• Self defense injustice in the UK

    From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 29 05:43:15 2025
    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Thu May 29 09:11:36 2025
    On 2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer. The
    contrast with the sentences for the people convicted in the rape gang
    scandal were extremely disproportionate by comparison.

    Maybe Reform can preside over a major rewrite of the laws in the UK so
    that they make sense again. (Reform is substantially ahead of both the Conservatives and Reform in polling on a national basis but the next
    election is still a few years away so anything could happen between now
    and then.)

    --
    Rhino

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Rhino on Thu May 29 16:46:50 2025
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was >unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
    the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    With UK's prohibition of being able to act in self defense using a
    weapon, suppose you use your own body to defeat your attacker. In the
    ultimate illogic, did you violate the law as you used what you brought
    with you as a weapon?

    The
    contrast with the sentences for the people convicted in the rape gang
    scandal were extremely disproportionate by comparison.

    Maybe Reform can preside over a major rewrite of the laws in the UK so
    that they make sense again. (Reform is substantially ahead of both the >Conservatives and Reform in polling on a national basis but the next
    election is still a few years away so anything could happen between now
    and then.)

    I have no idea as UK voters do not seem to be inclined to punish their politicians for illiberal laws.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 29 19:00:51 2025
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    What a fucked-up country. It's shameful what they've done to a once-great nation.

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Thu May 29 16:55:45 2025
    On 2025-05-29 12:46 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
    the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    With UK's prohibition of being able to act in self defense using a
    weapon, suppose you use your own body to defeat your attacker. In the ultimate illogic, did you violate the law as you used what you brought
    with you as a weapon?

    Excellent point: you could conceivably kill someone with a martial art
    like a kick where the attacker lands badly and breaks his neck.

    The
    contrast with the sentences for the people convicted in the rape gang
    scandal were extremely disproportionate by comparison.

    Maybe Reform can preside over a major rewrite of the laws in the UK so
    that they make sense again. (Reform is substantially ahead of both the
    Conservatives and Reform in polling on a national basis but the next
    election is still a few years away so anything could happen between now
    and then.)

    I have no idea as UK voters do not seem to be inclined to punish their politicians for illiberal laws.

    I've seen plenty of commentators remark on their frustration with how
    crime is handled in their country and the meagre sentences most people
    get for serious crimes. Meanwhile, people who do mean tweets get longer
    jail terms than serious criminals. Many of these comments are probably
    by people who just repeat the same gossip they hear from others.

    However, an essayist I used to read frequently, Theodore Dalrymple (who
    also writes under his real name, Anthony Daniels) was a psychiatrist who
    spent part of his practice (two days a week) in a prison, worked in a
    public hospital the rest of the time, and had often been called upon to
    testify in trials due to his expertise so he spoke from deep personal experience and he expressed similar concerns about sentencing. I should
    note that he is a compassionate man and not someone who would happily
    throw everyone who commits the slightest offence in jail.

    --
    Rhino

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 29 17:00:57 2025
    On 2025-05-29 3:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    What a fucked-up country. It's shameful what they've done to a once-great nation.


    Many MANY Brits are well aware of the disaster their country is these
    days. Nigel Farage's Reform Party is building the Reform party on that realization and doing better in the polls than the traditional parties
    (all of them!) as a result. He's particularly strong on immigration
    although he isn't advocating mass deportations, at least so far. (I'm
    not sure if he's worried about scaring more moderate voters away or if
    he really believes it would be a bad idea.)

    Left-leaning observers are horrified, much as they were in America with
    Trump. Time will tell whether they are more persuasive than Farage in
    forming voting choices.

    --
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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 02:14:24 2025
    On May 29, 2025 at 2:00:57 PM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-29 3:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    What a fucked-up country. It's shameful what they've done to a once-great >> nation.


    Many MANY Brits are well aware of the disaster their country is these
    days. Nigel Farage's Reform Party is building the Reform party on that realization and doing better in the polls than the traditional parties
    (all of them!) as a result. He's particularly strong on immigration
    although he isn't advocating mass deportations, at least so far. (I'm
    not sure if he's worried about scaring more moderate voters away or if
    he really believes it would be a bad idea.)

    Left-leaning observers are horrified, much as they were in America with Trump. Time will tell whether they are more persuasive than Farage in
    forming voting choices.

    Even Piers Morgan is regularly remarking on his show that his country has become an absolute shit-show.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Fri May 30 02:30:20 2025
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and >>>begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for >>>self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was >>unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
    the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend >herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a
    cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any
    "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority
    (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g.,
    tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for
    sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may
    carry arms is on private property or any property to which the
    public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's
    own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it
    occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to
    another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an
    ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of
    violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of
    the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or
    during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    . . .

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Fri May 30 02:57:15 2025
    On May 29, 2025 at 7:30:20 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
    the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend
    herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a
    cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any
    "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority
    (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g.,
    tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for
    sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may
    carry arms is on private property or any property to which the
    public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's
    own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it
    occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to
    another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an
    ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of
    violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of
    the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or
    during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    This from a country that used to rule most of the world. How weak and soft they've become.

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 05:46:09 2025
    On 2025-05-29 10:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 29, 2025 at 2:00:57 PM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-29 3:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]> >>> wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However, >>>> he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and >>>> begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for >>>> self defense and kills him with one thrust.
    K
    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next? >>>>
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    What a fucked-up country. It's shameful what they've done to a once-great >>> nation.


    Many MANY Brits are well aware of the disaster their country is these
    days. Nigel Farage's Reform Party is building the Reform party on that
    realization and doing better in the polls than the traditional parties
    (all of them!) as a result. He's particularly strong on immigration
    although he isn't advocating mass deportations, at least so far. (I'm
    not sure if he's worried about scaring more moderate voters away or if
    he really believes it would be a bad idea.)

    Left-leaning observers are horrified, much as they were in America with
    Trump. Time will tell whether they are more persuasive than Farage in
    forming voting choices.

    Even Piers Morgan is regularly remarking on his show that his country has become an absolute shit-show.


    Apparently, a lot of Brits have left for greener pastures or are working
    toward that. I hate to break it to them but most Western countries are shit-shows (or heading that way) now.

    I just about gagged the other day when Bono made some remark about
    Canada being the hope of the world or similar nonsense. He has obviously
    not spent much time here in the past decade to see how Trudeau has
    turned this once prosperous country into one that seems headed for third
    world status at an alarming rate. I don't expect Mark Carney to reverse
    that. He was a top adviser to Trudeau for the past several years and is probably even more fanatical about Net Zero so he will surely accelerate
    our de-industrialization in the name of saving the planet. We'll
    probably envy the Venezuelans under Maduro before too much longer for
    their more comfortable lives.

    Voting Conservatives was our one solid chance of changing course at the
    recent election but not enough of us did it. My only hope is that Carney
    will do something so egregiously stupid that the opposition has to
    defeat the government and force a new election. But that isn't going to
    happen really soon; I think all the parties need time to rebuild their
    war chests: elections are expensive for political parties.
    --
    Rhino

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Fri May 30 11:01:47 2025
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
    the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend
    herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a
    cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any
    "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority
    (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g.,
    tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for
    sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may
    carry arms is on private property or any property to which the
    public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's
    own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it
    occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to
    another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an
    ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of
    violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of
    the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or
    during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    Since she was in the guy's car, she should have just told the police the
    knife was in the center console or somewhere else in the car and she
    grabbed it when he initiated the attack. He's certainly in no position to contradict her. Let them convict his dead body for bringing the weapon in
    his car.

    I also note from the news coverage that she was sentenced to life in prison
    for this 'crime', which in Britain apparently equates to 17 years for an 18-year-old. Is the life expectancy for the average British woman only 35
    years or am I missing something? I'm not arguing she should have gotten
    more time--quite the opposite-- but if you sentence someone to life in
    prison for what you consider to be a heinous crime, why does that sentence
    let them out in their mid-30s?

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 07:58:02 2025
    On Thu, 29 May 2025 19:00:51 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]> >wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    What a fucked-up country. It's shameful what they've done to a once-great >nation.


    It's the result of allowing liberalism to get a foothold. We would do
    well to learn from the disaster that is happening there.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 20:05:35 2025
    On May 29, 2025 at 6:11:36 AM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer. The
    contrast with the sentences for the people convicted in the rape gang
    scandal were extremely disproportionate by comparison.


    https://ibb.co/M0Gwpp4

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 31 02:25:20 2025
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    Compare that story to this one:

    Coast Guard Veteran Lures Her Rapist to Woods and Executes Him, Then Goes and Gets a Tattoo

    A Coast Guard veteran turned OnlyFans model has pled guilty on Tuesday to murdering a man who she alleged raped her four years before she executed him off an isolated hiking trail in an Ohio national park.

    Chelsea Perkins, 35, traveled more than 300 miles from Virginia to Ohio in an arranged meet-up with Matthew Dunmire at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park on March 6, 2021, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    While in the park, they began hiking off-trail into a wooded area where
    Perkins took out a handgun she had been concealing and fatally shot Dunmire, 31, in the back of the head, prosecutors said.

    According to a criminal complaint, Dunmire went out drinking with a co-worker four days before he was murdered and told them he was meeting up with a girl who was staying in the area for the weekend. Dunmire's co-worker saw a woman with brown hair pick him up in a white smart car, which investigators later discovered was registered in Virginia and belonged to Perkins' husband.

    Prosecutors said FBI investigators used GPS data, DNA, social media, phone records, and ballistics analysis at the crime scene to link Perkins to the murder.

    Witnesses also later told investigators they saw a woman matching Perkins' description on the park trail on the day of the murder. Hikers in the park
    also reported hearing a gunshot between 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., according
    to documents. It took the FBI nearly nine months from when she killed Dunmire to arrest her.

    Authorities discovered three 9mm pistols, one of which had bullets with "similar characteristics" found inside Dunmire's head, while searching
    Perkins' Alexandria, Va, home, documents show.

    Dunmire was an aspiring musician who grew up in Virginia before he moved to Cleveland. Court documents show that Perkins and Dunmire knew each other
    before the killing and were in high school together from 2005 to 2009.

    In 2017, Perkins filed a report with Virginia Beach police alleging that Dunmire had raped her but didn't have enough evidence to file charges against him. Perkins then had a brief stint in the Coast Guard, where she met her husband, according to court documents. She left the service and went on to become an OnlyFans model under the name Sabrina Savage, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.

    In November 2021, Dunmire's mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and father, John Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, DC, intending to kill Perkins,
    according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    Dunmire's mother, dressed as a UPS driver, knocked on an apartment door and shot a woman she mistakenly thought was Perkins twice in the abdomen. The mother and father fled the scene, changing the license plates on their vehicle to avoid being caught, but were tracked down by police.

    Tommie Lynn Dunmire shot and killed herself after being pulled over in
    Florida. The woman she shot by mistake survived her injuries. Federal agents arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to three years in prison.

    Perkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence on federal property-- a week before she was set to stand trial. Following her plea deal Tuesday, Perkins faces between 20 and 25 years in prison. She is set to face sentencing on Sept. 9.


    https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/coast-guard-vet-turned-onlyfans-model-chelsea-perkins-pleads-guilty-to-killing-accused-rapist-in-national-park/

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri May 30 20:02:54 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    Compare that story to this one:

    Coast Guard Veteran Lures Her Rapist to Woods and Executes Him, Then Goes and Gets a Tattoo

    A Coast Guard veteran turned OnlyFans model has pled guilty on Tuesday to murdering a man who she alleged raped her four years before she executed him off an isolated hiking trail in an Ohio national park.

