that such terminology has the function of setting its users apart from the mainstream.
"It has its own resonance. It's also exclusive, it becomes an internal language to people who share particular lifestyles. That's part of its potency.
"The fact that it is internal, the fact it is not commonly used by everybody, helps to define the group."
Certainly, those who know little of hip hop culture, and would themselves reject violence and rioting, might have their own nicknames for the police, such as Old Bill or Peelers.
And among those attempting to speak for the majority appalled by the disorder, one word was regularly repeated.
Tottenham's MP David Lammy spoke of "a mood of anxiety in the local community". Sikhs who gathered in west London to guard against looters said they were "here to defend our temple and our community". Richard Mannington Bowes, who died trying to prevent looting, was quickly hailed as a "hero of the community".
The "community", it appeared, was everything and everyone that did not include the rioters.
Indeed, the focus on "gangsta" terminology tells us just as much about the media as it does about the perpetrators of disorder, suggests lexicographer Susie Dent.
"I think journalists have adopted it because it distils the mood and the type of person perceived to be behind the past few days, and also because there's been a distinct uncertainty, almost nervousness, about what to call the perpetrators," she says.
"Are they rioters, which implies a political objection, looters, which doesn't, or vandals, etc? It's interesting too that a lot of the people cleaning up embraced the Sun's 'scum' so readily, a reflexive response of anger."
Whether it comes from the criminals themselves or the law-abiding majority, the words used to describe England's riots tells us much about the society that produced them.
What is becoming increasingly clear is that far more than language divides the two sides.
Hackers have targeted the website of a San Francisco transport company that turned off mobile masts to prevent protests outside its stations.
Public anger towards the Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART) had been fermenting since July when transit police shot dead a man who was carrying a knife.
BART disconnected its transmitters in a bid to quell planned demonstrations.
Hacker group Anonymous retaliated by attacking myBART.org, and releasing users' personal information.
The hackers posted details of over 2,000 myBART users online.
Mobile users on the BART network were completely cut off while protests were allegedly being organised
In a typically-worded statement, the hacking group said: "We are Anonymous, we are your citizens, we are the people, we do not tolerate oppression from any government agency.
"BART has proved multiple times that they have no problem exploiting and abusing the people."
BART's main website, BART.gov, was left unaffected.
However, myBART.org - which carries offers and extra services for passengers - was defaced and, as of Monday, remained offline.
'Disruptive activities'An action group has called for the disbanding of the BART police force following the July 3 shooting of a homeless man Charles Hill and also the 2009 killing of another man, Oscar Grant.
Johannes Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter over the death of Oscar Grant
Protesters have already been successful in rendering some stations on the network unusable by staging mass sit-ins.
BART took the decision, on 11 August, to shut off mobile phone reception at some of its sites.
In a statement, the transport company said: "BART temporarily interrupted service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform."
It said protesters had stated that they: "would use mobile devices to coordinate their disruptive activities and communicate about the location and number of BART Police".
BART added: "Disturbance during commute times at busy downtown San Francisco stations could lead to platform overcrowding and unsafe conditions for BART customers, employees and demonstrators."
UK troublesThe move was widely criticised as being heavy-handed, with some San Francisco residents suggesting that blocking phone use was a violation of free speech.
BART's decision has parallels with recent troubles in England where days of riots were sparked when 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot dead by police in Tottenham, north London.
Prime Minister David Cameron suggested in Parliament that access to social networks could be blocked in times of civil unrest.
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David Cameron outlines ideas for social media measures during rioting
His comments came after it emerged some of the looting and violence was co-ordinated by people using services such as Blackberry messenger.
His statement was widely condemned by rights campaigners who said that such measures could be an attack on civil liberties.
On Monday, BART warned of further disruption to the service, and did not rule out that similar blocking-measures could be used.
'Completely unjustified'However, reaction to Anonymous' intrusions has been less than supportive.
Laura Eichman, whose phone number was published along with the stolen personal data, said: "I think what they [the hackers] did was illegal and wrong.
"I work in IT myself, and I think that this was not ethical hacking. I think this was completely unjustified."
