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Originally posted by Ramrod
Thats nice, I'm glad you feel able to make split second decisions in the dark, in the middle of nowhere with multiple intruders on the premises.
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Do you really think that Tony Martin blasting someone in the back with a shotgun *after* he had already fired several shots and the burglars were running away was a "split second decision"?
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Everyone has the *same* rights to protection under the law. *Everyone*. Even burglars.
Yes, thats a shame. Bit of an oversight don't you think?
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No, not an oversight in the slightest. As I've just said in another message, our laws exist not only to protect us from criminals, but to protect us from ourselves.
I don't want to live in a country where the Lynch Mob deals out "justice" (ie a good kicking), do you? Would you still want to if the person getting the kicking was you because you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time?
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No we don't. Martin stayed in jail longer because he was deemed to be a "danger to burglars"
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Martin was denied parole because he refused to show remorse for what he had done, something which is generally considered to be an important part of a parole hearing.
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So you want thieving, drug dealing, never worked a day in their lives career **** to have the same rights as people who go about their business lawfully?
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Tell me, which Tabloid newspapers do you read?
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I say you should forfeit some rights when you go about unlawfull business.
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And I say we should string them all up from the nearest lamp-post! - Signed Angry of Andover.
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We pay enough tax already. It is the way that it is spent that is the problem.
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So write to your MP. That's what he's there for.
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Final point: The police are here to protect us. They failed to protect Martin to the point that he had to defend himself.
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If you have to break the law to uphold the law there is *NO LAW*.
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All the police(and I meet a lot of them) that I have spoken to about his case say that the law needs changing and he should never have been locked up.
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He didn't *need* to shoot someone in the back, but he did, out of a desire for revenge, nothing else. He broke the law. He paid the penalty.
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Wake up and smell the coffee...
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Wake up and listen to the baying of the Lynch Mobs...