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Addendum: The British police will now arrest you and hold you without bail even if you just happened to be near a riot:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/09/judge-refuses-bail-riot-bystanders-belfast/

That is to say, they're now forcefully jailing bystanders.

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Aug 9Liked by The Underdog

Feel like the same thing could happen in the US as well. No rule of law.

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It's time for citizens to develop a new capability...

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Aug 9Liked by The Underdog

It appears that knives should be banned in UK and anyone doing harm with a knife should get life. Or is killing by knife ok, you only get few months but that damn gun killing will get you life. Understand the person is dead anyway????

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Carrying knives in public is already banned. Pieces of paper don't do anything to stop stabbers because crooks ignore the law anyway. And life in prison isn't 'life' in the common sense; it means at most 21 years in jail, typically less due to probation and appeals. That is because historically the UK had the death penalty for murder up until about the 1970s (so it was seen there was no point jailing someone 'forever' given they would have been executed by the state).

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? Who are our police? Where do they come from?

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Aug 9·edited Aug 9Author

I must admit to confusion and I don't quite understand your question. Could you explain your questions to me further? Do you mean which country they come from? Who they recruit demographics-wise? Where 'they' (the UK government) find the jackboot-minded individuals? Or is it a sort of rhetorical question (E.G., you're an American) asking how could the British police have power over America? [Sorry, typo, wrote 'the UK' instead of America]

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Unfortunately, because The Daily Beagle is my official work front-end, I cannot make the suggestions that these people would need to hear (and communication online is a fools errand given everything is surveilled).

I suppose the ULEZ bladerunners were successful. As mentioned, the rioters are no Michael Collins (I wonder if anyone has read the history on the man as linked in the article? I think readers might find it of interest).

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