From: "rastech", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Steve, Interesting comment in Yesterdays's Littlejohn column in the Sun about "gunmen being free to walk the streets" and Olympic shooters having to go to Switzerland to train. Message getting through at last? Bob PS - Oh, and the bit about "If it saves one life", of course. ********** With plod on their side A 31-YEAR-OLD road workman who put up a makeshift sign warning drivers of a speed trap ahead is facing prosecution. Police in south Gloucestershire were horrified to discover all the cars passing through their radar trap well within the limit. When they found out why, they reported the workman on a charge of obstructing the police in the execution of their duty. Surely he was helping them in the execution of their duty. That's not how they see it. PC Tony Blatchford said: "We were doing this to save lives. Speed kills." And the workman was getting drivers to slow down. So what's your point? This proves, once again, that radar guns and cameras are not designed to make drivers slow down, they're there to nick people. The police want motorists to speed. That's why they keep cutting the limits, to catch more and more people. Letting them keep the money has only made it worse. Police in Sussex, who bungled the Sarah Payne hunt and turned the murder of a young girl into a grotesque media circus, know their priorities. They have just acquired a helicopter to nick speeding drivers, having lowered limits throughout the county. I know what they'll say - "if it saves one life". That's what they always say. So why doesn't that apply to the Notting Hill carnival? Two people were killed there this year, plenty more stabbed. I don't want the carnival cancelled. But I'd like the same kind of consideration and tolerance extended to the motoring "community". Not that I'm condoning the police decision to turn a blind eye to gunmen, drug dealers and steamers. I'm just not surprised. I expect nothing better from the Metropolitan Police these days. Welcome to Scotland Yard, twinned with Lambeth Town Hall. Don't expect things to get any better. It's a ratchet, not a pendulum. As I wrote a few weeks ago, the Home Secretary is a lame duck, bought and paid for after his driver was let off driving at 103 mph. The speed limits don't apply to the Old Bill or to politicians, any more than the bus lane applies to the Grinning Jackanapes. This is the reality of Blair's Britain. Soft on crime, tough on the rest of us. They're putting cardboard cops on the streets while at the same time unveiling plans to breathalyse yatchsmen. Gunmen are free to walk the streets of London and Belfast while the British Olympic pistol team has to train in Switzerland. Meanwhile. police stood back and let 4,000 "New Age travellers" hold an illegal weekend-long rave in suburban South London. A duty officer said: "It is difficult to get heavy with these people." So there we have it. New Labour and their Guardian-reading lackeys in the upper echelons of the police only respect those who are prepared to use violence. They've surrendered the streets to gangsters and terrorists while at the same time imposing martial law on the roads. We are all going to hell in a handcart. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
