There’s an old saying, I can’t recall where or when I first heard it that states that: ‘It is not enough to just be not corrupt, a person working in public service needs also to not give even the hint or the impression of corruption.’
This statement jumped into my mind when seeing pictures and video of Metropolitan Police officers tearing down posters featuring the images of those Israelis who have been kidnapped by Hamas following the 7/10 Pogrom in Southern Israel. In this media Met officers are seen ripping the posters off of the shutters of a chemists shop in the Edgeware Road.
The Met say that they are doing this to avoid heightening ‘tensions’ in the area. However following on from the Met’s failure to deal with problems emanating from Islamic and left wing anti Jewish and pro-Hamas marches that the Home Secretary has described as ‘hate marches’, this action is merely going to make the Met look like they are appeasing Islam yet again. Appeasement may not have been the Met’s intention but it certainly gives the distinct impression of appeasement.
The Met have explained that the posters were put up on the shutters of the chemist shop in response to an employee of the shop posting comments that were made by an employee of that business about the Israel-Hamas conflict. The owner of the business has disassociated themselves from the now presumably ex-employees action and apologised for their conduct.
After the employee made the statement regarding Israel – Hamas there was a response from others who put printouts of the employees comment up on the shutters of the shop along with posters publicising the plight of those kidnapped by Hamas. The Met have claimed that they turned up and removed the posters following complaints from local people. As the Mail article linked to above says, the Met’s actions have come in for an awful lot of criticism. In response to public concern about their officers being seen ripping down posters referencing those who were kidnapped by Hamas, the Met issued the following statement:
Now it might be the case that the Met may have a point that this was not as it seemed to the public and that everything the Met has said about this incident is true. However even if the Met are telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (a scenario which could be highly doubtful), the optics of this incident are terrible for the Met. For Met officers to be seen ripping down posters of people forced into captivity by a vicious Islamic terrorist entity just looks so so bad. It especially leaves a nasty taste in the mouth when many of us can see how the Met has turned an almost complete blind eye to incitement to violence and incitement to genocide on the pro-Hamas hate marches in the capital when that incitement is uttered by Muslim extremists and those aligned with the revolutionary far left.
The Met is in a mess. It is being badly run and run in an obviously biased manner by its senior management. It’s also being badly guided by Sadiq Khan the Greater London Mayor who is also the Met’s Police and Crime Commissioner. Maybe it’s time, bearing in mind that the Met’s management and the Mayor have behaved so incompetently with regards policing Londoners equitably, for the Home Secretary to step in and more closely and competently manage the Met, before even more public trust is destroyed in a police force that has become a politicised shadow of its former self.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
(Voltaire)
Well we certainly know where the tongue of the Commissioner and other senior management ranks of the Met currently is.
o/t I don’t know if you’ve seen this in Der sturmer https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/from-the-river-to-the-sea-where-does-the-slogan-come-from-and-what-does-it-mean-israel-palestine where the Guardian tries to redefine what the phrase “from the river to the sea means” – certainly not the people shouting and displaying it mean. When you think the left could’nt get any lower they reach for the shovel.
It’s the usual equivocating crap that we’ve come to expect from the Guardian. I certainly agree that the Left have hit moral rock bottom over all this. BTW good piece in the Free Press magazine about US liberal Jews who have suddenly realised that the groups and causes that they’ve allied themselves to are not in any way reciprocating any support. https://www.thefp.com/p/the-great-betrayal
@211 the article is interesting, but how thick do you have to be before reality hits home. Been obvious for years that the non existent Palis enjoy hallowed status among the left. As a non Jew the left is pretty aggressive in defence of Muslims and you don’t have to probe very far before Jew hatred rears it’s head.
I agree. I used to be on the Left myself and saw a lot of this attitude especially on the Revolutionary Left. I think part of the problem with some liberal Jews aligning with a left that has been revealed to hate them is that historically it was the moderate Left that defended Jews and fought for the safety of Jews. It was the moderate Left that fought to improve the conditions in sweatshops where many Jews who came to places like Britain and the USA worked, it ws also the Left that was perceived to be the enemy of the Jew hating rightists. The problem is that the post 1968 Left is not the left of old, it’s far far nastier. I agree that there should have been an exodus of Jews from the Left when this all this Pally shite started to appear.
And the met has now arrest a man for complaining about Palestinian flags being plastered all over Bethnal Green.
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So calling for Jihad whilst carrying the black flag of sword-jihad (a clear call to violence) is absolutely fine, but objecting to Pallie flags is an arrestable offence?