On the whole, crime in Scotland is falling, but the powers that be are intent on increasing the number of police carrying fire arms, there seems to be a contradiction in there somewhere. Not only are the number of armed police being increased, but we will see more of them on the street, attending no violent incidents.
We should not be surprised at this trend, slowly, slowly, we will have a fully armed police force. The state will always want its first line of defence to be armed to the hilt. Batons and riot shields might be intimidating to some, but guns are even more so. That is the purpose of the police force, forget the catching the bag-snatcher, or the violent drunk, these are just by-products of the system. Its real purpose is to be the first line of defence against any threat to the established power. When silencing dissent, repressing protests and creating submission, guns speak louder that batons. So watch out for your local Wyatt Earp, strutting his/her stuff down you local high street.
HUNDREDS of armed officers will be routinely deployed to incidents that do not involve firearms for the first time ever. In in a major shift in policy, police with weapons will now be allowed to attend non-violent incidents if they are nearer the scene than unarmed colleagues.
Police Scotland chiefs have revealed that 399 officers have now been approved to carry guns which is a rise of 124 and they will now be used more frequently in routine investigations.
When I was a child, I dreamed of a world patrolled by bakers, with their white dresses and their attractive aroma. Instead of weapons or batons, they carried long bars of tender bread that they gave smiling to anyone who complained. Dream admissible in a child, but naive madness in an adult, according to our "realistic" educators. But I'm still dreaming and thinking that a loaf of bread does more for the safety of the world than a hundred pistols.
ReplyDeleteGive everybody enough to eat and watch most problems disappear. Want, inequality, deprivation, to maintain these features in society requires a gun.
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