Glad my tax dollars are going to good use

from gulfnews.com:

Shop selling notes for cheating in exams trapped
By Nasouh Nazzal, Staff Reporter



Ras Al Khaimah: Police are interrogating a bookshop owner and his staff for selling notes to help students cheat in examinations.

The covert operations came to light following a sting operation conducted by a top official of the emirate's educational zone.

Okay, I don't pay taxes but if I did I think this little bit of news would irritate me. Why are the police launching covert sting operations to arrest people who are printing things on little pieces of paper?

Is paper illeagal? Is printing notes? How is it the responsibilty of the bookshop owner what students do with his "cheat notes"?

Once again we observe the typical middle eastern attitude of blaming everyone else for lour problems. Once again, it's someone elses fault that our kids are corrupt.

Can we please find something of relevance for the cops to do? It seems to me that arresting wives for cheating on their husbands and entrapping bookshop owners for making tiny little notes blurs the line between what is legal, ethical and morally acceptable. Our cops might not wear short kondoras and grow their beards to a fistfuls length but their role in our society is uncannily similar in a lot of repects to the religious policemen in Saudi Arabia.