Confused by this country sometimes?

[Garree001]

No you cant. You can definately tell us about the person you knew but for anyone else you cant as you dont have a clue about it. They may have had plaques etc but nothing has been made out of it. That doesnt mean that it hasnt happened.

Can you honestly say you have ever seen another plaque/memorial to anyone else innocently killed by the police? And to suggest that you (that being the general you, not you personally) may not know about something that you are meant to see is kind of against the point of a plaque, surely?

It's great to have a memorial, it shows us what will happen if we let paranoia and panic get the better of us and then give the police too greater powers "to protect us" without proper controls in place. reactionary policys aren't going to solve anything, and more deaths will result.

This "in memory" plaque does not provide those safeguards, it does not demonstrate against paranoid people going round with guns. It's just a name. If they wanted it to be more for making the police remember what they did, then it should just say that. As Matt said, it will all be forgotten soon enough - great memorial that if people eventually don't know what it was for.

 

[punto_matt]

Cant say i go out of my way in search of these magic plaques.

 

[arseofbox]

I'm sure murder of an innocent man during an operation under your direct control should be on the list of reasons not to get a honour!

You clearly don't understand how HMG works.

Theres not many places in which abject failure yields great rewards when dressed up a bit, but heres a few:

1. Civil Service - including civilian and military service (for commissioned ranks)
2 . FTSE100 / AIM listed companies
3. American equivalents of the above
4. Any Oligarch anywhere