http://seantheblogonaut.com/2009/08/welcome-to-i-like-portello/ Advocate for Science, Reason and Atheism Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:23:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://seantheblogonaut.com/2009/08/welcome-to-i-like-portello/comment-page-1/#comment-23395 Fay Hannah Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:05:54 +0000 http://seantheblogonaut.com/2009/08/welcome-to-i-like-portello/#comment-23395 I feel less than uplifted when I get off the train and make my way to the bus stop to see four large policemen, one a female, arrest two skinny girls and a younger male probably fourteen or fifteen years of age. It really is quite awful to see these adults with their cachet of power and authority ; guns, batons, mobile pho nes etc. patting down kids in a public place. Looking at the youngsters they could have done with a good feed. This is lay back Perth;. the city in the Golden West. I spent my young life in Glasgow one of the most socially deprived cities in the UK and I never saw anything like this. It worries me the way the police are gaining more and more power in this country which has always been a place that likes to pretend it is progressive and fair. I have not found that to be the case. One of the reasons is that the Christian Lobby is over represented in their influence with governments. While that is the case we are a long way from a democracy. I feel less than uplifted when I get off the train and make my way to the bus stop to see four large policemen, one a female, arrest two skinny girls and a younger male probably fourteen or fifteen years of age. It really is quite awful to see these adults with their cachet of power and authority ; guns, batons, mobile pho nes etc. patting down kids in a public place. Looking at the youngsters they could have done with a good feed. This is lay back Perth;. the city in the Golden West. I spent my young life in Glasgow one of the most socially deprived cities in the UK and I never saw anything like this. It worries me the way the police are gaining more and more power in this country which has always been a place that likes to pretend it is progressive and fair. I have not found that to be the case. One of the reasons is that the Christian Lobby is over represented in their influence with governments. While that is the case we are a long way from a democracy.

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