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Kris
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PostPosted: 13:17 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Some pigs are more equal than others Reply with quote

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5339968.stm


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PostPosted: 13:47 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

So the police should be the only ones who aren't 'innocent until proven guilty'?
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PostPosted: 13:57 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mister James wrote:
So the police should be the only ones who aren't 'innocent until proven guilty'?

IMO no, but they should be like Caesar's wife.
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PostPosted: 14:07 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ohhhh! A classical reference, we like!

They should indeed be above suspicion, but it's a case of definition, and by whom. I accept the general point, but I feel that in this case, the media frenzy has clouded any genuine debate over officers' culpability.

My support for the police in this case is tempered by the fact that Ken Livingstone has indicated he agrees with the promotion. I usually operate on the principle that anything he likes, I hate.
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PostPosted: 14:45 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mister James wrote:
My support for the police in this case is tempered by the fact that Ken Livingstone has indicated he agrees with the promotion. I usually operate on the principle that anything he likes, I hate.


Im sure Ken won't sleep tonight now... Laughing

I wonder where she's chosen to take her holiday?
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PostPosted: 17:28 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

PIGS!!!!!

Hmmm, i thought this was a post about farm animals, not the guys n gals employed by the Home Office, the Government that the majority voted into power Rolling Eyes ,, Silly me

Oh, we are NOT all the same, some of us have proved to have a human side on several occasions on here.

Kris, you wouldn't like to be stereotyped as a 'greasy smelly Hells Angel dirty layabout biker' would you Confused

OK, we've cleared that one up Karma
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PostPosted: 18:51 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kin ell 'Anders', bumped ya head or what, thought you'd be next in line to pull the lever on me Laughing


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PostPosted: 19:47 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

anders wrote:
I agree a police officer is serving the community, at times its a dangerous job and not always the best job avaialble but they all do a good job and have to make on the spot decisions.


Wrong. Most of them are a complete waste of tax payers money. They rarely do a good job.

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Lets not refer to pigs or anything.


Nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade imo. (Animal farm...George Orwell?)

anders wrote:
Most are very nice people


Most are ego centric twats, with less brains than a chimp, and a self righteous belief that they can do no wrong. They belive they are above the law, and abuse their authority more than a dictator in a third world country.

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some cops are stuck in cloud of their own and think they are kings, those upset me.


Most of them are. Most of them join the job just for the power trip. Joining the police, is a way for people with little intelligence or skills to get a relatively well paid job, unbridled power and some modicum of public respect. Very few are actually interested in the service aspect of the job imo.

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People like Johnny deserve a medal Karma Thumbs Up

I agree with that Thumbs Up. Never met him, but he sounds like a very decent bloke, with his head screwed on the right way, going by the threads on this forum. Doesn't sound like the average pig by any description. He gets my respect.

My apologies if this reply offends anyone, but I have as much right to voice my opinion as anyone else.
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PostPosted: 19:51 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats what i meant to say Neutral
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PostPosted: 19:53 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Johnny GSX-R wrote:
PIGS!!!!!
Oh, we are NOT all the same, some of us have proved to have a human side on several occasions on here.


Fair enough. The problem is that there are far too many rotten ones out there outnumbering the good ones, that is extermely difficult to assoiciate the uniform with anything else. If only someone would start a purge from within.
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PostPosted: 20:21 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

nrml76 wrote:

The problem is that there are far too many rotten ones out there outnumbering the good ones, that is extermely difficult to assoiciate the uniform with anything else. If only someone would start a purge from within.


Funny, I've often had those feelings about society as a whole.

If your opinions on the Police were correct, perhaps it would simply be a case of society receiving the force it deserves.
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PostPosted: 22:21 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

My sister lives in London and always gets the 2nd carriage on that particular train at that particular time. She is only here now as she was feeling ill that day on the 7th of July and didn't leave her flat.

The police did their job, it was just a mistake and he wasn't what they thought he was. but still, what if he was?

Are their careers to be threatened over an action that, unfortunate or not, was a procedure carried out by the book?
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PostPosted: 00:32 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

It wasnt carried out by the book.

They fucked up several times.

They should be held accountable for their mistakes but the police look after their own, even to the extent of promoting the main bungler to suggest no one was at fault.

If he did have a bomb they shouldnt have let him board a bus and a train.

They should have identified him properly before tailing him and before killing him.

Everyone makes mistakes, but most people dont get promoted for them.

I like to think actually it was a way of getting her out of the role so she doesnt fuck up again without the embarassment of having to demote her.

