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Tremendous Surge in UK Crime Rate; Gov. Gives up, Discourages Victims from Resisting
American Spectator ^
| 4/10/06
| Hal G.P. Colebatch
Posted on 04/10/2006 10:12:50 AM PDT by Jacksonville Patriot
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To: garyhope
So in their heads, the proper place of the law-abiding citizen is to be a good, passive little victim to anyone who wishes to abuse him, be it government or criminals. Perhaps they are one in the same.
Ultimately, people may be driven to kill the POS, hide the body some way or other and keep their mouths shut.
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:37:41 AM PDT
by
coydog
(Cowardice does not make you safe. It makes you a safe target. - - Dale Amon)
To: Jacksonville Patriot
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:38:35 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
(I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
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To: dhs12345
Just what I was thinking -- "Hey U.K.! You banned individual firearm ownership! So, how's that workin' for ya?"
(doing my best Dr. Phil imitation...)
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:39:35 AM PDT
by
Right Cal Gal
(Conservatives know the names of Tookie's VICTIMS!!)
To: Vaquero
An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject...Old Japanese proverb..."An Armed Society, is a Polite Society."
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:41:14 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: Jacksonville Patriot
Recently total crime rates for London have been estimated at about seven times those of New York for a slightly smaller population and some authorities suggest these figures have been minimized. One way to ameliorate these embarrassing statistics is to give warnings, which don't go into the statistics. The bureaucrats can always solve the statistics problem. They don't have a clue about public safety.
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:43:40 AM PDT
by
Rocky
(Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
To: 7evens
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." I'm convinced that this is one of the cornerstones separating us from European effeminacy. For those that want to disarm and neuter the PEOPLE of the U.S., it will NEVER happen.Agree / Good Point....and thats why the Liberals want to disarm its citizens. :^)
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:47:35 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....... :^)
To: Vaquero
Clayton Williams was running for governor of Texas a few years ago and was on a camp out or something with a group of reporters or "journalists" and made the same crack when it started to rain that if rain was inevitable like rape to just lie back and enjoy it.
His campaign didn't survive the remark. The press went nuts and you can imagine how the "feminists" reacted.
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:49:31 AM PDT
by
garyhope
(Simplicity is best in everything)
To: coydog
You mean the old "shoot, shovel and shut up".
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:56:35 AM PDT
by
garyhope
(Simplicity is best in everything)
To: coydog
I keep thinking that this sort of anarcho-tyranny is going to generate a reaction of a sort of vigilante war on thugs. Now people report crimes. In the future the victim class may quietly prepare to deal with those the law can't or won't. Even with all the security cameras in the UK there are still plenty of lonely places were thug bodies can be dumped. I can imagine a harried police culture of 've know nothing' about either violent crimes or the violent termination of the criminals. And in response to another question. A disproportionate share of violent crimes are perpetrated by 'Asian' (read Muslim mostly Pak), African and West Indian thugs.
To: MadIvan
England and Wales are now accounted by some estimates as the most dangerous places for crime in the developed world. Comments? Sounds a bit hyperbolic to me. ;)
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:58:52 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: Little Ray
Fascism with an anti-Muslim bias might not be the worst thing that could happen to the UK. Have you seen the movie "V for Vendetta?" That was the premise for the society the "hero" was rebelling against.
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:58:57 AM PDT
by
ER Doc
To: garyhope
Not that I'm um... condoning anything, but sooner or later people are really going to get fed up and it's going to happen.
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:59:20 AM PDT
by
coydog
(Cowardice does not make you safe. It makes you a safe target. - - Dale Amon)
To: ER Doc
No. And I'm not going to see it. I'd be cheering for the "villains." This is happening to me more and more often these days.
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posted on
04/10/2006 11:01:36 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
To: Jacksonville Patriot
There are two ways to cut crime: eliminate lawbreakers or eliminate laws.
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posted on
04/10/2006 11:02:31 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
at least we put the crooks in jail.Unless their illegal. Then we let them go with a stern welcome and a free bus ticket to any American city.
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posted on
04/10/2006 11:05:00 AM PDT
by
Bassfan
(No cheese please)
To: ozzymandus
Fascism would be preferable to dhimmitude, unfortunately.
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posted on
04/10/2006 11:06:25 AM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: Malesherbes
Great film. - that which is mechanical pretending to be something organic.
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posted on
04/10/2006 11:07:39 AM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: Vaquero
An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject
I'm sure that 14 million victims of the Nazi death camps would agree with that.
As will untold millions in Europe in the times to come.
Or would if they survive.
is that quote from Heinlein?
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posted on
04/10/2006 11:11:00 AM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: skinkinthegrass
I'm happy in Florida. - and armed.
How about you guys in England? RSVP.
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posted on
04/10/2006 11:12:44 AM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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