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EVERYTHING IS OK (in London)

 
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patongpanda



Joined: 06 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:08 pm    Post subject: EVERYTHING IS OK (in London) Reply with quote

Some lunatic with a megaphone has been terrorising citizens in London, but it looks like the police have everything under control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGA9ZUEa3ZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCPKzzGHfIQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhfO5ouJSfk&feature=related
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RufusW



Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Busan

PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well uneducated Community Support Officers are a pretty easy target, and their logic and arguments (or comedy) isn't nearly as good as it should be. But they make a good point. There are a huge amount of cops on the streets in the UK. They should push it far enough to get arrested then get it chucked out of court.
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Julius



Joined: 27 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:33 am    Post subject: Re: EVERYTHING IS OK (in London) Reply with quote

patongpanda wrote:
Some lunatic with a megaphone has been terrorising citizens in London


A Korean looking for a mountain to climb?
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Sergio Stefanuto



Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK

PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:41 am    Post subject: Re: EVERYTHING IS OK (in London) Reply with quote

patongpanda wrote:
Some lunatic with a megaphone has been terrorising citizens in London, but it looks like the police have everything under control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGA9ZUEa3ZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCPKzzGHfIQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhfO5ouJSfk&feature=related


I didn't quite have the patience for the 3rd video, but the first two I thoroughly enjoyed - thanks!
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ED209



Joined: 17 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

RufusW wrote:
Well uneducated Community Support Officers are a pretty easy target, and their logic and arguments (or comedy) isn't nearly as good as it should be. But they make a good point. There are a huge amount of cops on the streets in the UK. They should push it far enough to get arrested then get it chucked out of court.


Isn't illegal now to film the police in the uk?
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RufusW



Joined: 14 Jun 2008
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ED209 wrote:
Isn't illegal now to film the police in the uk?

No, I don't think so, unless it's an extreme case.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/uk-terror-law-to-make-photographing-police-illegal.html
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patongpanda



Joined: 06 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

RufusW wrote:
ED209 wrote:
Isn't illegal now to film the police in the uk?

No, I don't think so, unless it's an extreme case.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/uk-terror-law-to-make-photographing-police-illegal.html


Yikes! Filming and photography is now grounds for stop and search under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act.

This is intended to be in certain prescribed areas. Guess what - it is currently the whole of London!

157,290 people were stopped in 2007.

1222 were arrested.

I'll wager 0 were terrorisers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPotA5jqqQU
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RufusW



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well it'd be interesting to look at the psychological affect on the population etc etc... but obviously if you're arresting sooo many people and getting 0 results, it's not a good tactic. Blunt policing or intentional encroachment on civil libertites in the interest of a 'police state'?
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patongpanda



Joined: 06 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

RufusW wrote:
Well it'd be interesting to look at the psychological affect on the population etc etc... but obviously if you're arresting sooo many people and getting 0 results, it's not a good tactic. Blunt policing or intentional encroachment on civil libertites in the interest of a 'police state'?


The Met. don't want this either.

(I do like our police, it's only 'cos of them we don't have armed police.
The independence of the Chief Constables has prevented us from a national police agency. If that goes we are doomed IMHO.)
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patongpanda



Joined: 06 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The police know only too well that they need the consent of the public to perform their duties:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjN3xBcJKIU&feature=related

They hate being put in an awkward situation by daft laws, or political meddling.
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patongpanda



Joined: 06 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This one is a bit frightening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j21rcnJ3EO8

It's nothing new though.

My old dad was deported from Nottingham to Yorkshire in 1984, he was just on his way to work and detained forcibly and put on a bus!
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patongpanda



Joined: 06 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ha ha! Most police forces in the UK have email addresses these days.

I've been emailing like a demon denouncing our expense cheating MPs.

God knows what will happen to me if I ever return to the UK but I have a plan:

1. Pay respects at the Cenotaph.
2. Have a picnic on Parliament lawn.
3. Rant at Speaker's Corner.
4. Take photos of anything I bloody well want.
5. Apply for a job at Thames House.

Laters potaters.
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

His 'understanding' of evictions from private property seems a bit off to me.

If someone enters my home and is doing something I find offensive - and I ask them to leave and they refuse - I hope to hell the police would support me (in a professional manner of course).
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