Anonymous has argued that anger should be directed at BART's "unsecure" data protection methods, rather than the group.
DING!
England riots: What's the meaning of the words behind the chaos?
From shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan referring to the police as "feds" to the nuanced use of the word "community", the language of the riots and the response can tell us something.
It may have been England that was shaken by violence, looting and disorder.
But many of the terms used by its perpetrators came from a very different place altogether - and, due to coverage of the rioting, they have found a wider audience than ever before.
"If you see a fed... SHOOT!" read one message circulated on BlackBerry Messenger, imploring readers to riot.
Another, widely reported in the aftermath of the chaos, urged everyone to "up and roll to Tottenham [expletive] the 5-0". There were myriad references as well to the "po po".
Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police sparked the violence, himself sent a text message shortly before his death which read: "The feds are following me."
Continue reading the main storySlang for the police
- Slang terms for the police, often hostile and originated by criminals, go back a long time
- "Pig" was first used to mean police officer in 1811, the OED says
- "Peeler" was in use to refer to Irish constables by 1817 and was widely used for Robert Peel's prototype force in 1829
- The "fuzz" is first recorded in the US in 1929
All these terms used to express antipathy towards the police share a common feature - all are derived from the inner cities of the US, not of the UK.
To outsiders, it appeared incongruous that these terms were commonly used by youngsters who were straight out of comprehensive, not Compton.
But when politicians and pundits used such terms to argue that the pernicious influence of hip hop and rap was responsible for fuelling the riots, they themselves ended up using vernacular gleaned from their box sets of The Wire.
When Michael Gove, the education secretary, discussed the possible causes of the disorder, he attacked the instant gratification of "gangsta" culture. Reporters transcribed the word as it might appear on the lyric sheet of a Dr Dre CD, instead of "gangster", as once would have been expected when deployed by an Aberdonian Tory MP who represents a constituency in Surrey.
However, Jennifer Blake, a youth worker who runs the Safe and Sound anti-gang project in Peckham, south London, says such commentators miss the point.
"When kids talk about the feds, it's obvious that they're not talking about the FBI," she says. "They know that's not how things work over here. It's like a code - politicians and the media don't understand."
She highlights home-grown phrases like "bully van", meaning police van, and "shank", meaning knife, as evidence that UK street culture is not just passively replicating the language of the US inner cities.
Indeed, Jonathon Green, author of the Chambers Slang Dictionary, points out that many of the messages which circulated during the riots included non-US phrases.
These included exhortations to defend one's "yard" - used in its Jamaican-derived sense, meaning home - or one's "end", a home-grown term referring to an area of a city.
Exclusive blend
All, he says, are examples of Multicultural London English (MLE), a dialect identified among young people in the capital which blends the phonetics and vocabulary of such diverse influences as West Indian, south Asian and traditional cockney.
He says the use of "feds" to mean the UK constabulary dates back no further than 1997, and the English deployment of "po po" - which originated in Los Angeles during the 1980s - is even more recent. Such Americanisms, Green says, have to be understood in this context, at least within London where the riots began.
"It's an ironical use," he says. "Obviously there's been an increased Americanisation of our language since the war, but MLE doesn't just come from one source. It just so happens that rap music has lots of terms for the police."
Of course, the language of hip hop and rap has been adopted far more widely than just among the inner city black youths who form its target audience.
Professor Gus John of the Institute of Education, University of London, has long worked with young people associated with gangs and has studied changes in language within England's multi-ethnic communities. He argues that such terminology has the function of setting its users apart from the mainstream.
"It has its own resonance. It's also exclusive, it becomes an internal language to people who share particular lifestyles. That's part of its potency.
"The fact that it is internal, the fact it is not commonly used by everybody, helps to define the group."
Certainly, those who know little of hip hop culture, and would themselves reject violence and rioting, might have their own nicknames for the police, such as Old Bill or Peelers.
And among those attempting to speak for the majority appalled by the disorder, one word was regularly repeated.
Tottenham's MP David Lammy spoke of "a mood of anxiety in the local community". Sikhs who gathered in west London to guard against looters said they were "here to defend our temple and our community". Richard Mannington Bowes, who died trying to prevent looting, was quickly hailed as a "hero of the community".
