Badge Numbers

Following the precedent of Ian Fleming’s master spy James Bond, all police badge numbers should now come with a double-0 prefix, signifying the license to kill.


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I saw a German government with a policy of killing defenceless civilians of a certain ethnicity, and I was appalled. I opposed them, as did the rest of the world. And we defeated them.

I saw a Serbian government with a policy of killing defenceless civilians of a certain ethnicity, and I was appalled. I opposed them, as did the rest of the world. And we defeated them.

I saw an Israeli government with a policy of killing defenceless civilians of a certain ethnicity, and I was appalled. I opposed them, as did the rest of the world. And we were called anti-Semitic.

I saw an American government with a policy of killing defenceless civilians of a certain ethnicity, and I was appalled. I opposed them, as did the rest of the world. And we were called unpatriotic.

— John Highland, atheist-talk forum, 2009 Feb. 21