Well then ol’chap, what you omitted from the blurb in your excitement is that the man in question shot one of the would-be thieves in the back after he attempted to surrender. That moves it from self-defense to murder. Although, the two 16 year olds, did break in and were attempting to burglarize the house, they were not armed and tried to flee when they were discovered. After the first one was shot, the second pleaded for his life and was shot anyway. I'm all for self-defense, but this wasn't it. There is of course the matter of different legal systems between countries. The Brits do not have the right to bear arms and defend with armed force. The Brits generally have a dim view of anyone using weapons to defend themselves except in the most extraordinary circumstances. A recent case was where an attacker was stabbed by his own knife after the defender wrestled it away and used it. The Judge ruled that the attacker "deserved it".This case described really happened, frankie.
On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second.
In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term...
How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire ?
It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license.
The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns..
Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.
Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerfordmass shooting in 1987.
Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.
When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions.
(The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)
Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.
For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals.
Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearms still owned by private citizens.
During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.
Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.
Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,
"We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."
All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times,
and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences.
Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.
When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.
Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law.
The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.
Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.
Isn't that right stupid?
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/arti... An American Legacy: Her Deadly Warriors-in-Chief By Gary Brumback (contd.) War is not inevitable. There have been peaceful periods throughout history here and there in the world. And war can be ended, possibly forever. Doing so will require changing the personal characteristics and circumstances of our future U.S. presidents. As for the four character flaws, they won’t change in a sitting president. They have been crystallized and hardened during his formative years. We must elect an entirely different kind of presidency, one whose characteristics are the mirror image of the four. We know when the four positive sides exist by looking at the candidate’s personal history. We give ourselves a better chance of electing a candidate having no character flaws by changing how we elect the candidates and, in the long run, by grooming them early. The way we elect presidents needs to be changed from winner-take all to an approval voting or an alternative, scored voting. Either approach leaves the Constitutional requirement of an Electoral College intact. Besides possessing the four positive character traits, the person ought to be a female. Not just any female though. Rule out Hillary Clinton, she of the “we came, we saw, we killed” morality and wife of a man who some argue is an international war criminal. And rule out Elizabeth Warren, the brand new U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. She apparently believes Iran is a significant threat to the U.S. and is too closely allied with AIPAC, the American/Israeli lobby group reportedly just itching to get the U.S. into a war with Iran. Future candidates need to be groomed through training, mentoring, and being down-ballot candidates and office holders for progressive, non-imperialistic causes. As for getting rid of the “badvantagious” circumstances I devoted much of my book about the corpocracy on that very goal. 13 In the book are numerous proposals for legislative, political, judicial and economic reforms. In one of the chapters I propose “waging war on war” with more than 20 major reform initiatives such as nationalizing and reorienting the defense industry, joining the International Criminal Court, and creating a dual community versus military service draft. We cannot afford to leave President Barack Obama out of the equation notwithstanding what I said about intractable personal characteristics. He needs to be pressured daily by antiwar and peace groups to stop his drone strikes, and these same groups need to stop acting as if their existence depends more on war than on peace and to start uniting and orchestrating corporate and government reform strike forces against all members of the industrial/military/political complex. I started this article with some doggerel. I will end it with some more:“America was born in the womb of war. Will she die in her arms?” Einstein once said that “War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.”I agree. Whether you do or not, my guess is that at least some wars and military interventions have been over the top for you and that you do not want anymore than I do the risk of the transgressions of our history continuing unabated and descending on our descendants in a climatic and irreversible finale. |
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Gary Brumback, PhD is a retired psychologist and Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He is the author of The Devil’s Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lurch.