The "community", it appeared, was everything and everyone that did not include the rioters.
Indeed, the focus on "gangsta" terminology tells us just as much about the media as it does about the perpetrators of disorder, suggests lexicographer Susie Dent.
"I think journalists have adopted it because it distils the mood and the type of person perceived to be behind the past few days, and also because there's been a distinct uncertainty, almost nervousness, about what to call the perpetrators," she says.
"Are they rioters, which implies a political objection, looters, which doesn't, or vandals, etc? It's interesting too that a lot of the people cleaning up embraced the Sun's 'scum' so readily, a reflexive response of anger."
Whether it comes from the criminals themselves or the law-abiding majority, the words used to describe England's riots tells us much about the society that produced them.
What is becoming increasingly clear is that far more than language divides the two sides.
TRANCE Formation of America
TRANCE Formation of America was originally written, in graphic detail, for the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Oversight in 1995, seven years after Mark Phillips rescued my daughter Kelly and I from our White House/Pentagon level MK-Ultra mind control victimization. We had previously been stopped from presenting our compiled eyewitness testimonies, supporting medical documents and hard evidence to all local, state, and federal legal bodies for so-called reasons of National Security. Once it became clear that we would not be able to address the Congressional Committee, TRANCE was released en masse in the form of a self-published book. It is now in its eighth printing, and is rapidly spanning the globe.
Mark and I began utilizing our First Amendment Rights by publicly whistle-blowing about mind control in 1991. In order to compile the evidence and begin a nation-wide mail-out of the information, we were reduced to living with Marks mother in a tiny two-bedroom house, able to eat only through food stamps and donations. After sending the information to every prominent politician and political organization in Washington and receiving only the form responses, we finally had a breakthrough in 1992. At that time, I was able to address the Tennessee State Legislature after Kelly had been denied her Constitutional and human rights when forced into Tennessee State custody. The judge presiding over her so-called legal case, Judge Andrew Shookhoff, said in open court laws do not apply in this case for reasons of National Security. This statement was the first stage of public validation from the bureaucratic and institutional realms. And it may have been the very act that saved our lives.
PAUSE:
ANDY SHOOKHOFF WAS JUVENILE JUDGE ON THIS CASE. HE IS CURRENTLY LOCATED IN THE SAME OFFICE I WORKED IN WHILE DOING MY GRADUATE WORK AT VANDERBILT.
JUDGE SHOOKHOFF BECAME THE DIRECTOR OF THE CHILD & FAMILY CENTER WHEN FORMER MAYOR BILL PURCELL TOOK OFFICE. ANDY WAS NOT RE-ELECTED SO IT SEEMED THE PERFECT TRANSITION.
I THOUGHT ANDY WAS A GOOD GUY...
HOW CAN HE BE INVOLVED IN SUCH AN EVIL CONSPIRACY? OR PERHAPS I JUST DIDN'T SEE IT...
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GOREHOSTS A CONFERENCE AT VIPPS EACH YEAR DATING BACK TO THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION. HE WOULD SET UP SHOPPE AT VIPPS WHILE HE WAS IN TOWN. THERE USED TO BE LETTER OF REC IN MY PICASA FOLDER THANKING ME FOR MY PARTICIPATION IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ANNUAL EVENT.
AL GORE? C'MON FOLKS. THIS TOWN IS ILLUMINATI NWO THROUGH AND THROUGH. GLOBAL WARMING WAS A SCAM. WEATHER MANIPULATION IS TOOL FOR NWO. HAARP?
ANYHOO... I MET WITH HIM A FEW YEARS AGO, IT DIDN'T GO VERY WELL. BUT I DID VOTE FOR HIM. I MAY HAVE TO DIGG UP THAT CASE FILE. THIS HAS TWEAKED MY CURIOSITY ABOUT THE CASE / duranted@ctrvax
The Illuminati is programming such vast numbers of children, they need everyone of their able members to help. Moriah’s total membership worldwide numbers in the millions. The Illuminati regimen for their children is far more controlling than the CIA’s programming. Not everyone in the Illuminati gets their mind-split and becomes a programmed multiple. However, everyone does get some type of mind-control.Those who have been spared multiplicity still must participate in a two-week intense mind-control session that might be compared to the Army’s Ranger school. Those who participate in this have learned obedience. Those who haven’t learned obedience, are forced into ritual gladiator type duels or other punishments to eliminate them.Finally, a traitor’s death as pictured on one of the Tarot cards is waiting. Sharon Tate was left hanging in the No. 12 Tarot Card’s “hangman position” from the house rafters.
