27-04-2009, 02:27 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:So much for the Bill's motto "to Serve and Protect" eh Peter.
But then again as many people are slowly beginning to ask, exactly "whom" is the police motto directed towards?
Yet another of the vast and multiplying examples of Orwellian language inversion - our newly minted 'Ministry of Justice' being among the latest and most gross of them.
Policing is a particular hobby-horse of mine so I'm considering a separate thread somewhere on it.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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