Posted on 10/28/2013 8:19:31 PM PDT by BlackVeil
An innocent man was viciously beaten and then burned to death by vigilante neighbours who wrongly believed rumours that he was a paedophile.
Bijan Ebrahimi, a keen gardener, had taken photographs of youths vandalising his hanging baskets and intended to hand them to police as evidence. ...
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The “vigilantes” should get the same death.
That place hasn’t changed much in 300 years.
A good showing for democracy (aka mob rule). And we wonder why the Founding Fathers hated, abhorred, and detested democracy.
That would be fitting.
But in Britain, they will probably serve less than 10 years, in a soft-soap prison.
I wonder why crime rates are so high?
Many, including some here, cheer when the vic is guilty.
You are onto something. Recently, I have been considering this, in respect of economic policies. Countries which get ahead (like Singapore, and Switzerland) often have ways of restricting decision making to the property owning class.
Pure democracy leads to endless demands for welfare - by the sort of people who would murder a disabled man.
That’s why we have the Electoral College for one thing.
It’d be nice to get rid of the 17th Amendment for one thing. But it’d be nice to restrict voting to age 30 and older plus be a business or homeowner. Basically it comes down to those who have a stake in the success of their country and their respective State should be allowed to vote.
He was made of wood and weighed as much as a duck.
The fellow was a witch, so they burned him. It was a fair cop.
The UK is the only member state that actually follows EU decrees to the letter (aside from what they were able to “negotiate” away temporarily); and this is the result.
“Countries which get ahead (like Singapore, and Switzerland) often have ways of restricting decision making to the property owning class.”
To vote in this country you used to have to be a male, white, property owner.
The libs and women screwed us!!
My mother claimed giving women the vote was the stupidest thing they ever did. She said she already had a vote in the kitchen and the bedroom!!
There’s so much hysteria about kids/sex. Been worse than Salem for years and it’s exploited by the media and politicians. Even ones who know better. That’s how Janet Reno rode her broom over a sea of ruined lives into power.
My default position on any ANY story involving sex & kids, is that it’s phony. I’m usually proven right.
So, then, charges have been brought against the vandals?
As a woman, I agree.
Is vandalixm even illegal in Britain any more?
I don’t know, but I’m having a hard time buying the story that the reason he took pictures of the neighbor children is because they were vandalizing his garden. The parents tell the police that a pedophile is photographing their children, the police see that the photos were of the children vandalizing the man’s garden, and they never mention this to the parents? And I don’t see any indication that they’ve brought charges related to the vandalism. If they really do have pictures of the kids in the act of vandalizing the garden, why wouldn’t they bring charges? Why wouldn’t they publish the photos? I don’t know, the story just doesn’t add up for me.
Up until some SCOTUS decisions in the 1960's, rural areas in the US had much more political influence.
This is where you made your mistake: "[t]he parents tell the police that a pedophile is photographing their children."
No. The article just says someone. It doesn't that someone was one of the parents.
So the parents of the photographed children didn’t know he had photographed them? With the whole neighborhood yelling “paedophile, paedophile” as he was hauled away, the parents didn’t know about it? They may not have been the ones who called the police to report it, but somebody reported it. If the parents didn’t already know their children were photographed, shouldn’t the police have notified them, or at least questioned them about their children vandalizing the man’s garden? The story as it’s told defies logic.
Your questions are to the point, and are the reason why several of the police officers have been suspended from duty. This man was arrested on the basis of false allegations, and the police offered no assistance to him against the thugs who were vandalising his garden and threatening him. The “parents” and “neighbours” just wanted to defend their juvenile deliquents.
There are more details about the arrest in The Independent’s article about this - it is sad reading.
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