Organizational Status: University-affiliated institute, founded in 1976.
General Description: VIPPS operates through nine centers named for their major research interests: Child and Family Policy, Crime and Justice Policy, Environmental Management, Evaluation Research and Methodology, Health Policy, Crime and Justice Policy, Mental Health Policy, Psychotherapy Research and Policy, State and Local Policy, and US-Japan Studies and Cooperation. Each center is led by a member of the faculty and has associated with it other faculty fellows and senior fellows, research associates and assistants, and support staff. VIPPS faculty are truly interdisciplinary, representing psychology, sociology, political science, medicine, law, engineering, education and economics. A small central staff directs and coordinates outreach, fundraising and administration. To complement its research mission, the institute works to build bridges between the policy research and policy action communities. These efforts include issues workshops for the metropolitan Nashville city council and for freshman Tennessee state legislators, general interest seminars on topics related to its research program, and conferences on topics as diverse as the transfer of technology between military and civilian uses and the international climate for the protection of intellectual property rights.
Annual Budget: USD 5 million (2000)
by Vanderbilt News & Communications | Posted on Friday, Jul. 26, 2002 — 4:16 PM
July 26, 2002
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – John Seigenthaler, nationally acclaimed newspaper editor and First Amendment advocate, is getting an unexpected present for his 75th birthday Saturday: Vanderbilt University officials announced July 26 that one of the university’s newest buildings is being named after Seigenthaler.
The building, at 18th Avenue South and Edgehill Avenue, will be named the John Seigenthaler Center. It houses the offices of the Freedom Forum, the First Amendment Center and the Diversity Institute.
The action was approved by the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust and recommended by the Freedom Forum Board of Trustees. Nicholas S. Zeppos, Vanderbilt provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, was joined in making the announcement by Charles L. Overby, chairman and CEO of the Freedom Forum. The building will be dedicated in September in ceremonies including prominent national and international participants.
The Seigenthaler Center encompasses 57,000 square feet and includes a just-completed three-story expansion that was funded by the Freedom Forum and donated to Vanderbilt.
“Because of John Seigenthaler’s leadership and foresight, the Freedom Forum has made a substantial and long-lasting investment in Vanderbilt University,” Chancellor Gordon Gee said. “It is a unique relationship between one of the country’s most important foundations and a great university – and it would not have happened without John’s spark and persistence.”
“John Seigenthaler is known across America and around the world as a defender and champion of freedom,” said Martha R. Ingram, chairman of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust. “He has dedicated his life and career to the principles of the First Amendment, and so it is most appropriate that the First Amendment Center he conceived and founded in his hometown be named in his honor now.”
"Beyond being highly honored and deeply grateful, it is my sincere hope that the projects and programs initiated in this building will bring great credit to Vanderbilt and will have both meaning and impact in places far outside the limits of the campus. I am indebted to Chancellor Gordon Gee and the members of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust and to Chairman Charles Overby and my colleagues on the Freedom Forum Board for their positive interest and support," said John Seigenthaler.
“John Seigenthaler is a national treasure,” Overby said. “No matter where I go around the country or around the world, people always ask about John. His work for a free press continues to be legendary.”
Overby said it was Seigenthaler’s idea to create the First Amendment Center, which opened in Nashville in 1991. The center moved onto the Vanderbilt campus in 1993 with completion of the renovation/addition to the historic Peabody College presidential home.
“This is the first building in Nashville and in Tennessee to bear John’s name,” Overby said. “It’s fitting that a building dedicated to the First Amendment and diversity be lionized by the ongoing legacy of John Seigenthaler.”
