UK - police are told they can use taser guns on kids

[buckthesystem]

Looks like you are over reacting again, Buck me old mate.

No eric, I don't think I am over-reacting, I just believe that we have a duty to warn others of evil, and this is evil. It is one of those "cross the line"/gee there is no line any more to cross, oh well" situations.

I also believe in "there, but for the Grace of God, go I", and it could be my grandchild who is "tasered" next or the child or grandchild of any one of you. Then will you remember "cheering the law on" and joining in the chorus of "electrocute these thugs, they deserve it"?

[buckthesystem]

Police officers are human beings like the rest of us ...they are doing a job that most of us wouldn't want to do for three times the pay they get . Yes there are a few who let power go to their head as there are in ANY profession ( do you want to see how many doctors and nurses have been charged with multiply counts of murder ?) but in this country at least they are acountable for EVERY action they make and if you think you would like to do their job unarmed and helpless in the face of thugs ...no matter what the age ...that, as sweety says, know their "rights" and have NO hesitation in attacking old people younger or vunerable children of the same age /older/younger than themselves knowing that the law can and will do NOTHING to them then please be my guest.

I would much sooner see them disarmed with a taser than with a gun or a baton or even being allowed to get away with thuggery so often that they spend the rest of their adult lives in prison cos they think they are always going to be invincible.

I don't know what sort of people get recruited to the police force where you live but here THE MAJORITY ARE DECENT CARING AND COMPASSIONATE ....... do you want to go and tell some mother that her 6 years old playing with those lolly sticks has been kicked to death or shot in the neck just because a "child" must not be stopped from behaving in a violent way ?

I have yet to see any police officer attack a child for dropping litter so maybe it is time to stop the potentially inflammatory remarks and see why we actually need a way to protect our children from violence without resorting to bringing in armed police that most other countries have got .........and teach them not to drop litter

LadyP if the police in your country really are: "acountable for EVERY action they make", this is incredibly unusual. In NZ (and in America if what I read is correct, and I will take a lot of convincing to make me believe otherwise as I can think of several incidents in the news just "off the top of my head") the absolute opposite is true. Very few police are ever accountable for their actions, they enjoy a special privilege and are very rarely held to account for anything. I was listening to a local talkback radio host this afternoon and it was sickening as he almost worships the police, as the media seem to do in this country as well. And it is amazing what they can get away with - things that you or I would be in jail pretty smartly for. And for political reasons this government has had to recruit a lot more police lately and so has "shifted the goalposts" - or dropped the standards, resulting in the fact that some new recruits have had to be taught basic reading skills. I am not exaggerating either.

I don't doubt, of course, that there exists many, many teenage or juvenille gangs of thugs who commit horribly violent acts, I am just querying whether or not we should trust police to know the difference between the child who brings a threat of violence against them and one who does not - or pregnant woman (guilty or innocent) after all her baby is ALWAYS innocent and it is her baby who would be electrocuted too.

And you say: "do you want to go and tell some mother that her 6 years old playing with those lolly sticks has been kicked to death or shot in the neck......" Well do YOU want to tell some mother that her 6 year old playing with those lolly sticks has been electrocuted by police and is now fighting for his life after he has had a heart attack or is dead due to having a heart attack while being 'tasered'"?

[Scarletprayers]

I had a nice snotty reply all typed out..........but whats the use.

Let me just say, bucks, I'm glad I don't live in the world you want.

[ladypeartree]

I feel so sorry for you Bucks if you dont trust anyone and always see the worse of everything you must be so sad

[buckthesystem]

I feel so sorry for you Bucks if you dont trust anyone and always see the worse of everything you must be so sad

In reply I could also get all sanctimoneous and accuse you of "seeing everything through rose tinted glasses" or burying your head in the sand".

But would it be appropriate?

[eric]

I feel so sorry for you Bucks if you dont trust anyone and always see the worse of everything you must be so sad

In reply I could also get all sanctimoneous and accuse you of "seeing everything through rose tinted glasses" or burying your head in the sand".

But would it be appropriate?

No mate, it's not that, but as christians, we all know what's going to happen and that it's going to get rougher. To me, at anyrate, what is happening is going to keep on happening, because it is in God's ordinances. All the bucking the system in the world is not going to stop the anti christ's new world order from being instituted. When you are posting on this board, bucko, you are preaching to the choir. Conspiracy theories of any sort are not appreciated on this board.

Sorry, mate, but you keep scratching the same old itch.