Hi.

I was browsing through through some of my regular blogs and saw this. It made me think of you.

From the comments section in response to a post in the Policeman’s blog.

http://coppersblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/mainline.html

“The point of having things like ASBOs is to have as many things as possible against the law. This moves all the discretion into the hands of the government.

In a reasonable system, one could simply avoid sanctions by not stealing/murdering/raping and all would be well. Under the “nearly everything is illegal” system, most crimes are not punished. However, since one cannot avoid illegality, the state can come after you whenever you displease it. It becomes a system for enforcing loyalty to the powers that be rather than a neutral system of justice that protects life, liberty and property. The resulting epidemic of crime is seen as inconsequential- it does not threaten the established government – it even makes people more dependent upon it for protection.

In earlier times, this would have been called “tyranny.””

In the mighty France, all of the workforce, Civil Service and even the police have refused to obey the abolition of the bank holiday that would have not occured today.

When the police of this country finally grow some grapefruits and decide that ‘enough is enough’, and that they will only enforce the laws that directly affect the population that they serve, ie, crimes against the person and crimes against physical property, THEN we can take posts like this seriously.

Like we saw in the CCTV footage from the TPB raid, it only takes a handful of swine to disrupt the activities of millions of innocent people. The real policemen, the ones that are not swine, filth, ‘le flick’ etc, the ones that are there actually doing the true work of policing are all damaged by the actions of these dirty pigs, who don’t even bother to wear a uniform while they stomp on you with their boots.

That they recieved a direct order to raid that ISP is not an excuse to do it. Niether is it an excuse to violate the TPB lawyer by DNA swabbing him. They, all police, must have an intact moral compass that allows them to say, “no, I will not obey this order, because it is illegal”, or at the very least, compells them to call a neutral lawyer before carrying out orders that are clearly dubious if not totally bogus. Should they be ordered to carry out a raid on an emergency basis, they should have recourse to the law, where they can sue their superiors for leading them into an illegal action. Where there was ample time to check the legality of a raid, like the TPB one, all the officers should be liable for punitive damages. The police MUST BE GOT UNDER CONTROL, and if they dont have a moral compass, then they must either be sacked or put in fear of their livelyhoods so that there is a real disincentive to carrying out illegal orders, like the animals who raided TPB, and simultaneously took out the websites of 300 people UNRELATED TO TBP.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 5th, 2006 at 1:28 pm and is filed under Politricks, Someone Clever Said.