However I cant help suspecting a bit of positive discimination helped 2 women get promoted, something which ken livingstone obviously thinks is a good thing.

I wonder if she wouldnt have been in a position to get people killed in the first place if it wasnt for positive discrimination.
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PostPosted: 08:24 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

People would moan either way.

If he was a bomber and had been left alone "just incase" then the police are useless, waste of taxpayers money blah blah blah

BUT

He wasn't and the police were acting on orders/mis-information so does it really make them bad guys?

Trust me its not easy working for the police.

Like alot of people on here, people on the street have a pre concieved idea that your a twat or bent before you even open your mouth making your job a good 10x harder

Not every bobby is a nob!

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PostPosted: 13:51 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems that some of you missed the obvious 'pigs' reference to Animal Farm, a well known book by George Orwell. Never mind huh.
Rolling Eyes

As for some of your comments, seriously, are you lot for real? If you are then you really are a bunch of fucking idiots. No, worse than that. I put it to you that you are the lowest of ignorant cowards.

How can the death of an innocent man be justified by the phrase "Well what if he was a bomber?" Fuck off you Sun reading dickhead. It's the police's job to protect us, which some of you seem to forget. This man was the victim of the most dispicable act, killed in a panic by those who are paid to protect. Do you not realise that by signing away our lives to the authorities to kill UK citizens without trial, without fear of punishment, based on suspicions, we are allowing the state to control us indefinately? Why do you think this man had any less of a right to life than yourselves? Would you be equally as indifferent if a family member was shot in the head repeatedly? Your girlfriends, wives perhaps?

And do you remember the really, really vile fucking puss of misinformation spewed out after the incident? Yea, you know what I'm talking about; the bulky clothes, the jumped barrier. Not stopping when asked. All lies. Lies to make you think the worst of this man, an innocent man on his way to work and murdered in cold blood. That is the real sick part of this story, that those complacent in the bodged operation, those who hold our lives in their hands can be so calculated and malicious in an attempt to discredit any criticism. Shame on them. Shame on you for thinking the same.
And now , alas, we find those in charge are rewarded with new positions labelled as 'promotions'. How very, very nice to be rewarded for such a fine job. How typical of this soceity to allow this to happen with barely a blink, barely a trace of emotion.
Seriously fucking pissed off at you lot for being so dumb. Go and read some history for a change. Go and read how the authorities have pushed civil liberties and freedom out of the window in past governments.

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PostPosted: 13:58 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a sun reading dickhead?

And you base that on a comment you have mistook?

I was saying in general not about john de menzies.

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PostPosted: 14:00 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why not answer my other points othar than what newspaper you read?

The 'you' was a Royal you. Not just for you so don't get greedy Very Happy
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PostPosted: 14:05 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah i absolutely see it was a massive cock up and things were said and done that was inexcusable!

BUT

I wasn't there and neither were you.

The crap they have come out with afterwards IS a cowardly and shitty thing to do i agree but i was making a generalisation about the police rather than an individual case.

If he had of been x y z then the police would of got slated but he wasnt so was a fuck up,

They should've just stuck there hands up and said yeah we were very wrong and well compensated the family.

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PostPosted: 14:14 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Resurrection wrote:
Yeah i absolutely see it was a massive cock up and things were said and done that was inexcusable!


Very Happy Glad we got that view in common!

Resurrection wrote:
BUT

I wasn't there and neither were you.


Laughing Another one of those rediculous statements that really doesn't mean shit. So because we weren't all there watching we cannot criticise? Really? So everything is justifiable? We weren't there so we should all shut up? Work for the police do we? Wink

"Sorry your honour, maybe I shouldn't have stabbed this bloke in the head - but you know, you can't criticise. You weren't there"

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They should've just stuck there hands up and said yeah we were very wrong and well compensated the family.


Laughing I like it. Bump someone off by mistake and then just payout some cash. Great idea! Thumbs Up One question though, how much is your loved one worth, in money terms? Would it really make up for it? (Now think really hrad about that one Rolling Eyes )

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PostPosted: 14:39 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Listen im not saying its in anyway justifiable as i have already said its in excusable!

I said what they should of done is put there hands up and pay out not that they should go around doing that because you can cover your own arse by paying a family off.

You cannot put a price on life so why try?

You tell me what they should of done?

Instead of compensating the family tell them to fuck off? Invest all the cash into a scientist to make a time machine and go back to stop it?

