Post by Sweet FA on Apr 7, 2017 19:35:32 GMT
Often stories surface of bizarre events, decisions and unusual goings on years after the event. Most of them are of the strange but true variety and usually (sometimes conveniently) cannot be proved or disproved. Here's mine.....
This story was printed in several British newspapers a couple of years ago.
"Star Trek and The X-Files were among science-fiction TV shows monitored by Scotland Yard over fears they posed a potential threat to national security. Nineties TV shows Dark Skies, Roswell, Millennium and the film Lawnmower Man were also watched by the Metropolitan Police Special Branch, according to newly-released files. Police were concerned British fans of the US shows would kill themselves or turn against society, while they also kept tabs on the shows to protect the country from rioting and cyber-attacks."
"The report compiled in 1997 said that viewers obsessed with the programmes could go into a frenzy triggered by the millennium, leading to anarchy and ‘an act of extreme violence’.
It read: ‘Fuel is added to the fire by television dramas and feature films mostly produced in America. These draw together the various strands of religion, UFOs, conspiracies, and mystic events and put them in an entertaining story line."
What the hell would they make of forum dwellers and Bioware fans?
Original articles:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11611086/Secret-files-reveal-police-feared-that-Trekkies-could-turn-on-society.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3085856/How-police-kept-track-Trekkies-Met-drew-secret-dossier-Star-Trek-X-Files-fearing-sci-fi-shows-cause-riots-mass-suicides.html
This story was printed in several British newspapers a couple of years ago.
"Star Trek and The X-Files were among science-fiction TV shows monitored by Scotland Yard over fears they posed a potential threat to national security. Nineties TV shows Dark Skies, Roswell, Millennium and the film Lawnmower Man were also watched by the Metropolitan Police Special Branch, according to newly-released files. Police were concerned British fans of the US shows would kill themselves or turn against society, while they also kept tabs on the shows to protect the country from rioting and cyber-attacks."
"The report compiled in 1997 said that viewers obsessed with the programmes could go into a frenzy triggered by the millennium, leading to anarchy and ‘an act of extreme violence’.
It read: ‘Fuel is added to the fire by television dramas and feature films mostly produced in America. These draw together the various strands of religion, UFOs, conspiracies, and mystic events and put them in an entertaining story line."
What the hell would they make of forum dwellers and Bioware fans?
Original articles:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11611086/Secret-files-reveal-police-feared-that-Trekkies-could-turn-on-society.html
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3085856/How-police-kept-track-Trekkies-Met-drew-secret-dossier-Star-Trek-X-Files-fearing-sci-fi-shows-cause-riots-mass-suicides.html
