Thursday, July 08, 2010

Quick thought

From the Twitter-worthy but too long for Twitter files:

There seem to be some people out there who think the fact that the police rounded up and arrested a whole bunch of innocent people makes up for the fact that they didn't stop any of the black bloc vandals. As though mass arrests of passers-by aren't another problem. As though it all averages out. There was even a letter to the editor of the Globe & Mail to the effect of "People complain that the police didn't do enough on Saturday and did too much on Sunday. Maybe they did just right?"

These people should be arrested.

Seriously. It's perfectly consistent with the internal logic of the universe they occupy. They'll think they're helping the police solve crimes.

1 comment:

laura k said...

I think (tho I'm not sure) the point of that idiotic G&M letter was that we are complaining about everything - police did too much, police did not enough. We are the problem because we are never satisfied, and we should just leave the police alone.

On the other hand, they should be arrested anyway.