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State Of The Nation
January 17 2009 at 2:09 AM OneGoodLeg (Login OneGoodLeg)
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Have a gander at the link below; is this an indication of what our country has become?
Try to stay with the full video; watch and listen in amazement at what The Met's finest are prepared to put up with from the protestors.
I seem to recall a very different reaction at any football match that I have ever attended in The Smoke, and cast your mind back to the news footage of the Poll Tax demo, the Wapping Dispute, and of course The Met playing away from home during the Miner's Strike, this showed a very different side of the boy's in blue.
I wonder what could be holding them back?
Could it be the threat of their careers being finished by the mere hint of a 'racist' complaint from the oh so tolerant, racially insulting, and now it would appear almost untouchable, in the eyes of our law enforcers at least, people marching in this crowd.
Is this the same police force that arrests 11x Spurs supporters (including a 13 year old) for so called racist and homophobic chanting at a football match, publishes their pictures in the national press and are still actively pursuing, a further 5x men.
I wonder what will happen to these tolerant, well assimilated individuals assaulting the police in this, their own uploaded video footage, who then went on to smash the shop fronts of legitimate businesses, who don't deal in 'cash only' transactions because of convenient tax avoiding religious beliefs?
Will they have their faces splashed across the front of the national papers?
www.liveleak.com/view?i=a30_1231817826 After viewing this video, any thoughts that you may have that don't conform to the perceived wisdom of our current law makers and enforcers, maybe best kept to yourself, for fear of falling foul of a system that is crushing the very tolerance inherent in our land.
This wonderful country that has accepted all comers, including my parents, with open arms, throughout it's history, so long as gradual assimilation is part of your agenda. If it isn't you are always able to return to the country of your forbears, if you have no desire to be a part of this land that your parents chose to call home.
This land that offered my parents the chance to nurture, feed, clothe, house, educate, and care for all of our family's health needs in return for them working hard and conforming to the law of the land. Not a big ask in my opinion and just look at what my siblings and I got in return, and now what our children, in turn, are benefiting from.
The dark cloud on the horizon is a segregated society, on race and religious grounds, because newcomers are made to feel that their habits and beliefs are superior to the host nations and the benefits, that all previous generations have had to earn, have been granted to one and all, and those not even here, upon arrival.
So I, the son of hard working immigrants who earned their place in this their adopted land, a land that cared / cares for them in their old age, and though they never forgot 'home' and brought us up to appreciate our heritage, it is this land, this fine City of Leeds, that has forged us, their children, into what we are today, and I for one will be eternally grateful that my parents chose Leeds (United), Yorkshire, England as home.
First ever post and I know it's a long one, but after watching that video and having been on the receiving end of those batons many times, for being nothing more than a Leeds United fan "in the wrong place and at the wrong time" it makes my blood boil to see the hands off and runaway approach the police adopt to those now deemed above the law.
Rant over..........!!
simmo