As it goes i do work for the police yeah

AND i'm proud of what i do

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PostPosted: 14:55 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kris wrote:
And do you remember the really, really vile fucking puss of misinformation spewed out after the incident? Yea, you know what I'm talking about; the bulky clothes, the jumped barrier. Not stopping when asked. All lies. Lies to make you think the worst of this man, an innocent man on his way to work and murdered in cold blood.


Is there a link to the information or a video you’ve seen that shows the man wasn’t running for his life in the way they described?
I don’t think you have much to stand on other than the fact in the end the guy turns out innocent, which has obviously happened many many times before during operations on such a scale but it has rarely been shortly after some Paki’s blew up London buses.

The scale of the issue has resulted in a mistake and you have to take that into consideration, I for one disagree with a large list of ways the police carry out such operations but don’t you think that the people concerned here have been promoted due to past efforts? This wasn’t their first outing was it?

Just to add, when the members say ‘They are usually nice people’ just remember you’re talking about traffic cops and street bobbys which are not in the same league and even then, some of them can be vile bullied boys.
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PostPosted: 15:00 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kris wrote:
Seems that some of you missed the obvious 'pigs' reference to Animal Farm, a well known book by George Orwell. Never mind huh.
Rolling Eyes


Seems like the intent was to be offensive, regardless of what references you cite.

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As for some of your comments, seriously, are you lot for real? If you are then you really are a bunch of fucking idiots. No, worse than that. I put it to you that you are the lowest of ignorant cowards.


I put it to you that you are another self-righteous anti-establishment tit, who believes that his opinion carries more weight than others because it's oh-so-achingly-fashionable to hate the police.

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It's the police's job to protect us, which some of you seem to forget. This man was the victim of the most dispicable act, killed in a panic by those who are paid to protect.


How can panic ever be despicable? Especially when the panic was "Oh shit, this man is going to blow up a tube train and kill hundreds of innocent civilians".

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Do you not realise that by signing away our lives to the authorities to kill UK citizens


He was an illegal over-stayer, not a UK citizen. Obviously, I only offer this information because you are so keen on The Truth, and so against people not providing all the facts.

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without trial, without fear of punishment, based on suspicions,


I'm sure there was plenty of fear of punishment amongst the officers involved, whatever the end result eventually was.

How exactly do you intend on holding a trial for a man you believe to be wearing a semtex waistcoat while you chase him down the road and into the busy tube station that your intelligence indicates he is going to blow up?

What is YOUR answer to that dilemma?

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we are allowing the state to control us indefinately? Why do you think this man had any less of a right to life than yourselves? Would you be equally as indifferent if a family member was shot in the head repeatedly? Your girlfriends, wives perhaps?


None of my family, my girlfriends or my wives are illegal overstayers unfortunate enough to have dusky skin and fit the general profile of a suspected terrorist living in the same block of flats as them.

The incident was a tragic mistake based on faulty intelligence and if I recall, a botched ID made by a distracted officer. These mistakes happen - even armed police officers are human, it's just unfortunate that when they make a mistake, it sometimes involves then firing live rounds into someone's head.

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And do you remember the really, really vile fucking puss of misinformation spewed out after the incident? Yea, you know what I'm talking about; the bulky clothes, the jumped barrier. Not stopping when asked. All lies. Lies to make you think the worst of this man, an innocent man on his way to work and murdered in cold blood. That is the real sick part of this story, that those complacent in the bodged operation, those who hold our lives in their hands can be so calculated and malicious in an attempt to discredit any criticism. Shame on them. Shame on you for thinking the same.
And now , alas, we find those in charge are rewarded with new positions labelled as 'promotions'. How very, very nice to be rewarded for such a fine job. How typical of this soceity to allow this to happen with barely a blink, barely a trace of emotion.


Actually, as I recall the days events unfolding, a lot of details about bulky clothes and barriers came from CIVILIAN witnesses in the Tube station speaking to the media.

Get off your high horse and accept that while it does seem that there was a lot of unpleasant and unseemly spin from the Met - they weren't the only ones throwing around un-checked or untrue information.


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Seriously fucking pissed off at you lot for being so dumb. Go and read some history for a change. Go and read how the authorities have pushed civil liberties and freedom out of the window in past governments.

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Seriously fucking pissed off at you for being so easily led, and so misdirected.

There are far more ominous signs of growing state control in the news at the moment, this is small potatoes, for all that an 'innocent' man lost his life.
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PostPosted: 15:04 - 14 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

killa wrote:
Is there a link to the information or a video you’ve seen that shows the man wasn’t running for his life in the way they described?



https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4157892.stm

Not sure I understand your argument Killa. Question
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