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January 17, 2010

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Josephine of Lumpy, Grumpy and Frumpy discovers a truth all conservatives need to learn sooner rather than later: The police are not your friends. It is the job of the police to keep the peace, not enable your freedom of speech.

A comment left by The Phantom sums up my impressions of Canada's police forces (and, more recently, EMS workers):

YOU my dear are frickin' dreaming in Technicolor(tm) if you think the cops are there to protect you. Their sole purpose is to bust your ass if you step out of line. Its a moving line too.
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Never had it done to me, because I say yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir. Guy says leave, I leave. Quick.

Once again, it is the job of the police to keep the peace, not to defend your freedom of speech. It is your job to defend your freedom of speech. Americans have a Second Amendment for a reason. Canadians don't have a Second Amendment for the same reason.

Identity: Peter Hitchens, the UK and much the same thing.

The police are just a vast nationalised industry serving the liberal establishment. I really wouldn't mind about the officers caught sledding down a snowy hillside while on duty - it's a sign they're human - if it weren't for the fact that they did so on riot shields, equipment a constable in this country ought never to need, and wouldn't need if it weren't for the long, slow breakdown in order caused by Left-wing social policies.
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Are there still people who don't grasp that the police are much more excited about hanging on to their monopoly of force than they are about defeating crime and disorder?

If an ancient, famous, contented and free country were to turn, slowly but definitely, into a spiteful, bureaucratic tyranny, isn't this exactly how it would happen?

Analogy: The Liberal party and their media allies are trying to smear Canada's troops as "war criminals".

Liberals demand that terrorist like Omar Khadr be treated as innocent until proven guilty. No such courtesies for our Canadian troops.

Such is Canada's transvaluation of values: Every day is Opposite Day and, having forbidden the teaching of history, the Dictatorship of Feelings reigns unopposed by truth, reason or common decency, let alone common sense.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 17, 2010 05:43 AM

Comments

Thanks for the link, Flea.

As my husband said of the current state of affairs here, "The biggest whiner wins."

Posted by: Josephine at January 17, 2010 08:42 AM

This is the best advice I have ever read regarding interactions with the police. I would say it holds applications for dealing with anyone authorised to use violence in the course of duty.

Posted by: Chris Taylor at January 17, 2010 02:31 PM