What eroded rights are you thinking of?This is not a rhetorical question, I just wanted to know.
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Tue 9 Aug 2011, 17:29,
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take a look at RIPA for startersThen try walking along in central London on your way home and getting batoned then shoved to the ground by a nutter in full riot gear.
Even if that doesn't happen you get kettled. I am guessing those middle class lefty people weren't carrying iron bars and looked like fairly easy targets. If they had been tooled up there may have been a bit more standing by the sidelines.
Dont get me wrong, I have felt compassion for the police force for the first time in a long time after seeing what has been happening but these people have proven they are dangerous so they get left to if for days on end. Would not want to be a copper at the moment but I would not want to be a copper full stop.
Maybe a quick way of dealing with the looters would be to take the same approach as was taken during the expenses scandal. Their court appointed lawyer would address the court advising "my client has returned everything he stole and trusts that will be the end of the matter".
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Thu 11 Aug 2011, 11:51,
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Even if that doesn't happen you get kettled. I am guessing those middle class lefty people weren't carrying iron bars and looked like fairly easy targets. If they had been tooled up there may have been a bit more standing by the sidelines.
Dont get me wrong, I have felt compassion for the police force for the first time in a long time after seeing what has been happening but these people have proven they are dangerous so they get left to if for days on end. Would not want to be a copper at the moment but I would not want to be a copper full stop.
Maybe a quick way of dealing with the looters would be to take the same approach as was taken during the expenses scandal. Their court appointed lawyer would address the court advising "my client has returned everything he stole and trusts that will be the end of the matter".