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Bollocks to Blair What does this, have in common with this,
and this?
What’s different is also interesting. The police being used as as an instrument to suppress peaceful political dissent is one thing, but their doing it on their own initiative is if anything more worrying.
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I think we’re dealing with mindsets here. You don’t become a policeman if your tendency is to be reflexively anti-authority.
In my experience, most policeman are like dogs. They’ll bark for whoever is alpha wolf.
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?is it the 70’s again?
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Offensive slogans on tee-shirts get you dragged away?
Has zandra rhodes or malcolm mclaren commented on this, yet?
They should all complain to the new Police Complaints Authority – as they are supposedly independant now…..
Every time lefty Cherie Blair refuses to curtsey to our head of state, she is saying “Bollocks to the Queen.”
The police officer said the girl’s slogan “may offend an old lady of 70 or 80.” How old is Her Maj?
Add this to the mix – http://www.no2id.net/news/newsletters/newsletter.php?issue=29
Scroll to What Just Happened.
Now tell me you’re surprised.
I am pretty sure I’m right in saying that this was dealt with in an obscenity case in the 70’s. The Sex Pistols were taken to court over the cover of their album “Never Mind the Bollocks it’s the Sex Pistols.” Their counsel John Mortimer QC proved to the satisfaction of the court that “bollocks” is an old English term and is not obscene. I do feel that the people arrested in this case should make an official complaint against the brain dead authoritarians who arrested them. Not that they’ll get their fingerprints and DNA back off Mr State’s big computer. Bastards.
The police have changed – it is not a question of and old mind set, it is a new one.
The new mindset means that one gets promoted for supporting Regional Police Forces, and for supporting new laws on “religious hatred” or anything else the government feels like.
Now we even have policemen (such as Sir Ian Blair – head to the London police) going on political panel discussion shows such as “Any Questions” with a groups of other politicians – accept that no one elected him and the police are supposed to be unbiased (not New Labour henchmen).
Sir Ian Blair wishes that certain offences should be dealt with by the police without Judges (let alone juries). It seems that politically appointed judges are not enough (Mr Blair first Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, openly stated that he appointed judges on their political opinions – and the present L.C. is even more vile).
These days we have imprisonment of British subjects without charge (not just without trial – without charge), and vague offences that mean whatever the government want them to mean.
And the British people? Mostly they do not care.
What is the girl moaning about,it isn’t as if they had shot her out of hand…mind you if she had made a run for it.
Paul Marks is right: And the British people? Mostly they do not care.
Tragically true. They have no knowledge of the history of these islands. They are rootless, free-floating … whatever … a Za-NuLab project that worked. The most important one.
Paul Marks writes:
“The police have changed – it is not a question of and old mind set, it is a new one”
You are confusing the ranks with the high-flyers.
The knee-jerk of any policeman is to obey authority. I presume you’ve seen the infamous photograph of a Channel Island Bobby opening a car door for the Nazi commandant?
What you say about how young policeman build careers as PC PCs isn’t wrong. But I doubt that was why this girl was nicked.
Metalheads, especially Cradle of Filth fans, have been known for getting ticked off by PC plod for CoF shirts that said “Jesus is a Cunt” and shirts by a band called “Anal-Cunt”. Personally I find neither of those shirts as offensive as people who run around with a symbol of the most murderous tyrannies on the planet in form of the “Hammer & Sickle.”
I struggle to sympathise for the poor girl. I know I should, but there’s something amusing about the howls of protest when people purporting to be rebellious and outrageous actually do provoke a response.
As for China, it compares poorly to the almost state-sponsored fury that greeted Mr Bush.
The only demo I ever went to was protesting about Tiananmen Square. In my lifetime of Pol Pot, Mao, the Soviet Union, Franco, Castro, Arafat and Bin Laden, there aren’t many who’ve ever protested against anyone other than a democratic government.
Verity,
It’s all about, as the Great Leader says, Edukashun, Edukashun, Edukashun Stoopid. Today, apparently, an opinion poll (a nuLabour one of course) discovered that The Greatest Politician Of All Time is actually Mo Mowlem, and not maybe Winston Churchill or Margaret Thatcher, as the rest of us might have selected.
