Sunday, June 06, 2010

Gewaltmonopol des Staates

A little Friday afternoon fun for the increasingly paramilitary British police and their Magic Wellness Sticks*, whilst they wait for some proper civil disorder and things to really kick off...









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20 comments:

Anon said...

I'm inclined to agree with that assessment. They're virtually chomping at the bit to do something :p

Anonymous said...

whack im whack im! pretty fuckin funny actually

Anonymous said...

That's not a "paramilitary" police force. The crowd was laughing at them. Every police force in the world would laugh at them. They would have kicked ten bells of shit out of the guy waving his fists at the beginning.

Stef said...

Fair point

but what's not in shot are the few dozen van loads of considerably more tooled up individuals playing with their gameboys parked on side streets waiting for the call

Stef said...

it is also worth remembering that the riot in question in this particular video was a water fight in a park and, yes, it would appear that the crowd was quite good natured

but apparently still deserving of dogs and a phalanx of moving vehicles and wellness stick waving goons

policing in London has changed over the last few years and proportionality seems to have gone out of the window

even the smallest situation which once may have merited the attention of one or two coppers will now be attended by at least three car loads

it's almost as if they're afraid of something

Anonymous said...

I´m surprised that the guy in the beginning who took up the boxing position didn´t get a few taps of the wellness stick or set upon by those good natured canine creatures.
The police have always been cunts.
Do they have the nice Taser wellnees guns yet?

I like this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwjAjcQnqM

Anon said...

policing in London has changed over the last few years and proportionality seems to have gone out of the window

even the smallest situation which once may have merited the attention of one or two coppers will now be attended by at least three car loads


Yes, it isn't unusual for me to see half a dozen cars\vans going in the same direction around this side of London, never mind Hyde Park...

Anonymous said...

get ready for cuts folks and did you know that the UK and Ireland are the worlds largest debtors?

1. Ireland - 1,312%
External debt (as % of GDP): 1,312%

Gross external debt: $2.32 trillion
2009 GDP (est): $176.9 billion

2. United Kingdom
External debt (as % of GDP): 427.6%

http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2010/02/the_worlds_bigg.html

Stef said...

I think those stats are distorted by London being the world's money laundering, sorry, international finance capital and having loads of thieving overseas oligarchs' and crime lords', sorry, international financiers' money on deposit

which is why Switzerland is quite high up on the list as well

Ireland is just really, really fucked

Stef said...

... that's not to say that the UK isn't terminally fucked either

I've been bandying the term neo-feudalism around for years now - in blogs, in the pub, to random strangers on public transport, that sort of thing

and, bless, your average joe hasn't had the faintest idea what I've been talking about

that debt burden is going to be the engine for what I've been talking about and it ain't going to be some cyclic thing that people can just hunker down and ride out for a couple of years

the stage has been lovingly set and it's almost showtime ta-da!!!

Anonymous said...

we´ll see how it all plays out,,maybe the coppers will be busy with their wellness sticks,,infact maybe they have been preparing for this for quite a while now,,,a lot of dry runs in preparation so to speak,,,

I´ve a new song coming and the chorus is "we´ll all go down together" "we´ll all fall together"

I´ll post a link when its finished.

Rob

Anonymous said...

anyways stef the UK has a tradition of wellness beatings.

I had many a fond lashing you know.

http://www.s1lochgelly.com/media/the-lochgelly-tawse-in-action.html

Lochgelly Tawse in action

Anonymous said...

The Lochgelly tawse was by far the strap most favoured by schoolteachers. There were over 30 school strap makers in Scotland but in excess of 70% of all straps used in Scotland's schools were made in Lochgelly and were used in virtually every school in Scotland. In addition, John Dick supplied straps to some schools in England and to some teachers working overseas. At his peak he was supplying 3500 -4000 school straps per year and was particularly busy in the period leading up the start of the Autumn term.

From the late 1960's opinion concerning the use of corporal punishment in schools was changing with a growing band of support for the phasing out of the sanction. From the mid 1970's some primary schools started to phase out the use of the strap and sales began to fall. The Lightweight model, suitable for primary schools, was discontinued. Near the end of production straps were available only in the Medium and Heavy weight grades. All Lochgelly school straps were stamped in the centre with the makers name.

Anon said...

Stef, you mean these kind of people?

"The difference between rich and poor is irrelevant, beyond any effect it has on the purchasing power of the poor. The purchasing power of the poor has increased massively, the fact they haven't used it well is largely irrelevant to that."

It takes money to make money hasn't ever been more true, not to mention the general crapness of that currency lately...

anchovy said...

That's not a "paramilitary" police force. The crowd was laughing at them. Every police force in the world would laugh at them. They would have kicked ten bells of shit out of the guy waving his fists at the beginning.

What so naively makes you think they didn't?

anchovy said...

Ever get the impression the water fight playing field is a little uneven?

No paramilitary police force here, no siree.

Stef said...

"What so naively makes you think they didn't? "

! This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.

Martin Anon Kearns said...

Vaguely off topic. Or not. Definetely topical though, even though this happened in er, 2009?

See here the penalty under a Nu Lab Government for serious offences against the state - "offences" like having tinted glass windows in your car, a non EU approved style of numberplate. Thank goodness that some Justice prevailed - at least the "victim" was found not guitly of stopping after an accident!


:-|

Regardless of any "offences" this old buffer has been found guilty of, the only offenders I see in that video wear blue. Or yellow. Hard to see exactly who they are, as their faces have been pixellated out.

In any event, this is not just another nail in the coffin of the general and widespread public distrust in the police - it is a stake.

Whichever way you slice it, this is a provocative video to broadcast at the best of times. Perhaps to the PTB this is the best of times?

Elsewhere, buried within the comments, Daily Mail Correspondent Hugh McCrystal thinks that the driver "should have taken an eye test"

So that's alright then.

Reading between the lines (well I did that, even with Fermat)- I've probably written enough... except to state that putting aside the possibility the actual incident was staged, this story does have both legs, and a choreographer.

Are we going to have Magic Wellness Sticks as an Olympic event?

Anonymous said...

Are we going to have Magic Wellness Sticks as an Olympic event?

Of course.

Anon said...

Speaking of dubious policing:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10888435