They have more powers now than ever before.
I can't recall the last time I heard a policeman was badly injured by a member of the public. But everyday I hear about cops battering the fuck out of someone who didn't deserve it.
This is going to get worse and worse.
Once they're issued with tasers things are going to get really ugly.
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... but if I did, I'd say go forth into your nearest town of a Saturday night and try maintaining some form of calm.
For everything else there's Mastercard.
I may have mixed my
(, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 0:00, Reply)
....."If you arm the Police, you must also arm the public, THAT'S democracy". The moment the police are armed & the public aren't, you're living in a dictatorship.
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....Philosophical guy called Alan that I used to work with.
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Alan gets elected, sign me up for a rifle.
Cuz, y'know, sometimes people just bug me.
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published thesis called "pacifism as pathology"
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As Max Weber pointed out, the whole point of the nation state (esp. democracy) is that it has the legitimate monopoly of violence.
If people are as armed as the apparatus of the state, then the country doesn't work as a cohesive entity as each group within the country (be they religious, ethnic, regional, political etc) then has the legitimate right to violently attack others.
Arm the public and you deminish the state and the democratic institutions that maintain it.
/plolotics blog
(, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 9:16, Reply)
i have done my training, i dont agree why they arrested him, but how is how we are taught. no more 'pink and fluffy' its just do the job, if they resist arrest, if youre innocent be shush get cuffed, get cleared... if you're resisting, we're told to do whatever it takes now...
but back to point 1, i dont know why, but they did it within our guidelines we MUST follow!
(, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 0:05, Reply)
Just so they know what it's like.
Don't dish out what you're not prepared to take.
(, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 0:10, Reply)
you dont think when im out in whiehall/leicester sq etc... i dont get assholes attacking with beer bottles etc?
been there done it mate. that comment made you look stupid cos we get attacked as much as we give, and in my experience actually we get attacked before we get 'arresty' we only retaliate
when you have something valid and some experience or knowlege, then come back to me with a proper argument
that or shut the fuck up
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5 seconds worth, tingles like fuck... we dont abuse things cheers
(, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 0:24, Reply)
Also, have you recently been trained for 'civil unrest'?
(, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 0:25, Reply)
and the punching was to the inner elbow to bend his arm to cuff him.. 40 seconds of taser? what the fuck? as if..
serisouly dude fuck off and die
anyway as in any job you DO get assholes, so its likely there are, but dont taint all with the same brush 99% of us are honest hard working people who do a good job unlike lifeless hate preachers like you
are you a hook handed preacher of hate cos you sound like one
(, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 0:33, Reply)
"The longest ten seconds of my life", according to a (female) friend of mine.
(, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 3:53, Reply)
the guy on the ground is being gobby...Even if he was the scum of the earth, there is no excuse for the behaviour of the police in that video.
(, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 0:30, Reply)