Book 'em, Dano."
Posted on 03/05/2005 12:20:13 PM PST by neverdem
It is hard to be outraged by this crap anymore... part of being outraged is having some sense of shock or surprise... this is totally par for the course...
Taxpayers fund BBC. The government is taking money by force to give it to somone who tried to take it by force. Sad.
...and to think that England was once considered the greatest nation on earth.
Hey, crime does pay!
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What a crock of bull! The BBC is naive indeed, if they believe their statement. The contribution that the crook will provide can hardly be construed as "properly balanced". This is strictly a money making ploy by the network to increase viewers. Hope it backfires on them.
I was just mindin' me biznness...'elping meself to a trinket 'ere, an 'eirloom there, when this crazy bugga wif' a shotgun pops me one! Killed my mate too, and 'im wif a strumpet and a drug 'abit to feed...Unfeeling popinjay, finks he's better than us wif 'is fancy 'ouse and honest job...Productive member of society! Lock 'im up again!
What a line of crap this is. Defend your home and family and wind up in jail for it while the perp gets paid money and fame. This is what you get when your govt. starts turning socialist. You're the criminal for defending your home & family and the perp gets rewarded. Socialist governments don't want tough citizens who fight back, they want docile sheep who take their beating without complaint.
We'll be nice, n00b, we love "long elegant legs" wherever they are.
LOL! I'm picturing in my mind one of the Badden brothers from 101 Dalmations!
Duly noted and appreciated. B'D
This doesn't sound like the BBC, no matter if they pay or don't pay some participants.
Take a look on the article, for instance. It says that Martin, who - on his own property and having not police protection - releived the earth from a lowlife during an attempt to rob him, was jailed for murder reduced on appeal to manslaughter.
But it doesn't say for how long...
However, it says that the other burglar got 6 months (!).
Surely the victim of the crime had received longer sentence than the perpetrator. And it is not mentioned in the article for the purpose of good balance, I suppose.
'old, on, Bill, Wot's my Crime's on!
Actually, Tony Martin was in prison for much longer, had to pay the perp for shooting him, as well as going through all the frustration of being the 'bad guy' in all of this. His house had been broken into around 24 times when he'd had enough. He got into trouble because he had an 'illegal' shotgun and because the guy that died had been shot in the back. He was running away. I think it stinks, the cops said he should have let them go; but if it'd been me, I'd have done the same. How would Mr. Martin know they weren't going for guns or knives intending to come back!
Oh, they're not in the least naive. They're simply as left-wing as it's possible to get in any western society. One of our right-wing pundits frequently refers to them as "Bloody British Communists.
This is strictly a money making ploy by the network to increase viewers.
Therein lies the supreme irony. They don't need to raise their viewing figures to increase revenue. In fact, comercially, they don't make a nickel. Anyone with a TV set here is compelled, by law, to pay the BBC an annual license fee of around $200. Doesn't matter whether you watch any BBC channel or not. Even if you disabled your TV such that it was incapable of receiving BBC channels, you still pay the fee - or a $2,000 fine if you don't.
And, yes I know, it doesn't get crazier than that!
>Wasn't Tony Martin the guy who was behind "The Factory" postmodern bands like "Joy Division", "New Order" and "Happy Mondays"?
Different Tony Martin, but what a group New Order was!!!!!!
This month's Viz arrived today, and even that potty magazine is commenting, albeit humorously, about the travesty of justice this is.
One 'reader' stated that burglars are vermin, and if one broke into his house and he caught one, he'd simply drive him (the burglar) some distance from the house and release him in the woods.
Not too far from what the libs would expect us all to do, it seems.
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