The government wants to arm the police with ‘non-lethal’ weapons, such as stun-guns, to “crush” any rebellion against Globalisation, but there is no justification for this Draconian measure within our relatively calm, law-abiding, stable society.

So, they need a scenario….first they shoot a Scotsman, Harry Stanley in South London, armed with a table-leg. Next a nineteen year old schizophrenic youth, Keiran, is shot dead in a house seige in North London. Then another mentally ill patient is executed at the roadside like a dog, in Liverpool. Onlookers said, it wasn’t necessary to kill him. Finally, the single most provocative police action, to raise the clamour for “something must be done,” occurs in Brixton, where a Rastaman was murdered in a volley of six bullets, for brandishing a cigarette lighter!

Before he was even cold, the Home Secretary appeared on television, not condemning the over-reaction of out-of-control policing or even offering condolences to the victim and his family, but to call for “a range of alternatives for police, proportionate to the risks they face.” The public are being swept along on a carefully contrived tide of emotion by the media, so that politicians can implement a never-ending stream of new laws.

Stun guns will be issued to police to prevent such tragic, needless deaths occuring again. But should police be shooting psychiatric patients on our streets at all, with anything? This was not what most people envisaged ‘Care in The Community’ to be. And how far will these extended police powers reach?