And here I thought the "bad cops" were only in the U.S....

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m...1/28/ixop.html

"The policeman found my penknife. 'You're going down, mate,' he said

By Nicky Samengo-Turner

...The community support officers reacted immediately. They behaved as if they had never seen a penknife before, pulling out the bottle-opener, the corkscrew, the thing that gets stones out of horses' hooves. "This device has a locking blade," said the constable. My goodwill towards the police began to give way to alarm. I reached for my mobile to call the lawyers and explain that I was going to be late but the constable stopped me. "Turn that phone off," he said. "You're about to be arrested for possessing offensive weapons and carrying a bladed instrument in public. You'll be allowed one call when we get you to Charing Cross police station

...The man's lack of competence was comical. He had problems applying my fingers to the fingerprint-scanning machine, and with each failed attempt became angrier and angrier. Tired and fed up, I gave in to the temptation to needle him. "Having problems with your new toy?" I asked. "Shut the f*** up, you a***hole," he replied.

He was no better at operating the tape recorder used for my interview. Much fumbling of cassettes was followed by screeching noises. During the interview itself, I found him inarticulate, incompetent and only tenuously in control of his temper.

...This, I suspect, is the problem with the police - they have no proper training and no officer corps. The old adage goes "There is no such thing as bad soldiers, only bad officers". The scruffy, overweight, badly turned-out, ill-mannered policemen I encountered at Charing Cross police station were desperately in need of decent leadership."

And these are the ones responsible for our safety?

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Maybe they're training a new Gestapo. Somebody's got to stop all those evil Christians.

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[RejectionMan]

so facisim is alive and well in the US, the UK and Unfriendly Manitoba Canada.

Manitoba? (provinces slogan is friendly manitoba)

Due to recent gang wars any one driving a vehicle from out of province will likely be pulled over at least once. A couple of buddied got pulled over 6 times on their way through to Ontario. One such stop involved drawn weapons and more than 3 police crusers.

Interesting times. We have given up the very thing terrorist wanted from us in the name of saftey.

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Interesting times. We have given up the very thing terrorist wanted from us in the name of saftey.

The terrorists never wanted to take away the Western world's freedom... what they wanted to do was provoke a war between the West and the Muslim world. They almost succeeded. If there is one thing that Dubya has done right it is that he has managed NOT to go to war with the Muslim world at large, but restrict himself to one or two countries at a time...