British Man Denied Parole, Ruled "A Threat to Burglars"

Front Page Magazine ^ | 28 JAN 2003 | Val MacQueen

[vannrox]

Your STATE is Next!

[Fiddlstix]

The inmates are running the asylum

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[logic101.net]

This is why I'm a life member of the NRA and also a member of JPFO.

If ATF comes for my guns, I'll take a few of them out! I was about to say that I don't think it will come to that point in this nation, then I remembered NYC and Shitcago... it already has in some areas.

I guess in England, the jails are overcrouded with decent citizens who have defended themselves. First burglary is free? Sweet; for the criminals! Plus they know the odds of being confronted by an armed citizen is remote; and the cops are far away in many cases....

Could one make a better society for a criminal to live in?

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[xJones]

The chief of police seems perplexed by the public outcry. "We will still," he explained patiently, "take a note of any burglaries reported for statistical purposes." They just won’t investigate them.

Surely I'm not understanding this correctly. This means that police won't pay any attention if you're robbed unless you fight back against the robber? It's open season on British homes and they're forbidden to defend themselves?

[kaylar]

I am not 100% sure of this, but I believe there's a Congressman who is or was sponsoring a bill just for Tony Martin. It would waive the 'no entry for convicted felons' requirement for immigrating to the US , so he could live out the rest of his life here. I believe he has family (a son and DIL?) somewhere here. But it's been ages and I didn't save the thread, so I may be misremembering.

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RESPONSE:"There comes a time in the history of every people when they become so pathologically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements of their society which harms them; i.e. criminals." A great historian 1888

[jodorowsky]

Tony Martin website

[NonValueAdded]

Does this make Tony Martin a political prisoner in the formal sense of that phrase?

Can any UK FReepers shed any light on when the Queen may step in and restore some sanity?

[vannrox]

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[LibKill]

Britain is messed up when it comes to citizens' rights.

In Texas we would have told him "good shootin' Martin".

[muir_redwoods]

They're right about one thing. First time burglars shouldn't be sent to jail. They should be sent to Tony Martin. He seems to be one of the few Brits who knows how to deal with them.

[Conservative til I die]

he poses a "threat to burglars."

I'm speechless.

[muir_redwoods]

In addition to a shotgun, Tony needs a shovel.

Burglars? What Burglars?

[monocle]

Birds of a feather flock together. Could it be that the British government is acknowledging that there is no difference in taking another's property by theft and taking another's property by taxation?

[JoJo Gunn]

The Left will always lead humanity into Darkness.

[thinktwice]

The ultimate end in socialism is the absence of individual right.

[Bernard]

He should have just made sure the second guy was "otherwise handled" and then put the gun in his hands. Then he could just say he heard the shooting and when he went downstairs there they both were. Oh wait, he's probably the type that tells the truth...

[arkady_renko]

This is from the Onion, right?

A_R

[general_re]

Oh wait, he's probably the type that tells the truth...

Remember when that used to be a reasonably safe path to travel? Hate to say it, but future Tony Martins are probably better off with a shovel and some lime than they are with the police that ostensibly exist to protect them...