    Chelsea Perkins, 35, traveled more than 300 miles from Virginia to Ohio in an arranged meet-up with Matthew Dunmire at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park on March 6, 2021, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    While in the park, they began hiking off-trail into a wooded area where Perkins took out a handgun she had been concealing and fatally shot Dunmire, 31, in the back of the head, prosecutors said.

    According to a criminal complaint, Dunmire went out drinking with a co-worker four days before he was murdered and told them he was meeting up with a girl who was staying in the area for the weekend. Dunmire's co-worker saw a woman with brown hair pick him up in a white smart car, which investigators later discovered was registered in Virginia and belonged to Perkins' husband.

    Prosecutors said FBI investigators used GPS data, DNA, social media, phone records, and ballistics analysis at the crime scene to link Perkins to the murder.

    Witnesses also later told investigators they saw a woman matching Perkins' description on the park trail on the day of the murder. Hikers in the park also reported hearing a gunshot between 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., according to documents. It took the FBI nearly nine months from when she killed Dunmire to arrest her.

    Authorities discovered three 9mm pistols, one of which had bullets with "similar characteristics" found inside Dunmire's head, while searching Perkins' Alexandria, Va, home, documents show.

    Dunmire was an aspiring musician who grew up in Virginia before he moved to Cleveland. Court documents show that Perkins and Dunmire knew each other before the killing and were in high school together from 2005 to 2009.

    In 2017, Perkins filed a report with Virginia Beach police alleging that Dunmire had raped her but didn't have enough evidence to file charges against him. Perkins then had a brief stint in the Coast Guard, where she met her husband, according to court documents. She left the service and went on to become an OnlyFans model under the name Sabrina Savage, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.

    In November 2021, Dunmire's mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and father, John Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, DC, intending to kill Perkins, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    Dunmire's mother, dressed as a UPS driver, knocked on an apartment door and shot a woman she mistakenly thought was Perkins twice in the abdomen. The mother and father fled the scene, changing the license plates on their vehicle
    to avoid being caught, but were tracked down by police.

    Tommie Lynn Dunmire shot and killed herself after being pulled over in Florida. The woman she shot by mistake survived her injuries. Federal agents arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to three years in prison.

    Perkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence on federal property-- a week before she was
    set to stand trial. Following her plea deal Tuesday, Perkins faces between 20 and 25 years in prison. She is set to face sentencing on Sept. 9.


    https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/coast-guard-vet-turned-onlyfans-model-chelsea-perkins-pleads-guilty-to-killing-accused-rapist-in-national-park/


    Thanks for the link. So people actually pay for low rnd quasi porn like
    that?

    I read the article twice trying to figure out the timeline and never could.



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    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 31 10:01:37 2025
    On 2025-05-30 4:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 29, 2025 at 6:11:36 AM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer. The
    contrast with the sentences for the people convicted in the rape gang
    scandal were extremely disproportionate by comparison.


    https://ibb.co/M0Gwpp4


    That guy apparently read a version of the Constitution that guarantees
    robbers a slap on the wrist for store break-ins. Probably the special
    BLM Edition of the Constitution....

    --
    Rhino

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 31 09:56:38 2025
    On 2025-05-30 7:01 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However, >>>>> he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and >>>>> begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for >>>>> self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
    the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend >>> herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a
    cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any
    "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority
    (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g.,
    tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for
    sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may
    carry arms is on private property or any property to which the
    public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's
    own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it
    occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to
    another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an
    ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of
    violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of
    the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or
    during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    Since she was in the guy's car, she should have just told the police the knife was in the center console or somewhere else in the car and she
    grabbed it when he initiated the attack. He's certainly in no position to contradict her. Let them convict his dead body for bringing the weapon in
    his car.

    I also note from the news coverage that she was sentenced to life in prison for this 'crime', which in Britain apparently equates to 17 years for an 18-year-old. Is the life expectancy for the average British woman only 35 years or am I missing something? I'm not arguing she should have gotten
    more time--quite the opposite-- but if you sentence someone to life in
    prison for what you consider to be a heinous crime, why does that sentence let them out in their mid-30s?

    It's not much different in Canada.

    Here, the longest sentence you can get is also called "life" but it's
    actually 25 years before you're eligible for parole. This sentence is
    reserved for 1st degree murder and High Treason. By the way, if you kill multiple people, it's still just 25 years before you can apply for your
    parole because sentences are always served concurrently. (The last time
    the Conservatives were in power, they changed the law so that judges
    could make the sentences consecutive with the offender only eligible for
    parole after the last of the sentences is complete. After that change to
    the law, a guy who killed three cops and injured two, Justin Bourque,
    got a sentence of 75 years consecutive before he was eligible for
    parole. A few years later, Alexandre Bissonette killed 6 people in a
    mosque (and injured 5 more) and was sentenced to six consecutive 25 year sentences under the same law. But Bissonette appealed and the appeal
    went all the way to the Supreme Court which ruled unanimously that
    consecutive sentences without the possibility of parole until they were
    all over was cruel and unusual punishment. Justin Bourque's sentence was
    left at 75 years in jail BUT he became eligible for parole at 25 years,
    not 75. Alexandre Bissonette, after his successful appeal, was
    ultimately sentenced to ? years in jail (the Wikipedia article doesn't
    say) but he will be eligible for parole at 25 years.

    So "life" isn't really life in this country at all. Europe is much the
    same. Anders Breivik, the guy who killed 77 people at a gathering of
    young socialists and another 8 in downtown Oslo, was sentenced to the
    maximum sentence possible in Norway, 21 years. He'll still be plenty
    young enough to be trouble when he's released, as will Bissonette and
    Bourque in this country. Breivik is already eligible for parole (at just
    10 years) but apparently hasn't applied, preferring to be seen as some
    kind of political prisoner/martyr.

    But it wouldn't be fair to ignore what the Brits called a "whole life
    order" which allows them to put someone in prison until they die,
    regardless of how long that is. They *can* apply that sentence and have
    done so in a handful of notorious cases. They did it relatively recently
    with nurse Lucy Letby, convicted of killing several babies in a
    neo-natal ward of a hospital. We have something similar, which is a
    "Dangerous Offender Designation". It has been used against some serial
    killers. But it's hard to satisfy all the criteria so that it can be
    applied and it isn't used much.

    Then there are countries with really bizarre legal systems. I read about
    one case in Wikipedia where a woman in Thailand was sentenced to over
    140,000 years after defrauding many people in a pyramid scheme. However, another law limited the prison term to 20 years maximum for fraud. She
    actually served only 8 years before getting parole.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamoy_Thipyaso



    --
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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 31 10:12:46 2025
    On 2025-05-30 10:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    Compare that story to this one:

    Coast Guard Veteran Lures Her Rapist to Woods and Executes Him, Then Goes and Gets a Tattoo

    A Coast Guard veteran turned OnlyFans model has pled guilty on Tuesday to murdering a man who she alleged raped her four years before she executed him off an isolated hiking trail in an Ohio national park.

    Chelsea Perkins, 35, traveled more than 300 miles from Virginia to Ohio in an arranged meet-up with Matthew Dunmire at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park on March 6, 2021, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    While in the park, they began hiking off-trail into a wooded area where Perkins took out a handgun she had been concealing and fatally shot Dunmire, 31, in the back of the head, prosecutors said.

    According to a criminal complaint, Dunmire went out drinking with a co-worker four days before he was murdered and told them he was meeting up with a girl who was staying in the area for the weekend. Dunmire's co-worker saw a woman with brown hair pick him up in a white smart car, which investigators later discovered was registered in Virginia and belonged to Perkins' husband.

    Prosecutors said FBI investigators used GPS data, DNA, social media, phone records, and ballistics analysis at the crime scene to link Perkins to the murder.

    Witnesses also later told investigators they saw a woman matching Perkins' description on the park trail on the day of the murder. Hikers in the park also reported hearing a gunshot between 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., according to documents. It took the FBI nearly nine months from when she killed Dunmire to arrest her.

    Authorities discovered three 9mm pistols, one of which had bullets with "similar characteristics" found inside Dunmire's head, while searching Perkins' Alexandria, Va, home, documents show.

    Dunmire was an aspiring musician who grew up in Virginia before he moved to Cleveland. Court documents show that Perkins and Dunmire knew each other before the killing and were in high school together from 2005 to 2009.

    In 2017, Perkins filed a report with Virginia Beach police alleging that Dunmire had raped her but didn't have enough evidence to file charges against him. Perkins then had a brief stint in the Coast Guard, where she met her husband, according to court documents. She left the service and went on to become an OnlyFans model under the name Sabrina Savage, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.

    In November 2021, Dunmire's mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and father, John Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, DC, intending to kill Perkins, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    Dunmire's mother, dressed as a UPS driver, knocked on an apartment door and shot a woman she mistakenly thought was Perkins twice in the abdomen. The mother and father fled the scene, changing the license plates on their vehicle
    to avoid being caught, but were tracked down by police.

    Tommie Lynn Dunmire shot and killed herself after being pulled over in Florida. The woman she shot by mistake survived her injuries. Federal agents arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to three years in prison.

    Perkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence on federal property-- a week before she was
    set to stand trial. Following her plea deal Tuesday, Perkins faces between 20 and 25 years in prison. She is set to face sentencing on Sept. 9.


    https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/coast-guard-vet-turned-onlyfans-model-chelsea-perkins-pleads-guilty-to-killing-accused-rapist-in-national-park/


    Hmm. That's a rather different case. I'd call it a revenge murder, not self-defence. It would be self-defence if she killed him when he
    attempted to rape her but 4 years after the fact - and after her parents
    had tried to exact revenge on her behalf - just doesn't feel like
    self-defence.

    As an aside, I'm astonished that he would go out with her years after
    this rape given that they'd known each other in high school before the
    rape. Wouldn't he be incredibly suspicious about her proposing a hike -
    or any other kind of social connection - after that? Or was this rape
    really just one of those times when two people had sex willingly and
    then one of them woke up the next morning with major regrets and decided
    to reclassify it as rape? That might explain why her original accusation
    of rape never went anywhere. In any case, it's unlikely *he* experienced
    it as a rape or he never would have gone near her again.

    --
    Rhino

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 31 15:30:04 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:

    Compare that story to this one:

    https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/coast-guard-vet-turned-onlyfans-model-chelsea-perkins-pleads-guilty-to-killing-accused-rapist-in-national-park/

    I just want to comment on this bit concerning the parents of the
    perpetrator of the initial crime:

    In November 2021, Dunmire's mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and
    father, John Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, DC,
    intending to kill Perkins, according to the US Attorney's
    Office.

    Dunmire's mother, dressed as a UPS driver, knocked on an
    apartment door and shot a woman she mistakenly thought was
    Perkins twice in the abdomen. The mother and father fled the
    scene, changing the license plates on their vehicle to avoid
    being caught, but were tracked down by police.

    Tommie Lynn Dunmire shot and killed herself after being pulled
    over in Florida. The woman she shot by mistake survived her
    injuries. Federal agents arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded
    guilty to accessory after the fact to assault with intent to
    kill and was sentenced to three years in prison.

