Re: More police powers proposed

The Todal <deadmailbox@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In article <1128085371.284696.271000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>>> "I don't think that the traditional law can give law-abiding people
>>> adequate protection. We are trying to fight 21st-century crime -
>>> antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime -
>>> with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens,"
>>> Mr Blair said in his Labour conference speech.

>> So footpads, opium dens, gin parlours, street corner tarts, smugglers
>> and those selling the services of child prostitutes didn't exist in
>> Victorian england.

> The government can very easily busy itself tinkering with the criminal law
> as if crime was the most important problem we face. It gives the appearance
> of being competent and in control - banana republics do much the same.
> Meanwhile, Labour plan to sell off our nuclear industry to the Americans, so
> that in the future we can expect more Three Mile Island disasters and even
> less control over our nuclear deterrent, and all to balance the account
> books. http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,1581783,00.html

> I know it's very old fashioned, but I reckon state control of our railways,

Huh... when was the golden age of railways? Certainly before total
state control and British Rail and thereafter Dr Beeching's axe.

> nuclear industry and NHS ought to be better value than handing them over to
> private enterprise, and if the Labour Party is no longer interested in
> public ownership I think they have betrayed their trust.

I have no knowledge of the nuclear industry so will keep my mouth shut.

As for the NHS... it would be interesting to compare it to medical
services in other countries and see how it compares and how it
compares... the countries I have in mind are France, Holland and
Germany... not America.

Axel

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