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“Undoubtedly, the most unattractive women in the world are the Indian women,” Nixon can be heard saying in a tape recording from June 1971 that the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum released in response to Bass’s declassification request. “The most sexless, nothing, these people. I mean, people say, ‘What about the Black Africans?’ Well, you can see something, the vitality, there. I mean, they have a little animallike charm. But God, those Indians, ack, pathetic.”

Funny quote from Nixon. I thought about Dilbert when I read this one.

Larssen wrote:

Gendarmerie are a bit different depending on the country. Mostly they are military police and guards for border crossings (airports) and infrastructure, political leadership etc. They are military but it's different from, say, the US national guard or regular infantry. Gendarmerie types are a common sight in many European cities.

I'm not sure if the anglosaxon world has a similar organisation.

Not really, the whole Hitler thing finally cemented the idea the military should have no authority over civilians.

The nearest would be sending in the paratroops to deal with the Irish.

Dilbert_X wrote:

the gendarmerie is a branch of the armed forces responsible for internal security in parts of the territory

They are not police

Its not a paramilitary organisation, its a military organisation with some police duties.

When was the last time you saw a bobby with a fixed bayonet on his assault rifle?

When was the last time you saw a bobby with a fixed bayonet on his assault rifle?

when's the last time anyone used a bayonet in, well, any circumstances? the falklands?

i wonder why they didn't affix their bayonets or just perform a cavalry charge to clear that tent city. i guess poncing about on parade with a bayonet totally justifies the brutalization of civilians.

also your analogy to northern ireland and the paratroopers is just bad. northern ireland was a warzone with an republican insurgency. the paratroopers were sent there as an explicitly military force. the streets of paris are not a warzone. it's not belfast or sarajevo. the paratroopers role in civilian mistreatment (and massacres) has been harshly criticized too. people do not take the same blithe 'well, it's the paras, they do break heads!' stand as you do.

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They're a domestic military organisation which falls equally under the interior ministry and the ministry of defence equivalent.

They don't have an exact UK equivalent which is why you're struggling to grasp it.
Think of them as full-time TA who don't get sent abroad and get to beat people up on special occasions.

Dilbert_X wrote:

They're a domestic military organisation which falls equally under the interior ministry and the ministry of defence equivalent.

They don't have an exact UK equivalent which is why you're struggling to grasp it.
Think of them as full-time TA who don't get sent abroad and get to beat people up on special occasions.

i would have said TA myself if pained analogies were required. the TA are NOT the fucking paras.

5 posts of senseless pedantry and you still haven't explained to me why it's a photojournalists' fault for having his face caved in by a gendarme?

The French are more racist than the British in my experience.

I didn't say the gendarmerie are equivalent to the paras, I said sending the paras (and other army units) into NI is the only example I can think of where the UK military have been used for policing civilians.

No they're effectively soldiers seconded to policing.

The point was, anyone who ordered the gendarmes in to clear out migrants knew heads were going to get cracked, the migrants tried to take them on and they got whacked.
There just aren't any surprises here except why anyone would be surprised.

At least he will get free healthcare for his fucked up face. I am somewhat more tolerant of police aggression towards civilians in western Europe since at least you guys have a strong welfare state. In America you are expected to just fuck off and die.

Conspiracy time:

Make your cops so evil and ruthless that people beg to be policed by an army instead.

That's not the way it works.

You should fill some of them with dried beans and pickled veggies like the picture. Maybe it will throw off the fuzz

Appropiate here. Maybe Dilbert might learn how we got to today's situation. Imagine being a slave all your life, your parents and siblings having been slaves, then one day you get a meal and are told 'well you're free now'. You never went to school, were never allowed to read a book and spent your life only cutting and hanging tobacco. That background really sets up a community for succes right?