What a load of nonsense!
The police, it appears, abused their position and made a mistake. Sadly, these two events combined paint a terrible picture of the police; a picture that wouldn’t look half as bad if only either one of these things had happened.
If we believe the police had viable intelligence that they couldn’t ignore, then there is just the apparent mistreatment of the family they invaded. If we believe the police, then their intelligence sources must be questioned severely.
The cynic in me wonders whether this is a PR exercise that is going as intended. What if Blair’s colleagues though “Let’s attack some Islamist-looking innocent Muslims, let’s rough them up and accuse them of something spurious and then any potential immigrants will think twice about coming to this country and we’ll have less terrorism.”
It wouldn’t surprise me for all the extra cynic-ness I am having to lay on.
I hope for the benefit of England and the UK that I am so far off the mark that I cannot see the mark. Sadly, the alternative is not much better!
And this, really, is my point. Whatever the police have or have not done, they have definitely demonstrated, yet again, that they are no longer competent. The BBC continually talks of the loss of trust between the so-called Muslim community and the police (which is just nonsense, but don’t get me started), but what about the loss of trust between everyone and the police?
It is not unusual for a long-term government to struggle, and eventually topple. What is unusual is for that falling government to have politicised the civil service to such an extent that the police — the guardians of liberty and enforcers of justice — are being dragged down with them.
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