Police confiscate offesive weapon, 78 year-old mans walking stick, page 1
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Topic started on 1-10-2008 @ 07:07 AM by thisguyrighthere
Police confiscate walking stick from retired teacher, 78, because it is an 'offensive weapon'


The officers surrounded the retired classics teacher and informed him the 3ft wooden cane was an 'offensive weapon' and had to be confiscated.


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Nice. One more weapon off the street.

In part I always figured the "gun control => knife control => rock and stick control => hand and feet control slippery slope stuff of the UK was hyperbole to make a point but here we have stick-control in action.

The streets are safer I'm sure.

*edited to fix tags

[edit on 1-10-2008 by thisguyrighthere]


reply posted on 1-10-2008 @ 07:23 AM by thisguyrighthere
reply to post by 44soulslayer



UK and US both really. We have handicapped people being tazed in their wheelchairs.

Im sure it will eventually become another thread with the US folk telling the UK folk that our police state isnt as bad as their police state like thats a good thing but I sure hope not. If we could come together to stop the Nazis from stealing liberty I should think we can come together to stop our own governments stealing liberty but as long as stupid divisions like the UK people hating US people for being gun owners exist my outlook is a pessimistic one.


reply posted on 1-10-2008 @ 08:12 AM by 4N6310
I wonder where these "tactics" are coming from. Are the the result of policy decisions being made at a higher level?
If so, what is the reasoning behind these policies?
It could also be an emergent policy that has been formed over time as well.
What I mean by this is, say, there is a noted trend in particularly troublesome or disruptive individuals during demonstrations to steal walking sticks and use them as weapons. Why bring a weapon when you can just grab a guy's walking stick?

Granted: I am really stretching here to make a concession in hopes that this is just some freakish anomaly culminating in what appears to be a substantially embarassing story for the bobbies.
I find it rediculous to presume this man could or would be a threat to any other able-bodied person and while a walking stick CAN be used as a weapon, consider the carrier for crying out loud. What's next, stealing walking sticks from blind people?

When I saw the short docu about the 200 people arrested for simply sitting in a park in Minnesota while demonstrations were happening _elsewhere_ around the city, the first thing that came to mind was that this was a warning shot for citizens to not be around when a known altercation between the authorities and crowds of people are happening.

If I am correct, then this guy getting his cane taken away could be another such example and we can expect more of this kind of thing to happen i the future.

Eventually, it will be more overt and they will simply tell people to stay at home for their own safety due to the dangerous and violent protests.
Free speech zones are just the beginning.


reply posted on 1-10-2008 @ 08:16 AM by 44soulslayer
reply to post by 4N6310



Actually the rapidly expanding nature of the UK's disarmament leads me to believe that this is not a NWO driven conspiracy.

I can see the NWO needing to disarm people of guns, maybe even swords. But why risk angering the people by confiscating sticks...

This just stinks of governmental and institutional idiocy. The government passes idle targets- the police want to hit the targets and so go after "easy" prosecutions.
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