tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post6317076260249196163..comments2023-11-19T17:31:49.939+00:00Comments on Bristling Badger: judgement dayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-30315609791407733302013-01-21T18:53:11.266+00:002013-01-21T18:53:11.266+00:00Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian
"But that...<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/18/james-bond-police-licence-break-hearts" rel="nofollow">Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian</a><br /><br />"But that the judge thought to mention Bond is perhaps revealing. For even those who would defend Ian Fleming's character from charges of misogyny would concede that he often regards women as disposable. And that is the crux of this case, brought by a group of women who believe their innermost lives were regarded as so valueless they could be used by covert police as mere props, devices to shore up agents' cover stories and prove they were good-faith activists rather than frauds.<br /><br />"Almost every undercover cop so far identified found himself a lover in the group under surveillance: it was the norm, a standard part of their tradecraft.<br /><br />This is a question for the police, whose view of women as so dispensable surely suggests a kind of institutional sexism, but also for the state itself. Either it knew or it didn't know what these men were up to, apparently in the service of the crown: both possibilities are indefensible. There is no licence to kill, and there can be no licence to break human hearts, to inflict lasting psychological trauma. The James Bond stories are thrillers, not an instruction manual for an unaccountable state."<br /><br />merrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959849087751101034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-21330994201502359142013-01-21T10:01:58.172+00:002013-01-21T10:01:58.172+00:00If Mark Kennedy is James Bond, presumably this mea...If Mark Kennedy is James Bond, presumably this means us environmentalists are Bond villains. So my new years resolutions is to get a white cat and to liberally apply gold paint to anyone who annoys me. A trap door above a piranha pool will look lovely in the front room. I might also buy a small Pacific island and populate it with an army of loyal minions in identical yellow jumpsuits. <br /><br />The judge is clearly an <b>arse</b>.Richard Simpsonnoreply@blogger.com