Growing awareness
Richard was quiet this morning..He sat listening to the
Part of the world around him, there was thd odd bird
Call the muted ticking of the clock in the hall, he looked
A the dark t v screen, that he had turned off in 2021' mind
You a lot had.! He reccolected on his resignation of over a month ago now.? Fifty was not that young yet he still had
A lot to give.' He had always wanted to be of use when he
Was growing up..He had thought of being a fireman? Yet
He'd joined the police.' And it had been good he'd started
Young in the late nineteen eightys, and after different posts
He'd graivitated to the dog section..He'd worked at Coney
Hall near West Wickham, and met so many people he'd worked with secret services of the U K, the U S, Egypt the mossad.'
Yet it all had changed' He reflected the change became
Noticable late 90s?? And it kept picking up through the
2000s or the naughties? As some called them and he had
Served well he decided finishing up inspector.. But the
Turning point came with the southport murders.' And
Attempted.? Yet the news had never really concentrated on
That part.? And the word killing' seened more the buzz word??
And then the week after at the downing st protests he
Did not give the orders to deploy riot police on the uk citizens, yet they were out first choice, and the detaining
Of just bystanders.' The pushing and barging with shields
To provoke a response?? He would have none of it.' He
Recalled the old coppers and the yarns..When trouble had
Brewed in their day, they would try and discuss.' one had
Told him of some times.! 'He had taken off the uniform' when a
Large group of Gypsies moved onto a recreation ground
The officer had on his patch.!! this was in the seventies mind you
He took on their leader.'l in a fist fight the looser would have
To back down.' As it turned out neither prevailed and cuts
And bruises were given; and taken' the upshot was the
Officer put them in touch with a local farmer he knew and they moved off the rec gound, the local people were happy
And both the officer and the leader respected each other
But it was not like that now' it was no room for human error
Well that was the line.' Yet there were errors galore.! there
Is a king who was not a comitted Christian an archbishop
Who removed the word Church from his lexicon'p plans to
Create citys you would be trapped in, while allowing free
Movement.? Was that oxymoronic or what? No.' Richard Baron
Would have no more part in mugging off the peoole.' He
Had decided what to do.' He would had begun to reach out to other ex officers and retired barristers and it was decided to go in groups to the court houses recording
Devices with them, and offer to accompany those who were
Intimidated or downright predjudiced against into court to
Record court actions, and support them as a source of
Moral and practicable advice, to ensure some sort of parity within the
System.!
Copyright © Joe Maverick | Year Posted 2024
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