"The people have spoken - the bastards."

by Pleasuredome 3 Replies latest social current

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  Pleasuredome

  when it comes to the people trying to get what they want, the politicians soon show their true colours. i'm sure the 'bastard' voters who voted for Labour MP Stephen Pound will be delighted with his comment.

  you will get what you're given, and you are free to do as we tell you.

  and btw, john 'vigilante' prescott, deputy prime minister, a guy who punches people for throwing eggs.

  Deputy Prime Minister condems law allowing Brits to kill burglars London Evening Standard A move to make it legal for householders to shoot burglars was today condemned by John Prescott as "vigilante law".
  
  The Deputy Prime Minister threw the weight of the Government against the proposal after it was demanded by the public in a radio poll.
  
  He claimed that if the measure became law, "people would seriously injure or even murder burglars without fearing the consequences".
  
  He said: "If you are going to give the right to someone to pick up a gun because they have seen somebody in the house and then shoot them, then that's the kind of vigilante law that I don't think Parliament will agree to."
  
  The idea for a "Tony Martin law", named after the Norfolk farmer jailed for shooting dead a teenage burglar, finished top in a poll of listeners run by the Today programme.
  
  Labour MP Stephen Pound had promised to introduce whichever proposed Bill won the poll. But he indicated his unhappiness with the result by declaring: "The people have spoken - the bastards."
  
  Mr Prescott mocked the Today programme for running the poll, telling presenter Jim Naughtie: "That blew up in your face, didn't it?"
  
  If a Bill ever went forward, it would have no chance of becoming law.
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  Gotta love Texas. If someone so much as sets a foot in your house... you can shoot them dead.

  Another less known law has do to with "Mischief in the Nightime". If you see a figure moving around in the dark in your yard... you can shoot them dead.

  § 9.42. Deadly Force to Protect Property

  A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:

  (1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and

  (2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:

  (A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or

  (B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and

  (3) he reasonably believes that:

  (A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or

  (B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.

  Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
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  stillajwexelder

  "The people have spoken - the bastards."
  Don't you just love democracy
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  Faraon

  Elsewhere,

  (3) he reasonably believes that:

  (A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or

  How reasonable is it to think that land cannot be protected unless one uses deadly force?

  What is going to happen to the land? Is someone going to steal it, rape it, pee on it, call it names, murder it?

  Got to love'em Texans-the bastards!. Kill them first, and ask them questions later.