Doggy Dhimmitude III

Police in Britain must now put booties on sniffer dogs while searching Muslim homes to prevent giving "offence".

Tomorrow is the third anniversary of 7/7. I bring this up because the police seem to have forgotten this little incident.

Police Academy Dhimmitude

Police in Britain are to be taught the Koran and Sharia law as part of a programme to "combat extremism".

One would have thought that a solid knowledge of English law and how to write out an arrest report would have been enough. No doubt policemen will also now be versed in the Catholic Bible and the Napoleonic Code on the off chance that they have to lock up a Frenchman.

French Courage

From Yahoo.news:

More than 1,000 police, some wearing black hoods, raided housing projects outside Paris in a massive sweep Monday, kicking open doors and detaining 33 people in a search for rioters who led an outburst of violence last year, a prosecutor said.

This is France? If this keeps up, they might actually end up not surrendering this time.

Sometimes Less Blind Than Blinkered

Hot the heels of an appeals court ruling in London that freed five Muslims for possessing Jihadist propaganda, another court has given an Algerian pilot arrested after 9/11 permission to sue the British government.

The merits of the individual cases aside, this is what happens when a war is prosecuted as if it was merely a criminal case. Courts are intended to deal with ordinary criminals who try to prey upon society. They are not intended to deal with a military or terrorist enemy bent on the destruction of that society. To deal with terrorists as criminals because it is easier than facing up to the fact that war has come to Britain is to invite disaster further down the road. With this sort of mindset, the government is needlessly presenting itself with the appalling choices of turning the screws on the entire population in order to catch a handful of maniacs or resigning itself to being unable to do a thing about enemy attacks except wipe up the blood afterwards.

Update: The Royal United Services Institute isn't impressed either:

"The UK presents itself as a target, as a fragmenting, post-Christian society," the report says, and is "increasingly divided" on its history, national aims, values and political identity.

And They Acted All Surprised About It

Police in Birmingham issued sobriety tests and found a load of drunk people... in a pub.

Your Papers, Please

From next year, passengers between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland will be required to show their identification because police want "to build up a complete picture of passenger movements between Ulster and the mainland".

And I remember a time when if a policeman asked for my "papers" I could, and did, laugh in his face.

Bobby's Bike

Greater Manchester bans the police from riding their bicycles, fearing they might fall off and hurt themselves.

In other news, policemen are numbered in case they get lost.

Many Eyes and None That See

• 10,524 CCTV cameras in London.
• Cost: £200 million
• Unsolved crime rate: 80%

As I've said, it isn't just that these totalitarians are taking away our liberties, it's that they can't even accomplish what they claimed was the reason for doing so.

Swabbed Away

Dropping the cannon ball of tyranny into the dinghy of liberty, police in Britain want to take and permanently store in a database DNA samples taken from people arrested for offences down to and including speeding and littering.

That's arrested, not charged or convicted.

Now where have we seen this sort of mindset before?

Darlington Cowed

Durham police are warning residents of Darlington to stay on the look out for a crazed, psychopathic, killer... Heifer.

In other news, rampaging ant-eater still at large.

On The Payroll

Up to eight people with suspected links to terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda, have been discovered working for British police forces.

Have they been arrested? Questioned? At least sacked? Nope (emphasis added).

Astonishingly, many of the alleged jihadists have not been sacked because - it is claimed - police do not have the "legal power" to dismiss them.

Translation: "Here, let me help you put that noose around my neck."

Robotaser

Police robots with tasers? Could be worse.

And a Pint of Yogurt, Please

British police are considering equipping officers with tiny milk floats personal electric scooters capable of reaching speeds comparable to that of a clapped-out push bike.

The cunning of this scheme is breathtaking. Criminals will be so helpless with laughter that the police will be able to scoop them up like dead flies.

You're Never Too Young

Children under ten are having their DNA samples added to the national criminal database.

Remember, citizens, there are only two types of people in the Blair New World: Criminals and criminals who haven't been rounded up yet.

Another Nail

Officers of West Mercia Constabulary are abandoning the traditional white shirt and tie in favour of a tee shirt of the sort of material and cut that one associates less with law enforcement than those aggravating cyclists who have all the road sense of a spavined duck.

On reflection, this is probably a good move. I for one will think twice about committing a crime West Mercia's stomping ground of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Worcestershire. The thought of being arrested by someone in such a clown suit is too embarrassing to contemplate

Abu Izzadeen arrested

Abu Izzadeen and five others in Britain have been detained on terrorism charges.

Always a good day when one of the bigger fish gets netted.

Canal Boat Mystery

And now, a trip to the Twilight Zone. A 43 foot long, four-foot wide canal boat with a top speed of four knots has gone missing and the police are utterly baffled as to its whereabouts.

Given that such a vessel is, as the name implies, confined to the canals and that your average canal boat is about as stealthy as a hod of bricks in the middle of the road, one must either conclude that the art of detection is not what was or that the Shropshire Union Canal has just made the Bermuda Triangle look like a goldfish bowl.

In Space, No One Can Hear You Enter a Plea

A female American astronaut has been charged with attempted kidnapping, battery and first-degree attempted murder in a bizarre plot to confront her rival in a romantic triangle that involved a high-speed cross-country car trip from Houston, Texas to Orlando, Florida by said Astronaut, who (I'm not kidding) wore adult nappies so she wouldn't have to stop for potty breaks.

Remember the good old days when a congressional hearing was held because Gus Grissom smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard Gemini III? No wonder I have this headache.

The McNulty Method

How to respond to a young hooligan beating the life out of a little old lady? If you ask Tony McNulty, Home Office minister for police and security, the answer is to retreat to a safe distance and "jump up and down".

It's a step up from putting a paper bag over your head, but only an infinitesimal one.

Preemptive Policing

From ShortNews.com:

Commander Dave Johnston, Britain's most senior murder investigator, has suggested that DNA should be taken from infants and put in a database in order to solve future crimes.

Bravo. Now all the government needs is to simply make being born a crime and the circle will be complete.

A World in Chaos

Having their priorities stuffed firmly up their fundaments, New Zealand is using ice cream vans to run speed traps.

In other developments, police cars will now be used to sell ice cream.

When Sanity Takes a Holiday

In the Blair New World, even a cricket ball in the hands of a 28-year old City accountant is regarded as a lethal weapon.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.