    Did his parents clean up after previous crime he committed? Have they
    murdered complaining witnesses in the past?

    Also, can I just point out that McQuillen was an accessory before,
    during, and after the fact? He could have been charged with additional
    crimes.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 31 16:56:09 2025
    On May 31, 2025 at 7:12:46 AM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-30 10:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    Compare that story to this one:

    Coast Guard Veteran Lures Her Rapist to Woods and Executes Him, Then Goes >> and
    Gets a Tattoo

    A Coast Guard veteran turned OnlyFans model has pled guilty on Tuesday to >> murdering a man who she alleged raped her four years before she executed him
    off an isolated hiking trail in an Ohio national park.

    Chelsea Perkins, 35, traveled more than 300 miles from Virginia to Ohio in >> an
    arranged meet-up with Matthew Dunmire at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park >> on
    March 6, 2021, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    While in the park, they began hiking off-trail into a wooded area where
    Perkins took out a handgun she had been concealing and fatally shot Dunmire,
    31, in the back of the head, prosecutors said.

    According to a criminal complaint, Dunmire went out drinking with a
    co-worker
    four days before he was murdered and told them he was meeting up with a girl
    who was staying in the area for the weekend. Dunmire's co-worker saw a woman
    with brown hair pick him up in a white smart car, which investigators later >> discovered was registered in Virginia and belonged to Perkins' husband.

    Prosecutors said FBI investigators used GPS data, DNA, social media, phone >> records, and ballistics analysis at the crime scene to link Perkins to the >> murder.

    Witnesses also later told investigators they saw a woman matching Perkins' >> description on the park trail on the day of the murder. Hikers in the park >> also reported hearing a gunshot between 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., according
    to documents. It took the FBI nearly nine months from when she killed
    Dunmire
    to arrest her.

    Authorities discovered three 9mm pistols, one of which had bullets with
    "similar characteristics" found inside Dunmire's head, while searching
    Perkins' Alexandria, Va, home, documents show.

    Dunmire was an aspiring musician who grew up in Virginia before he moved to >> Cleveland. Court documents show that Perkins and Dunmire knew each other
    before the killing and were in high school together from 2005 to 2009.

    In 2017, Perkins filed a report with Virginia Beach police alleging that
    Dunmire had raped her but didn't have enough evidence to file charges
    against
    him. Perkins then had a brief stint in the Coast Guard, where she met her >> husband, according to court documents. She left the service and went on to >> become an OnlyFans model under the name Sabrina Savage, the Cleveland Plain >> Dealer reported.

    In November 2021, Dunmire's mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and father, John >> Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, DC, intending to kill Perkins,
    according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    Dunmire's mother, dressed as a UPS driver, knocked on an apartment door and >> shot a woman she mistakenly thought was Perkins twice in the abdomen. The >> mother and father fled the scene, changing the license plates on their
    vehicle
    to avoid being caught, but were tracked down by police.

    Tommie Lynn Dunmire shot and killed herself after being pulled over in
    Florida. The woman she shot by mistake survived her injuries. Federal agents
    arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to >> assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to three years in prison.

    Perkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using a firearm during >> and
    in relation to a crime of violence on federal property-- a week before she >> was
    set to stand trial. Following her plea deal Tuesday, Perkins faces between >> 20
    and 25 years in prison. She is set to face sentencing on Sept. 9.



    https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/coast-guard-vet-turned-onlyfans-model-chelsea-perkins-pleads-guilty-to-killing-accused-rapist-in-national-park/


    Hmm. That's a rather different case. I'd call it a revenge murder, not self-defence. It would be self-defence if she killed him when he
    attempted to rape her but 4 years after the fact - and after her parents
    had tried to exact revenge on her behalf - just doesn't feel like self-defence.

    It wasn't her parents, it was the parents of her victim that were trying to
    get revenge on *his* behalf.

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 31 11:53:31 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On May 31, 2025 at 7:12:46 AM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-05-30 10:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    Compare that story to this one:

    Coast Guard Veteran Lures Her Rapist to Woods and Executes Him, Then Goes >>> and
    Gets a Tattoo

    A Coast Guard veteran turned OnlyFans model has pled guilty on Tuesday to >>> murdering a man who she alleged raped her four years before she executed him
    off an isolated hiking trail in an Ohio national park.

    Chelsea Perkins, 35, traveled more than 300 miles from Virginia to Ohio in >>> an
    arranged meet-up with Matthew Dunmire at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park >>> on
    March 6, 2021, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    While in the park, they began hiking off-trail into a wooded area where
    Perkins took out a handgun she had been concealing and fatally shot Dunmire,
    31, in the back of the head, prosecutors said.

    According to a criminal complaint, Dunmire went out drinking with a
    co-worker
    four days before he was murdered and told them he was meeting up with a girl
    who was staying in the area for the weekend. Dunmire's co-worker saw a woman
    with brown hair pick him up in a white smart car, which investigators later >>> discovered was registered in Virginia and belonged to Perkins' husband.

    Prosecutors said FBI investigators used GPS data, DNA, social media, phone >>> records, and ballistics analysis at the crime scene to link Perkins to the >>> murder.

    Witnesses also later told investigators they saw a woman matching Perkins' >>> description on the park trail on the day of the murder. Hikers in the park >>> also reported hearing a gunshot between 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., according
    to documents. It took the FBI nearly nine months from when she killed
    Dunmire
    to arrest her.

    Authorities discovered three 9mm pistols, one of which had bullets with
    "similar characteristics" found inside Dunmire's head, while searching
    Perkins' Alexandria, Va, home, documents show.

    Dunmire was an aspiring musician who grew up in Virginia before he moved to >>> Cleveland. Court documents show that Perkins and Dunmire knew each other >>> before the killing and were in high school together from 2005 to 2009.

    In 2017, Perkins filed a report with Virginia Beach police alleging that >>> Dunmire had raped her but didn't have enough evidence to file charges
    against
    him. Perkins then had a brief stint in the Coast Guard, where she met her >>> husband, according to court documents. She left the service and went on to >>> become an OnlyFans model under the name Sabrina Savage, the Cleveland Plain >>> Dealer reported.

    In November 2021, Dunmire's mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and father, John >>> Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, DC, intending to kill Perkins,
    according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    Dunmire's mother, dressed as a UPS driver, knocked on an apartment door and >>> shot a woman she mistakenly thought was Perkins twice in the abdomen. The >>> mother and father fled the scene, changing the license plates on their
    vehicle
    to avoid being caught, but were tracked down by police.

    Tommie Lynn Dunmire shot and killed herself after being pulled over in
    Florida. The woman she shot by mistake survived her injuries. Federal agents
    arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to >>> assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to three years in prison.

    Perkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using a firearm during >>> and
    in relation to a crime of violence on federal property-- a week before she >>> was
    set to stand trial. Following her plea deal Tuesday, Perkins faces between >>> 20
    and 25 years in prison. She is set to face sentencing on Sept. 9.



    https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/coast-guard-vet-turned-onlyfans-model-chelsea-perkins-pleads-guilty-to-killing-accused-rapist-in-national-park/


    Hmm. That's a rather different case. I'd call it a revenge murder, not
    self-defence. It would be self-defence if she killed him when he
    attempted to rape her but 4 years after the fact - and after her parents
    had tried to exact revenge on her behalf - just doesn't feel like
    self-defence.

    It wasn't her parents, it was the parents of her victim that were trying to get revenge on *his* behalf.

    Thanks for that clarification. I had it backwards as well.

    I like how fully she embraced the identity of a UPS driver, even going to
    the wrong address.



    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 31 18:55:47 2025
    On May 31, 2025 at 11:53:31 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <[email protected]> wrote:

    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On May 31, 2025 at 7:12:46 AM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> >> wrote:

    On 2025-05-30 10:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]> >>>> wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However, >>>>> he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and >>>>> begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for >>>>> self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next? >>>>>
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    Compare that story to this one:

    Coast Guard Veteran Lures Her Rapist to Woods and Executes Him, Then Goes >>>> and
    Gets a Tattoo

    A Coast Guard veteran turned OnlyFans model has pled guilty on Tuesday to >>>> murdering a man who she alleged raped her four years before she executed him
    off an isolated hiking trail in an Ohio national park.

    Chelsea Perkins, 35, traveled more than 300 miles from Virginia to Ohio in
    an
    arranged meet-up with Matthew Dunmire at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park
    on
    March 6, 2021, according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    While in the park, they began hiking off-trail into a wooded area where >>>> Perkins took out a handgun she had been concealing and fatally shot Dunmire,
    31, in the back of the head, prosecutors said.

    According to a criminal complaint, Dunmire went out drinking with a
    co-worker
    four days before he was murdered and told them he was meeting up with a girl
    who was staying in the area for the weekend. Dunmire's co-worker saw a woman
    with brown hair pick him up in a white smart car, which investigators later
    discovered was registered in Virginia and belonged to Perkins' husband. >>>>
    Prosecutors said FBI investigators used GPS data, DNA, social media, phone
    records, and ballistics analysis at the crime scene to link Perkins to the
    murder.

    Witnesses also later told investigators they saw a woman matching Perkins'
    description on the park trail on the day of the murder. Hikers in the park
    also reported hearing a gunshot between 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., according
    to documents. It took the FBI nearly nine months from when she killed >>>> Dunmire
    to arrest her.

    Authorities discovered three 9mm pistols, one of which had bullets with >>>> "similar characteristics" found inside Dunmire's head, while searching >>>> Perkins' Alexandria, Va, home, documents show.

    Dunmire was an aspiring musician who grew up in Virginia before he moved to
    Cleveland. Court documents show that Perkins and Dunmire knew each other >>>> before the killing and were in high school together from 2005 to 2009. >>>>
    In 2017, Perkins filed a report with Virginia Beach police alleging that >>>> Dunmire had raped her but didn't have enough evidence to file charges >>>> against
    him. Perkins then had a brief stint in the Coast Guard, where she met her >>>> husband, according to court documents. She left the service and went on to
    become an OnlyFans model under the name Sabrina Savage, the Cleveland Plain
    Dealer reported.

    In November 2021, Dunmire's mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and father, John >>>> Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, DC, intending to kill Perkins, >>>> according to the US Attorney’s Office.

    Dunmire's mother, dressed as a UPS driver, knocked on an apartment door and
    shot a woman she mistakenly thought was Perkins twice in the abdomen. The >>>> mother and father fled the scene, changing the license plates on their >>>> vehicle
    to avoid being caught, but were tracked down by police.

    Tommie Lynn Dunmire shot and killed herself after being pulled over in >>>> Florida. The woman she shot by mistake survived her injuries. Federal agents
    arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to
    assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to three years in prison. >>>>
    Perkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using a firearm during >>>> and
    in relation to a crime of violence on federal property-- a week before she
    was
    set to stand trial. Following her plea deal Tuesday, Perkins faces between
    20
    and 25 years in prison. She is set to face sentencing on Sept. 9.




    https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/coast-guard-vet-turned-onlyfans-model-chelsea-perkins-pleads-guilty-to-killing-accused-rapist-in-national-park/


    Hmm. That's a rather different case. I'd call it a revenge murder, not
    self-defence. It would be self-defence if she killed him when he
    attempted to rape her but 4 years after the fact - and after her parents >>> had tried to exact revenge on her behalf - just doesn't feel like
    self-defence.

