I am the Owner of "The Crime Superboard", which can be found at...
http://thecrimesuperboard.pro-forums.com
...and, I can be E Mailed, at...
This blog is here to house my thoughts about crime in the UK/World and about self-defence and Self Defence Implements (SDIs).
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One home!
Seven rooms!
Three bedrooms!
A strong front door!
A very tough back door!
In my home are valuables: those visible, those mostly hidden, those of sentimental value and those that are absolutely INVISIBLE to everybody, including to me.
Those in the last category include...
1. Dignity.
2. Privacy.
3. Safety.
4. Sacredness.
5. The right to be (and remain) safe.
6. The right to be able to protect my home from intruders.
7. The right to be able to protect my person from assailants.
8. The right to be able to protect my belongings from thieves.
Is it so much different for the Law Makers, that they cannot see the obvious?
In this building, where I live, there is peace and quiet. This is the place in which I live my days.
It is my home.
- The only people who should get in here are those allowed in, by me.
- The only people who should remain here are those allowed to stay, by me.
Nobody else has the right to breach my personal space's integrity with uninvited entries and with intentions to steal or injure, when challenged.
Once a burglar enters my property, he should be recognised, in British Law, as having surrendered his right to personal safety, even if that personal safety is not threatened, by me.
He has breached my borders and must be dealt with in any manner I choose, depending on the predicament in which I judge myself to be, because of his unwanted intrusion.
There are exceptions to this, I will admit:
I should not be able to completely legally get away with maiming or killing a burglar simply because he is in my home and when he is not a clear physical threat to me.
This applies even more if, once confronting him I find that he is clearly wishing to leave, empty-handed, is showing no aggression and can be made to understand that I want to move out of his way and let him exit the property.
This burglar might one day be some parents' 14 years old son!
Even if I can justify having to kill him if he attacks me, or threatens to attack me, how can I justify destroying at least two other lives for their duration...the lives of his mother and father being only two examples?
I'd be ruining their lives, also, and I can't be allowed to do that!
But, if physical aggression is shown to me, with or without the burlgar wielding a "weapon" of any form, then I should be utterly clear in mind, and clean of conscience, in returning the attack with requisite force, using any legally owned (in my home) and carried (in my home) Self Defence Implement - blades and batons included.
The State tells us that Society and the State will protect me!
The State (Police Officers) happens not to be around in my home when I am forced to defend myself, and my property, from an intruder - and then, THAT FACT MUST FORCE INTO PLACE A RULE THAT ALLOWS ME TO DEFEND MYSELF THE WAY I SEE FIT!
They clearly cannot arrive at my home quickly enough to protect me, anyway, and I'm already there and ready to protect me!
Given their absence, they must be presumed to have failed in creating the State's preferred protection for that particular intrusion.
Once it can be shown that the State is about to fail to protect me, via their Police Officers failing to attend and intervene in a timely manner, I ought to have a virtually rubber-stamped right to use absolutely any Self Defence Implement that I can, to release me from a dangerous situation, provided that I go no further than I require, in order to secure safety for me, for my home and for my belongings.
ITEM: IT'S WORTH REMEMBERING THAT IT IS OUR GOVERNMENT WHO HAVE CALCULATEDLY MADE US LESS ABLE TO DEFEND OURSELVES!
ITEM: IT IS OUR GOVERNMENT WHO HAVE CALCULATEDLY MADE US FAR MORE VULNERABLE TO MUGGINGS, SEX ASSAULTS AND BURGLARIES!
ITEM: IT IS OUR GOVERNMENT WHO HAVE DELIBERATELY HAD THE INSOLENCE TO REACH RIGHT DOWN INTO YOUR HOME, AND MINE, AND RENDERED US ALMOST DEFENCELESS IN THE FACE OF ANY WHO CARE TO APPROACH AND ATTACK US!
If you want somebody to blame for the current crime climate in this country, and for the pitifully vulnerable state in which we find ourselves, then look no further than your Government!
Our myopic Government mugged us long before our attackers knew we even existed, and that same Government cuffed us, for defending ourselves, long before any Police Officers arrived at the scene!
We shouldn't even have to ask their permission - these vermin come into our homes and attack us!
We should demand the right to put down vermin traps and take anti-vermin measures as we see fit!