policeIn news from the police-state we like to call home this week, comes the story of a man, arrested for crossing the street.
I shit thee not people, a guy was arrested for crossing the road during the APEC fiasco. I call it a fiasco because the leaders of all these fat-arsed nations got together, talked about what they'd like to agree to doing, did nothing and managed to spend a great wad of tax dollars in the process. Can you believe they actually agreed that they would like to do something to halt global warming? I feel so safe.
Now about the guy . . . well, it seems this middle-aged father of two small children, wanted to cross one of the cordoned-off roads during the Apec security blitz in Sydney last week. Now obviously it was important to the police to keep ordinary folk off these streets, because they might be carrying weapons of mass destruction (BTW - have we found any yet?) and try to kill and or maim millions of innocent people.
I could maybe understand why ze polizei might have crash-tackled the guy and dragged him off the street for questioning. I might even understand that they might want charge him with some offence under the "you-have-no-right-to-walk-across-the-road" act of 2003 but to arrest the guy in front of his two small children and hold him for 24 hrs??!!
What The FUCK?! Are we living in Nazi Germany? France? China? The guy is a middle-aged accountant for fuck's sake. What did they ask him for 24 hours? "Who is your Al-Qaeda contact? Ve know you are hidding ze truth! Tell us everything you know! Ve haff vays of making you tok!
Honestly, give a policeman a little power and just watch his self-importance expand exponentially. It seems a little bit of power really does go a long way. I fear for our future people.
