Okay, here is where all my hackles start rising, and my sense of fair play starts to load up some spare magazines:
The UK’s West Midlands Police used fictitious evidence to justify its advice to ban Israeli fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team from attending a match in Birmingham last month, the force’s chief admitted to a parliamentary committee Monday, as MPs grilled police brass on the basis of their controversial decision.
The Aston Villa soccer club announced in October that no Maccabi fans would be allowed at a November match following a police assessment that classified the event as “high risk” and suggested banning Israeli fans from the stadium.
In the report presented to the club that suggested banning Israeli fans, police presented information about a 2023 match between Maccabi and West Ham, which the report said was the Israeli club’s “last appearance on UK soil to date.”
“The most recent match Maccabi played in the UK was against West Ham in the Europa Conference League on Nov 9, 2023,” the report read.
Well, fine, except:
However, no such match was played, and Maccabi has never faced off against the East London club.
Here’s the outcome I would like. This asshole cop, and every single cop involved in this disgusting fabrication should be fired, stripped of their pension and benefits, and face charges of fraud (or whatever the official term for wrongdoing by a policeman may be). Under Hammurabic Law, they’d all be executed for bearing false witness, but sadly, we’ve come a long way (too long a way) since then.
Basically, these dickless Tracys invented a reason to avoid a potential clash between two groups of people so that they wouldn’t have the responsibility of policing it. And they could hide behind the fact that Maccabi are a Jooooz team, so who cares.
In the broader picture: if these little shits can do this, any police force can, and most probably will. (In totalitarian states they already have, multiple times.)
Disgraceful.
So. The cowards don’t want to have to police a game that might include something the’ll have to do some work besides walking around straight and tall and smile at the young women. This fear that allowing the Maccabi fans in the stadium for fear of attacks on them is what in America is called “the Heckler’s Veto”, and is frowned on, to put it mildly. Of course this is not America, land of Liberty and Freedom of Speech, The Press, Assembly, Religion, and to keep and bear arms. Does the Government there even include “Rule Britannia” in any published historical, patriotic Songbook?
Sorry, I should not have asked about such a disfavored concept as patriotism there.
Yes, fired, stripped of their pension and benefits is the first phase of punishment for their treasonous, Anti-British behavior. That should be done publicly, like the soldier received in the TV series “Branded”. Rip the stripes off, break their swords take their uniforms and drive them out of the city. Britain does not have the prohibitions against Cruel and Unusual punishment and the concept of Outlawry the US Constitution has. Their subsequent prosecution should be acting in a manner contrary to the laws, Traditions, and customs of the Police under color of law, if they even have that concept there.
Robert Peel would be horrified that men who claim to follow his concepts have done such a cowardly and odious act. I can only imagine what he would recommend.
English police are targeting the wrong people, as usual