"Britain's most senior police officer," (Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner) "has defended the practice of undercover officers using fake identities in court."
He claimed, when he appeared before the Metropolitan Police Authority, that "there's no law that says it can't happen."
That was, according to Lord Macdonald, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, "a bold assertion."
It is stupendously, horrifyingly, cretinously, unbelievable that a senior police officer can suggest for a moment that committing perjury in open court is OK if you happen to be a policeman.
And this amazing statement was not made headline news by the supine, stupid, lazy, wicked people who run our newspapers and other media.
I did not see it mentioned in Metro, the Evening Standard or on the news on Radio 4 or BBC tv. I only found out about it from the Guardian (28th. October, main section, page 8).
Even the Guardian did not put this most revealing comment on the front page.
What's wrong with people now?
Don't they see the creeping corruption that is infecting and has infected our society?
To assert that dishonest police behaviour, if tolerated and authorised by senior police officers, should also be tolerated by the courts, means that ALL our standards have gone down the path of dishonesty well trodden by the fat cats of the city and British industry, where bosses' salaries have risen hugely in the past few years while ordinary workers salaries have been rigidly controlled or even diminished.
Is that the country we all want to live in?
I don't understand why it is so difficult to shout these simple truths from the roof tops and get people to listen.
Morality is important.
Lying is wrong.
Greed is not good, it is intolerable and the invidious distribution of wealth in our society will be paid back in blood.
Probably soon.
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