    It wasn't her parents, it was the parents of her victim that were trying to >> get revenge on *his* behalf.

    Thanks for that clarification. I had it backwards as well.

    I like how fully she embraced the identity of a UPS driver, even going to
    the wrong address.

    Facts

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Sat May 31 19:27:16 2025
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:

    Compare that story to this one:

    https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/coast-guard-vet-turned-onlyfans-model-chelsea-perkins-pleads-guilty-to-killing-accused-rapist-in-national-park/

    I just want to comment on this bit concerning the parents of the
    perpetrator of the initial crime:

    In November 2021, Dunmire's mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and
    father, John Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, DC,
    intending to kill Perkins, according to the US Attorney's
    Office.

    Dunmire's mother, dressed as a UPS driver, knocked on an
    apartment door and shot a woman she mistakenly thought was
    Perkins twice in the abdomen. The mother and father fled the
    scene, changing the license plates on their vehicle to avoid
    being caught, but were tracked down by police.

    Tommie Lynn Dunmire shot and killed herself after being pulled
    over in Florida. The woman she shot by mistake survived her
    injuries. Federal agents arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded
    guilty to accessory after the fact to assault with intent to
    kill and was sentenced to three years in prison.

    Did his parents clean up after previous crime he committed? Have they >murdered complaining witnesses in the past?

    Also, can I just point out that McQuillen was an accessory before,
    during, and after the fact? He could have been charged with additional >crimes.

    Sorry. I got the timeline wrong. At first, I read it as the parents were
    trying to kill Perkins as the complaining witness in the rape case (that
    the police wouldn't investigate). No. They were trying to kill her for
    killing their son in revenge for the earlier rape, but attempted to
    murder another woman who had nothing to do with anything.

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  • From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to NoBody on Sat May 31 15:35:45 2025
    On 5/30/25 4:58 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Thu, 29 May 2025 19:00:51 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    What a fucked-up country. It's shameful what they've done to a once-great
    nation.


    It's the result of allowing liberalism to get a foothold. We would do
    well to learn from the disaster that is happening there.


    Nothing wrong with a foothold of liberalism! or the freedom to
    be liberal! It's the repression of opposition that's the
    problem, the freedom to be anti-liberal is being denied.

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  • From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to Rhino on Sat May 31 15:15:47 2025
    On 5/29/25 6:11 AM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE


    Allow that you may be wrong in this case and the
    sentence may be justified. Think about it, only
    something that is capable of being proven true is
    capable of being proven false.

    I certainly didn't see any video evidence in the
    youtube videos of anything, just fuzzy unrelated videos
    of her so it's an article of faith that the case is
    what the talking heads on youtube claim it to be.

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer. The
    contrast with the sentences for the people convicted in the rape gang
    scandal were extremely disproportionate by comparison.

    Self-defense is a right wing crime, "perpetuating class society",
    while rape is a left wing crime, "breaking white middle class
    hegemony", or so say highly respected philosophers with highly
    advanced degrees, as the Americanisation of the UK proceeds.

    Maybe Reform can preside over a major rewrite of the laws in the UK so

    Might not be needed to change any laws in the UK, just
    need new government.

    that they make sense again. (Reform is substantially ahead of both the Conservatives and Reform in polling on a national basis but the next
    election is still a few years away so anything could happen between now
    and then.)

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Sat May 31 22:48:37 2025
    On 5/29/2025 10:30 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
    the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend
    herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a
    cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any
    "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority
    (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g.,
    tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for
    sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may
    carry arms is on private property or any property to which the
    public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's
    own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it
    occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to
    another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an
    ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of
    violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of
    the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or
    during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sun Jun 1 03:57:32 2025
    On May 31, 2025 at 7:48:37 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 5/29/2025 10:30 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However, >>>>> he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and >>>>> begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for >>>>> self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
    the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend >>> herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a
    cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any
    "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority
    (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g.,
    tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for
    sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may
    carry arms is on private property or any property to which the
    public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's
    own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it
    occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to
    another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an
    ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of
    violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of
    the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or
    during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    No, it's the fact that she carried a weapon as insurance against *any* attack that violated the law. Apparently in the UK, the only weapons you're allowed
    to use to defend yourself are whatever happens to coincidentally be at hand
    the moment you're attacked. If he was choking her and her flailing hand happened to fall on a rock and she smashed his skull in with it, that would be legal, but anything possessed or carried to be used as a weapon *in case of attack* is illegal.

    It's also a crime in the UK to keep any implement-- like a cricket bat-- as a weapon. You can legally have the bat, but if you use it on an intruder, you better be able to show that it was merely a weapon of opportunity, and not
    kept as a weapon of self-defense, like next to your bed, for example. The cops will actually question why you keep a cricket bat in your bedroom and not in the garage with all your other sporting equipment. Same goes for knives.
    Knives kept in the kitchen = legal. Knives kept in the bedroom = criminal offense.

    People in the UK are actually advised by victims' advocacy groups to keep
    other sporting equipment-- soccer balls, cricket pads, baseball gloves, etc.-- in their bedrooms along with the bat to avoid this kind of trap. There have even been cases where people have been threatened with charges merely for having large dogs as pets since they can be seen as "keeping weapons" in one's home.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 1 05:19:13 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
    May 31, 2025 at 7:48:37 PM PDT, moviePig <[email protected]> wrote: >>5/29/2025 10:30 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However, >>>>>>he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and >>>>>>begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for >>>>>>self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was >>>>>unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using >>>>the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend >>>>herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a
    cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any
    "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority
    (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g.,
    tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for
    sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may
    carry arms is on private property or any property to which the
    public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's
    own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it
    occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to
    another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an
    ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of
    violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of
    the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or
    during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her >>knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    No, it's the fact that she carried a weapon as insurance against *any* attack >that violated the law. Apparently in the UK, the only weapons you're allowed >to use to defend yourself are whatever happens to coincidentally be at hand >the moment you're attacked. If he was choking her and her flailing hand >happened to fall on a rock and she smashed his skull in with it, that would be >legal, but anything possessed or carried to be used as a weapon *in case of >attack* is illegal.

    I honestly don't understand why moviePig isn't standing on his feet,
    applauding the perfect illogic of UK criminal law.

    It's also a crime in the UK to keep any implement-- like a cricket bat-- as a >weapon. You can legally have the bat, but if you use it on an intruder, you >better be able to show that it was merely a weapon of opportunity, and not >kept as a weapon of self-defense, like next to your bed, for example. The cops >will actually question why you keep a cricket bat in your bedroom and not in >the garage with all your other sporting equipment. Same goes for knives. >Knives kept in the kitchen = legal. Knives kept in the bedroom = criminal >offense.

    "I was eating in bed, officer."

    People in the UK are actually advised by victims' advocacy groups to keep >other sporting equipment-- soccer balls, cricket pads, baseball gloves, etc.-- >in their bedrooms along with the bat to avoid this kind of trap. There have >even been cases where people have been threatened with charges merely for >having large dogs as pets since they can be seen as "keeping weapons" in one's >home.

    Good heavens

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Sun Jun 1 11:03:32 2025
    On 6/1/2025 1:19 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
    May 31, 2025 at 7:48:37 PM PDT, moviePig <[email protected]> wrote:
    5/29/2025 10:30 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However, >>>>>>> he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and >>>>>>> begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for >>>>>>> self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using >>>>> the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend >>>>> herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a
    cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any
    "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority
    (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g.,
    tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for
    sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may
    carry arms is on private property or any property to which the
    public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's
    own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it
    occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to
    another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an
    ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of
    violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of
    the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or
    during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her >>> knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    No, it's the fact that she carried a weapon as insurance against *any* attack
    that violated the law. Apparently in the UK, the only weapons you're allowed >> to use to defend yourself are whatever happens to coincidentally be at hand >> the moment you're attacked. If he was choking her and her flailing hand
    happened to fall on a rock and she smashed his skull in with it, that would be
    legal, but anything possessed or carried to be used as a weapon *in case of >> attack* is illegal.

    I honestly don't understand why moviePig isn't standing on his feet, applauding the perfect illogic of UK criminal law.
    ...

    The cosmos groans beneath all Adam doesn't understand...

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 1 11:15:55 2025
    On 5/31/2025 11:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 31, 2025 at 7:48:37 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 5/29/2025 10:30 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However, >>>>>> he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and >>>>>> begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for >>>>>> self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next? >>>
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using >>>> the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend >>>> herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom >>>
    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a
    cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any
    "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority
    (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g.,
    tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for
    sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may
    carry arms is on private property or any property to which the
    public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's
    own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it
    occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to
    another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an
    ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of
    violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of
    the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or
    during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    No, it's the fact that she carried a weapon as insurance against *any* attack that violated the law. Apparently in the UK, the only weapons you're allowed to use to defend yourself are whatever happens to coincidentally be at hand the moment you're attacked. If he was choking her and her flailing hand happened to fall on a rock and she smashed his skull in with it, that would be
    legal, but anything possessed or carried to be used as a weapon *in case of attack* is illegal.

    It's also a crime in the UK to keep any implement-- like a cricket bat-- as a weapon. You can legally have the bat, but if you use it on an intruder, you better be able to show that it was merely a weapon of opportunity, and not kept as a weapon of self-defense, like next to your bed, for example. The cops
    will actually question why you keep a cricket bat in your bedroom and not in the garage with all your other sporting equipment. Same goes for knives. Knives kept in the kitchen = legal. Knives kept in the bedroom = criminal offense.

    People in the UK are actually advised by victims' advocacy groups to keep other sporting equipment-- soccer balls, cricket pads, baseball gloves, etc.--
    in their bedrooms along with the bat to avoid this kind of trap. There have even been cases where people have been threatened with charges merely for having large dogs as pets since they can be seen as "keeping weapons" in one's
    home.

    I do get that (...including its rationale, but that's a different
    discussion). But what I'm theorizing is that if, say, he'd first
    attacked her with his own knife, the sentence she'd have gotten for
    defending herself with hers wouldn't have been much more than one would
    get merely for carrying.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sun Jun 1 19:02:11 2025
    On Jun 1, 2025 at 8:15:55 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 5/31/2025 11:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 31, 2025 at 7:48:37 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>
    On 5/29/2025 10:30 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However, >>>>>>> he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and >>>>>>> begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next? >>>>
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was >>>>>> unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using >>>>> the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend
    herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a >>>> cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any >>>> "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority >>>> (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g., >>>> tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for >>>> sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may >>>> carry arms is on private property or any property to which the >>>> public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's >>>> own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it >>>> occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to >>>> another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an >>>> ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an
    offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of >>>> violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of >>>> the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or >>>> during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her >>> knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    No, it's the fact that she carried a weapon as insurance against *any*
    attack
    that violated the law. Apparently in the UK, the only weapons you're allowed
    to use to defend yourself are whatever happens to coincidentally be at hand >> the moment you're attacked. If he was choking her and her flailing hand
    happened to fall on a rock and she smashed his skull in with it, that would >> be
    legal, but anything possessed or carried to be used as a weapon *in case of >> attack* is illegal.