On July 1, Vanderbilt and the Freedom Forum announced the first Seigenthaler Scholar, Leah Monique Watson, a student from Little Rock, Ark. Watson is the initial recipient in an ongoing, four-year scholarship program for students of color that is supported by a $2 million gift in 2001 from the foundation. The scholarship will be awarded to an entering freshman each year, chosen by an independent committee. Scholars receive full tuition for four years at Vanderbilt. Watson will participate in an internship at the First Amendment Center.
Seigenthaler founded the First Amendment Center with the mission of creating national discussion, dialogue and debate about First Amendment values. He served for 43 years as an award-winning journalist for The Tennessean, Nashville’s morning newspaper, and at his retirement was editor, publisher and CEO. He retains the title chairman emeritus. In 1982, Seigenthaler became founding editorial director of USA TODAY and served in that position for a decade, retiring from both the Nashville and national newspapers in 1991.
Seigenthaler left journalism briefly in the early 1960s to serve in the U.S. Justice Department as administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. His work in the field of civil rights led to his service as chief negotiator with the governor of Alabama during the Freedom Rides. During that crisis, while attempting to aid Freedom Riders, he was attacked by a mob of Klansmen.
Seigenthaler hosts a weekly book-review program, "A Word On Words," distributed through the Southern Public Television Network. He is a member of the boards of trustees of the Freedom Forum and the First Amendment Center, and a former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He is chair of the "Profile in Courage Award" selection committee of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation and of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award selection committee for the RFK Memorial.
A chair in First Amendment Studies has been endowed for $3 million in Seigenthaler’s name at Middle Tennessee State University. He serves on the advisory board of the school of journalism at the University of Tennessee and on the Board of Trustees of the Baker Center at the University of Tennessee. He also serves on the 18-member National Commission on Federal Election Reform organized in 2001 by former Presidents Carter and Ford. He is a member of the Constitution Project Initiative on Liberty and Security, created after the Sept. 11 tragedies in New York and Washington.
It is love for Kelly and determination to obtain classified technological rehabilitation for her and for the countless other victims worldwide who cannot think to speak for themselves, and love for humanity as a whole that motivates Mark and I to bring this reality to light. We are not alone in this effort, as there are individuals from global intelligence and governments who have been actively risking their jobs, retirement, and even lives to ensure that these facts reach people from all walks of society in order to make a necessary positive difference. Mind control is the most important issue facing humanity today as all other issues, causes, and choices are contingent upon free thought. We all formulate our thoughts, opinions, and actions based on what we know, and you Need-to-Know that your knowledge base is being deliberately altered through the suppression of pertinent information. Mind control is the missing piece of the puzzle that brings the global political picture into focus and explains so much of what we are seeing in society today. In a world where many people have fallen out of love with life, it is imperative to restore those human values we hold so dear NOW while we can still think to do so.
Upon researching the detailed facts documented in TRANCE and responding to this no-longer-secret problem with action, we all stand to win the psychological war that has been waged on us by a very few. Kellys and my named abusers justify their application of mass mind control by invoking an entire spectrum of virtues, from that of population control to a means of achieving world peace. I know from experience that there is no peace in mind control, because without free thought there is no free will and without free will there is no soul expression. As a nation, our future is at stake. It is time to join the ever-increasing number of people worldwide who are raising public awareness by spreading the word on this 21st century technology for psychological control of our planet. Indeed, it is truth that makes u.s. free!
Cathy OBrien
My name is Cathleen (Cathy) Ann O'Brien, born 12/4/57 in Muskegon, Michigan. I have prepared this book for your review and edification concerning a little known tool that "our" United States Government is covertly, illegally, and un-constitutionally using to implement the New World Order (One World Government). This well documented tool is a sophisticated and advanced form of behavior modification (brainwashing) most commonly known as MIND CONTROL. My first hand knowledge of this TOP SECRET U.S. Government Psychological Warfare technique is drawn from my personal experience as a White House "Presidential Model" mind-control slave.
