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Re:UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give ... by Terry_Roll on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @02:46AM (#32079673)
So the Police choose what laws they enforce according to their own agenda, and with PartyGate back over Xmas, the Scottish Police decided to arrest/prosecute someone who tweeted Nicola Sturgeon's residence address as a Scottish Hogmanay party was arrested under the malicious communications act because Nicola Sturgeon's residential address declared for political reasons is actually a relative's of her's.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/man-arrested-for-organising-st...

Anyway the Politicians with the help of the media are engaged in malicious communications all the time, never seen the Police enforce that act on the political class, suggesting the Police are bias and interfering in politics like we have just seen with Labour's Keir Starmer and Beergate.

On the point of this proposal, I think it will kill off elements of the British Humour... or not!

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Re:UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give ... by feet on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:23AM (#32080206)
The police are just there to suppress the working class. Same as in the US
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Re:UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give ... by Terry_Roll on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:29AM (#32081713)
I know, if you dont pay their wages via taxation, you get done over by them! Same goes for a lot of govt employees!
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Re:UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give ... by feet on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:47AM (#32081841)
I was more talking about their role as road pirates who harass and selectively enforce laws against minority and poor communities while breaking up protests when people get fed up with the treatment, but that's a US centric view
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Re:UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give ... by Terry_Roll on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @01:04PM (#32085528)
Every entity has good and bad because everybody has a different of opinion of whats right and wrong and thats why the world is like it is.
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Re:UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give ... by feet on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @02:42PM (#32087024)
That must be why the capital owners and corporations constantly lobby for more subsidies yet talk about how giving money to poor people is a moral hazard. Just different perspectives, huh?

The reality is that governments are captured by those with capital at the benefit of them and them only

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