Notes [1] Zinn, Howard. A people's history of the United States. NY: HarperPerennial, 2005. [2] History of US military Overt and Covert Global Interventions. July 15, 2012 by Brian Wilson. http://www.brianwillson.com/history-us-milita... [3] Kohlberg, L. The psychology of moral development: The nature and validity of moral stages. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984. |
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[4] From Michael Sherry in his review (The American Scholar Autumn 2010) of the book Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq, by John Dower. NY: Norton, 2010. [5] Sociopathic narcissism: A political syndrome, by William Manson, Dissident Voice, October 26, 2012. [6] Brumback, G.B. The Devil's Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lurch. Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2011. ]7] The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy, April 30, 2012. Transcript of remarks by John O. Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. click here [8] An unsent letter to the President's chief counterterrorism adviser by Gary Brumback, OpEdNews.com , May 17. 2012. [9] The Erasmus quote is from Just and unjust war www.co.quaker.org/Writings/JustAndUnjustWar by Howard Zinn [10] Ibid. [11] Zinn, A people's history---. Page 198. [12] Brumback, The devil's marriage---. Page 38. [13] Selling war as smart power by Coleen Rowley, OpEdNews.com , August 31, 2012. [14] Brumback, The Devil's marriage---. |
News you will not see or hear on IRNA or Al Jazeera, on second thought...jihad request? France launched airstrikes today to help the government of Mali defeat al-Qaeda-linked militants who captured more ground this week, dramatically raising the stakes in the battle for this vast desert nation. French President Francois Hollande said the "terrorist groups, drug traffickers, and extremists" in northern Mali "show a brutality that threatens us all." He vowed that the operation would last "as long as necessary." France said it was taking the action in Mali at the request of President Dioncounda Traore, who declared a state of emergency because of the militants' advance. The arrival of the French troops in their former colony came a day after the Islamists moved the closest yet toward territory still under government control and fought the Malian military for the first time in months, seizing the strategic city of Konna. Sanda Abou Moahmed, a spokesman for the Ansar Dine group, condemned Mali's president for seeking military help from its former colonizer. "While Dioncounda Traore asked for help from France, we ask for guidance from Allah and from other Muslims in our sub-region because this war has become a war against the crusaders," he said by telephone from Timbuktu. Do you agree, comrade MUQ? Another in a long line of war against infidelic crusaders? |
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Good thing we had our little revolution here 200 plus years ago then, eh? Dummmassss brits...what you omitted was the burglars were going to attack and only when they saw the gun did they try to back pedal, turn and run....so in a mere blink of an eye we go from a frontal shot to a shot in the back and you figure a blink of the eye is enough time to justify murder versus self defense??? Like Stephen Colbert has often said, you have the right to be wrong...come in my house uninvited... |
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The wealthiest Americans - such as private equity managers, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists - will continue to enjoy the provisions of a legal, but controversial, part of the tax code that allows them to avoid pay billions in taxes. The reason this provision wasn't changed, analysts say, is the financial power of this sector. In the Bay Area alone, employees of top money firms donated $6.7 million to federal candidates and political committees during the 2012 election cycle.
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One more win for Ray...way to go Ravens...heading to the dome today to watch my birds finally rise up...hopefully see you and Ray in the finals... |
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I just adore my 44.......however , a digital recording of Hillary Clintons incapacitating cackle may deter the most zealous of theives .....hell the cackle forced Bill to take his weapon elsewhere.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/arti... Beyond Bayonets and Battleships Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power By Alfred W. McCoy November 10, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - It’s 2025 and an American “triple canopy” of advanced surveillance and armed drones fills the heavens from the lower- to the exo-atmosphere. A wonder of the modern age, it can deliver its weaponry anywhere on the planet with staggering speed, knock out an enemy’s satellite communications system, or follow individuals biometrically for great distances. Along with the country’s advanced cyberwar capacity, it’s also the most sophisticated militarized information system ever created and an insurance policy for U.S. global dominion deep into the twenty-first century. It’s the future as the Pentagon imagines it; it’s under development; and Americans know nothing about it. They are still operating in another age.