    It's also a crime in the UK to keep any implement-- like a cricket bat-- as >> a
    weapon. You can legally have the bat, but if you use it on an intruder, you >> better be able to show that it was merely a weapon of opportunity, and not >> kept as a weapon of self-defense, like next to your bed, for example. The >> cops
    will actually question why you keep a cricket bat in your bedroom and not in
    the garage with all your other sporting equipment. Same goes for knives.
    Knives kept in the kitchen = legal. Knives kept in the bedroom = criminal >> offense.

    People in the UK are actually advised by victims' advocacy groups to keep >> other sporting equipment-- soccer balls, cricket pads, baseball gloves,
    etc.--
    in their bedrooms along with the bat to avoid this kind of trap. There have >> even been cases where people have been threatened with charges merely for >> having large dogs as pets since they can be seen as "keeping weapons" in
    one's
    home.

    I do get that (...including its rationale, but that's a different discussion). But what I'm theorizing is that if, say, he'd first
    attacked her with his own knife, the sentence she'd have gotten for
    defending herself with hers wouldn't have been much more than one would
    get merely for carrying.

    I've never seen any commentary or quoted law from the UK that says the
    sentence for carrying a weapon and using it self-defense is mitigated if the attacker is similarly armed.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 1 16:53:41 2025
    On 6/1/2025 3:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 1, 2025 at 8:15:55 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 5/31/2025 11:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On May 31, 2025 at 7:48:37 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
    On 5/29/2025 10:30 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
    Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:
    2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
    he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
    begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
    self defense and kills him with one thrust.

    She turns herself into police.

    This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was >>>>>>> unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer. >>>>>
    I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
    the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend
    herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

    I found it. It's not new law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#United_Kingdom

    Since 1953, it has been a criminal offence in the United Kingdom
    to carry a knife (except for non-locking folding knives with a >>>>> cutting edge of 3 inches (7.62 centimetres) or less) or any >>>>> "offensive weapon" in a public place without lawful authority >>>>> (e.g. police or security forces) or reasonable excuse (e.g., >>>>> tools that are needed for work, or bows and arrows used for >>>>> sporting purposes). The cutting edge of a knife is separate from
    the blade length. The only manner in which an individual may >>>>> carry arms is on private property or any property to which the >>>>> public does not have a lawful right of access (e.g., a person's >>>>> own home, private land, the area in a shop where the public have
    no access, etc.), as the law only creates the offence when it >>>>> occurs in public.[41][42] Furthermore, Criminal Justice Act 1988
    Section 141 specifically lists all offensive weapons that cannot
    technically be owned, even on private property, by way of making
    it illegal to sell, trade, hire, etc. an offensive weapon to >>>>> another person.

    Furthermore, the law does not allow an offensive weapon or an >>>>> ordinary item intended to be used or adapted for use as an >>>>> offensive weapon to be carried in public before the threat of >>>>> violence arises. This would only be acceptable in the eyes of >>>>> the law if the person armed themselves immediately preceding or >>>>> during an attack (in a public place). This is known as a "weapon
    of opportunity" or "instantaneous arming".

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her >>>> knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that >>>> rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    No, it's the fact that she carried a weapon as insurance against *any* >>> attack
    that violated the law. Apparently in the UK, the only weapons you're allowed
    to use to defend yourself are whatever happens to coincidentally be at hand
    the moment you're attacked. If he was choking her and her flailing hand >>> happened to fall on a rock and she smashed his skull in with it, that would
    be
    legal, but anything possessed or carried to be used as a weapon *in case of
    attack* is illegal.

    It's also a crime in the UK to keep any implement-- like a cricket bat-- as
    a
    weapon. You can legally have the bat, but if you use it on an intruder, you
    better be able to show that it was merely a weapon of opportunity, and not
    kept as a weapon of self-defense, like next to your bed, for example. The >>> cops
    will actually question why you keep a cricket bat in your bedroom and not in
    the garage with all your other sporting equipment. Same goes for knives. >>> Knives kept in the kitchen = legal. Knives kept in the bedroom = criminal >>> offense.

    People in the UK are actually advised by victims' advocacy groups to keep >>> other sporting equipment-- soccer balls, cricket pads, baseball gloves, >>> etc.--
    in their bedrooms along with the bat to avoid this kind of trap. There have
    even been cases where people have been threatened with charges merely for >>> having large dogs as pets since they can be seen as "keeping weapons" in >>> one's
    home.

    I do get that (...including its rationale, but that's a different
    discussion). But what I'm theorizing is that if, say, he'd first
    attacked her with his own knife, the sentence she'd have gotten for
    defending herself with hers wouldn't have been much more than one would
    get merely for carrying.

    I've never seen any commentary or quoted law from the UK that says the sentence for carrying a weapon and using it self-defense is mitigated if the attacker is similarly armed.

    I'm assuming there's judicial discretion in a sentencing. Again, it's
    hard to imagine a 17-year sentence for simple carrying.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 4 16:46:48 2025
    On Thu, 29 May 2025 09:11:36 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Maybe Reform can preside over a major rewrite of the laws in the UK so
    that they make sense again. (Reform is substantially ahead of both the >Conservatives and Reform in polling on a national basis but the next
    election is still a few years away so anything could happen between now
    and then.)

    Specifically the next UK election isn't until 2029 so it's unlikely
    Trump could have the impact on the UK election that he had in last
    month's Canadian election.

    At this point I'm skeptical Farrage can retain his party's lead for a
    full 4 years at its present level but stranger things have happened.

    Were the election tomorrow it's likely he'd win but 4 years is an
    eternity in politics.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 4 16:55:25 2025
    On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:55:45 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I've seen plenty of commentators remark on their frustration with how
    crime is handled in their country and the meagre sentences most people
    get for serious crimes. Meanwhile, people who do mean tweets get longer
    jail terms than serious criminals. Many of these comments are probably
    by people who just repeat the same gossip they hear from others.

    There was a recent case in the UK where a woman who wrote a "mean
    tweet", then deleted it 2 hours later (after someone had taken a
    screen shot and e-mailed it to the Crown Prosecutor) got 3 1/2 years.
    It seems she got bad advise from the public defender and took a guilty
    plea while others who did likewise with her but pled not guilty were
    either acquitted or token sentences like probation.

    That is of course the risk one takes when you 'take a plea' but this
    one seems especially high even though she is likely to get parole in 9
    months.

    Meanwhile the "groomers" are being found guilty and getting suspended sentences.

    I personally think it's appalling that suspended sentences are an
    available sentencing option for rape of a minor but then I'm not in
    the UK.

    Bottom line is the current British government is in fear of Pakistani
    migrants be they legal or illegal and think they can't win the next
    election without Muslim ballots.

    Even if they're right it's still a shameful position!

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 4 17:05:15 2025
    On Sat, 31 May 2025 09:56:38 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Here, the longest sentence you can get is also called "life" but it's >actually 25 years before you're eligible for parole. This sentence is >reserved for 1st degree murder and High Treason. By the way, if you kill >multiple people, it's still just 25 years before you can apply for your >parole because sentences are always served concurrently. (The last time
    the Conservatives were in power, they changed the law so that judges
    could make the sentences consecutive with the offender only eligible for >parole after the last of the sentences is complete. After that change to
    the law, a guy who killed three cops and injured two, Justin Bourque,
    got a sentence of 75 years consecutive before he was eligible for
    parole. A few years later, Alexandre Bissonette killed 6 people in a
    mosque (and injured 5 more) and was sentenced to six consecutive 25 year

    While true I'm pretty sure one of Justin Trudeau's first moves after
    gaining power was to repeal the consecutive sentence provision. No
    question the Bissonette case was likely the most spectacular case in
    Canada since the Bernardo or Pickton cases (both mass murderers) and
    possibly surpassed by the Humboldt SK case where a trucker ran 3 red
    lights or stop signs and T-boned a team bus killing 16 people.

    I am personally convinced mass murderers should get honest to God life sentences without parole and with a provision that they be buried on
    the prison grounds with no visitation rights by their family after
    death. (You might correctly assume I'm not fond of Willie Pickton to
    put it mildly)

    Criminal sentencing exists (a) to punish the transgressor, (b) to show
    public abhorance for the act, (c) to deter others who might go forth
    and do likewise and (d) actually punish the crime.

    A sentence that fails on any of these 4 points DOESN'T serve society
    whose rights after all ought to come before the criminal and only a
    little behind the victim.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 4 17:06:29 2025
    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her >knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 4 17:11:24 2025
    On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 03:57:32 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    It's also a crime in the UK to keep any implement-- like a cricket bat-- as a >weapon. You can legally have the bat, but if you use it on an intruder, you >better be able to show that it was merely a weapon of opportunity, and not >kept as a weapon of self-defense, like next to your bed, for example. The cops >will actually question why you keep a cricket bat in your bedroom and not in >the garage with all your other sporting equipment. Same goes for knives. >Knives kept in the kitchen = legal. Knives kept in the bedroom = criminal >offense.

    Wonder if a small brass plated plate on a heavy wooden plaque saying
    "Presented to John Doe in honor of his/her service to <organization
    name>" would serve? (I've got one of those hanging on my bedroom wall
    - it includes an Estonian 5 krooni bill with the face of a chess hero
    from Estonia famous in Vancouver - Estonia has since adopted the Euro
    - but the plaque is heavy enough to hurt if I pounded someone with it)

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 4 17:13:04 2025
    On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 05:19:13 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    People in the UK are actually advised by victims' advocacy groups to keep >>other sporting equipment-- soccer balls, cricket pads, baseball gloves, etc.--
    in their bedrooms along with the bat to avoid this kind of trap. There have >>even been cases where people have been threatened with charges merely for >>having large dogs as pets since they can be seen as "keeping weapons" in one's
    home.

    Good heavens

    You mean if I tell my dog "sic him boy!" I could be in legal trouble?
    (Though my dog would be more likely to lick him than bite him)

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 4 17:13:49 2025
    On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 11:15:55 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I do get that (...including its rationale, but that's a different >discussion). But what I'm theorizing is that if, say, he'd first
    attacked her with his own knife, the sentence she'd have gotten for
    defending herself with hers wouldn't have been much more than one would
    get merely for carrying.

    Surely she'd have a self defence plea in that case.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 4 17:17:04 2025
    On Fri, 30 May 2025 20:05:35 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
    unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer. The
    contrast with the sentences for the people convicted in the rape gang
    scandal were extremely disproportionate by comparison.

    https://ibb.co/M0Gwpp4

    The British government is being extremely coy on the rape gang scandal
    probably because (a) they don't want to offend the Muslim community
    and (b) part of Keir Starmer's personal resume includes acting as a
    Crown Prosecutor in one of these case.

    Fact is we're talking about 25000+ rape cases over a 20+ year period
    mostly in working class areas in the UK mostly in the Midlands.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 4 17:21:33 2025
    On Fri, 30 May 2025 05:46:09 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Voting Conservatives was our one solid chance of changing course at the >recent election but not enough of us did it. My only hope is that Carney
    will do something so egregiously stupid that the opposition has to
    defeat the government and force a new election. But that isn't going to >happen really soon; I think all the parties need time to rebuild their
    war chests: elections are expensive for political parties.

    My area of the country elected 20 Libs, 19 Conservatives and 3 NDP.