In addition to this we are treated tonight to the delightful news that Our Clever Cherie [©2001 Sedgefield Labour Party] may have used £2,000 from public funds in order to have her hairstylist flown to New York, to do her hair for a Democrat event attended by herself and the noble Our Little Tone. Also I read in the papers tonight that Cherie managed to walk through customs in the UK in July 2003 WITHOUT declaring that she was carrying £15,000 in Chinese pearls – something that is actually a very serious criminal offence in the UK, and certainly a serious enough matter to have her immediately disbarred as a barrister, let alone as a judge. Using her position she has now ‘paid’ the VAT due on the pearls, after claiming to Customs & Excise that she ‘merely forgot’ to pay the duty and the matter has now been dropped. One wishes that it was so easy to bring a car back through Dover and pay the VAT later on if the Customs found you out …
Julian – Most agreeable post about failed socialist candidate Cherie Blair.
Cherie also forgot to pay Customs for clothes she bought in (I think it was) Donna Karen in NY. Well, we don’t know whether she actually forgot, as the No 10 press office (which should be renamed Cherie’s Shill) wouldn’t say whether she’d paid duty or not, apparently not regarding it as the business of citizens who do have to pay duty and get arrested if they walk through the Green channel with dutiable items. Had she paid duty, doubtless the receipt would have been featured on the Beeb’s website and The Guardian. So they stayed coy.
Given that she has form, strange that Customs & Excise hasn’t begun to keep an eye on the highflying comings and goings of the failed parliamentary candidate Mrs Blair. For a “high powered barrister”, she does seem to be rather forgetful when disembarking from planes and deciding which channel to walk through. I thought barristers were a bit sharper than that. I also thought they were more familiar with the law.
I wonder what they brought back from Singapore on the 737 they had had converted for their private use. That was when important little Tony decided to bestow his magnificent presence on the Olympic Committee and simply thrill them into agreeing on Britain. (Or maybe, given that Cher was along for the trip, the intention was to frighten them into submission.)
How very strange!
Not a word of any of these stories on the BBC.
I wonder why?
Oh, gosh, G Cooper! I’m baffled!
How about the story of Cherie being offered a courtesy gift or two by a department store in Australia for the publicity the store had got from her presence and she went through the store “as though” according to, I think it was, The Mirror, “she were a contestant on Supermarket Sweepstake”? I can’t remember the details now, but I remember she had clothes in several sizes – so not just for her, but friends and family. Free.
I don’t know the drill for landing in Britain with free gifts for other people that one hasn’t paid for. Maybe you are entitled to walk through the Green channel. I don’t know how they handled it.
Haha, one paper here describes her as a ‘Liverpool lass done good’ (God how I hate that expression), and then goes on to say that they should at least be thankful that the official Prime Minister’s Jaguar isn’t up on bricks with its wheels missing …
Come on, let’s get real. Only little people pay taxes. Cherie is the Leona Helmsley of British politics, and the fact she gets away with it time after time after time shows how debased our politcial life has become after eight years of the Project. Is any Customs officer going to jeopardise his career by going after the Imelda Marcos de nos jours? Only if he wants his career to take a similar trajectory to David Kelly’s. In NuBritain the little boy who pointed out the Emperor had no clothes would be found in a pool of his blood in a forest.
What forest? I thought they were all being built on?
Didn’t the ticket collector who stopped Cherie for having no ticket and the policeman who found Euen ratarsed also get trashed?
Since 1997 we have witnessed slowly but surely the introduction of a police state under President Blair.
As we move towards the “New World Order” chillingly announced by the elder Bush[and constantly referred to by Bush the younger] we will see ever increasing attempts to clamp down on free speach.
Blair`s introduction of “anti-hate” legsilation,policemen being able to make fixed penalty fines,the proposed introduction of ID cards,regulation of the Internet,the scaling down of the House of Lords etc nothing should take us by surprise.If we surrender what liberties we still have[and they are few indeed] we surrender our right to exist.
Oppose the government! Bring down this police state regime!