Sunday 3 October 2010



MOVE ALONG NOW, SIR, OR I'LL HAVE TO SHOOT YOU.

POLICE UP IN ARMS, AGAIN.

 My members simply cannot be expected to put up with this, grunted constable and right worshipful master, Dave Gob, of the Police Federation.

Speaking on BBC Newsnight, Constable Gob, holder of the Queen's Medal for Leadswinging, said It's simply not good enough, a policeman's lot is not a happy one, day after day my members are skiving off, fencing stolen goods, fiddling their overtime, dealing drugs and framing people up and this is all the thanks we get.......

Thanks...???

Yes, Kirsty, thanks. I mean, fifty nine of my members were there, tooled-up and psyched-up, ready willing and able to kill members of the public and what happened......????

Well, what did happen?

I'll tell you what happened, Kirsty, only seven of them even got a shot off, and of them, only three managed to kill the guy, only three.  Out of fifty-nine.  Fifty nine armed officers and only three of them got a bullet into the offender's head, heart or liver. That's fifty-six of my members who''ll be scarred for life, carrying this around until their dying day - that when the chance came to empty their magazines into the body of some poor, drunk, fucked-up clown they were denied the opportunity they'd trained for and will probably just have to go back to crushing people's testicles in the back of the panda car or slapping women around the station for, well, for being women.  I mean, who needs 'em, women. Not my members, certainly. Your documents in order, Kirsty?  You sure?


I heard the so-called trained negotiator, talking to Mark Saunders, sounded like someone from an EastEnders story, her boss, muttering in her ear, obviously a graduate in management-speak bullshit, an Ian Blair type, sorry, Sir Ian, or is it Lord Ian, just as long as we're paying him a huge pension, that's the main thing;  Sonia, I think her name was, best thing would be to teach her to speak English, before enhancing her negotiating skills, having her gabbling on the phone would remove the will to live from  the most contented of people.

There were, apparently, fifty-nine armed officers and over a hundred weapons on the scene in question.  Fifty-nine armed officers, to deal with one drunk, wildly blasting away with a twelve bore.

The police blogs, as well as rejoicing in the fact that Saunders was a Chelsea divorce lawyer, express the view, predictably enough,  that their hard-pressed colleagues should've shot him on sight, probably all fifty-nine of them. It's what they're for, innit, protecting the public.  Just not from them.

It does appear that all of these confrontations must end with an overwhelmimg, disproportionate number of police killing the subject, patting each other on the back and lying to the coroner   - although in this latest, expensive police failure one of the firearms officers said there was no need to fire;  wouldn't want to be in his career shoes, God bless him, surrounded by thin blue liners.

There is, of course, a redneck argument that if you draw a weapon in public, much less discharge it, you deserve anything you get but being wound up over your wife and your drinking is probably the one thing about which we might expect Old Bill to display a bit of understanding.  People do behave weirdly, crazily;  it needs specialists, sensitives, to calm them down, not a regiment of overtiming, moron federales, replaying the last scene of  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.  We pay these fuckers billions to recruit and train the right people, why is it that all they want to do is fire things at people? Tasers, gas, bullets.  Saunders hadn't killed or seriously injured anyone; that any  stupid, gobby, tuppence-halfpenny psyched-up copper feels able to execute him with impunity and that his colleagues support him is as much their loss as it is the Saunderses, and ours. Great British Bobby my arse.

The police blogs  are often in masturbatory fervour over the Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco Agents' mass murders in Waco Texas;  it's what they wanna do, kill us all, take us down, poor, crazy, excitable wankers, take us out.

5 comments:

A young Anglo-Irish catholic said...

The trad pre-1997 Police were notoriously thick.

The all-new non-Hendon, mutli-multi versions are just as bad. Possibly worse because they think they are scalpel-sharp righters of wrongs.

But this case has proved very interesting.

Mr Lawyer's pleas to speak to his wife were decoded last week, when his wife finally admitted ignoring her husband's calls and texts.

'It's a very difficult area for me' she said in court. Quite right darling. Of course you weren't to know your increasingly unstable husband had loosed off a round at a local cat and managed to penetrate a child's bedroom.

But, like the fragrant modern woman she is, realising that she'd been caught out, she spent rather too much time telling police and press that 'she should have been allowed to talk to her husband'.

'Corse you should love. Just try picking up the phone next time.

Incidentally Mr I, post-7/7 London is equipped with a couple of SAS teams on shoot-to-kill stand-by. (And why not?). Londoners might remember their hard-top Ford Ranger pick-ups.

Well, the SAS turned up for the Chelsea siege, photographed at roof top by the press.

No doubt the Police shooters were hyped-up by the arrival of Hereford's finest.

But the turd on the barbeque was, as you say, Debbie from Dagenham. How in God's name did somebody with East End barmaid's accent end up a negotiator?

Still, it didn't matter. The court case revealed that the essential police helicopter meant Mr Lawyer could hear Debbie anyway.

You couldn't make it up.

a young Anglo-Irish catholic said...

opps...

'meant Mr Lawyer couldn't hear Debbie..'

yardarm said...

If these paramilitaries love handling guns so much why aren`t they in the army, handling guns 24/7 and firing them too, for real out in the `stan ?

Ah, but out in the `stan they shoot back, don`t they ?

jgm2 said...

As you know MR Ishmael I generally in agreement with the thrust of your blog. But I really must take issue with you athropomorphizing lawyers.

mongoose said...

"The only thing I did wrong, m'lud, was I should have shot him earlier." Yeah, thanks. Just in case we were in any doubt.