The law is not being enforced impartially
Just A Man | 01.04.2011 17:05 | Analysis | Social Struggles
Politicians, the mainstream media, and the Police all dismiss serious crimes against ordinary people as mere “anti-social behaviour”, but think that trivial crimes against the rich and influential are shocking and should be treated as serious crimes.
On Monday 29 March on BBC 1’s 18:30 regional news program, the presenter described the breaking of a window at the Ritz as “extreme violence”. The following day, on the BBC News 24 12:00 news bulletin, a reporter described the kicking to death of Gary Newlove as “an extreme case of anti-social behaviour”. This was despite the fact that Gary Newlove’s widow has since been appointed to the House of Lords and given a government job.
On News 24’s press review, just before 23:30 on Saturday 26 March, Journalist and former SDP candidate John Torode mentioned that he lives in central London, not far from where the anti-cuts demonstration had taken place. He then complained that some people had walked down his road dressed in black “where were the police then, I’d like to know” he fumed.
4,000 police were used to control the anti-cuts demo, and a lot of effort is being put into tracing and prosecuting people who took part in completely peaceful protests, or who, at most, did nothing more than break a window. A few days later, five-year-old Thursha Kamaleswaran was shot in the chest, and Thirty-five-year-old Roshan Selvakumar was shot in the face when some gangsters tried to shoot two other people. I don’t know how many police are involved in trying to solve that case, but I’ll bet it’s a damn sight less than 4,000.
When Tory Party Chairman Baroness Warsi was hit by an egg, the police arrested the man who had thrown it, charged him with causing intentional alarm and distress, and held him in prison until he was tried and given an eight week prison sentence. Fiona Pilkington burned herself and her disabled daughter to death because the police refused, over a period of ten years, to do anything about the crimes being committed against her family by local thugs. This included her son (also disabled) being threatened with death, being kidnapped at knife point, and being hit with an iron bar.
When Tory Councillor made a stupid online joke about stoning Independent Columninst Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the police arrested him. ( I guess being a Leading national columnist trumps being a mere local councillor, even if you are a Tory). David Askew was psychologically tortured for 17 years without receiveing and real help from the police. He reported crimes to the police 88 times in six years but not a single arrest was made. He eventually collapsed and died while being tormented.
There needs to be some sort of campaign for the law to be enforced impartially.
On News 24’s press review, just before 23:30 on Saturday 26 March, Journalist and former SDP candidate John Torode mentioned that he lives in central London, not far from where the anti-cuts demonstration had taken place. He then complained that some people had walked down his road dressed in black “where were the police then, I’d like to know” he fumed.
4,000 police were used to control the anti-cuts demo, and a lot of effort is being put into tracing and prosecuting people who took part in completely peaceful protests, or who, at most, did nothing more than break a window. A few days later, five-year-old Thursha Kamaleswaran was shot in the chest, and Thirty-five-year-old Roshan Selvakumar was shot in the face when some gangsters tried to shoot two other people. I don’t know how many police are involved in trying to solve that case, but I’ll bet it’s a damn sight less than 4,000.
When Tory Party Chairman Baroness Warsi was hit by an egg, the police arrested the man who had thrown it, charged him with causing intentional alarm and distress, and held him in prison until he was tried and given an eight week prison sentence. Fiona Pilkington burned herself and her disabled daughter to death because the police refused, over a period of ten years, to do anything about the crimes being committed against her family by local thugs. This included her son (also disabled) being threatened with death, being kidnapped at knife point, and being hit with an iron bar.
When Tory Councillor made a stupid online joke about stoning Independent Columninst Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the police arrested him. ( I guess being a Leading national columnist trumps being a mere local councillor, even if you are a Tory). David Askew was psychologically tortured for 17 years without receiveing and real help from the police. He reported crimes to the police 88 times in six years but not a single arrest was made. He eventually collapsed and died while being tormented.
There needs to be some sort of campaign for the law to be enforced impartially.
Just A Man
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