Another “must read”…
Superb article on the police, policing, “democracy”, and much more…
The recent, very violent policing of protests against the G20 meeting in London has become a matter of concern. The story that the authorities tell is one of disobedient police officers. The story,with a bit of imagination, could be understood as if, perhaps, there aren’t just a few bad apples in the barrel, some individuals: maybe there is a disease inside the institution, indeed it is “very worrying“:
Quoted from “There are two sides: the agents of waste and the lovers of the wild.”
-- fotdmike
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Don’t even get me started on this! It isn’t just worrying …… I find it terrifying. The police are the new terrorists. I would be more concerned about a couple of coppers crossing my path on a dark lonely street than coming up against a bunch of knife-wielding hoodlums or a posse of the Taliban carrying big cardboard boxes marked Semtex!
1Absolutely agree! They’ve become virtually a law unto themselves, and get away with murder… literally sometimes!
2Not at all like the coppers I remember from my childhood.