Sotos wrote: You think many other countries are better? In the USA if somebody tried to attack a policeman with a knife he would be shot dead on the spot. The Turkish jails are filled with political prisoners and obviously they do not install cameras in their cells to show how they are treated. Some "policeman" in the north was among the ones who beat up to death a GC demonstrator some years ago. In many other countries such event would not even be news and would not receive such coverage by the media... it would be just business as usual. Obviously Cyprus is not the best country when it comes to the police, but it is far from the worst. The fact that they install cameras in the police stations and that the media is buzzing with this incident shows that our society demands better so hopefully soon the situation with the police will be further improved.
Firstly thanks for proving Lord's prophecy right. I said if you believe that the police should be allowed to operate outside the law and dish out such summary beatings then you believe in living in a banana republic. I did not say the RoC was a banana republic or that it is worse (or better) than else where. This incident happened in the Cyprus, you know the place we live and that the forum is named after ? In any SANE environment, that had any true sense of 'law and order' and modern western democratic ideals, that so many of you profess to hold in such high regard elsewhere, such actions as seen on this video would be condemned. Yet in the mad house that is Cyprus forum all we get is 'you think many other countries are better ?' and 'a little over the top' but the guy was 'asking for it'. We have had one poster describe it as disgusting, someone with 4 posts on the forum to date. From the 'usual suspects' we get the usual bullshit.
So Sotos, is what these policemen did acceptable to you ? Is the kind of Cyprus YOU want to live in one where police should be allowed or even encouraged to behave in such ways ?
