The night before last
wasn't a triumph for 5-hydroxy-tryptophan; last night was better. I
slept until ten minutes before the alarm was dur to go off. I got up
and over a spot of brekkie I checked my emails. Frustration. there is
a puzzle-geocache beased in the general vicinity of Dungeness Power
Station. the puzzle is based on the fact that one TV channel has
featured link pieces based on footage from the area. I *think* I know
what the channel is, but I'm having problems solving other parts of
the puzzle. So I emailed the cache owner to check that my initial
assumption was right. he emailed back to say he wasn't telling.
On reflection I suppose
that it is his right to do that. However it's not as though I just
gave up and asked him to tell me where the cache was; all I wanted
was one small hint. He says he's looking forward to seeing my "Found
It" log. I suspect he's going to have a long wait. I've
wasted enough time on this cache; there's plenty of others out there
I shall go for instead.
The news seriously bioled
my piss this morning. Twenty years after the Stephen Lawrence affair
teh establishment is waking up to the fact that there was (just
possibly) institutional
racism in the police of the 1980s.
The pundits on the radio
were calling for independent investigations to review the policing of
the time. Are they serious. A friend of mine resigned from the Met in
1983 because he didn't like the fact that black lad were regularly
beaten up in the police cells. Another friend of mine saw the same
happening in the cells in Sussex police stations at the same time.
The chaps of afro-Caribbean origin with whom I went to college were
no friends of the police having had first hand experience of what the
police of the time were like. It's well established that if you were
a young black lad in the 1980s the police would have given you a
slap.
It's no secret that I'm
no fan of the Boys in Blue, but I'm pretty sure that this
institutional racism is firmly a thing of the past. It happened, but
after various riots it stopped. There's plenty of things wrong with
the current police force for independent tribunals to investigate.
Why bother wasting time investigating that which we all knew happened
and have now stopped?
Being Tuesday the clans
gathered; today at Arden Drive. Insults bandied, telly watched. I
missed last week's meeting; it was good to get along tonight.
And in closing today
spare a thought for the family of Professor
Mick - he died today...
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