English Yokel

And the Police think they are due "Respect" from the citizens of this country?

Sorry, two Police stories in one day is a bit much for Yokel. But this one cannot go unremarked.

Yokel is aware that there are bad apples in every workplace, and there might be some in the police as well. But after all the shouting from the politicians, we were assured that it could never happen again, weren't we? When was that? Try the aftermath of just about any big event with unsafe convictions set aside since the mid 1960s.

But all that the legal changes have done is further alienate the Police from the civilians, and put paid to Sir Robert Peel's Principles of Policing. Yokel hopes that this vicious attack by someone in the uniform of the Warwickshire Police on a home & business owner is not the shape of things to come. Imagine it. Being partially blinded at the age of 35 for the crime of looking outside your front door to see what was going on.

Yokel has grave doubts that the appropriate charges, causing grievous bodily harm, will ever be brought against the officers who did it. He doubts if they lose their pensions, let alone be dismissed in disgrace. Why? Because the Police act nowadays as if they are above the law. Just like they were/are in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Burma, or Zimbabwe. The Metropolitan Police got away with murdering a Brazilian plumber, and even promoted Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick for a job well done. So getting out of this unprovoked assault in Warwickshire is to be expected.

The Police are developing the mindset of an army of occupation, ready to quell a mutinous population. Beware, some EU politicians are already labelling opponents of the EU as terrorists. This incident in Warwickshire is to show that it is now dangerous to step out of line. Just be good sheeple, and do as you are told and you won't come to any harm.

PS: Trespass is not a crime in the UK (exceptions include military bases and the railways) so North Wales Police charge an "unauthorised" canoeist under the Fraud Act 2006. We know that Al Capone was eventually incarcerated for being "economical with the truth" when completing his tax return. But he had been responsible for quite a bit of gangland murder and mayhem. This chap was just protesting about the imposition of a toll charge on a bit of river. Don't step out of line. Just be good sheeple and do as you are told. Nothing has gone mad. The system is not broken. It is intended to intimidate.