But bubblyrat..............you know they are just down the road with speed cameras or racing around getting chips for tea etc.

What will "they" do with the information? It seems to me that the police no longer answer to anybody we can talk to. So who is calling the shots? Who is allowing the police to become the force they have? Whitehall? Big names in the civil (dis)service? The "Rich and powerful club"?

Strikes me there is litle difference between any political ideal that I can think of or name, since not one of them repeall any act that gives the police extra powers. They may bleat about it in opposition but they carry it on just the same, adding to the police state we have become. This started with the "Criminal justice act 1988" (A tory bill if I remember rightly) carried on and made worse by this bunch. I got photgraphed on demo's in the late 60's and early 70's. But the way the police worked then was different. Strikes me (no pun intended)that policing changed when they were let loose on the miners by Thatcher (spit) and co.

Of course you might say if you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear but one day in the future they might come for your son or daughter. They might check your grandchild's DNA against their databases.Who knows what excuse they'll need? (Who is going to decide right or wrong?)Racial purity, loyalty to the "party", some disability, some disease? Social group, folkie, long haired hippie?

Of course things like that wouldn't happen here, would they? (Try Germany, Russia,Cambodia to name just a few)

One of the worst parts is that there are many decent police officers in the force for the right reasons but they will never have the courage to disobey and the "I was only following orders" statment has been used as the excuse throughout history.

Whether you vote right, left or down the middle. Whether you are light, dark, white, black or whatever if "They" decide......