From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Two articles from Police Review 13/10/2000
>
>Government Criticised over airgun licensing
>by Stuart Mulraney
> --snip--
>Supt Marcus Beale, local area commander for D division,
>says the aim of Operation Real Estate was �about trying
>to break down that spiralling cycle of violence�: �One
>of the objectives,� he adds, �was to prevent that level
>becoming established and becoming the norm.�
>
>Although intelligence gleaned from the gangs involved
>in the shootings didn�t suggest that they were going to
>target police officers, Mr Price acknowledges that in
>this situation it is important to reassure officers and
>make them feel they are protected. He argues that arming
>them and giving them back-up from armed response vehicles
>has proved effective.
--rest snip--
Steve, & Charles,
Funny, most people I know throw water on a fire
to put it out -- not petrol.
I'm of two minds when it comes to police.
On the one hand, they are around to enforce law.
On the other, they can be ornery cusses that think
the world of themselves and look at the citizenry as lessors.
In any case, the best kind are decent folks.
The worst kind are the greatest test of patience that
the creator has made to challenge man: they are willing to
enforce any law, no matter how onerous, how unlawful, or how
ghastly -- they are willing accomplices to murder, and they
could care not a wit less.
So, anyway, these people have no clue with what they
are dealing with. In any situation there is the learning curve.
The bad boys will calm down a bit, until they perceive
what the heck is going on. Later on, they will escalate the situation
to suit their temperaments. They see the cops as nothing more than
another protection racket. Yeah, the cops are armed, so what?
Two years down the road: the cops will fall under a hail
of bullets the same way as the competition. Then what?
If the problem is so much to do with firearms, then why
on the creator's green earth are the cops carrying them?
Unless the government is being duplicitous as usual?
When a lie is about the land, the kings men need a
casual liar to repeat the lie as often as necessary: The GCN.
The problem is manufactured, and all the usual suspects
are holding office. The names of the outside supporters fill the pages
of your fish wraps. What better way to disarm the public than with
a lie of monstrous proportions?
The real problem is that firearms are the best means of
defence, and the cops can't do their intended job -- with or without
firearms, because they are hardly ever around when the nasty deeds
are being done. So the lie is self-fulfilling: there will never be enough
cops, never enough of a tax to support them, and never enough law
for them to enforce. Ergo, the citizens must be forever disarmed to
prevent the cops from being shot at, and most certainly to prevent
the citizen from having a viable means of self-defence, lest the cops
be seen as less than effective. Heaven forbid!
Politics is all about control, and control is all about time.
The root of all crime is corrupt (malum prohibitum) law;
the essence of all corrupt law is power; the essence of all power is
control; the essence of control is a decision of who lives and who dies.
Those who live are the ones in high places; those who die
are the ordinary citizens. How pitifully the sheep are taken to slaughter.
ET
--
If you want a real laugh, have a read of the DT version of this
story in the Monday edition. Apparently Nottinghamshire Police
have guns for armed robberies, in an intriguing typo.
Steve.
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