Rezo

Le portail des copains

  • Laurie Penny : Don’t listen to what G4S say. Look at what they do (The Independent)
    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/laurie-penny-dont-listen-to-what-g4s-say-look-at-what-they-do-7831790

    Branding can be horribly misleading. The official logo of the Salvation Army, a charitable organisation that these days deals mainly in jumble sales, involves crossed swords and the slogan “Blood and Fire”. Meanwhile, G4S, the world’s largest private security company, whose operatives provide hired muscle to asylum detention centres in the UK, private prisons in America and government facilities in West Bank settlements, has just a neat black-and-red slash and the words “Securing your world”. It even has a jolly theme tune, an apparently unironic track called “G4S: securing your world”, which involves pounding synths and teeth-clenching rhymes like “let your dreams unfurl”. It’s hard to say whether this has done more damage to the company’s reputation than the case of Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan asylum-seeker who died while being deported by G4S employees in 2010. (...) Source: The Independent