GUARDIAN ANGELS
GUARDIAN ANGELS
I’d heard about them. Saw them on TV. But really, I’d never actually seen one with my own eyes. I kinda thought that they were a jape. Some kind of bizarre April Fools Joke.
Two, huge men. Red jackets, shining with faux, soft fur. Badges, glinting gold in the afternoon sun. Berets. For chuffs sake, not even arts students wear berets anymore.
To all intents and purposes, they looked a joke. Some kind of tinpot bunch of jumped up Fitness Freaks who thought they were The Shit.
These guys are The Guardian Angels. The self-appointed vigilante squad, patrolling the tube, without remit or justice, acting as God. And they look stupid.
Come on. Do they really think someone’s going to feel safe with two self-appointed Bodybuilders and NVQ’s in Tai-Kwendo poncing about on a tube. Sure, they have training, but they’re not cops, they’ll never be cops, they’re no different from anyone else, they have no more legal powers, they just want to. And they act like they do.
Who? What? WHY?
Who told these guys they could be God?
And much, much more than this, what is that strange thing on their t-shirts? Oh. Hang on. An outline of an eye atop a pyramid, inside a circle? That’s horribly, frighteningly Masonic. Bet they feel right at home guarding Denver International Airport. Or is it Detroit?
These guys frighten the willies out of me. They’re self-appointed vigilantes, aiming at ‘keeping the streets safe’, but ultimately acting merely as a bunch of self-interested Can’t-Be-Policeman on a power kick.
Like anyone whose appointed themselves an example, a peacekeeper, a whatever, they’re riding for a fall. Morally pure, self-righteous fools attempting to impose their morals on anyone else they like.
Say what you like. I like my Guardian Angels to be policemen. I like them to have uniforms that don’t look like crappy street gangs, and I like them to be professionals who know what they’re doing. And I don’t like them to be wearing weird Masonic symbols of eyes and pyramids and stuff. That’s just scary. This self-appointed, weird, powertripping bunch of kooky vigilantes should go back to Police Academy and get Back Off The Streets.
As Michael Moore said “Anyone who wants to be in a position of power should automatically be disqualified from being allowed to hold one”.
Go on, go back to the dark ages. And whilst you’re at it, lets get a lynchmob going. I’m sure you can find some women to throw in the water. Remember. If they’re witches they float. And if they’re not, they sink…. You should always be scientific, not stupid. There’s no place for angels on this earth. Especially not guardian angels.
The only place for Angels is in Heaven.
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