The Sun - We Hate It

The vile Murdoch gutter press has once again been busy practising the dark arts of lies and half truths in order to promote their reactionary beliefs. They have managed to create an extraordinary storm from an unexceptional request.

A Met Police officer was excused from duties that may expose his family to reprisal. Nothing special about that. But this officer is a Muslim and his duty was to guard the Jewish embassy in London during the rape of Lebanon. The Wapping vermin must have thought it was their birthday - a chance to attack two of their biggest bete noires: Islam and political correctness.

The police officer in question has relatives in Lebanon and he feared that if, at the height of the rape of Lebanon, he was seen guarding the Jewish embassy they would attacked - by other Lebanese.

It is quite routine for police officers to be excused from duties that may expose their families to reprisal - they do not work in the area where they live. But you wouldn’t know that if you read today’s edition of the Murdoch gutter press. Never let the truth get in the way of brainwashing the mindless people who read your newspapers.

The Murdoch gutter press, and their subsidiary in the Police Federation, argue that no police officer should be able to pick and choose their duties. A few years ago, all the armed response officers in London threatened to withdraw their service if any legal or disciplinary action was taken against one of their own who had committed a murder. Did the Murdoch gutter press cry foul?