I used to have some respect for the British police. I’ve been mostly law abiding all my life and once, for a short while, even dated a police officer’s daughter. I’ve worked closely with the police when I was a photojournalist and because of these contacts and familiarities, I came to respect Britain’s police officers. I came to understand the difficulties that law enforcement faced and that often police officers had to face things that the ordinary member of the public did not have to contend with. The respect I once had for the police was one that, in my view, they had earned.

However, I find it very difficult to have any respect for the police these days. After so many years of scandal, politicised policing, unjust behaviour and corruption by officers from various forces, along with the hiding of decades of sexual abuse of non Muslim girls and women by Muslim offenders, I find it impossible to respect them any more.

But, my already low opinion of the British police has sunk even further after seeing police intimidating and arresting a middle aged woman who had seemingly done little wrong apart from show the police up, push someone, she claims in self defence and allegedly make the statement to a person she was in discussion with that they should ‘have a gay day’. The lady in question, who goes by the epithet of @basedamy on Twitter, (website https://basedamy.com/ ) has been a thorn in the side of the increasingly pro-Islam Metropolitan Police for a number of months now. This was mostly over the issue of aggressive Muslims engaging in intimidatory praying, despite rules forbidding such activities, in London’s Royal Parks and specifically at Speaker’s Corner.

It appears that the result of the showing up of the police’s prior unwillingness to deal with the aggressive Muslims of Speaker’s Corner and the incident with the alleged push and the ‘gay day’ comment, was that the police turned up at @basedamy’s home. Two officers, a male and a female officer, banged on the door and aggressively asked Amy to come outside ‘for a chat’. The video, linked below, that Amy allegedly shot of the police when they came to her door, shows the police being aggressive and cajoling towards Amy, and let’s face it, behaving like damnable filth.

https://www.pscp.tv/Amy_CrazyWorld/1RDGldaZvzNGL?t=89

I find that I cannot find it in my heart to have any respect for or sympathy for the officers involved in this case whatsoever. It is their aggressive, politically motivated and ‘only following orders’ attitude towards a person who doesn’t appear to warrant this sort of policing, that turns my stomach and turns me even more against the British police or rather what the British police have become.

These officers seemed to do everything and say anything they could to get Amy to open the door so that she could be arrested, then the officers apparently handcuffed Amy and dragged out of her home. I cannot have respect, not even grudging respect for these officers, they behaved like thuggish scum. They are why so many of us, even law abiding Britons, are coming to despise our police officers and it is cases like this that feed this dislike. Amy has been charged with a ‘homophobic’ ‘hate crime’ for the ‘have a gay day’ comment and assault for the alleged push that Amy claims was in self defence.

I’m afraid that Amy made a big mistake in opening the door to these officers. If they had had a warrant to search or enter her property issued by a court then it may have shown that the police had a valid evidence based indictable case against her. But as they did not do this or have a warrant or the evidence to base a warrant on, they relied instead on intimidation and subterfuge to try to persuade Amy to open the door and make herself available to be arrested. Basically Amy should never have opened the door to these uniformed bastards. As the excellent Crimebodge site says via the video linked below, never, ever let the police into your home. If you do you are giving them tacit permission to arrest you and search your property.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=JudklMOaUMw

I’m disgusted by these police officers. They disgrace the uniform they really do. They intentionally harassed @basedamy and intimidated her into opening the door in order to be arrested for alleged incidents that these officers and their superiors would probably have ignored completely, had there not been a gay angle to them or if she had not had a reputation for ‘offending’ Muslims at Speaker’s Corner.

In the video linked below, Based Amy talks about her arrest, the incidents that led up to the arrest and the behaviour of the police, which she alleges caused her physical injury and involved the confiscation of her mobile phone. It is, as Amy says, ‘insane’ that we have police forces that are undermanned yet they can find officers to turn out to deal with ‘hurt feelings’ guff. The police as Amy said, won’t turn out for burglaries but they can turn out for stuff like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xK-5z_EQdg

These officers along with those who sent them on this mission to harass and intimidate a middle aged lady, deserve nothing but our contempt. It is truly shameful for me as a Briton and as a person who understands that policing is a necessary part of the social contract, to see British police behave in this manner. We deserve much better policing than what Amy appeared to get from officers, who looked like they were merely following orders handed down to them by ‘those playing the fake ‘hate crime’ game.

I have seen some of Based Amy’s stuff on line and although I do not always agree with it or like it, I feel she should have a right to speak, as should we all. There was no need whatsoever for these poor excuses for police officers to behave in the manner that they did towards Amy. These shameful officers have by their actions helped a whole lot of normal law-abiding people lose yet more respect for the police.

Traditionally in Britain we have been policed with consent by officers who are not militarised but are merely citizens in uniform. These are part of the Peelian Policing principles that up until relatively recently meant that officers could expect to be helped by the public and respected by the public, mostly because ‘the police are the public and the public are the police’. With the rise in ‘hate crime’ and ‘hate speech’ arrests, sometimes as a result of the police trawling for such allegations in minority communities, it appears that our police forces have abandoned these principles and have become overly politicised.

The sort of officers who issue orders for junior officers to apparently gleefully harass and intimidate a middle aged woman with inconvenient, politically incorrect opinions, do not inspire respect or any desire on the part of myself, and probably other members of the public as well, to consent to be policed by them. This was intimidatory, bully boy policing at its worse aimed at a target that did not deserve or require such policing methods.

I don’t want to live in or see a country where the police are hated because they are seen as the enforcers of oppressive and unjust laws. That way conflict and misery lies for the society that goes down that route, but I fear that this is the way we are going. We have to be policed by consent and policed fairly and that is not what appeared to be happening in either the Based Amy case or many of the other ‘hate speech’ cases that have come before the courts.

The police at present do not seem to be on the side of the British subject and that is an ignominious state of affairs for the police to be in. The police rely on the cooperation of the public in order to carry out their duties, there are far too few police (approx 130,000 as of 2015) to police the nation if cooperation was not present. If the police are not careful they could find that enforcing oppressive and unjust laws, such as those that deal with ‘hate speech’, becomes operationally costly. This is because every time a dissident or individuals like Amy are arrested, the police action probably turns a dozen or more people against the police. Police-hating in my view is not brilliant for a society but it is what we will get if the police continue to march along on the same politicised way that they are on at the moment.

Those in our police’s high command who are prioritising and enthusiastically enforcing unjust ‘hate speech’ laws, may end up finding themselves in the unenviable position where the public’s trust and respect in their force is completely lost and the public’s policing consent is withdrawn. These senior officers may also find that public disgust at police actions are so great that the public refuse to help when required because previous police actions have caused them to consider the police as ‘filth’ who care for nothing apart from ticking some diversity box on a form. The more junior officers involved in these cases and in these arrests should soberly consider the amount of police officers in relation to the size of the population and feel suitably humbled at the general law abiding nature of Britons, a nature that makes police officer’s jobs vastly easier than otherwise they may be. These junior officers should also maybe realise that ‘only following orders’ didn’t work at Nuremberg and probably would not work in the future, if they are at some point called to account for their actions when it comes to enforcing oppressive and unjust laws.

I’m truly disgusted by this arrest. As I said earlier, I may not totally agree with Amy on some things but she did not deserve this arrest or what looks like a bullshit ‘homophobia’ charge or an assault allegation that seems to be, according to Amy, a bit suspect as well. I’ve little doubt that there will be many more people who dislike the police more after watching Amy’s video than they did before and it is a dislike that, in this case, the police appear to have thoroughly and justifiably earned.