you'll need an awful lot of bullets
to keep all those angry people at bay once you start shooting
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Sun 26 Apr 2009, 20:37,
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Replace 'bullets" with 'policemen'
and the sentiment is parallel. Ish.
EDIT: Sneaky dyslexic edit.
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Sun 26 Apr 2009, 20:43,
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EDIT: Sneaky dyslexic edit.
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.
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Sun 26 Apr 2009, 21:04,
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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.
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.
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Sun 26 Apr 2009, 21:15,
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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.
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
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Sun 26 Apr 2009, 21:20,
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www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html