Agents of Satan
by vimothy
The Guardian helpfully inform us that the riots can still be blamed on police brutality–even though the police look congenitally incapable of being mean to children, let alone strangling great swathes of the criminal population like some Victorian serial killer.
At least 333 [deaths in police custody] since 1998 and not a single conviction of any police officer for any of them.
A strange thing: at least 333 deaths and not a single conviction. Notice as well that around 800,000 people die every year in toto in the UK, but only about 500 people are convicted of homicide—evidence of a deeper conspiracy, no doubt, though I’m sure the Guardian will join us in demanding that the number of convictions is increased arbitrarily. That or, given that people die, and that the people in police custody are people, people dying in police custody is a statistical inevitability. But who can say?
I don’t see any resurrections either. And not only do we see a statistically impossible lack of resurrections from death in police custody, but 333 is exactly half of 666: the number of the Beast; signifying, according to the Hebrew numerologists, none other than the demoness Choronzon, Lord of Hallucinations and Obscene Gardener of Bitterness herself.
Is this not evidence enough that the police should be replaced by Jesus Christ, or at least His earthly representatives, at the first available opportunity?
"we carry death out of the village" 
Do you disagree that the UK has substantial policing problems?
No–I consider it to be self-evident.
Okay, good. But you seem primarily critical of the intelligentsia reaction, which I agree is problematic. What’s the problem? You have this massive problem. The state, somehow, has created, in its midst, this criminal and useless population. How and why, and what is to be done?
I focus so heavily on the reaction of the intelligentsia because it was the intelligentsia who determined the actions of the state and other major social institutions, which brought us to this cross-roads in the first place, and because they will determine how those institutions respond.
Your questions are excellent, but it seems obvious to me that no one of any influence is really interested in asking them, let alone answering them and, God forbid, acting on those answers. So we first need to deal with the criminal and useless population that runs the country…
The UK is fundamentally undemocratic. You are in the grip of a bipolar media-political establishment, which is dogmatic, self-selecting, cynical, incompetent and venal. UK political discourse is basically intra-establishment point-scoring. You are correct that nobody is interested in asking real questions. But this doesn’t reflect the real strengths of the country. The whole world lives in London: Turks, Arabs, Russians, Chinese, West Africans, Poles… When was the last time they manifested their views?
I agree very much with your opening three sentences, though would add that I do not accept as axiomatic the (very common) idea that democracy is an end in itself. Personally, I would be quite happy with our current form of technocratic oligarchy, if only those technocratic oligarchs gave any indication of competence.
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