Much of the information enclosed herein has been corroborated and validated through brave and courageous "clean" members of the law enforcement, scientific, and Intelligence communities familiar with this case. These individuals' efforts helped me to understand and corroborate what happened after a lifetime of systematic physical and psychological torture orchestrated to modify my behavior through totally controlling my mind. Some of these courageous individuals are employed by the very system that controlled me and live in fear of losing their jobs, their families, or their lives. They have gone as far as they dare towards publicly exposing this tool of engineers of the New World Order--to no avail. This book is a grassroots effort to solicit and enlist the public and private support of Human Rights advocates, the recognized, respected doors in America to expose this invisible personal and social menace. This can be done by well organized, cooperative citizens with a passion for justice, who have expressed interest in restoring our Constitution and taking back America. This copy you hold is for your edification and action.
...It is my patriotic respect for the principles of truth, justice, and ultimately that freedom on which America was founded that compels me to expose the world domination motivations of those in control of our government, commonly referred to as the Shadow Government. By taking back America NOW, we can maintain the integrity of our country's history and future by detouring its destined course of being recognized world wide for the mind-control atrocities unleashed on humanity that literally begin where Adolph Hitler left off. Hitler's version of world domination that he termed in 1939 the "New World Order" is currently being implemented through advanced technologies in among others, genetic mind-controlled engineering by those in control of America.
...The expertise of my primary advocate and skilled deprogrammer, Mark Phillips, developed through his U.S. Defense Department knowledge of "Top Secret" mind-control research and researchers, was responsible for the restoration of my mind to normal functioning. As a result, I have recovered the memories related in this text, and having survived the ordeal, have reached this point of enormous frustration. In 1988, through a series of brilliantly orchestrated events, Mark Phillips rescued me and my 8-year-old daughter, Kelly, from our mind-controlled existence and took us to the safety of Alaska for rehabilitation. It was there that we began the tedious process of untangling my amnesic mind to consciously recall what I was supposed to forget.
Many U.S. and foreign government secrets and personal reputations were staked on the belief that I could not be deprogrammed and rehabilitated to accurately reveal the criminal covert activities and perversions in which Kelly and I were forced to participate, particularly during the Reagan/Bush Administrations. Now that I have gained control of my own mind, I view it as my duty as a mother and American patriot to exercise my gained free will to expose the mind control atrocities that my daughter and I endured at the hands of those in control of our government. This personal view of inside Pandora's Box includes a keen perception of how mind control is being used to apparently implement the New World Order, and a personal knowledge of WHO some sort of the so-called "masterminds" are behind this world and mind dominance effort.
While I am free to speak my mind, Kelly, now 17, is not so fortunate. Kelly has yet to receive rehabilitation for her shattered personality and programmed young mind. The high tech sophistication of Project Monarch trauma-based mind control procedures she endured, literally since birth, reportedly requires highly specialized, qualified care to aid her in eventually gaining control of her mind and life. Due to the political power of our abusers, all efforts to obtain her inalienable right to rehabilitation and seek justice have been blocked under the guise of so-called "National Security". As a result, Kelly remains untreated in the custody of the State of Tennessee--a victim of the system--a system controlled and manipulated by our abusive government "leaders"--a system which exists due to federal funding directed by our perverse, corrupt abusers in Washington, D.C. She remains a political prisoner in the custody of the State of Tennessee to this moment, waiting and hurting!
http://www.trance-formation.com/aboutcathy.htmWe all know why. Because like Cathy O, they know exactly who I am and what I have witnessed. I am not a survivor of Project Monarch so I don't have A kill switch, a handler, or a predictable "Code Green" response. Code Green Mind Control Programming
I am in a different place all together. I am in Hangman position 11. JUSTICE.
The Missing Piece: Illuminati Hangman Position
Women and men in the Illuminati will continue to help with the programming their entire lives.
The Illuminati is programming such vast numbers of children, they need everyone of their able members to help. Moriah’s total membership worldwide numbers in the millions. The Illuminati regimen for their children is far more controlling than the CIA’s programming. Not everyone in the Illuminati gets their mind-split and becomes a programmed multiple. However, everyone does get some type of mind-control.
Those who have been spared multiplicity still must participate in a two-week intense mind-control session that might be compared to the Army’s Ranger school. Those who participate in this have learned obedience. Those who haven’t learned obedience, are forced into ritual gladiator type duels or other punishments to eliminate them.
