Modern day propaganda

I was reluctant to call it "modern day propaganda" as I felt that there was a clear difference between the propaganda in all the propaganda books in the library and the notice I have seen around London myself. I think this image has proved me wrong.
The style is so similar to that of much war time propaganda - the realistic painting style and the bold large text that it seems unlikely that those war time poster have not been used as direct influence for these poster.
But it is the eye logo that I find most disturbing. I have seen it myself on many notices on the underground and buses around the capital and am always amazed that it is used so widely. It certainly doesn't make me feel safer. The connection with 1984 is remarkable clear. you don't even have to have read the book, there a f TV called big brother with the same fucking logo!

This cant have not been though of and must be used with the belief that this association would be a positive one in communicating the message. which raises the question of who the target audience for these posters are? it seems likely that this totalitarian approach cannot be accidental, and therefore the posters could be aimed "criminal" "scum" etc.
a deterrent, a warning.
It seems that this poster is evidence to surgest that proaganda has never gone away and possibly never will. This poster from a "post 9/11" world (a phase that i fucking hate) possibly suggested that the same fear in a general public can be used to excuse this kind of public notice as it was during the world wars. lets posters like this can be looked back on in books titled "the history of proaganda" in years to come and be seen as quaint funny relics of our strange paranoid history in the same way we can look at old war time posters today.