Eric Joyce Has Been Arrested. (Again.)

Last night the former Labour now Independent Member of Parliament (Westminster) for Falkirk, Scotland Eric Joyce was arrested inside the Houses of Parliament. Although details are still emerging it appears that Joyce was accosted by two police officers who he proceeded to incapacitate. After roughly a dozen more police officers were called to the scene Joyce was arrested on suspicion of two counts of assaulting a police officer and is currently being held in London police station. (I suspect Westminster).

As you may have worked out by now Mr Joyce is considered something of a colourful character. During his 21 year career in the British Army's Black Watch regiment he saw combat in Northern Ireland before becoming an MP in 2000. In 2008 he was banned from driving for six months after clocking up 12 penalty points on his driving licence. In 2010 he was banned from driving for a year and fined £400 after failing to provide a specimen of breath after being suspected of drink driving. In 2012 he was arrested and successfully prosecuted for three counts of assault contrary to common law following a fight with four MP's in the Strangers Bar in the Houses of Parliament. He was fined £3000, ordered to pay £1400 in compensation and banned from pubs for three months.

So while the police still need to decide whether to charge Mr Joyce which will lead to a trial could I be so bold as to suggest that knowing his history the police involved deliberately provoked Mr Joyce into fight.

This would have been done to feed into the unbelievable debate that's going on about whether is was right to imprison Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce following their convictions for perverting the course of justice. While explaining that fully counts as going off on a lengthy tangent the answer is; Yes it was right to imprison Huhne and Pryce because by committing that offence they represent a threat to the safety and property of every single man, woman and child in this country. That's because if people are allowed to pervert the course of justice as a society we become unable to prosecute people for murder, rape, theft etc.

It would have also been done to provide a real world case study to support a King's College University report released today that shows ex-military combat veterans are significantly more likely to be convicted of violent crimes than members of the general population. I suppose that could be something to do with the military's drinking culture. I suppose it could be something to do with the psychological traumas of combat. Mainly though I think it's got something to do with the years of training members of the military undergo teaching them that violence is the solution. After all in combat more often the not violence is the solution.

Mainly though it would have been done to give me a shot of adrenaline to make sure that I stayed awake during Rihanna's concert in Philadelphia babbling about violent men. In the end that didn't happen and I'm clearly being punished with a media blackout that's preventing me from finding out how the concert went. However I'm guessing no news is good news.

Although as far as I can tell all the people Joyce is accused of assaulting are men I supposed at a stretch this could lead to comparisons with Chris Brown. He certainly thinks so re-tweeting a message from his mother about how as a 2 year old he used to comfort her when she cried. The full story behind this is that Brown was born into an incredibly violent household where his father assaulting his mother was almost a daily event.

I suppose this detail might make a lay person feel sorry for Brown. However for a professional (which his probation officer is supposed to be) this should set off a cacophony of alarm bells. You see it means that from birth Brown has been conditioned to believe that not only is violence against women is acceptable it is necessary. As he grew through childhood and adolescence this conditioning will have permanently altered the structure of his brain meaning that his problem is pathological in nature and therefore he cannot be rehabilitated. The over sentimentality Brown frequently displays is just further evidence of his extremely violent and calculating nature. After all over sentimentality is extremely common amongst both peadophiles and serial killers.

In terms of the complexity of this psychology it is so mundane it's actually taught at the high school level here in the UK. This is why the US clearly have no interest in putting Brown in the controlled environment of a psychiatric facility in order to study him. They already fully understand the threat he represents and are choosing to use it to their advantage in much the same way the Brits knew all about my father's problems when they decided to put him in charge of my grandmother's medical care.

(Originally Posted) 11:30 on 15/3/13.