I am sure you will have been following the media spat between Metropolitan Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick and the Conservative Party. Quick accuses the Conservatives and their running dogs in the press of running a “corrupt” campaign against him as he uses valuable policing resource to investigate that well known threat to national security Damian Green. He has subsequently withdrawn his use of the word “corrupt” from his tirade but I am sure you all get the general idea. Naturally, the BBC delights in reporting this and presents the entire issue as if it were merely between the bad Conservatives and hard-working Quick. It’s not. The broader issues here include why does Quick believe that investigating Damian Green is a greater policing priority than investigating Islamic terrorism? Is it appropriate for senior Policeman to make overt political attacks? After all, Quick was very quick when it came to offering support to the claims of Jacqui Smith over her 42 day detention bill earlier this year. With such an allegedly clear political bias in favour of the Labour government how can any conservative-inclined citizen feel confidence in the work of the Metropolitan Counter-terrorism Police? These are all questions the BBC has no interest in pursuing since the main point here is to paint the Conservatives as the enemies of effective policing.
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Atlas,
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The BBC seems reluctant to take as the central issue of the case the issue of the arrest by the Met police, using anti-terrorism methods in Parliament, of a representative of the British people; instead, the BBC emphasises the anti-Tory remarks of Mr. Quick (which he later withdrew), and the BBC also treads lightly over the Labour government’s involvement.
‘Telegraph’:
“Police secretly taped Damian Green with anti-terror equipment”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3932833/Police-secretly-taped-Damian-Green-with-anti-terror-equipment.html
‘I have no intention of banning you. I favour freedom of expression – though I also like to the point comments! You are welcome here by me, as are all those others who grace the site.’
You lie!, you ban me after every single post without exception and regardless of the content of the post. You have so much in common with the Taleban and China, you’re a facist.