    As usual the election was won and lost in the 905 Area Code region
    (Rhino will know this but that's the Metro Toronto area minus Toronto
    proper - whose area code is 416) Rhino no doubt knows my opinion on
    the election.

    The other area that gave Carney victory was Quebec where disgruntled
    Bloc Quebecois voters of 2021 mostly went Liberal.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Wed Jun 4 22:15:56 2025
    On 6/4/2025 8:13 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 11:15:55 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I do get that (...including its rationale, but that's a different
    discussion). But what I'm theorizing is that if, say, he'd first
    attacked her with his own knife, the sentence she'd have gotten for
    defending herself with hers wouldn't have been much more than one would
    get merely for carrying.

    Surely she'd have a self defence plea in that case.

    I don't see it absolving her of her (official) crime of carrying with
    intent. But, indeed, I can't imagine a real-world conviction.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Thu Jun 5 04:57:25 2025
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if I have anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the doors and windows.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Thu Jun 5 04:53:45 2025
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 4:55:25 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:55:45 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I've seen plenty of commentators remark on their frustration with how
    crime is handled in their country and the meagre sentences most people
    get for serious crimes. Meanwhile, people who do mean tweets get longer
    jail terms than serious criminals. Many of these comments are probably
    by people who just repeat the same gossip they hear from others.

    There was a recent case in the UK where a woman who wrote a "mean
    tweet", then deleted it 2 hours later (after someone had taken a
    screen shot and e-mailed it to the Crown Prosecutor) got 3 1/2 years.
    It seems she got bad advise from the public defender and took a guilty
    plea while others who did likewise with her but pled not guilty were
    either acquitted or token sentences like probation.

    That is of course the risk one takes when you 'take a plea' but this
    one seems especially high even though she is likely to get parole in 9 months.

    Meanwhile the "groomers" are being found guilty and getting suspended sentences.

    I personally think it's appalling that suspended sentences are an
    available sentencing option for rape of a minor but then I'm not in
    the UK.

    Bottom line is the current British government is in fear of Pakistani migrants be they legal or illegal and think they can't win the next
    election without Muslim ballots.

    If they're so scared of them, why do they keep importing thousands of them at
    a time?

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 4 23:45:52 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her >>> knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if I have anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the doors and windows.

    +1



    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 5 11:26:42 2025
    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her >>> knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if I have anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the doors and windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jun 5 17:16:09 2025
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> wrote: >>
    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her >>>> knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if I have >> anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.

    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home to steal from them, there's a 100% effective
    way of guaranteeing that never happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jun 5 18:38:00 2025
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> >>>> wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that >>>>>> rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal. >>>>>>
    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and >>>>> think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if I have
    anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the
    doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.

    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home to >> steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that never
    happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them.

    That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake".

    No one has a right to my property and they certainly don't have a right to put me and my family in danger when trying to take it.

    Fuck around and find out.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 5 14:32:30 2025
    On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that >>>>> rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and >>>> think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if I have >>> anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.

    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home to steal from them, there's a 100% effective
    way of guaranteeing that never happens to you: don't break into people's homes
    and steal from them.

    That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake". I don't know
    that society's ready (yet) to declare open season on petty thieves.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 5 18:41:26 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]>:
    Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, moviePig <[email protected]>:
    6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, The Horny Goat <[email protected]>:
    Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her >>>>>knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that >>>>>rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and >>>>think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if I
    have anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of
    the doors and windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.

    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home
    to steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that
    never happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them.

    What the fuck is moviePig talking about? Simple and aggravated offenses typically apply to violent crimes, not burglaries. Burglary is a crime
    of intent in which the perpetrator has entered the premisis of another
    for the purpose of committing theft. The burglary has occurred
    regardless of whether the theft was successfully committed and the
    perpetrator has gotten away. It may be charged in conjunction with other
    crimes like breaking and entering and trespass.

    If the burglar encounters a resident and doesn't immediately retreat,
    then there is a high likelihood of the burglar, who has invaded
    someone's home, turning violent. The possibility of the hone invader
    becoming violent is what moviePig means by "simple burglary"?

    If moviePig, living in the UK, obeyed the law of self defense and
    wasn't carrying any weapon that was contraband even if used in self
    defense or in defense of another, were killed by the home invader, is
    that what he means by simple burglary?

    I think I've translated correctly from moviePig English into English.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jun 5 18:44:50 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to
    death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that >>>>>>> rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal. >>>>>>>
    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and >>>>>> think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag
    if I have
    anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the >>>>> doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.

    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home to >>> steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that never >>> happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them.

    That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake".

    No one has a right to my property and they certainly don't have a right to put >me and my family in danger when trying to take it.

    Fuck around and find out.

    Again, this is the UK. You are in danger only if the home invader also
    uses language that makes you feel bad.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 5 16:22:00 2025
    On 6/5/2025 2:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal. >>>>>>>
    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if I have
    anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the >>>>> doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.

    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home to >>> steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that never >>> happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them.

    That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake".

    No one has a right to my property and they certainly don't have a right to put
    me and my family in danger when trying to take it.

    Fuck around and find out.

    Chest-thumping aside... your proposed law, as I extrapolate it, awards a homeowner cancellation rights over the life of any intruder. A parallel
    that comes to mind is the Old West's summary lynching of horse thieves
    ...but the rationale there (I'm told) was that a horse back then was
    essential to survival, making the theft of one a "capital" crime.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jun 5 21:51:49 2025
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 1:22:00 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 2:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>
    On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]> >>>>>>> wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal. >>>>>>>>
    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in
    self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if >>>>>> I have
    anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the >>>>>> doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime. >>>>
    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home to
    steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that never >>>> happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them.

    That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake".

    No one has a right to my property and they certainly don't have a right to >> put
    me and my family in danger when trying to take it.

    Fuck around and find out.

    Chest-thumping aside... your proposed law, as I extrapolate it, awards a homeowner cancellation rights over the life of any intruder.

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking in my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home to thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    A parallel
    that comes to mind is the Old West's summary lynching of horse thieves
    ...but the rationale there (I'm told) was that a horse back then was essential to survival, making the theft of one a "capital" crime.

    We have plenty of men that need killin' but we don't have any horses that need theivin'.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jun 5 21:59:29 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 1:22:00 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 2:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
    On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]> >>>>>>>> wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal. >>>>>>>>>
    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in >>>>>>>> self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if >>>>>>> I have
    anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the >>>>>>> doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime. >>>>>
    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home to
    steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that never >>>>> happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them. >>>>
    That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake".

    No one has a right to my property and they certainly don't have a right to >>> put
    me and my family in danger when trying to take it.

    Fuck around and find out.

    Chest-thumping aside... your proposed law, as I extrapolate it, awards a
    homeowner cancellation rights over the life of any intruder.

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a >danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if >they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking in >my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home to >thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why >should I do any different?

    A parallel
    that comes to mind is the Old West's summary lynching of horse thieves
    ...but the rationale there (I'm told) was that a horse back then was
    essential to survival, making the theft of one a "capital" crime.

    We have plenty of men that need killin' but we don't have any horses that need >theivin'.

    You've convinced moviePig. Shelter is essential to survival, making
    breaking in to one's home a...

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 5 18:13:08 2025
    On 6/5/2025 5:51 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 1:22:00 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 2:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
    On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal. >>>>>>>>>
    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in >>>>>>>> self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if
    I have
    anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the
    doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime. >>>>>
    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's home to
    steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that never
    happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them. >>>>
    That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake".

    No one has a right to my property and they certainly don't have a right to
    put
    me and my family in danger when trying to take it.

    Fuck around and find out.

    Chest-thumping aside... your proposed law, as I extrapolate it, awards a
    homeowner cancellation rights over the life of any intruder.

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking in my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home to thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why should I do any different?
    ...

    But "I" thought you were gone for the evening ...so my *intent* was
    larcenous but not physically threatening. E.g., do you think we should
    shoot shoplifters, who afaics have the same lack of principle?

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Thu Jun 5 22:58:33 2025
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 3:13:08 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 5:51 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 1:22:00 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 2:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to >>>>>>>>>> death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in >>>>>>>>> self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if
    I have
    anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the
    doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.

    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's >>>>>> home to
    steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that never
    happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them. >>>>>
    That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake".

    No one has a right to my property and they certainly don't have a right to
    put
    me and my family in danger when trying to take it.

    Fuck around and find out.

    Chest-thumping aside... your proposed law, as I extrapolate it, awards a >>> homeowner cancellation rights over the life of any intruder.

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a >> danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if >> they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking >> in
    my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home >> to
    thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?
    ...

    But "I" thought you were gone for the evening ...so my *intent* was
    larcenous but not physically threatening.

    As you're kicking in my door I don't know that and I'm not required to wait to find out whether you're going to shoot me or not as you invade my home.

    moviePig, is this you?

    https://ibb.co/M0Gwpp4

    E.g., do you think we should shoot shoplifters, who afaics have the same lack of principle?

    Let's just start with arresting them-- something California Democrats won't do-- and go from there.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 6 10:54:26 2025
    On 6/5/2025 6:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 3:13:08 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 5:51 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 1:22:00 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
    On 6/5/2025 2:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 11:32:30 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 1:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 5, 2025 at 8:26:42 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/5/2025 12:57 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 5:06:29 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Sat, 31 May 2025 22:48:37 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I'm guessing that, if he'd tried instead to choke her to >>>>>>>>>>> death, then her
    knifing him would've been allowed as self-defense ...suggesting that
    rape isn't a serious enough offense to warrant lethal reprisal.

    I'm undecided where exactly the dividing line should be in >>>>>>>>>> self-defence cases but it definitely ought to be shy of "lie back and
    think of the Empire"!

    I you've broken into my home, then you're leaving in a body bag if
    I have
    anything to say about it. My dividing line is the threshold of the
    doors and
    windows.

    Well, that does kinda elevate simple burglary into a capital crime.

    If you don't want to be shot to death while breaking into someone's >>>>>>> home to
    steal from them, there's a 100% effective way of guaranteeing that never
    happens to you: don't break into people's homes and steal from them.

    That has a smidgen of resonance with "let them eat cake".

    No one has a right to my property and they certainly don't have a right to
    put
    me and my family in danger when trying to take it.

    Fuck around and find out.

    Chest-thumping aside... your proposed law, as I extrapolate it, awards a >>>> homeowner cancellation rights over the life of any intruder.

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a >>> danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if
    they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking
    in
    my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home
    to
    thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why >>> should I do any different?
    ...

    But "I" thought you were gone for the evening ...so my *intent* was
    larcenous but not physically threatening.

    As you're kicking in my door I don't know that and I'm not required to wait to
    find out whether you're going to shoot me or not as you invade my home.

    moviePig, is this you?

    https://ibb.co/M0Gwpp4

    E.g., do you think we should shoot shoplifters, who afaics have the same >> lack of principle?

    Let's just start with arresting them-- something California Democrats won't do-- and go from there.

    Well, in a way, that image is very much to the point ...i.e., how
    draconian we want our laws to be, and whether it should depend on how
    much the offense pisses us off. E.g., it's common to fantasize extreme
    means for dealing with food theft from the office refrigerator...

