Swap the Blairs!
Kate Moss is coming back to Britain to chat to the police about snorting some coke five months ago, after some weeks of negotiations.
Is this a joke? Do the police really have so little to do that they have the time to hassle someone in the fucking United States to come back to answer a piddling possession charge? No, wait, they're mumbling about supply too. I don't think supplying minute traces to mirrors and banknotes counts.
I'm lost for words. (OK, not entirely.) Are we to infer from the stupendous manpower being devoted to a single instance of a crime committed by millions every day, the only remarkable aspect of this one being the offender's tolerable level of fame, that the police are satisfied that they've caught all the dealers, all the movers, all the middlemen, all the suppliers and all the barons? Somehow, one suspects not. I'm all for broken windows, but if there's an issue where it won't work, it's this one; with a fresh market opening up every day, it doesn't matter how many people like Kate Moss you ostentatiously pursue. This is purely for show. Whereas the Labour government, with all its statist conceit, operates its bludgeoning top-down do-as-we-say policies, when in fact it should be instigating reform and inculcating its values from the bottom up, the Met appears to believe that the best way to fight a "war on drugs" is to go after the end users rather than the suppliers. Perhaps if we put the Met into government, the Labour party could run the police: certainly it possess the requisite authoritarian streak.
Is this a joke? Do the police really have so little to do that they have the time to hassle someone in the fucking United States to come back to answer a piddling possession charge? No, wait, they're mumbling about supply too. I don't think supplying minute traces to mirrors and banknotes counts.
I'm lost for words. (OK, not entirely.) Are we to infer from the stupendous manpower being devoted to a single instance of a crime committed by millions every day, the only remarkable aspect of this one being the offender's tolerable level of fame, that the police are satisfied that they've caught all the dealers, all the movers, all the middlemen, all the suppliers and all the barons? Somehow, one suspects not. I'm all for broken windows, but if there's an issue where it won't work, it's this one; with a fresh market opening up every day, it doesn't matter how many people like Kate Moss you ostentatiously pursue. This is purely for show. Whereas the Labour government, with all its statist conceit, operates its bludgeoning top-down do-as-we-say policies, when in fact it should be instigating reform and inculcating its values from the bottom up, the Met appears to believe that the best way to fight a "war on drugs" is to go after the end users rather than the suppliers. Perhaps if we put the Met into government, the Labour party could run the police: certainly it possess the requisite authoritarian streak.
posted by Novus at 21:42
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