And, So Without Incident ...

Usually, I go by the same pub -- The Rose &

Crown -- most days after I've finish my early

morning breakfast at around 6:30am or so.

This morning, I noticed out of the corner of

my eye a parked white police paddy wagon

at the side of the pub.

It was still dark as I then sat at the bus shelter

for my bus right across from the pub. Then I

saw a black car suddenly stop just yards from

the front door of the pub. A young guy in jeans

and dark shirt without a jacket jumped out

and started walking to the pub's front door.

I then noticed he had a gun holster on the

left side of his trousers. He walked briskly

and just as he got to the pub, 4 or 5 uniform

copz appeared from the side of the pub from

presumable the parked paddy wagon I'd seen

and I had not taken much note of it otherwise.

They then went to the front door and at first

rang the bell 3 or 4 times to no avail ...

With no reply to the bell, they began

to bang so loudly on the front door I

could almost feel each bang from across

the steet ... The copz kept looking up

at the three-story building to see if any

lights had come on. They saw none,

like me.

As I watched, I expected

them next to kick the door down or

use a ramming rod to get inside.

The guy in the unmarked black police

car suddenly came marching back to

his car and retrieved some papers that

I presume was a search/arrest warrant.

He then walked back to the copz still

trying to get in, when suddenly the

door was open and inside they pushed.

I'm not sure if some other copz had

gotten into the pub by the back door

and then opened the front door for the rest

of them to get in. I still could not see any

lights on inside the building, but probably

five minutes later they brought out a white

guy -- perhaps 30'ish -- in handcuffz with

the now 6 or 7 copz herding him on to the

parked white paddy wagon. Within minutes

he was whisked away in the dark and the

plain-clothes cop quickly jumped back

into his black car and sped away in the

opposite direction to the paddy wagon.

Then, I looked up again at the building

and then saw the far left window on the

third floor was open with the white curtain

now fluttering gently out of the window and

a dim light could now also be seen from the

room.

Clearly, whoever it was he was a high-value

suspect with so many copz and three police

vehicles all in tow to apprehend the poor devil.

He was obviously caught in bed, although he

was fully clothed when I saw them

bringing him out in cuffz.

What struck me about the operation

was that it could have been any police in

any country in the world doing the same

thing. If you'd have put those British copz

in the uniform of say American deputy

sheriffs, you'd have thought the operation

was taking place in some city or town in-

side America. Much of the British police

gear, by the way, is American-made

nowadayz ... In fact, many of the tactics being

deployed by today's UK anti-terror copz and

street Bobbies are essentially American

in origin and character. We are also seeing

much like we see in America thesedayz, the

gradual and steady quasi-militarization of the

British Constabulary. Look at all the gear they

wear from bullyclubs, handscuffz, taserz,

canstier gaz, and you can see it all coming ...

They also wear black outfits now has also seen

and worn by American keystone copz at both

Federal and State law enforcement levels.

State SWAT teams and Federal drug

busts are carried out by copz clad from

head to toe in black and with their faces

oftentimes covered just like those young

gang hoodies or yobz do in England.

The police have a gang mentality as much

as those street gangz they condemn ... So,

blue uniforms have become the sole domain

of those useless, costly and overpaid Police

Community Support Officers (PCSO) at upto

to £24.000+ per annum to employ each one ...

What I witnessed of today's police operation is becoming so widespead in the UK, that we're fast bordering on a police state at every level of our broken society. The more broken we become as a society, the more we'll see the rise of a permanent police state. And the more the police will act to counter the continuing breakdown of the British society. Over £2½ Billion is spent each year alone by the Metropolitan Police of London to police us ... and to control us. It will one day exceed a trillion pounds and still counting ... Yet, the breakdown of the broken society will still be unresolved or unmended for it's already too late in my considered opinion at damage control ...

And, so without incident this morning the wanted man surrendered without a shot being fired or with a bloody mess. Like a lamb to the slaughter he was led ... I caught my bus and said to myself the good thing about London is you never need to buy a movie or theatre ticket for almost every day something happens that is more real than any movie plot or theatre play. And, it's all free. Much of what I see, however, is a sad commentary on life inside of England today. England is no longer a good country to live in for too long. It's broken forever and a day ... Truly, Monty. +St. Richard Ogilvie, 2oo8.

UPDATE: Now some of the law and order copz at The Met are themselves under arrest and/or investigation surrounding the use of some 800 corporate American Express (Amex) credit cards issued to top-notch Scotland Yard detectives for use on the job. It's a case of who guards the guards since around one million quid is still unaccounted as auditors review upto £6 million in expenses claimed over the last few years by such policemen. The story goes that one cop used his police-issued Amex credit card to even pay for his wife's plastic surgery; another to send his family by first class air to holiday in Florida; and yet another pair is alleged to have spent £70.000 on themselves, their family and friendz. If power corrupts, then money equally does the same it seems to me. Don't worry, the taxpayers money they may have already illegally and corruptly spent won't see the light of day nor will it be returned to the public coffers because the police are generally the worst people to investigate themselves and their fellow copz. If we're not being robbed by some bad copz, then we're been forced to also pay last year some $3 million for police injuries among the 51 forces in the UK. Along with a total of 37.500 dayz taken off for sick leave ... The sick pay bill for police injured on duty rose by more than 15% in 2007. From nearly 3.000 copz the previous year so injured, last year saw over a 50% increase to 7.680 injured while on duty with London's Met Police. Such injuries stem from assaults, resisting arrest, fightz, and confrontations by public members against the police. The police should be trained to defuse situations and not to aggravate them by their mere presence of attempted intimidation. What I see now in the UK is what I call "Muscle Policing" in which dozens of copz appear routinely at a scene that may really require only 2 or 3 of them. Today, the British police no longer do what they do with the majority consent of the people. Rather they've become a law unto themselves in all too many instances and the public be damned seems to be their attitude ... Such is not good either for the public or the police. And the amounts of unbelieveable money being spent to police us is never-ending and will eventually bankupt us if we don't start policing more realistically than we are today ... Less policing is the key, not more, ironically ...