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 12 13:57:57 2025
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a >danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if >they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking in >my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home to >thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why >should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jun 12 14:18:58 2025
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 18:41:26 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:


    If moviePig, living in the UK, obeyed the law of self defense and
    wasn't carrying any weapon that was contraband even if used in self
    defense or in defense of another, were killed by the home invader, is
    that what he means by simple burglary?

    I think I've translated correctly from moviePig English into English.

    What exactly does that definition mean? If I am being burglarized and
    grab a golf club (which last I heard wasn't proscribed in any
    jurisdiction I know) and pummel the burglar into unconscious and the
    bad guy never regains consciousness do I correctly understand I'm
    guilty since I committed homicide (which isn't necessarily a crime -
    if I'm a driver in a fatal car accident I may or may not be charged)
    but am I required to stop pummeling him short of death? (Because in
    the heat of the moment one can't always tell).

    As for the above definition of 'homicide' when I was 8 years old I was
    riding with my father who was driving a 10 town truck loaded with
    frozen fish. The other driver who was driving a regular sized car
    swerved directly in front of the truck and struck him head on.
    Needless to say a Chevy striking a 10 ton truck (which was in its own
    lane on a intercity highway and not the least doing anything illegal)
    is going to be a "Bambi meets Godzilla" type of affair. There were
    plenty of local witnesses (this was on Vancouver Island, about 1 1/2
    hours north of the ferry terminal which then as now is a 2 hour trip
    from Vancouver)

    I had been sleeping at the time and woke up finding the truck stopped
    and Dad nowhere to be found so I climbed down and found him talking to
    an officer and was told (1) the ambulance had already taken the
    deceased away and (2) while the ambulance was on its way to the
    hospital and the blood alcohol count would be checked with the more
    accurate breathalyzer the local hospital had (as opposed to the
    portable unit carried by RCMP cruisers) it was clear the deceased was
    plastered to the gills and then some since he was 5x the legal limit.

    As for what I personally saw it wasn't much except glass all over the
    highway which I took careful steps to avoid walking on. 20 minutes
    later my father was free to go (he had had to provide contact info)
    Probably just as well given my age at the time.

    So yeah - I have slept through a fatal car crash.

    PS. Speaking of ferries, there is currently a brouhaha over a BC
    Ferries (which is operated by the BC provincial government) contract
    for 4 ferries that was given to a Chinese company. (These are fairly
    big ferries typically capable of handling 200-300 cars per trip) I'm
    not wild about giving contracts like that to Chinese companies but in
    their defence, I don't think the government can reasonably be blamed
    given there were no bids tendered from BC (or any other Canadian naval
    builder) as they can't be expected to award a contract to a company
    that didn't bid for it.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Fri Jun 13 11:31:04 2025
    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a
    danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if >> they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking in
    my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home to
    thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Fri Jun 13 16:54:56 2025
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a >>> danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if
    they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking >>> in
    my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home >>> to
    thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why >>> should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his own life
    more than my property, why should I?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 13 13:08:54 2025
    On 6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a
    danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if
    they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking
    in
    my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home
    to
    thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property. >>>>
    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why >>>> should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his own life more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Fri Jun 13 17:11:46 2025
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>
    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a
    danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, >>>>> even if
    they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking
    in
    my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home
    to
    thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property. >>>>>
    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt >>>> when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his own life >> more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal.

    It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted.

    If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the
    probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is something you need to seriously consider.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jun 13 19:44:02 2025
    BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:
    Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, moviePig <[email protected]> wrote: >>6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, moviePig <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you >>>>>>to be a danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And >>>>>>regardless, even if they're only there to steal and I can somehow >>>>>>know this as they're kicking in my front door, I'm neither legally >>>>>>nor morally required to abandon my home to thieves or stand aside >>>>>>and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, >>>>>>why should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt >>>>>when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his own >>>life more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal.

    It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted.

    If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the >probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is something
    you need to seriously consider.

    The hypothetical gentleman whom moviePig falsely insists is a "thief",
    despite having been corrected on this many many times, is merely paying
    you a friendly visit... in the middle of the night.

    If you hit him upside the head with a blunt instrument, you are being
    ever so kind as to remind him that breaking and entering is not proper etiquette for calling upon you. You are pounding the clue into his
    head, hopefully hard enough that the clue will penetrate. I'm sure you
    will encounter high SRF but do the very best you can.

    It is kind of you to take the time to do this.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 13 19:02:20 2025
    On 6/13/2025 1:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a
    danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, >>>>>> even if
    they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking
    in
    my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home
    to
    thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property. >>>>>>
    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt >>>>> when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his own life
    more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal.

    It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted.

    And a place where property is valued more than life.


    If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is something you need
    to seriously consider.

    Or you find someone desperate enough they'll do the invasions for you.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Fri Jun 13 23:41:03 2025
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 4:02:20 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 1:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>
    On 6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you >>>>>>> to be a
    danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless,
    even if
    they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're >>>>>>> kicking
    in
    my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon >>>>>>> my home
    to
    thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his own life
    more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal.

    It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted.

    And a place where property is valued more than life.

    If I'm at home when you come to take my property, my life is in danger, too.
    So on one side you have a life. On the other, you have one or more lives, plus property.

    The math does itself.

    If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the
    probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is something you >> need
    to seriously consider.

    Or you find someone desperate enough they'll do the invasions for you.

    The chose... poorly.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 14 12:20:00 2025
    On 6/13/2025 7:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 4:02:20 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 1:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you
    to be a
    danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless,
    even if
    they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're
    kicking
    in
    my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon
    my home
    to
    thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his own life
    more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal.

    It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted.

    And a place where property is valued more than life.

    If I'm at home when you come to take my property, my life is in danger, too. So on one side you have a life. On the other, you have one or more lives, plus
    property.

    The math does itself.


    They come to take your property, you come to take their life. Hard to
    twist those into mirror images.


    If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the
    probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is something you >>> need
    to seriously consider.

    Or you find someone desperate enough they'll do the invasions for you.

    The[y] chose... poorly.

    And if it's the free choice you're envisioning, rather than a desperate
    one, then they must be suicidal. Some might be reluctant to help them.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sat Jun 14 21:25:30 2025
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 9:20:00 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 7:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 4:02:20 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>
    On 6/13/2025 1:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote:

    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you >>>>>>>>> to be a danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless,
    even if they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're
    kicking in my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to
    abandon my home to thieves or stand aside and let them have their >>>>>>>>> way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life. >>>>>>
    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his >>>>>> own life
    more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal.

    It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted.

    And a place where property is valued more than life.

    If I'm at home when you come to take my property, my life is in danger, too.
    So on one side you have a life. On the other, you have one or more lives, >> plus
    property.

    The math does itself.

    They come to take your property, you come to take their life.

    But I don't know that. It's not like they announce themselves as mere non-murderous thieves with every kick on the door. And even if they did, I'm supposed to risk my life and the lives of my family banking on the honesty of the criminals who are kicking in my door?

    If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the >>>> probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is something you
    need to seriously consider.

    Or you find someone desperate enough they'll do the invasions for you.

    The[y] chose... poorly.

    And if it's the free choice you're envisioning, rather than a desperate
    one, then they must be suicidal.

    Yes, they desperately need my TV to feed their kids. Riiighhht...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 14 18:08:06 2025
    On 6/14/2025 5:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 9:20:00 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 7:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 4:02:20 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
    On 6/13/2025 1:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you >>>>>>>>>> to be a danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless,
    even if they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're
    kicking in my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to
    abandon my home to thieves or stand aside and let them have their >>>>>>>>>> way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life. >>>>>>>
    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his >>>>>>> own life
    more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal. >>>>>
    It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted.

    And a place where property is valued more than life.

    If I'm at home when you come to take my property, my life is in danger, too.
    So on one side you have a life. On the other, you have one or more lives, >>> plus
    property.

    The math does itself.

    They come to take your property, you come to take their life.

    But I don't know that. It's not like they announce themselves as mere non-murderous thieves with every kick on the door. And even if they did, I'm supposed to risk my life and the lives of my family banking on the honesty of the criminals who are kicking in my door?

    Who knows what you're "supposed" to do? But some rational humanitarians
    might take into account how unlikely a burglar is to be also homicidal.


    If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the >>>>> probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is something you
    need to seriously consider.

    Or you find someone desperate enough they'll do the invasions for you. >>>
    The[y] chose... poorly.

    And if it's the free choice you're envisioning, rather than a desperate
    one, then they must be suicidal.

    Yes, they desperately need my TV to feed their kids. Riiighhht...

    Yeah, he'll probably put it towards a new Corvette...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sun Jun 15 01:04:50 2025
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 3:08:06 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/14/2025 5:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 9:20:00 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>
    On 6/13/2025 7:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 4:02:20 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 1:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you
    to be a danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And >>>>>>>>>>> regardless,
    even if they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're
    kicking in my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to
    abandon my home to thieves or stand aside and let them have their
    way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life. >>>>>>>>
    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his
    own life
    more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal. >>>>>>
    It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted. >>>>>
    And a place where property is valued more than life.

    If I'm at home when you come to take my property, my life is in danger, >>>> too.
    So on one side you have a life. On the other, you have one or more lives,
    plus
    property.

    The math does itself.

    They come to take your property, you come to take their life.

    But I don't know that. It's not like they announce themselves as mere
    non-murderous thieves with every kick on the door. And even if they did, I'm
    supposed to risk my life and the lives of my family banking on the honesty >> of
    the criminals who are kicking in my door?

    Who knows what you're "supposed" to do?

    I do.

    And I forgot to address last time around, where you said that "They come to take your property, you come to take their life". Only half of that is true.
    In that scenario, they came to me. I didn't come to them. I was quietly
    minding my own business in my own home when violence and terror arrived on my doorstep. I didn't start the fight, I just ended it.

    But some rational humanitarians might take into account how unlikely a burglar is to be also homicidal.

    All one needs to do is spend a day reading the FBI crime stats to see how many home invasions end up deadly for the residents, even when the thieves could easily have just taken the property and left. A lot of criminals don't like to leave witnesses to their crimes.

    If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the >>>>>> probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is
    something you
    need to seriously consider.

    Or you find someone desperate enough they'll do the invasions for you. >>>>
    The[y] chose... poorly.

    And if it's the free choice you're envisioning, rather than a desperate >>> one, then they must be suicidal.

    Yes, they desperately need my TV to feed their kids. Riiighhht...

    Yeah, he'll probably put it towards a new Corvette...

    Ironically, you don't realize how right you are.

    I was always appalled and amazed when we'd run a search warrant in a home in the ghettos in Houston and L.A., where we'd find babies sitting in their own filth, malnourished, cockroaches everywhere, but darned if there wasn't the latest PlayStation or Nintendo sitting under a giant TV on the wall.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 14 22:32:39 2025
    On 2025-06-05 12:53 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 4:55:25 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:55:45 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I've seen plenty of commentators remark on their frustration with how
    crime is handled in their country and the meagre sentences most people
    get for serious crimes. Meanwhile, people who do mean tweets get longer
    jail terms than serious criminals. Many of these comments are probably
    by people who just repeat the same gossip they hear from others.

    There was a recent case in the UK where a woman who wrote a "mean
    tweet", then deleted it 2 hours later (after someone had taken a
    screen shot and e-mailed it to the Crown Prosecutor) got 3 1/2 years.
    It seems she got bad advise from the public defender and took a guilty
    plea while others who did likewise with her but pled not guilty were
    either acquitted or token sentences like probation.

