Letting the Police do their job. Por Brian Micklethwait.
One of the more depressing things about these riots is the way that the only thing that the Police can think of to say to us non-looters and non-arsonists is: “Don’t join in” and “Let us handle it”. If the bad guys start to torch your house, let them get on with it. If they attack your next door neighbour, don’t join in on his side. Run away. Let the barbarians occupy and trash whatever territory they pick on and steal or destroy whatever property they want to.
There was a fascinating impromptu TV interview with some young citizens of Clapham last night, not “experts”, just regular citizens, one of whom stated the opposite policy. Law abiding persons should get out of their houses, he said, en masse, and be ready to defend them.
The trouble with “letting the Police do their job” is that in the precise spot in which you happen to live, or used to live, their job probably won’t start, if it ever does start, for about a week. In the meantime, letting the Police do their job means letting the damn looters and arsonists do their job, without anyone laying a finger on them, laying a finger on them being illegal. This is a doomed policy. If most people are compelled by law to be only neutral bystanders in a war between themselves and barbarism, barbarism wins. The right to, at the very least, forceful self defence must now be insisted upon. The Police, as we advocates of the don’t-disarm-the-victims-of-crime policy have been pointing out for decades, can’t be everywhere. They cannot instantaneously attend every crime, and magically prevent it. Only the potential or actual victims of crime can sometimes immediately prevent or immediately punish crime, provided only that they not forbidden to.
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“When Seconds Count, The Police Are Only Minutes Away”
Comentário por António Costa Amaral (AA) — Agosto 9, 2011 @ 18:56
Finalmente, alguém a dizer algo com sentido.
Comentário por Joaquim Amado Lopes — Agosto 9, 2011 @ 20:03
[...] Leitura complementar: 12.7x33mm, The London riots and the right to self defence [...]
Pingback por Quem não tem cão… « O Insurgente — Agosto 9, 2011 @ 23:05
e o resultado:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14471405
Comentário por guna — Agosto 10, 2011 @ 13:07
Os políticamente correctos e idiotas úteis que nos governam retirararam às pessoas comuns o direito de se defenderem.
São os direitos humanos dos bandidos, que não têm medo dos tribunais, da polícia ou das vítimas.
Se ao assaltar uma residência, loja ou automóvel, fossem recebidos com chumbo, pensavam duas vezes.
Comentário por ricardo saramago — Agosto 10, 2011 @ 13:18