The Virtue Police

Certain officers of the Virtue Police in Saudi Arabia have been arrested because of the death of a suspect. The duties of the Virtue Police include the protection of the flock to stray. In other words they are responsible for the religious well being of the people. If someone is at 'risk' of straying this police is responsible that a) he/she does not do so and b) that he/she does not affect others with their wayward thinking. The wayward thinking is identified by the way one cloths if it is in the manner the suspect talks or any other 'give-aways' or hints.
The most interesting thing is that the US has always been standing close and very protective over its harmless and defenseless ally Saudi Arabia which would never dare to touch an innocent man on the basis of an unprovable suspicion. Which is based on an even less provable idea.
No neither the US nor Saudi Arabian Governments would ever do such things but there are those other very dangerous countries that have neither money nor weapons those have to be kept under control so that they can never threaten the defenseless that own the most sophisticated weapons.

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