In the disparate, fractured society ruled by social media, as Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror showed last night, we the public are quick to judge.

By the same reasoning, headlines stick. Despite evidence to the contrary, people in the UK still think that the riots in August were conducted by nefarious gangs from some sort of Tarantino movie.

Other assertions include that the disabled are scroungers, all asylum seekers are frauds, all rape victims “asking for it”. The heavy rhetoric of one-liner and soundbite media culture has a lot to answer for.

Amidst the society is spurious rumours, there are people manipulating the messages to their own gain. The red top tabloids, the mouthiest politicians and the pushy Z list celebrities.

Now it seems it is extending to our public services. The City of London Police have warned local businesses of (and emphasise the pejorative) “activist infiltration”. With squatters being demonised, so most of those (insert discriminative term) “members of the Occupied London Movement” also be rendered in a negative light.

Perhaps worse than this is the “activists” are being labelled as terrorists.

The Occupy London Movement certainly haven’t helped the growing negative messages by taking over an old UBS bank. It is a negative connotation that will blossom a lot of support.

Labelling activists as terrorist extremists, as this letter does, is adding fuel to an unstable mix. It has extremely negative implications the peaceful protests across the UK and is scarily reminiscent of oppressions in the Arab Spring.