“Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives,” said one Metropolitan Police officer.
“Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives,” said one Metropolitan Police officer.
Easy for us to say.
I’m not claiming to be the moral arbiters of the nation though, am I. They are, that’s the job they chose to do, it’s not my fault they suddenly don’t like it. Same for the military in the US wandering aboud LA, and DC.
Demanding they quit because of this has definite “I live with my parents” vibes though. I doubt that person has a mortgage.
This is bullshit. I’d rather sell my house and move to a poorer area and find a job where I don’t hurt people for half the pay, then to hurt people as a police office or in the military. I would expect a wife and children to be pretty understanding of that. And yes I have a mortgage, and no I’m not rich.
Again, they were aware that was always a possibility when they took the job. If you have a job that involves following orders so there is always the possibility that you will be given orders you don’t agree with, you should think about that before signing up.
Seems a bit daft. The answer then is to have either no police, or to have police who will mindlessly follow any order?
No police would be great, but in the absence of that ideal, I’d rather have people in the role who question the morality of what they’re doing. Compare this response with ICE in the US who kidnap people off the streets and send them to concentration camps and don’t complain that they disagree with what they are doing