Courtesy of Rob Waller (via Twitter) – chairman of the South East Branch of the LPUK , I heard about this story today.
Un-fucking-believable.
I joked the other day about the Stasi getting gainful employment here now that East Germany no longer exists, but now I’m not so sure it was a joke:
Thomas Catcheside, a grandfather, was arrested in a dawn raid and held in a police cell for six hours for swearing in front of a council official.
The 67-year-old was woken at 5.35am when officers knocked on his door in connection with a single swear word which he used six days earlier.
He was marched back to his bedroom in his dressing gown – where his wife Deborah, 62, was still asleep – and ordered to get changed before being driven away in a police van.
Mr Catcheside was then held in a windowless cell for six hours, had his fingerprints and a DNA swab taken, before being issued with an £80 fixed penalty notice and released.
How many ways can people we pay – and pay fucking well – to work in our interests be so wrong in so many ways?
Mr Catcheside didn’t even get his day in court.
The story gets even more gets alarming as you read on.
A Cambridgeshire police spokeswoman said they had been following ”national policy” in their response.
Which is a little reminiscent of ‘But we were only following orders’ and, more recently, with regard to MPs’ expenses, ‘We were merely following the advice given’.
Is personal autonomy a thing of the past or are people still capable of thinking for themselves?
She said: ”We were responding to reports of an assault, which is a serious offence.
Well, someone at the council seemed to think that being sworn at constituted an assault. So why weren’t they charged with wasting police time?
”The suspect was arrested at the earliest possible opportunity, which happened to be at 5.35am.
A time favoured by totalitarian police forces worldwide and throughout history.
”There was not enough evidence to suggest he had committed an assault but he admitted to being abusive and was issued with a fine and words of advice about his behaviour.
Where do you cunting start?
Yes, we all know that it’s not always appropriate to swear. At 67, Mt Catcheside probably knows that better than the cunt official from the council, but to fine the guy for the offence of swearing and giving him a disclosable offence on his record, after banging him up for 6 hours following a dawn raid just seems excessive to put it mildly.
”National policy states anyone arrested will have a sample of their DNA taken.”
Now, DNA sampling is in the news today, and Mr Catcheside’s sample will now be able to be legally kept for 6 years. My advice to him is to be very careful when he pulls his next bullion blag or goes on a killing spree in Cambridge, and if he does go totally fucking apeshit with an AK47, I just hope he starts shooting somewhere in the vicinity of those stoat-felchers at Cambridge council.
Robert Hollingsworth, head of City Homes, said they had reported the incident to the police because their representative had felt ”threatened”.
FFS…He’s 67 and he swore once, you sensitive fucking flower! If their ‘representative’ can’t deal with people sometimes acting in a vaguely hostile manner then he should get another fucking job, and not waste PUBLIC money being an ineffectual cunt!
He said: ”We had no choice but to report the incident to the police. Our staff member felt he had been threatened by Mr Catcheside and that is something we take very seriously.”
This really is true societal meltdown.
But it’s not the deviants, the criminals, the layabouts or the feckless who are really fucking things up for us, it’s the people who we pay to sort this shit out for us all.
Now that IS fucking worrying…
Filed under: Bizarre, Current affairs | Tagged: Stasi, Cambridge, we're all fucking fucked, swearing can get you a criminal record
Absolutely fucking crazy
It’s so sad that I feel PLEASED I don’t live in the UK. I miss many people people and places, but politically and socially, it’s just too fucked up these days.
Damn.
So important people know this stuff happens.
It’s not just the usual Labour fuckwittery, either. It’s what we’ve come to expect in 21st century Britain and there’s no reason to believe that Cameron and the Tories are going to relinquish the powers that the government has seized here over the past 12 years.
We really are facing a systemic shift towards totalitarianism.
Unfuckingbelievable! We’re marching headfirst into a totalitarian state. I very much doubt that blu-labour will be any better. Let’s face it, we’re fucked!
We are not fucked – they can’t do it without their little helpers – unfortunately, as Mr Shark writes, there seem to be quite a few people willing to go along with it – “we had no choice but to point out” blah blah blah….
Well, at least it helps to put paid to the myth that no British citizen would have collaborated with the Nazis in the way that the Frogs/anyone from central/eastern Europe/anyone else did because we are just not like that……small consolation I admit.
At some point, probably when Mr Shark is drinking himself stupid in foreign climes, this country will split into people of some conscience (including some government employees lest I be misinterpreted), sheep who are owned by the government, and an unthinking mass. Some members of the latter two categories may have to be killed. Such is life.
Yes, Mr Rob, I think you’ve hit upon one of the most alarming aspects of this in your second paragraph.
At various stages of this ludicrous chain of events several people became involved who all shared the same officious, excessive and literal mindset.
It shows a cohesion and a willingness to support this sort of blinkered and repressive behaviour that has nothing to do with personal judgement and everything to do with unquestioning obedience to the rules no matter how inappropriate they may be.
[...] Steve Shark speaks of a matter involving an exasperated chap in his 60s being arrested at dawn after finally losing his cool and swearing at a rude jumped up cunt of a workman. When I saw this in the news, this was definitely my WTF of the day. [...]
And yet, despite being convinced of this dire ‘threat’, it still took them six days to get around to their dawn raid. That hardly adds up, does it?
“At various stages of this ludicrous chain of events several people became involved who all shared the same officious, excessive and literal mindset.”
There’s always a lot more of them than you think there are, sadly…
[...] Stasi is alive and well and working in Cambridge Seen at Steve Shark’s blog [...]
The new flag can be seen here.
http://stasination.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/gbdr.png?w=300&h=150
I was giving the kids an impromptu history lesson about the Berlin Wall last week, and the more I told them about the Stasi the more I just wanted to put my head in my hands and weep. God help us.