Who put the Wappenschawing in the Wapentake?
Created | Updated Dec 23, 2003
The oddity of weapons among the citizenry as official policy until such time as that policy changes. Social change has been blamed, but that is not official policy. Society and policy are not the same thing. They share mistresses, but that is another story.
The greatest difficulty that the Police have is that the official policies involving whose a criminal and who's not do not concomitantly drag along an increase in or a finer definition of Police powers or even a few more reams of paper per requirement.
The social policy attitude that "us and them" is more useful than "we and everybody else" has led to a situation where if something is not illegal or controlled, then it should be.
This means that everything has to be watched by someone.
Who watches the watchers?
And who regulates them?
Falling through the cracks (after they've widened them sufficiently) are all the people who don't care what the government or the policy makers do, as long as they don't do it on the carpet or interfere with the footy.
Oh, by the way, where was that match held where more people smothered to death under the weight of the crowd than were killed at Dunblane?
