900
Numbers
can be important.
Remember
that number. 900
One
has to be aware that stories on Twitter gain a life and currency all of their
own. The same can be said, at least in
part, by reports on MSM such as the BBC, SkyNews and ITV News and of course,
when you add-in the potential of #FakeNews, it can be hard to believe anything
that is reported, these days.
But
900.
Today’s
news stories are full of the horrific tale of 90 year-old Iris Warner. She was
apparently beaten, while in her bed, by someone who broke into her North London
home. The injuries she suffered are
terrifyingly graphic – awful bruising on the face and limbs, Simply awful.
The Metropolitan Police are investigating.
900.
We
heard the story the other day, of a Polish immigrant lady of 100 years, who was
attacked, while on her way to church, had her neck broken and has now
died. I suppose the death cannot be
directly attributed to the attack but I can only begin to imagine the fear and
the effect it had on that woman. It must
have been incredibly hard to have the will to live after surviving the Nazis,
to then suffer so, in ‘peaceful’ Britain.
We
have also heard from Cressida Dick, London’s Commissioner of Police – the head
of the Metropolitan Police. At a time,
when we hear almost daily reports of stabbings and shootings, across London,
when more than 60 people have been murdered, already this year, and, for a
short time, the murder rate in London, was greater than in New York, Ms Dick has said that London’s murder rates are
‘not that bad’. She seemed to suggest
that, since the murder rate, in 2006, was 250, for the whole year, that the
reduction we are seeing now is something to be applauded. Dare she say that to the families of the
victims?
Incidentally,
for history buffs, 2006 was when London’s Mayor was another ‘right-on’ Labour
extremist called Ken Livingstone, just as today it is Sadiq Khan. So much easier to waffle-on about gender-free
toilets and other issues or on Brexit, over which the London Mayor has no mandate
whatsoever, than to actually do the job for which you were elected!
900
London’s
violent crime wave – and do not for one minute think it is anything else – is
down to three factors.
Immigrant gangs that are competing for
supremacy and control of London’s trade in illegal drugs.
Metropolitan Police that are led by Common Purpose politically inspired
chiefs who are more concerned with the media image of the police and forever
posturing and virtue signaling and driving for ever increasing funding, than
with actually fighting crime.
Politicians of all political hues
who place the civil liberties of criminals above those of the general
population.
900
Doesn’t
it amaze you, how the police can find the funds to re-paint their cars to
celebrate Gay Pride and steward marches that promote virulent anti-Semitism but
can’t actually patrol the streets?
How
do you feel, when politicians, who have armed police guarding them, preach
about the need for tolerance and how ‘stop and search’ is so wrong?
That
number, 900. That is the number of
Metropolitan Police that are assigned to desks to monitor the internet for hate
crime. How ‘hate crime’ is defined is
between the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service. You must remember the CPS – they’re the ones
who have been so politically motivated to pursue and punish rapists that they
regularly don’t fulfill their statutory duty to hand over to the defence, any information
that might aid the defence – got to get those convictions, at any cost!
But
those 900 police – sitting in front of computer screens and looking for
‘offensive’ words which someone might
claim ‘hurt’ them. I’d venture to
suggest that a knife inserted into the abdomen or acid splashed into the face
are somewhat more hurtful than a word or two in a Tweet. That’s the trouble
with seeing through the idiocy of political correctness.
I
was going to write about a number other than 900.
I
was going to write about the number 72.
That’s the ‘alleged’ number of victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. I say ’alleged’ because it now seems that
some of those of whom it was claimed they died in the fire, and for whom their
families have made compensation claims, didn’t actually exist or live in
Grenfell Tower. The number of false
claims, by people who abuse the overwhelming sense of human solidarity that was
shown after the fire, is sickening. I
have lost count of that number but it’s in double digits, I believe.
I
suggest that having those 900 police on the streets instead of behind a desk
might deter some gang member from committing murder.
I
suggest that having police target ‘stop and search’ and dramatically increase
its deployment might save lives and certainly wouldn’t unduly hamper the lives
of most law-abiding citizens. Indeed,
many would say, if it took guns and knives off of the streets of our cities,
then the occasional inconvenience is a price worth paying.
The
‘inconvenience’ of stop and search could be minimized if the police acted based
on profiling of criminals. That 70
year-old nun or the 100 year-old woman on her way to church, probably isn’t
‘packing’ but that wanna-be gangsta might be.
I
suggest that the police have a policy of relentlessly pursuing those
moped-riding thugs that are terrorizing the streets. Currently the police hold-off of full
throttle pursuit (and the criminals know this) because the police are concerned
about potential traffic accidents.
Of
course to do this, would require resources.
So how about taking those 900 police – and that is just London – and
putting them out on the street? How
about getting police off of Twitter and onto the streets – a visible deterrent
to real
crime instead of seeking out people who think ‘wrong’.
I
would try to suggest that politicians change and ditch their PC obsession but
looking at the anti-democratic activities of so many politicians, around Brexit,
one is fast coming to the conclusion
that there are very few democratic politicians around these days and that for
democracy to survive, a whole new political paradigm shift is needed. But that’s another blog!
Naturally,
I also suggest that Sadiq Khan resign or be impeached or somehow be legally
removed from office and that Cressida Dick be fired. Indeed, based on comments from other top
police leaders, I’d suggest that all Police Chiefs and their deputies should be
fired and that one requirement for their successor is that they weren’t fast
tracked into the job.
Two
other numbers to contemplate, when you hear people say that we need these 900
Metropolitan Police to combat right-wing extremism on Twitter. 34 and 1.
34 is the number of innocent people killed last year, in the UK, in terror attacks
perpetrated in the name of the religion we cannot name. 1 is the murder of an innocent victim, some say, racist-inspired,
outside Finsbury Park mosque.
To me though, that makes one number 35 - 35 innocent victims, who, for all of the attention of the internet watchers, weren't given the protection they deserve. Just like Iris Warner wasn't and neither was Zofija Kaczan - that's the name of that 100 year old victim.
