Police have more important things to do?

I don't see many police out and about these days. I see a lot of Specials and other groups dressed as police but not the real thing.

Where are they all, what are they up to?

Initiate a snap protest in the high street and you can bet they'll be out there in a flash - Hundreds of them.

Does anybody have anything good to say about this selfserving scum. I don't. The police in Bognor Regis are trash.

To be honest I'm struggling to believe this as it is written. I don't doubt that the events took place or that no action is being taken but I think there is a big chunk in the middle that the griper isn't telling us. I worked in the police for many years and I know that there is no way this would be totally ignored. Somewhere there is a reason for it! I would like to see the case file on this. I absolutely know there is a reason there somewhere!

I regularly use a local café run by Algerian Muslims because it is a friendly place and they make good coffee. Every year they put up Christmas lights and a tree and wish everyone Merry Christmas. About half of their customers are Muslim and they wish people a nice Christmas as well, we wish them Happy Eid at the appropriate time and no one seems to have a problem with any of this.

We have had problems (elsewhere) with Muslims illegally refusing entry to a guide dog but I have never met a Muslim who had any problem with Christmas.

There are people who make a very nice living out of “racial awareness” at councils who won’t be happy until we all hate each other. I have heard of decent people who wanted to train as social workers because they genuinely hoped to help people, who were told they could not qualify until they took a course in which they had to admit to being racist because “all white people are racist” and were told they were “in denial” (don’t you just love those weasel words?) when they said that actually, no they weren’t.

These people are so self-righteously thick that they cannot see that, with their simplistic assumptions, they are more genuinely racist than the people they look down on as “racially unaware”.

Kit : Your last sentence sums up the situation succintly. I would just add to that, that there is now a culture of do-gooders who seem to think they have the right to think for all of us on behalf of those whom we might unwittingly insult, and to pass pathetic laws accordingly.

An example is those who have decided that it it is wrong for Christians to wish each other Happy Christmas, or to send and display Christmas cards in an office or public environment, in case it should offend Muslims. Funnily enough though they never mention Jews, Jains, Buddhists, Hindus, Zoroastrarians (sp?), Jehovah's Witnesses, or any of the other religions that don't celebrate Christmas, it's always lip service to the Muslims.

None of the Muslims I know have ever expressed feeling uncomfortable with this, but the do-gooders are just there to stir up trouble where there is none.

Ultimately, being deprived of the right to think and take responsibility for their decisions, people will lose the will and then the facility for doing so. Maybe that's the plot ..... George Orwell just got the date wrong.

As I understand it "pikey" is an insult that was used mostly in regard to travellers of Irish descent but these days I have heard people use it almost as an alternative to "chav".

However this man did not even write the email and his employee, who did write it, never used the word "pikey" at all, just the phrase "do as you likey". The objection was that "likey" rhymes with pikey and COULD be considered offensive so they phoned the police. How can you be accused of using a word that rhymes with something offensive?

I find it sinister that criminals these days can repeatedly break into people's home or mug them and be let off with just a warning but you can be arrested for expressing an opinion. I have never used racially offensive language in my life, and have no desire to, but I don't think it is something that you should be arrested for unless you are inciting a crime.

The people who run this country have no idea what most ordinary people - of any colour, racial origin or religion - actually care about.

Since when were 'pikeys' a racial group? Gipsies, as in Romany people, are an ethnic group, but they are by and large not the scum causing all this trouble, although they do have their faults. I happen to know a little about this through involvement with an organisation doing work amongst the Roma people in Eastern Europe, mainly Romania but also Hungary and Poland.

What are comomnly called Gipsies, or pejoratively, Pikeys, in the UK are also known as 'New Age Travellers' and they are simply lowlife scum who want to derive the benefits of a structured welfare state without contributing to it. In one word thieves and parasites. It is an insult to the Gipsy/Roma people to liken them to these vermin.

Whilst 'Pikey'' is undoubtedly insulting, it is not racist.

A business man was arrested in front of his wife and child and told he would be handcuffed if he did not agree to go to the police station. He was fingerprinted and his DNA was taken and he was told that it would be kept indefinitely. His house was searched and his and his wife’s computers were taken. His crime?

An employee of his had sent an email from work to the local council objecting to a mobile home that had been put, without planning permission, on a piece of land owned by the gypsies, in a local beauty spot.

He said that he objected to the “do as you likey attitude” of erecting a building without planning permission. The council considered that as this rhymed with “pikey” it could be taken as being offensive to gypsies as a racial group!

This is a man who has been arrested not for anything he did but for an email sent by an employee in which nothing racist was said but a word was used which rhymed with something someone at the council thougt was racially offensive.

Please would someone tell me, was Star Trek factual after all and have we been moved through time and space to communist Russia under the KGB? Mind you, even there you could only be arrested for saying something not something that might rhyme with something!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241994/

Spotty retarded youth called Gavin, thanks very much for that. Made me laugh! Great post.

I used to have a great deal of respect for the police - until I needed them. Then, I quickly realised that they are fully immersed into the 'tick box' culture and 'targets' of the Blair/Brown Britain that we have to live in. Unfortunately, it is the nature of many people who enter into the police force, particularly those with just the basic entrance requirements, that they are naturally inclined to be subservient to 'authority', and to obey rules and regulations with little desire, or capacity, to question the validity of such rules and regulations. A tick box/target culture is probably a desireable context for these type of people; their 'performance' can easily be assessed relative to inflexible rules handed down by an idiotic government. Of course, the consequence is that the police lose respect from the public, and most people would not put themselves out when it is the police that need them. However, having said that, it is without doubt that there will be a signficant minority of the police force who do an admirable job in the face of very difficult circumstances, including trying to compensate for the inadequacies and abuses of their bigoted, idiotic colleagues. I think the minimum entrance requirements to become a police officer need to be raised to a much higher level, and they should have much more independence from stupid, stupid governments like the one we presently have in power.

I agree, the police can control traffic but are not much use for anything else

Fubar-UK, but you try standing up to these low lifes, and you will be arrested and DNA tested before you have time to ..............