08-11-2010, 10:03 AM
This, I might add, after the previous government made a ruling that armed police guilty of wrongful conduct would not be prosecuted in the future. This followed a threatened walk-out by police marksmen following the prosecution of two policemen who twice shot and killed a painter & decorator who had purchased a wooden table leg and was carrying it home. The coppers thought the table leg was a sawn off shotgun (I seem to recall that one of the two was involved in the De Menedez execution) and then fabricated their stories to protect themselves. The threat of their colleagues (and senior police force officers too) was that those assigned to police firearms units would up and leave and return to normal police work leaving the armed units devoid of personnel (see: http://news.scotsman.com/harrystanley/Th...2577059.jp). In the wake of 911 and 7/7 the government felt they could not take the chance of this happening and folded at the threat.
I suppose if Nurses and Firemen were armed they too might be able to flex their muscles in their battle with government over terms and conditions?
I suppose if Nurses and Firemen were armed they too might be able to flex their muscles in their battle with government over terms and conditions?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14