In the finest tradition of the Sturm Abteilung...

[rdamurphy]

...British citizens report their own flesh and blood for "gun crimes."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1028014/Father-shopped-son-police-finding-gun-sees-sent-jail-years.html

"His barrister, Hugh Barton, argued in court on Thursday that a lenient sentence would encourage others to inform police about wrong-doing by friends and relatives."

Robert

[chucksc]

AND the Cheka (Colloquial name for the KBG - aka Komitat) who raised the technique to a new high (or low if you will)

But hey England is Socialist isn't it? and socialiasm is just annother name for communism (ducks and runs for cover :))

[pmcn]

GB is a lost cause until the citizens decide to stand up for their own rights. It occured in the 1600s, will it occur again? People will put up with insanity for only so long before rebelling. At this point, government has two choises, cave into citizens demands or crack down on desenters. Only time will tell.

Paul

[xgsft]

Hmm, I remember reporting your relatives was quite popular in Nazi Germany as well.

[rdamurphy]

Not to mention the Soviet Union... And that paradise that none of the American communists will move to, Cuba!

Robert

[ragtimer]

Some of us over here are not socialist but we are being overrun by them.They all think everything that happens to them is someone else's fault,money grows on trees and the world owes them a living.That is why I will escape when I retire (and even that is being screwed up by Stalin aka Gordon Brown).Having said that I agree with the guy's action in reporting his son to the police.It is a pity the son would not tell them for whom he was keeping the gun.Guns are not legal here and I agree with that but the problem is that the authorities cannot control the supply of weapons and will not give proper jail sentences for those breaking the law or make jails unpleasant enough to make those who do get "banged up" not wish to repeat the process.

[Jim Prower]

Oh, Jeremy Clarkson is NOT gonna like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbvN1UYuz-U