I suspect that the internet continues to carry such lies because those who log on to tell them are doing it at taxpayers' expense.

This is not limited to one country.

Witness the behavior of the Canadian RCMP (the equivalent of the US FBI, with a similarly long and sordid record of human rights abuses) in planting stories in the Canadian press to defame Maher Arar -- both before and after his release from torture in Syria to which the US authorities had extraordinarily rendered him with encouragement from the RCMP.

Witness Rudy Giuliani's New York police flying squad which immediately descended on Amadou Diallo's home after police shot him 41 times for no reason, to try to plant any dirt on him that they could (Diallo was a saint: they could find nothing, although they felt down the seams of the living room curtains and grilled his housemates all night long with questions like "Did your housemate have any enemies?" -- this without having informed them that the police did the shooting).

Witness as well the longstanding demonization campaign in Britain against any victim of police abuse. Just since the Menezes killing there has been the attempt to smear a shooting victim with bogus pornography charges.

It appears that the police, at least in those three countries, get together for training sessions in this sort of lie campaign.

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