And they didn't even look Brazilian...
Further Met bungling: the two men who awoke to the totally-unlike-birdsong of 250 police officers coming in through their front door the hard way hold a press conference.
What's really the problem here (unless you're the shot guy) is the attitude that's making such incidents more and more common - the police all but admit they carried out the raid 'just in case'. That we have to put up with it for the greater good. Well, I'm not buying it.
That's one of the root problems in the police state Britain's turning into: 'just in case'. You're stopped in the street by police, just in case. You're encouraged to report your neighbours (the subject of a recent ad campaign) just in case. Everybody's treated as guilty until proven innocent, just in case. It's a creeping cancer in British society.
And it's all the Blair camp's fault - for politicising the police, playing up terrorist fears to get its ID card snoopers' charter through, and keeping extensive records of everything it can through means-testing and a tax system based on credits and rebates rather than allowances. All designed to give the government basically whatever they need to suspect you of anything at all.
What's really the problem here (unless you're the shot guy) is the attitude that's making such incidents more and more common - the police all but admit they carried out the raid 'just in case'. That we have to put up with it for the greater good. Well, I'm not buying it.
That's one of the root problems in the police state Britain's turning into: 'just in case'. You're stopped in the street by police, just in case. You're encouraged to report your neighbours (the subject of a recent ad campaign) just in case. Everybody's treated as guilty until proven innocent, just in case. It's a creeping cancer in British society.
And it's all the Blair camp's fault - for politicising the police, playing up terrorist fears to get its ID card snoopers' charter through, and keeping extensive records of everything it can through means-testing and a tax system based on credits and rebates rather than allowances. All designed to give the government basically whatever they need to suspect you of anything at all.
posted by chrisworth at 10:09 AM
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I could add to this rant BUT basically think that you have it covered. You can add erosion of "Democracy" combined with a nation of sheep. Its time to pick up a George Orwell's little tome again...
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