Date: 24 Mar 2006 18:52:38 GMT From: Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> Subject: Re: Well, the convertible is on Ebay now.
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:06:01 GMT, Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> wrote: > in article 48io0pFkf35bU1nospamvidual.net, Dave Hinz at DaveHinznospamcop.net > wrote on 24/03/2006 17:19: > >> Wow. So you guys get around the constitutional protections (oh, >> wait...) by having a de-facto police force which isn't bound to play by >> the rules. Wow. Just...wow. > I don't believe we have any constitutional protections, since we have no > such thing as a constitution! Yeah, that's what I meant by the parenthetical "oh, wait..." > We serfs (the general populous) can be pushed > around at will by anyone who controls, or has influence, upon the > legislative wing. Lucky you. > Our country has a long tradition of getting one set of downtrodden to beat > down on another set of downtrodden which the "powers that be" don't get > involved. I'm gonna have to side with my ancestors on this one and say "time to leave". > Our Police are simply not interested in anything to do with people - they > avoid turning up to "domestic incidents", citing that it's not their > problem, child abuse/persecution, since that is for Social Services to deal > with, car crime, since that's a matter for insurance companies, as is > burglary and housebreaking. Stand in protest about unjust taxes, like we did > in the early to mid-90s when the Poll Tax was introduced (which essentially > was a tax on our right to vote), and the whole Force comes out in strength. I'm trying very, very had not to point out what, to me, is blisteringly obvious. > Two examples, which I'm not really interested in any moral stance about the > matters, but: (cops being asshats) Yeah, that happens here too, just different "infractions". I personally know a lot of cops (in a rural area) and nearly all of them are great people, but of course that one guy (that the good cops can't stand either) always sets the tone for the community. That said, if it's systemic rather than "that one guy", then that's different. > 2. Hunting with dogs. Okay we can't hunt with dogs now. We can hunt and have > our dogs tag along. OK, so why specifically is taking a dog with you to hunt a problem? Is this some overreaction to the fox hunting thing? What about bird-dogs? What are you supposed to do, find a texas lawyer to go fetch the partridges that you shoot or something? (I've heard that can be hazardous depending on who you're hunting with). > Not me, personally, but you see the trouble with this > one. I almost joined the Countryside Alliance "just because" over this one. > It is simply retarded! How can you possibly police that? How can you > question a dog about his motives? So, Rex, when you tagged along with your > master on that hunt and then dashed to catch that fox, was your master > hunting with you, or did you do it on your own volition? It's just dumb! Funny thing about dogs and tagging along - a friend of mine came out this fall to borrow a rifle for deer hunting. I've got 30 acres out in the country (let's see, that's, 12+ hectares, if that means more to you? 300 meters by 400 meters, roughly). So anyway, we're out sighting in the rifle, and this golden lab wanders over and lays down next to us while we're shooting. Time to go change targets; he's wearing his hunting stuff, carrying the gun, and the dog got into proper "I'm going hunting" position. The thing is, I have no idea, to this day, whose dog this was. No tags (grumble), well taken care of though. We stopped shooting eventually, the dog lost interest and went back into the woods behind my land, off to wherever it was from. (shrug?) But, that'd be a perfect example of a dog just tagging along with a hunting party. "Really, your honor, I have no idea who this dog is". >> Do you have any links where I could read more about this whole bailiff >> thing and how it works over there? > > I think if you googled for "send(ing) in the bailiffs", you'll find a stack > of pertinent links. Thanks. I occasionally get in heated discussions (no, really, me!) with folks who like to pretend that everything is perfect over there. Never hurts to have a bit of reality check read for them.
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