PaulM wrote:
Thats funny!!! I need a picture!!!
would have been unethical and risky for all concerned. Journos/Activists who take pics of CID and circulate them are usually investigated by Special Branch, as are the websites they appear on.
I can’t blame the authorities for doing this, as the rave scene (and the wider activist “community”) has always contained a number people that are involved in crime and violence and who enjoy the “fun” of having rucks with the authorities (or with each other) more than achieving anything positive.
We may not like what cops do sometimes but they have a legal right to do it, including covert work. To be fair they seemed to be only looking for big time dealers. heroin users and drug drivers (which they found).
Cops also end up picking up the pieces when ravers go bad (such as when drug users turn to crime or violence) so hardly surprising they try and investigate the scene.
In an increasingly angry, hateful world where society is breaking down and people are increasingly taking matters into their own hands I am loath to circulate any sort of photo that would endanger the livelihood or safety of another human – even one involved in things ravers do not agree with.
Those same young detectives could be catching a violent rapist in a Swansea nightclub, and we do not have the moral right to judge them when a bunch of us have invaded a whole part of another country without the consenus of all the inhabitants… our victory is the party, not making others’ lives difficult.
A camera can be as powerful as a pistol and IMO must be treated with the same level of respect.
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But it could not be as good as the picture in m my head!!!!!!
It was indeed a funny sight, they were earlier hanging around with the uniform units so most people realised what the vehicle was and were pointing and laughing. It was a silver Merc as well which looked even more out of place at a free party!
