A public protest about the theft of public protests
July 13, 2007
“I found this on my lunchbreak,” says my girlfriend. “Someone is very upset. To be honest I’m not sure what it’s all about and if this person is justified in being this angry. But I like the fact they’re doing something peaceful about it.”
I think it’s great – nothing says ‘excuse me I have something to say’ like a huge noticeboard stuck on a car. Note how the message rambles on and on, and covers everything from car keys to the Prime Minister to institutional bullying. Im fact it looks very much like they only stop because they’ve run out of space on the board.
I’ve transcribed the message below the image (my punctuation).
“To the attention of the Chief Constable Mr Craik, As you still haven’t returned the car keys to my car and have no justification what so ever for holding onto them I now want to make a further complaint about Northumbria Police Officers.
Not only have they stolen the car keys to my car, they have now stolen my protest notice boards. What are they going to steal next, my car? Is this what the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown has in mind when he said he wanted a more [word illegible] society and to express freedom of speech and the right to have a peaceful protest.
You and your officers have acted disgracefully in these matters. There is no doubt in my mind that you have encouraged the courts and the council to be just as childish in your quest to win at any cost. There can be no doubt that you and your force are targeting me and my family, in fact I would take it a step further by saying this: How do you expect to solve the problem of school bullying when some of the biggest bullies walking are in the police? If the Chief would like to challenge me on this subject then be my guest.
Don’t forget, Mr Craik, there is all types of bullying. It wouldn’t surprise me one little bit to hear that bullying exists in the police force, referring back to the theft of notice boards which happened on July the 1st 2007. When I challenged your officers why they were stealing my protest notice boards the make officer replied ‘for evidence’. I ask you Mr Craik, what evidence are you talking about in any event, is there something wrong with your CCTV? Do you officers have to steal my protest notice boards?”
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minxlj | July 13, 2007 at 2:18 pm
LOL I saw this the other day whilst on my lunch, and I was curious, but I figured that someone who wrote With All Words In Leading Capitals would have erroneous apostrophes, and that would only p*ss me off
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curaezipirid | July 14, 2007 at 6:00 am
Salam,
here in australia there are very many incidents in which an individual had been slightly put out by mistakes of police, that often turn out to have been administrative errors, but afterwhich the individual lodges a complaint, then is misconstrued by police in their intention in having complained . . . . , there are a notable quantity of such persons whom have been thereafter diagnosed as mentally unstable, as though lodging a complaint against any police constable is an admission of insanity, though clearly they could say as much about me, since I am showing a sign of not differentialting between the administration of Law and the administration of Medicine. However, in my case, the State seems to be admonishing me for not accepting solicitors definiations of insanity above the definitions of the majority of medical professionals familiar with the situation. Begging the questions: who qualifies forensic specialisation, is it the specialist field or the police and lawyers; and how can it be that almost everybody who lodges complaints against police begin to manifest signs of very similar patterns in mental health.
Furthermore might I add here that: my own language use is heavily conditioned by a familiarity with the grammar forms of Aboriginal australia, in which any sentence can be made endlessly long, and in fact, such grammar has a remarkable similarity to Qur’anic Arabic, but no other language.
Strangely enough, Qur’an prophesies that our legal systems will start to fray at the edges one day.
Salam
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Rich | July 16, 2007 at 11:45 am
I’m looking forward to Protest Board 4….