tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post2184508672615209349..comments2023-06-11T13:12:20.435+01:00Comments on The Anger of a Quiet Man: So, only criminals are allowed to defend themselves?Quiet_Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-13808403237898891992012-02-13T00:19:26.301+00:002012-02-13T00:19:26.301+00:00Everything that can be abused will be abused. Catt...Everything that can be abused will be abused. Cattle prods are abused.<br />Anything that would cause pain without visible damage would be a joy to sadists, bullies and muggers. And there is no shortage of these.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-37632013441200146052012-02-12T19:31:18.639+00:002012-02-12T19:31:18.639+00:00"...only the police, armed services and crimi...<i>"...only the police, armed services and criminals have weapons, <b>anyone else</b> is liable to arrest or harassment for carrying the means to defend themselves."</i> (my emphasis)<br /><br /><br />Sorry QM, but I think I have to correct you.<br /><br />Certain 'favoured' people are allowed weapons to defend themselves; you will have seen pictures of groups of them, some clearly armed and not at all worried about the police seeing them, at the time of the London riots.<br /><br />It was around the same time as groups of unarmed white people who wanted to patrol and defend their own home areas were on the receiving end of a rapid police deployment, in rather marked contrast to the police response to the criminal and violent rioters, as I'm sure you remember.DerekPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-42196187100839849212012-02-12T18:21:08.415+00:002012-02-12T18:21:08.415+00:00"Yet such is the fear of us that the powers t..."Yet such is the fear of us that the powers that be have that they do not want law abiding people having the means to defend themselves, will arrest us often enough if we do defend ourselves and are constantly on the lookout to further restrict the right to defend ourselves in the probable fear that one day we'll simply decide to shoot them instead, after all, they are the architects of our misery" ...<br /><br />No mere coincidence that large numbers of Britain's Armed Forces are continually being kept busy, well away from our own shores ..<br /><br />No mere coincidence that as the beginning of the end of our ill-advised involvement in Afghanistan dawns, the FCO are making "noises" about Iran & other middle eastern countries ..<br /><br />The fact that British servicemen & women swear an oath of allegiance to the monarch & not to the government of the day must cause them many a sleepless night ..Captain Haddocknoreply@blogger.com