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Originally Posted by Chewy
Of course it isn't but one bunch of OTT police officers doesn't represent the state of the London Metropolitan police, nor does it mean that free speech is banned. Which is my point in this thread, I'm tired of hearing modern society being compared to a 1984 dictatorship - go to China if you want to find out what that is really like.
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How does this justify the dispatch of scores of police officers (in an already overstretched police force) to make arbitrary arrests on perfectly law abiding citizens (whose only "crime" is having the "potential" to express views deemed dangerous to the status quo) as either democratic or even vaguely morally acceptable? And I reject your statement that this does not represent the prevailing attitudes of the London Metropolitan Police. A police force that has spent years being pressured into arresting terrorist suspects and which is all but
known to have cooperated with News International in a cover-up of their criminal invasion of people's privacy.
You don't have to remind me that the 'People's Republic of China' is a police state... and yet CCP propaganda would have Chinese citizens believe that they are living in a democracy which has the best interests of Chinese people at heart. Just like North Korea assures its long-suffering inhabitants that they are living in a 'workers' paradise'. Funny that.