In Lambeth, it makes sense to be an anarchist I have long suspected that any Brixton policeman must be an anarchist to survive. Now I know for sure. The commander of the Lambeth Metropolitan Police Division has admitted it. Londoners will know Commander Brian Paddick. He is a metropolitan celebrity. He has pioneered tolerance of recreational drug use, from realism as much as from conviction. Openly gay, his patronage of the Urban75 agitprop website has generated a burst of chatline threads, most of them adulatory and unique in police communication. Mr Paddick is no Dixon of Dock Green. But an anarchist? Can a policeman seriously proffer an absence of law as a basis for social order? His signature, "Brian: the Commander", is explicit. "The concept of Anarchism has always appealed to me,"...MORE http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/02/22/2170671
