His surname is Kennedy!
who? the tout? AKA or db?
... and besides Wayne Rooney plays for England and his name is also Irish (as is his granny)
His surname is Kennedy!
How many on the wrong side?Er ... so have I. On many more occasions than you.
(in moon23's example, by the way, there was certainly power to use some force (she was obstructing them in making an arrest) but whether or not being pepper-sprayed / batoned was "reasonable and necessary" is less clear.)
who? the tout? AKA or db?
... and besides Wayne Rooney plays for England and his name is also Irish (as is his granny)
He could have played for Ireland, in theoryHe could play for Ireland, in theory.
my problem here is, I Believe firmly that in a post-revolutionary situation, we will STILL need a police force. So - who will our 'bastards' be?
Problem with the police is the problem with any bureaucracy - who's interests do they serve? Who are they accountable to? Same with armed forces.
The people?
He could have played for Ireland, in theory
Yes, but they don't. Here lies the problem.
What if the police were disbanded and people policed themselves, maybe each postcode could have their own militia...
John Rooney was on trial at Wrexham recently, don't think we'll offer him anything though. Wayne's younger bro, played for Ireland at u21 level I think. Was at Stockport and had a few unsuccessful trials with MLS clubs too, iirc.
Not sure about post code militias, but yeah, point I was making was that a police force could be made democratic and accountable in the 'post revolutionary' period Streathamite referred to.
played 40 odd games for macclesfield. not sure what he's up to as he got released and didn't find a club.
They'd have to be democratic and accountable, otherwise what point the revolution? And to ensure the post revolution society stayed on course, wouldn't some of the new rev-cops have to infiltrate dissenters?
If in a post-revolutionary society, some people wished to sell copies of Capitalist Boss on street corners, or hold a demo to complain about all this ruddy fairness, or to form a human chain around some wasteland to prevent tree-planting and demand more exploitation of natural resources, then I'd see no reason why they should be infiltrated, or indeed prevented or impeded.
Yes. I could. In fact I have before. There is no point in me doing so again because you will still not acknowledge it as a justification. If anyone else, who I have not discussed it with previously wishes to ask then I will explain.Could you explain how officers go about identifying those they have reason to suspect of potential future wrongdoing in a crowd of, say, 200 people; and how when charging forward in numbers flailing randomly an officer is able to ensure he strikes only those against whom sufficient evidence has been gathered? Could you also give me an idea of what sort of crimes there would need to be suspicion of for their prevention to warrant splitting someone's head open with a metal pole?
Yes. I could. In fact I have before. There is no point in me doing so again because you will still not acknowledge it as a justification. If anyone else, who I have not discussed it with previously wishes to ask then I will explain.
He went and gathered information as directed. That is a perfectly lawful order and has nothing to do with whether he had anything personal against the or not. As I have regularly done before, I would suggest that it would be totally wrong for an individual officer to refuse to carry out a particular policing task because he happens to like the people he is told to carry it out on. The officer would be perfectly entitled to ask to see the grounds for suspecting criminal activity. They would be entitled to confirm that the necessary authorisations had been given. They would not be entitled to pick and choose what they did.Whether he had anything personal against his victims is irrelevant, he still sttched them up because he was told to.
Yes. Really. As you know perfectly well the use of force in this particular case has been judged to be unlawful. The reason that there has not been a conviction is because of evidential difficulties in relation to manslaughter and as a result of procedural fuck-up in relation to common assault, NOT because of the police being above the law. If that had been the case there wouldn't have been an investigation and there wouldn't have been a report characterising the use of force as unlawful.really?
Oh right. Sorry. I didn't realise that you could only see things from one direction.How many on the wrong side?
I would tend to agree in general. (And there in general the use of pepper spray / CS spray in a public order situation is NOT recommended for purely practical reasons!!)I think they asked me to let go before hitting me to give them credit. I think pepper spraying anti war protestors for sitting in the road is overkill - http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news380.htm
they prove that the police do not tell the truth: as in addition does the case of diarmuid o'neill.Yes. Really. As you know perfectly well the use of force in this particular case has been judged to be unlawful. The reason that there has not been a conviction is because of evidential difficulties in relation to manslaughter and as a result of procedural fuck-up in relation to common assault, NOT because of the police being above the law. If that had been the case there wouldn't have been an investigation and there wouldn't have been a report characterising the use of force as unlawful.
Your habit (and the habit of many others) in pulling out Ian Tomlinson / Jean Charles de Menezes / Harry Stanley as if they somehow prove anything is pathetic (and extremely annoying). Each case had it's own particular circumstances and they "prove" absolutely nothing in terms of general principles.
Your habit (and the habit of many others) in pulling out Ian Tomlinson / Jean Charles de Menezes / Harry Stanley as if they somehow prove anything is pathetic (and extremely annoying). Each case had it's own particular circumstances and they "prove" absolutely nothing in terms of general principles.
Oh right. Sorry. I didn't realise that you could only see things from one direction.
(It would, however, explain why you claim that the police never do anything lawfully ever...