The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

£1,000 Reward Offered for Extinguisher Thugs – Guy Fawkes' blog.

Libertarian blogger Guido Fawkes is living up to the "order-order" bit of his blog's URL by offering a £1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those involved in throwing a fire extinguisher from the roof of the Conservative Party headquarters building this week.

Guido's initiative gives the lie to those who conflate libertarianism with anarchism or Statist Toryism. Libertarians believe in having only those few laws necessary to protect life, limb and property – rigorously enforced. We also understand (as those who debase the currency of law by using it for social engineering do not) that respect for the Law tends to vary inversely with the number and scope of the laws.

Had the extinguisher hit someone (as to which those throwing it were at best reckless) there would undoubtedly have been a death. Unless witnesses can confirm it was aimed at the policeman it just missed, I doubt a jury would agree with those bloggers who call this attempted murder. I have no doubt however that a serious crime of violence was committed. This is not ASBO territory. These people belong in gaol.

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