“Our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917,” complained Republican candidate Mitt Romney during the last presidential debate. With words of withering mockery, President Obama shot back:“Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed... the question is not a game of Battleship, where we're counting ships. It's what are our capabilities.” Obama later offered just a hint of what those capabilities might be:“What I did was work with our joint chiefs of staff to think about, what are we going to need in the future to make sure that we are safe?... We need to be thinking about cyber security. We need to be talking about space.” Amid all the post-debate media chatter, however, not a single commentator seemed to have a clue when it came to the profound strategic changes encoded in the president’s sparse words. Yet for the past four years, working in silence and secrecy, the Obama administration has presided over a technological revolution in defense planning, moving the nation far beyond bayonets and battleships to cyberwarfare and the full-scale weaponization of space. In the face of waning economic influence, this bold new breakthrough in what’s called “information warfare” may prove significantly responsible should U.S. global dominion somehow continue far into the twenty-first century. While the technological changes involved are nothing less than revolutionary, they have deep historical roots in a distinctive style of American global power. It’s been evident from the moment this nation first stepped onto the world stage with its conquest of the Philippines in 1898. Over the span of a century, plunged into three Asian crucibles of counterinsurgency -- in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Afghanistan -- the U.S. military has repeatedly been pushed to the breaking point. It has repeatedly responded by fusing the nation’s most advanced technologies into new information infrastructures of unprecedented power. That military first created a manual information regime for Philippine pacification, then a computerized apparatus to fight communist guerrillas in Vietnam. Finally, during its decade-plus in Afghanistan (and its years in Iraq), the Pentagon has begun to fuse biometrics, cyberwarfare, and a potential future triple canopy aerospace shield into a robotic information regime that could produce a platform of unprecedented power for the exercise of global dominion -- or for future military disaster. |
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The phony baloney "Fiscal Cliff" increased the deficit 4 Trillion dollars which proves both parties do not represent average Americans. NASCAR & Hollywood benefited. Even Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times and Dumbya Bush 6 times. Fiscal Cliff, Debt Ceiling, etc etc. etc. is all smoke and mirrors. |
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/arti... Beyond Bayonets and Battleships Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power By Alfred W. McCoy (Contd.) America’s First Information Revolution This distinctive U.S. system of imperial information gathering (and the surveillance and war-making practices that go with it) traces its origins to some brilliant American innovations in the management of textual, statistical, and visual data. Their sum was nothing less than a new information infrastructure with an unprecedented capacity for mass surveillance. During two extraordinary decades, American inventions like Thomas Alva Edison’s quadruplex telegraph (1874), Philo Remington’s commercial typewriter (1874), Melvil Dewey’s library decimal system (1876), and Herman Hollerith’s patented punch card (1889) created synergies that led to the militarized application of America’s first information revolution. To pacify a determined guerrilla resistance that persisted in the Philippines for a decade after 1898, the U.S. colonial regime -- unlike European empires with their cultural studies of “Oriental civilizations”-- used these advanced information technologies to amass detailed empirical data on Philippine society. In this way, they forged an Argus-eyed security apparatus that played a major role in crushing the Filipino nationalist movement. The resulting colonial policing and surveillance system would also leave a lasting institutional imprint on the emerging American state. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, the “father of U.S. military intelligence” Colonel Ralph Van Deman drew upon security methods he had developed years before in the Philippines to found the Army’s Military Intelligence Division. He recruited a staff that quickly grew from one (himself) to 1,700, deployed some 300,000 citizen-operatives to compile more than a million pages of surveillance reports on American citizens, and laid the foundations for a permanent domestic surveillance apparatus. A version of this system rose to unparalleled success during World War II when Washington established the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as the nation’s first worldwide espionage agency. Among its nine branches, Research & Analysis recruited a staff of nearly 2,000 academics who amassed 300,000 photographs, a million maps, and three million file cards, which they deployed in an information system via “indexing, cross-indexing, and counter-indexing” to answer countless tactical questions. Yet by early 1944, the OSS found itself, in the words of historian Robin Winks,“drowning under the flow of information.” Many of the materials it had so carefully collected were left to molder in storage, unread and unprocessed. Despite its ambitious global reach, this first U.S. information regime, absent technological change, might well have collapsed under its own weight, slowing the flow of foreign intelligence that would prove so crucial for America’s exercise of global dominion after World War II. |
And guess who left the dome after Seattle scored and took the lead? Another in a long line of great moves by the AB'ster...could not stand to watch Matty Ice fail again...sure missed a hell of a finish... |
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