Prosecution or persecution?

Michael Coren: Prosecution or persecution?

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Whether political, religious or criminal, what appears to be happening in many parts of Europe and North America is that rather than being guardians of the people the police are taking on the role of agents of the state. Instead of protecting citizens against crime they are enforcing state policy against citizens. That’s deeply worrying in theory and even more troubling in practise.

The Western, democratic notion of an apolitical police force is beginning to evaporate as the police concern themselves with “hate crimes”, “bias” and even plain political correctness. What David Chen did was not obviously political but it did question the authority and competence of authority and the police and did show an ordinary person applying the law and common sense. That, it seems, is now the worst crime of all.

The particular incident of which Mr Coren writes happened (is happening) in Canada, but this sort of thing happens frequently in the US, also -- police departments are *just* bureaucracies with guns, and bureaucracies exist first and foremost to advance the interests of the bureaucrats.