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(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 20:33, archived)

you'll need an awful lot of bullets

to keep all those angry people at bay once you start shooting

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HappyToast Groat froth, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 20:37, archived)

Replace 'bullets" with 'policemen'

and the sentiment is parallel. Ish.

EDIT: Sneaky dyslexic edit.

(Metalfish Hasn't had a sig since, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 20:43, archived)

Yes. I don't have many of them standing outside my door.

To be honest though, I like the police in general at the low levels, even though there are a few bad apples. It's just that

1)The police really aren't there to protect you. Firstly, they can't be and secondly, why expect someone else to do what you won't do for yourself

and

2)It's the upper levels that are responsible for the bad image of the police at the moment. They put emphasis on the minor crimes (drugs, speeding) at the expense of serious crimes and fail to castrate the actual bad apples. We all know the stories where heads should have rolled but a wall of silence was thrown up. Though I think it's the politicians that are setting the example there.

Anyway, I like happytoasts pics for rehabilitating the image of the police. Just thought I would have a play with them.

(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 21:04, archived)

Heh,

You're a little bit more to the right than myself, but I broadly agree with you.

Toast's point very well made even if the question is strawman-ish.

Look, what I'm trying to say is any argument put to you in simplistic terms is usually a lie by over-simplification, and toast's excellent post is not an exception to this rule.

(Metalfish Hasn't had a sig since, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 21:15, archived)

Actually, I shy away from the right.

I'm more for individual liberty and responsibility than anything. A two dimensional view of politics is much more accurate than the left/right dichotomy

www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html

(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 21:20, archived)

If you think I'm not aware this

I refer the honourable gentleman to that last sentence of the post to which he replied.

:P

(Metalfish Hasn't had a sig since, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 21:41, archived)

pah.

You just have to stand there and say " which one of you pricks isn't going home tonight?"

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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sun 26 Apr 2009, 20:49, archived)