21 November, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The big news here is the murder of a police officer last Friday. Rookie PC Sharon Beshenivsky, 38, was shot dead by armed robbers at a travel agency in West Yorkshire. She was killed on her daughter’s 4th birthday. The murder of a police officer is quite rare in Britain and a female police officer has not been fatally shot in over 20 years. This incident has renewed the debate over whether police should carry guns. From an American perspective, it’s rather astonishing that 90 percent of the British police force is unarmed. To me, police and guns are synonymous. I can’t imagine the police being able to do their job without having the threat of deadly force at their disposal. But then I guess that’s just the blood-thirsty Yank in me. A survey of the UK police force three years ago revealed that 80 percent of them do not want to be routinely armed.
Amnesty International’s UK director calls the results of a new survey on rape “shocking.” I agree. It appears that in Britain, 1 out of 3 people believe that women who flirt or who are drunk are at least partially responsible if they are raped; more than one-quarter believe a woman is responsible for being raped if she wears revealing clothing. Scary.
I recently wrote about attempts to crack down on sex tourists from the UK in Cambodia. Now comes word that British rock star and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter, who now lives in Vietnam, has been arrested trying to flee the country after it was discovered he’d had sex with two underage girls. The ultimate punishment for this crime is death by firing squad. Good luck, Gary! Michael Jackson, take note.
Anglofille said @ 7:58 pm | news & politics | 2 Comments
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Anonymous Says:
November 21st, 2005 at 10:26 pmI wonder how much reseach MJ conducted on the laws against pedophilia before uprooting himself to Bahrain from Neverland.
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Anglofille Says:
November 21st, 2005 at 11:34 pmI wonder about this too! I think most Middle Eastern countries have harsh penalties for such crimes. Jackson seems to be a serial pedophile, so I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before something happens.
