Ash, but hedging our words and bumbling around the subject is the British way, donchaknow! Politeness at all times, old bean. 😳
That’s what I suspected. I grew up with that impression of the society of the isles. Where else could a bobbie patrol the streets and never carry a gun. Yet these days, I get mixed signals. There is the home of the Sex Pistols, Tony Balir, cantankerous examples of discourse on the BBC comedy shows, and fascist tactics by law enforcement that rival and team with the CIA, NSA. It is difficult to know if polite still exist as it once did, from the outside.
Fighting for something, where there are two diverse adversaries and one has declared a war against the other, one would be scrambling for the higher ground, readying for the coming engagement. A firm and direct stance, a puffing out of the chest, stiff lipped response, placing the other on the defensive and drawing a line. She has made a public announcement in many more words explaining her organizations purpose, position and intent. I would think, “inappropriate” which can mean anything depending on a whim, thereby holding no water, could be replaced by, “ over reaching”” illegal” or kabang “irresponsible.” The cop is acting like some kind of cowboy yahoo old west and making up his own laws, like some kind of autocratic little king…how’s about “outrageous.” The officer’s statement and intent is “shockingly outrageous” an “alarming overreach” “threatening everyone’s liberty.”
Perhaps he is considered the problem and to whom resolution will begin and end with. He sounds like one of those authorities who when threatened, immediately feel that they are cornered and over react with more overreach to maintain their position of perceived power. Sometimes it is better to offer candy to these people, rather than trying to coax the distrusting thing out of a corner. Perhaps the battle should be chosen and she has had her say. She certainly did a great job, stating BN position. It is amazing that she was quoted so rigorously. Here in USA, she would have used up WAY too many soundbites for our news media. Her points would never have been printed like that, but edited down by a reporter who hasn’t a clue. Here, if you want to be heard, you have to do a lot of bluster. Perhaps there is a political component, where the public discourse is different from the actuality.
I have been thinking of going to the county, or directly to the police department as an organization, although I probably will never find the time past the ponder stage. The idea is that nudity laws are stated as they are and need to be enforced as that. There is ignorance, abusing the intent of the law, by assumptive individual police officers. There needs to be an education for them. A training among their many other trainings and briefings. There needs to be a policy statement, or guidelines for them. This would help to protect merely nude people from the potential and fear of devastating potential problems.
I would like to hear more about how this process unfolds. It would shed light on just how to, and how not to work with police departments. How do you get appointments, communicate through bureaucracy, of channels, procedures and busy (or not busy) people who could give a sh…?
To me, "appropriate" no longer is.
Jbee
