The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

What kind of country?

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Vincent Cooke's plea for family to flee before 'stabbing burglar Raymond Jacob 6 times' | Mail Online.

White trash Time will tell if justice will prevail for Vincent Cooke. I hope so. He resisted a forced entry to his home; protecting his family as best he could. We all hope we would have the courage thus to act if occasion (God forbid) arose. As a probably unintentional result of his bravery, there is one less villain for the decent people of England to provide for at the behest of Westminster's gangsters.

More shocking than Ray Jacob's banal evil is that his friends had the temerity to lay floral tributes at his victim's home. They have no shame, apparently, in being photographed doing so. Could the moral collapse of England be more complete?

h/t Nourishing Obscurity

 

Footnote: The Maserati GranSport (not a Granturismo) on the victim's drive might have cost £70,000 new, but it's not a current model and is now worth far less. How odd that the Mail concentrates so much on the apparent wealth of the victims, as if it somehow excuses a violent invasion of their home. Has socialism taken such root in Britain that right-wing newspapers now favour redistribution of wealth; even of the amateur variety?

3 responses to “What kind of country?”

  1. jameshigham Avatar
    jameshigham

    The Maserati GranSport (not a Granturismo) on the victim’s drive might have cost £70,000 new, but it’s not a current model and is now worth far less.
    It’s not even an issue, Tom, whether he has a Maserati or if it’s new or whatever. The politics of envy displayed in Clegg, Cable et al is sickening. Cooke is a businessman – he runs a business in the UK, which is well night impossible to do under the weight of tax and regulation and he has a few perks on the side.
    Good for him. I bet he works a 60 hour week plus and has every right to what he has built up. He’s currently watching it all diminish in value.

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  2. Tom Paine Avatar
    Tom Paine

    I agree entirely. Rich or poor, the family was entitled to be protected from the vermin emoting mawkishly at its gates. The only journalistic purpose in even mentioning the Maserati is to suggest they were somehow “asking for it”.

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    Moggsy

    From what I read the burglar was in the house, the husband was between the burglar and his family. The burglar was armed with a knife. I figure he was protecting his family, not letting him past and did not have a lot of time to think of every angle.
    The fact is, no matter what the Police, or Government say, that the Police are just not able to protect us.
    They sometimes deter, they sometimes detect after, but they can not protect. Not in our homes and not in public.
    People should just not be prosecuted for protecting themselves.
    Also I ask why self protection can’t be robust, “they” talk about reasonable force, but I don’t see why more extreme force can’t be seen as reasonable.
    And why exactly should the law expect us to risk ourselves for the sake of a burglar who should not be there?
    A woman alone in a house might have a hard time physically resisting a male burglar. To me it seems absolutely reasonable for her to shoot him if she feels it is necessary. I don’t think that is unreasonable.
    British law would not even let her keep a weapon for protection, not even pepper spray. That is so not reasonable or fair.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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