Finally, a traitor’s death as pictured on one of the Tarot cards is waiting. Sharon Tate was left hanging in the No. 12 Tarot Card’s “hangman position” from the house rafters.
The best therapists will quietly admit that traditional therapy is inadequate. Unless God intervenes, people who are born into the Illuminati don’t escape it while alive. This article isn’t a mere exercise of academic thinking, but is written with the assurance that freedom is possible, there are viable answers. the hangman position
2012 – The Project Enoch Danger don't make me say it... we all remember the sahdy deal and the committee of 44. Adam and Enoch used me to front a shady operation. ADAM-KADMON man of Flesh. I have been outspoken about what he did to me. Don't push my hand to take down the church too... that is all for now.
Please respect me enough to know that I am doing what is best for all of US.
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Hackers have targeted the website of a San Francisco transport company that turned off mobile masts to prevent protests outside its stations.
Public anger towards the Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART) had been fermenting since July when transit police shot dead a man who was carrying a knife.
BART disconnected its transmitters in a bid to quell planned demonstrations.
Hacker group Anonymous retaliated by attacking myBART.org, and releasing users' personal information.
The hackers posted details of over 2,000 myBART users online.
In a typically-worded statement, the hacking group said: "We are Anonymous, we are your citizens, we are the people, we do not tolerate oppression from any government agency.
"BART has proved multiple times that they have no problem exploiting and abusing the people."
BART's main website, BART.gov, was left unaffected.
However, myBART.org - which carries offers and extra services for passengers - was defaced and, as of Monday, remained offline.
'Disruptive activities'An action group has called for the disbanding of the BART police force following the July 3 shooting of a homeless man Charles Hill and also the 2009 killing of another man, Oscar Grant.
Protesters have already been successful in rendering some stations on the network unusable by staging mass sit-ins.
BART took the decision, on 11 August, to shut off mobile phone reception at some of its sites.
In a statement, the transport company said: "BART temporarily interrupted service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform."
It said protesters had stated that they: "would use mobile devices to coordinate their disruptive activities and communicate about the location and number of BART Police".
BART added: "Disturbance during commute times at busy downtown San Francisco stations could lead to platform overcrowding and unsafe conditions for BART customers, employees and demonstrators."
UK troublesThe move was widely criticised as being heavy-handed, with some San Francisco residents suggesting that blocking phone use was a violation of free speech.
BART's decision has parallels with recent troubles in England where days of riots were sparked when 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot dead by police in Tottenham, north London.
Prime Minister David Cameron suggested in Parliament that access to social networks could be blocked in times of civil unrest.
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David Cameron outlines ideas for social media measures during rioting
His comments came after it emerged some of the looting and violence was co-ordinated by people using services such as Blackberry messenger.
His statement was widely condemned by rights campaigners who said that such measures could be an attack on civil liberties.
On Monday, BART warned of further disruption to the service, and did not rule out that similar blocking-measures could be used.
'Completely unjustified'However, reaction to Anonymous' intrusions has been less than supportive.
Laura Eichman, whose phone number was published along with the stolen personal data, said: "I think what they [the hackers] did was illegal and wrong.
"I work in IT myself, and I think that this was not ethical hacking. I think this was completely unjustified."
Anonymous has argued that anger should be directed at BART's "unsecure" data protection methods, rather than the group.
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England riots: What's the meaning of the words behind the chaos?
From shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan referring to the police as "feds" to the nuanced use of the word "community", the language of the riots and the response can tell us something.
It may have been England that was shaken by violence, looting and disorder.
But many of the terms used by its perpetrators came from a very different place altogether - and, due to coverage of the rioting, they have found a wider audience than ever before.
"If you see a fed... SHOOT!" read one message circulated on BlackBerry Messenger, imploring readers to riot.
Another, widely reported in the aftermath of the chaos, urged everyone to "up and roll to Tottenham [expletive] the 5-0". There were myriad references as well to the "po po".
Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police sparked the violence, himself sent a text message shortly before his death which read: "The feds are following me."
