The Road to Damascus

[David Hansen]

On 1 Dec 2008 at 10:24, Roland Perry wrote:

> Lots of bleating about being held by the police for "9 hours" in this 
> latest case. Similar complaints were heard when they were investigating 
> "cash for honours".

I am in two minds about this. There does seem to be some special 
pleading by these bods, when what they should be doing is eliminating 
the relatively recent penchant for political policing which much of the 
police have eagerly taken on [1]. It does make me smile when MPs whine 
about things which they don't object to when it happens to "little 
people".

OTOH people do have an expectation that their communications with their 
MP will be private. However, this expectation is no more or less than 
with other people, such as a priest, lawyer and so on.


[1] the recent attempt by the police and Observer to smear 
environmental campaigners is an example. That followed the fine 
upstanding people going to the climate camp at Kingsnorth exposing the 
police as being highly political.
-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
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