Welcome To The Police State

The room went quiet. I thought it was terrible the police, who we were supposed to trust and who we paid to protect us, couldn’t tell the truth.

The torrents of bullshit over the IPCC’s report are overwhelming indeed. So Blair was ignorant until the next day of his operation that killed a man and was the most high profile news story going? Bullshit, this is how I think it really goes- Hayman is covering for Blair, thus Hayman gets Blair’s support, a mutual job security approach. End result no one resigns or is fired. Blair played the old game of feigning ignorance, I’m sure he even threw in a few ‘I don’t recalls’, if anything he took the position of don’t tell me, so I don’t have to lie about knowing, i.e. deliberate ignorance to avoid jeopardy. However you only do that when you have good reason to think there is something very wrong, it’s ass covering by a man not fit to be in the job.

As Blairwatch points out-

Before we hand over civil liberties to the police and security services, we should examine these organisations and their office holders very closely. It is clear that those charged with protecting the public are not ‘fit for purpose’.

And quotes this tautological nightmare-

“If I had lied I would not be fit to hold this office. I did not lie,” he said.
Of Mr Hayman, he said: “He retains my full support in the crucially important job he undertakes for this country.”

So you would resign if you were found to be lying but when your man is found lying, he’s fine by you, WTF? To infinty. And after the fact as frolix noted the police aggressively investigated and intimidated anyone who was finding out the truth of this story.

Over the next eight months, Louise, Lana and I would answer bail a further four times. Each time, police could see Louise’s baby bump getting bigger, but this did not deter them from locking her up in a cell, sometimes for several hours. Once they offered her a blanket infested with lice. Another time, they offered her no food or drink for over five hours, despite the canteen being just minutes away.

Interviews made it clear the police had delved into our bank accounts and credit records. Text messages retrieved from our phones were read out to us. Silly everyday emails about money, or the lack of it, were twisted and interpreted as a financial motive for the alleged crime.

These are not the actions of an open and honest police force and the media coverage is somewhat forgetful of this context which paints the Met in a very unflattering light, of bullying criminals covering up a crime. The report itself has been censored (still at least this one was released the first one wasn’t)-

Three took legal action against the IPCC alleging the body had not followed its own guidelines in dealing with them. It is claimed that the IPCC watered down criticism of the three following the action. They are: Assistant Commissioner Alan Brown now retired, who was in charge of London police operations on the day of the shooting, Caroline Murdoch, the Commissioner’s chief of staff and Moir Stewart, the Commissioner’s staff officer at the time.

The IPCC says the three made a mistake in failing to keep the Commissioner informed of critical events and the two serving officers should receive management advice, the equivalent of a mild rebuke. Mrs Murdoch and Mr Stewart later admitted to the IPCC they had made a conscious decision not to tell the Commissioner about a Brazilian driving licence found on the dead man because they did not want to “overburden him with unconfirmed information. A press officer is also criticised for inserting into a press release that Mr de Menezes had been challenged by firearms officers because she assumed they would have done. In fact it does not appear there was a proper challenge.

And again the lower downs taking responsibility for Blair’s ‘ignorance’ (oh yeah and ‘assumed’ yeah, right, I totally believe you, no instructions to add that from anybody. Actually I’m not sure which is worse, a covering lie or a culture where they instictively cover for each other) but avoiding censure by suing the commission, oh the contrition on show! Oh the compassion, oh the humanity!

At the very least Blair and Hayman should be fired, I see no signs of that happening, certainly no prosecutions over a man’s murder by security forces. Their firearms teams share tactics with the IDF and train with them-

Senior police officers said guidelines giving armed officers specific instructions on how to deal with suspected suicide bombers were circulated secretly for the first time, though never published, in 2003. A Met team had visited Israel and Sri Lanka and produced a confidential report on tackling an al-Qaeda threat in the UK. Instructions, to be followed only with approval from an operational senior officer, are thought to have covered disabling the nervous system with a shot to the head and firing on the driver of an approaching vehicle thought to contain a bomb. 

as the 3D Lenin reports,

The spurious notion that the only way to stop hand movement is to destroy the brain “instantly, utterly” is even less impressive when you recall that Mr. Menezes was already on the ground with several police officers piled on top of him when he was shot.  

Mayor Ken Livingstone is speaking up in support of Hayman, are the alternatives to him so much worse, do the Met have the goods on Livingstone so he toes their line? Call that wild speculation if you want, but we have a huge armed police organisation (with all the power that entails- arrest, surveillance, paid ‘informers’) that is fighting any attempt to hold it to public account for premeditated murder and it is- before our eyes, succeeding. Because in the fear filled, terror darkened, fanatic haunted world they tell us we live in, these people are vital to protect us, these lying, incompetent, bloodthirsty, racist authoritarians. Welcome to the Terrordome.