Speaking on Channel 4 News tonight, ‘Call Me Dave,’ our PR Prime Minister, was taking the Egyptian Government to task. He said, “State sponsored violence and the hiring of thugs to beat up protesters is not acceptable.”
Fair enough.
So why is he not looking for the mote in his own eye? Why has he not launched an Inquiry into the behaviour of the Metropolitan Police? Why can they get away with ‘kettling’ innocent people? Why can they get away with killing innocent people? Why can they get away with hitting protestors with batons (or truncheons to be more precise)? How can a very senior Police Officer (Sir Hugh Orde) talk about being even tougher and introduce ‘super kettling,’ among other measures, and still keep his job? Why has the control of the police spies been handed over to the seemingly unaccountable Metropolitan Police?
Why is ‘state sponsored violence’ wrong when it is foreign and perfectly acceptable when it is at home?
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