Wednesday 30 January 2013

Fidelis Ad Mortem

An awful lot of the time. And by no means only either their own or their targets' deaths.

Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders, among others, are one thing: already sworn as Her Majesty's Constables, complete with Saint Edward's Crown on their badges, with everything that each of those facts embodies and expresses.

But American policing has nothing to do with that, either in theory or in practice, in the way that all sorts of things American have nothing to do with Britain, either in theory or in practice.

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