Continue reading the main storySlang for the police
- Slang terms for the police, often hostile and originated by criminals, go back a long time
- "Pig" was first used to mean police officer in 1811, the OED says
- "Peeler" was in use to refer to Irish constables by 1817 and was widely used for Robert Peel's prototype force in 1829
- The "fuzz" is first recorded in the US in 1929
All these terms used to express antipathy towards the police share a common feature - all are derived from the inner cities of the US, not of the UK.
To outsiders, it appeared incongruous that these terms were commonly used by youngsters who were straight out of comprehensive, not Compton.
But when politicians and pundits used such terms to argue that the pernicious influence of hip hop and rap was responsible for fuelling the riots, they themselves ended up using vernacular gleaned from their box sets of The Wire.
When Michael Gove, the education secretary, discussed the possible causes of the disorder, he attacked the instant gratification of "gangsta" culture. Reporters transcribed the word as it might appear on the lyric sheet of a Dr Dre CD, instead of "gangster", as once would have been expected when deployed by an Aberdonian Tory MP who represents a constituency in Surrey.
However, Jennifer Blake, a youth worker who runs the Safe and Sound anti-gang project in Peckham, south London, says such commentators miss the point.
"When kids talk about the feds, it's obvious that they're not talking about the FBI," she says. "They know that's not how things work over here. It's like a code - politicians and the media don't understand."
She highlights home-grown phrases like "bully van", meaning police van, and "shank", meaning knife, as evidence that UK street culture is not just passively replicating the language of the US inner cities.
Indeed, Jonathon Green, author of the Chambers Slang Dictionary, points out that many of the messages which circulated during the riots included non-US phrases.
These included exhortations to defend one's "yard" - used in its Jamaican-derived sense, meaning home - or one's "end", a home-grown term referring to an area of a city.
Exclusive blend
All, he says, are examples of Multicultural London English (MLE), a dialect identified among young people in the capital which blends the phonetics and vocabulary of such diverse influences as West Indian, south Asian and traditional cockney.
He says the use of "feds" to mean the UK constabulary dates back no further than 1997, and the English deployment of "po po" - which originated in Los Angeles during the 1980s - is even more recent. Such Americanisms, Green says, have to be understood in this context, at least within London where the riots began.
"It's an ironical use," he says. "Obviously there's been an increased Americanisation of our language since the war, but MLE doesn't just come from one source. It just so happens that rap music has lots of terms for the police."
Of course, the language of hip hop and rap has been adopted far more widely than just among the inner city black youths who form its target audience.
Professor Gus John of the Institute of Education, University of London, has long worked with young people associated with gangs and has studied changes in language within England's multi-ethnic communities. He argues that such terminology has the function of setting its users apart from the mainstream.
"It has its own resonance. It's also exclusive, it becomes an internal language to people who share particular lifestyles. That's part of its potency.
"The fact that it is internal, the fact it is not commonly used by everybody, helps to define the group."
Certainly, those who know little of hip hop culture, and would themselves reject violence and rioting, might have their own nicknames for the police, such as Old Bill or Peelers.
And among those attempting to speak for the majority appalled by the disorder, one word was regularly repeated.
Tottenham's MP David Lammy spoke of "a mood of anxiety in the local community". Sikhs who gathered in west London to guard against looters said they were "here to defend our temple and our community". Richard Mannington Bowes, who died trying to prevent looting, was quickly hailed as a "hero of the community".
The "community", it appeared, was everything and everyone that did not include the rioters.
Indeed, the focus on "gangsta" terminology tells us just as much about the media as it does about the perpetrators of disorder, suggests lexicographer Susie Dent.
"I think journalists have adopted it because it distils the mood and the type of person perceived to be behind the past few days, and also because there's been a distinct uncertainty, almost nervousness, about what to call the perpetrators," she says.
"Are they rioters, which implies a political objection, looters, which doesn't, or vandals, etc? It's interesting too that a lot of the people cleaning up embraced the Sun's 'scum' so readily, a reflexive response of anger."
Whether it comes from the criminals themselves or the law-abiding majority, the words used to describe England's riots tells us much about the society that produced them.
What is becoming increasingly clear is that far more than language divides the two sides.
