"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote

Don. This is wildly OT!
Gird your loins with sack-cloth and ashes immediately:-))


Iain, that would be reet funny if it weren't so tragic! What we have in
this group atm is a pair of serious whiners throwing a megastrop because
they can't have it all their own way in here!

Which, in turn, would also be reet funny if it wasn't so symptomatic of
the increasing Nazism and daily erosion of civil liberties we seem to be
experiencing everywhere in the 'West' these days - I know you have the
same thing in Finland, having just read an account of the extraordinarily
diligent policing of the HD (Harley Davidson this time :-) European
Federation '09 Super Rally' which recently took place in Seinäjoki....

Finland is much more of a police state than perhaps it should be, but
the normal citizen is unaffected.

There have been "scuffles" in past years at motorcylce gatherings, with
riders carrying firearms, and the police were determined it had to stop.
It has. When the motorcyclists show that they can behaive themselves,
they will be accorded different treatment.

But this is not the first time that the police here have over-reacted.
Personally, I am very much against the police, or anyone else for
that matter, carryting guns, but I do approve of law and order taking
a firm hand.

The splendid old-fashion concept of "softly softly" policing, is unique to
Britain, and probably changing there too.

Iain