Out of the mouths of Blair Babes and Thatcher’s Children
Labour MP Hazel Blears on Today this morning, talking about Community Support Officers:
>the police are very busy doing the more serious crime
How true. It hadn’t really occoured to me before, but is their not something disturbing about the recent introduction of various sort of quasi-cops like CSOs and City Wardens (who have no power, and aren’t afraid to abuse it)? They make it very tempting to use lots of probably inappropriate terms like ‘brownshirt’.
Not that more real police would necessarily be much of an improvement, as this song reminds us. Sing it with me: “I hope that I get taken into custody and die…”
I wrote this post at work, where I couldn’t listen to and check the interview, so the quote was slighly wrong. It’s now fixed. Also, hearing CSO’s approvingly described as the police’s “eyes and ears” doesn’t really reassure me.
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Yeah…I think community support officers police the community voluntarily. I guess it is a move to make the community part of the state. Like what you said about ID cards (when we were talking last week) making everyone a cop and a borderguard.
Comment by rachel @ 12/23/2004 1:12 pm
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Like the cut of your jabs, sir.
Spot the difference: Blair Babes and Thatcher’s children. Nope, beats us here at Blair Witch Conviction Project Towers too.
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Comment by Subcommondante Ikea Hardie @ 2/14/2006 11:28 am