Just when you thought the phone hacking saga could not get any worse the prospect of Cressida Dick who authorised the execution of Brazilian Jean Charles De Menzies with seven bullets to the head while an innocent passenger on the Tube as new Counter terrorism head and possible new Chief of the Met Police does send a shiver down ones spine.
LM is a little perplexed about why politicians are being allowed to make the running over the News International scandal given the close ties they have all traditionally enjoyed with Murdoch's Wapping empire. Listening to that lying weasel Alistair Campbell's various bizarre hypocritical explanations about journalistic integrity is nauseating to say the least. The only credit if that is the right word to come out of this sorry saga goes to the Guardian for their excellent investigative work which exposed the lies of Murdoch.
However, my ultimate focus as a Londoner is on the behaviour and conduct of the Metropolitan Police. Following the parade of white men in suits at the Home Affairs Select Committee like Clarke, Hayman and Yates I could not help thinking why we continue to allow the Policing of our great city to be carried out by racist, bent or incompetent coppers who instinctively have little in common with those they are Policing. When Paul Stephenson says there was nothing wrong with his freebie at a health spa you get a sense of the arrogance and entitlement.
LM has in the past highlighted the racism of the Met over the Babar Ahmad case and the treatment of Ali Dizai. However, the reality is at senior commander level the Met is racist to the core with a bunch of out of touch white folk at Scotland Yard policing the capital like in the old days of the Raj and Empire. An indication of how racist and out of touch the Met is with Londoners is the shocking prospect of Cressida Dick who allowed the execution of Jean Charles De Menzies being talked up by her mates at the Evening Standard as the new Head of the Met.
The Met have never had close ties with ethnic minorities in London having first treated black people with contempt and now Muslims. My advice which is advice and not a warning is if that clown Boris Johnson along with his Liverpudlian sidekick Kit Malthouse allow Cressida Dick to be the new Chief of the Met they along with their mates at the Evening Standard who have never sided with Black or Muslim people will shoulder a heavy responsibility for the further deterioration between we the people on the streets of London and our tormentors at the Met.
I'm enjoying every minute of it,seeing this vile,zionist islamophobic murdoch empire crumbling into pieces.Truth always prevail.
ReplyDeleteKoran burning country,US,is on the verge of bankruptcy,islamophobic murdoch's media empire continues to crumble,racist islamophobic metropolitan police exposed of its corruption.what next?
ReplyDeleteDont forget the met is also racist against us irish people aswell . i remember the 60s and 70s here when evryone hated the black people and irish , now i see london full of foreigners and love it .
ReplyDeleteI think the police need counselling to get through what they get through. For so long I have resented them but at my work (which is ethnic specialist work) - we held a workshop which was attended by a number of MET police , we had an open discussion session and a number of black members stood up and opening critised black people with disdain, disgust and desperation.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it highlighted something very deep: I don't know what the police are exposed to day in and day out, but I did think to myself that they feel (in order to be able to do their job) they need to have some negative feeling for certain characters and that their work does condition them in a certain way. This cannot be 100% their fault - because there is no effect without cause.
I am not justifying or defending anyone - I just think that one enters the police force (most likely) with some noble intent, and ends up being of very different character and thinking after a few years - and whatever is happening to them (psychologically, emotionally) - it is not being managed in a way that allows them to seperate their day to day experience with the world at large.
Also - I believe it is very hard to pursue and capture something you have any kind of sympathy for. I remember one Ramazan when we went to sacrifice a cow and I couldn't really stomach it - when the cow fought and struggled: I felt very sad for it and I still cannot eat beef. I sympathised and empathised too much with it. Yet the farmers - to them: thats dinner. The reason I have gone on this long speech here is to say that in such jobs as the police, a certain level of disdain may actually be how they manage to do the things they do - because if they really deeply cared for the people and felt for their cause, their case: it may be that they are not as good at being police as they need to be.