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To Protect and Serve (criminals) Are you an anti-social thug? Do you enjoy terrorising your neighbours? Stealing from them? Generally making everybodys else’s life a hell? Do you sometimes long to live in a country where you can just destroy other people’s property and get away with it scot-free?
Well, then I suggest you come and live in Britain:
“Three men collared a teenage thug who hurled a brick through a window — only to end up charged with Kidnap”.
It gives me such a warm, fuzzy glow inside to know that I live in a country where the police won’t lift a finger to help you and you daren’t lift a finger to help yourself.
[For non-British readers the word ‘nick’ in the article headline is a British slang for ‘bust’]
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
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I think a team of vigilantes would be a good first step. Start hanging the thugs from broken cctv cameras. As the cops never show up until it’s too late anyway, what’s your chances of getting caught.
Isn’t this the same country which is going to make hunting illegal? What a commentary on modern society, where going after a furry animal is a grave offence, while robbery (cf Tony Martin, et al) is encouraged.
So when will Members of Parliament start pushing for restrictions on the sale and ownership of bricks?
I can hear the backlash already: “They’ll take my masonry when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.”
I want to smash the bobby’s face with a brick. What kind of jerkov would pull a stunt like that? What the hell is wrong with those cops?
Okay, so that’s one vote against brick control 🙂
What remains of the right to trial by jury over there? American criminal juries take self-defense issues very seriously, and most states enshrine various forms of self help, such as the right to use deadly force when necesssary to protect oneself or another and the right to arrest for a felony commited in one’s presence in their constitutions and laws.