    That is of course the risk one takes when you 'take a plea' but this
    one seems especially high even though she is likely to get parole in 9
    months.

    Meanwhile the "groomers" are being found guilty and getting suspended
    sentences.

    I personally think it's appalling that suspended sentences are an
    available sentencing option for rape of a minor but then I'm not in
    the UK.

    Bottom line is the current British government is in fear of Pakistani
    migrants be they legal or illegal and think they can't win the next
    election without Muslim ballots.

    If they're so scared of them, why do they keep importing thousands of them at a time?


    They're not just importing them in droves, the Labour government is
    actually planning to spend billions of pounds for a new airport IN
    PAKISTAN! Apparently, most Pakistanis in Britain come for a specific
    area in Pakistan that is fairly distant from the nearest airport so
    Labour wants to build them an airport, presumably so it will be easier
    for them to get back and forth when they go back to their home country.

    Among other things, Pakistanis often take their pubescent daughters back
    to Pakistan, supposedly for a holiday, but actually to be married to a
    first cousin they've often never met and who may be a decade older. The
    girls are frequently horrified when they get to Pakistan and learn their parents' plan; their father or older brothers will literally kill them
    to prevent shame to the family if the girl objects. Some girls simply
    kill themselves to avoid the forced marriage. Apparently, Labour wants
    to make this process easier for British Pakistanis with a shiny new
    airport....

    --
    Rhino

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 15 03:20:06 2025
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 7:32:39 PM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-06-05 12:53 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 4:55:25 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> wrote: >>
    On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:55:45 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I've seen plenty of commentators remark on their frustration with how >>>> crime is handled in their country and the meagre sentences most people >>>> get for serious crimes. Meanwhile, people who do mean tweets get longer >>>> jail terms than serious criminals. Many of these comments are probably >>>> by people who just repeat the same gossip they hear from others.

    There was a recent case in the UK where a woman who wrote a "mean
    tweet", then deleted it 2 hours later (after someone had taken a
    screen shot and e-mailed it to the Crown Prosecutor) got 3 1/2 years.
    It seems she got bad advise from the public defender and took a guilty
    plea while others who did likewise with her but pled not guilty were
    either acquitted or token sentences like probation.

    That is of course the risk one takes when you 'take a plea' but this
    one seems especially high even though she is likely to get parole in 9
    months.

    Meanwhile the "groomers" are being found guilty and getting suspended
    sentences.

    I personally think it's appalling that suspended sentences are an
    available sentencing option for rape of a minor but then I'm not in
    the UK.

    Bottom line is the current British government is in fear of Pakistani
    migrants be they legal or illegal and think they can't win the next
    election without Muslim ballots.

    If they're so scared of them, why do they keep importing thousands of them >> at
    a time?

    They're not just importing them in droves, the Labour government is
    actually planning to spend billions of pounds for a new airport IN
    PAKISTAN! Apparently, most Pakistanis in Britain come for a specific
    area in Pakistan that is fairly distant from the nearest airport so
    Labour wants to build them an airport, presumably so it will be easier
    for them to get back and forth when they go back to their home country.

    Among other things, Pakistanis often take their pubescent daughters back
    to Pakistan, supposedly for a holiday, but actually to be married to a
    first cousin they've often never met and who may be a decade older. The
    girls are frequently horrified when they get to Pakistan and learn their parents' plan; their father or older brothers will literally kill them
    to prevent shame to the family if the girl objects. Some girls simply
    kill themselves to avoid the forced marriage. Apparently, Labour wants
    to make this process easier for British Pakistanis with a shiny new airport....

    Yep, the number of young girls who kill themselves over this 'tradition' far exceeds the number of troons who kill themselves for not being 'affirmed'. We're told we have to remake our entire society and actively participate in
    the delusions of the mentally ill or they might kill themselves, but strangely there's no concern for the far more frequent suicides of young girls who face
    a lifetime of abuse and rape by men 30 years older than they are.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jun 14 21:48:29 2025
    On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:44:02 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    If you hit him upside the head with a blunt instrument, you are being
    ever so kind as to remind him that breaking and entering is not proper >etiquette for calling upon you. You are pounding the clue into his
    head, hopefully hard enough that the clue will penetrate. I'm sure you
    will encounter high SRF but do the very best you can.

    It is kind of you to take the time to do this.

    Alt.sysadmin.recovery which used to be one of my favorite newsgroups
    (having earlier in my life been involved in this occupation) used to
    refer to such equipment as "LARTS" - "Loser Attitude Readjustment
    Tools" such a baseball bat other than on the playing field or more
    lethal devices...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 14 21:45:11 2025
    On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:31:04 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why >>> should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    Fair enough but if you've forced your way inside my home don't expect
    me to think of the worth of your life versus the safety of me and
    mine. Somebody who lives their life in terms of the Sermon on the
    Mount has nothing whatever to fear from me.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Sun Jun 15 04:58:43 2025
    The Horny Goat <[email protected]> wrote:
    Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:44:02 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]>:

    If you hit him upside the head with a blunt instrument, you are being
    ever so kind as to remind him that breaking and entering is not proper >>etiquette for calling upon you. You are pounding the clue into his
    head, hopefully hard enough that the clue will penetrate. I'm sure you
    will encounter high SRF but do the very best you can.

    It is kind of you to take the time to do this.

    Alt.sysadmin.recovery which used to be one of my favorite newsgroups
    (having earlier in my life been involved in this occupation) used to
    refer to such equipment as "LARTS" - "Loser Attitude Readjustment
    Tools" such a baseball bat other than on the playing field or more
    lethal devices...

    When applying the LART to the skull, it must be done in such a way as
    not to damage the innocent computer terminal.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jun 14 22:06:42 2025
    On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 22:32:39 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    They're not just importing them in droves, the Labour government is
    actually planning to spend billions of pounds for a new airport IN
    PAKISTAN! Apparently, most Pakistanis in Britain come for a specific
    area in Pakistan that is fairly distant from the nearest airport so
    Labour wants to build them an airport, presumably so it will be easier
    for them to get back and forth when they go back to their home country.

    Was the British government wanting to build a terminal for them?

    As opposed to airstrip where the miscreants could be dropped off and
    the aircraft heading home?

    Trouble is I've just spent 1/2 hour trying to determine whether
    Jaskirat Singh Sidhu (someone every Canadian knows even if they don't
    know his name - he's the driver of the Humboldt SK truck who killed
    most of a hockey team) has been deported from Canada - and found lots
    of hits on court proceedings but nothing saying he had been deported
    to India - and in fact was suing for restoration of his Permanent
    Resident status which would allow him to apply for Canadian
    citizenship which would be a total obscenity.

    Knowing Donald Trump he's probably hoping the judge orders the pair of
    truck drivers who dropped off an Indian family trying to illegally
    cross into Canada (ND -> MB) in -40 weather without suitable clothing
    and they unsurprisingly froze to death.

    After all - it's deporting a bad guy (the driver) from the US to
    Canada...and in TrumpWorld that's a positive social good.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Sun Jun 15 12:36:52 2025
    On 6/15/2025 12:45 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:31:04 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why >>>> should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life.

    Fair enough but if you've forced your way inside my home don't expect
    me to think of the worth of your life versus the safety of me and
    mine. Somebody who lives their life in terms of the Sermon on the
    Mount has nothing whatever to fear from me.

    Someone breaking in despite a fair possibility of your being home is a different matter, I'd agree.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 15 12:56:25 2025
    On 6/14/2025 11:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 7:32:39 PM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-06-05 12:53 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 4:55:25 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:55:45 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I've seen plenty of commentators remark on their frustration with how >>>>> crime is handled in their country and the meagre sentences most people >>>>> get for serious crimes. Meanwhile, people who do mean tweets get longer >>>>> jail terms than serious criminals. Many of these comments are probably >>>>> by people who just repeat the same gossip they hear from others.

    There was a recent case in the UK where a woman who wrote a "mean
    tweet", then deleted it 2 hours later (after someone had taken a
    screen shot and e-mailed it to the Crown Prosecutor) got 3 1/2 years. >>>> It seems she got bad advise from the public defender and took a guilty >>>> plea while others who did likewise with her but pled not guilty were >>>> either acquitted or token sentences like probation.

    That is of course the risk one takes when you 'take a plea' but this >>>> one seems especially high even though she is likely to get parole in 9 >>>> months.

    Meanwhile the "groomers" are being found guilty and getting suspended >>>> sentences.

    I personally think it's appalling that suspended sentences are an
    available sentencing option for rape of a minor but then I'm not in
    the UK.

    Bottom line is the current British government is in fear of Pakistani >>>> migrants be they legal or illegal and think they can't win the next
    election without Muslim ballots.

    If they're so scared of them, why do they keep importing thousands of them
    at
    a time?

    They're not just importing them in droves, the Labour government is
    actually planning to spend billions of pounds for a new airport IN
    PAKISTAN! Apparently, most Pakistanis in Britain come for a specific
    area in Pakistan that is fairly distant from the nearest airport so
    Labour wants to build them an airport, presumably so it will be easier
    for them to get back and forth when they go back to their home country.

    Among other things, Pakistanis often take their pubescent daughters back
    to Pakistan, supposedly for a holiday, but actually to be married to a
    first cousin they've often never met and who may be a decade older. The
    girls are frequently horrified when they get to Pakistan and learn their
    parents' plan; their father or older brothers will literally kill them
    to prevent shame to the family if the girl objects. Some girls simply
    kill themselves to avoid the forced marriage. Apparently, Labour wants
    to make this process easier for British Pakistanis with a shiny new
    airport....

    Yep, the number of young girls who kill themselves over this 'tradition' far exceeds the number of troons who kill themselves for not being 'affirmed'. We're told we have to remake our entire society and actively participate in the delusions of the mentally ill or they might kill themselves, but strangely
    there's no concern for the far more frequent suicides of young girls who face a lifetime of abuse and rape by men 30 years older than they are.

    When should one society inflict its social mores on another?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sun Jun 15 17:05:02 2025
    On Jun 15, 2025 at 9:56:25 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/14/2025 11:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 7:32:39 PM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]> >> wrote:

    On 2025-06-05 12:53 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 4:55:25 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> >>>> wrote:

    On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:55:45 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I've seen plenty of commentators remark on their frustration with how >>>>>> crime is handled in their country and the meagre sentences most people
    get for serious crimes. Meanwhile, people who do mean tweets get longer
    jail terms than serious criminals. Many of these comments are probably
    by people who just repeat the same gossip they hear from others. >>>>>>
    There was a recent case in the UK where a woman who wrote a "mean >>>>> tweet", then deleted it 2 hours later (after someone had taken a
    screen shot and e-mailed it to the Crown Prosecutor) got 3 1/2 years. >>>>> It seems she got bad advise from the public defender and took a guilty >>>>> plea while others who did likewise with her but pled not guilty were >>>>> either acquitted or token sentences like probation.

    That is of course the risk one takes when you 'take a plea' but this >>>>> one seems especially high even though she is likely to get parole in 9 >>>>> months.

    Meanwhile the "groomers" are being found guilty and getting suspended >>>>> sentences.

    I personally think it's appalling that suspended sentences are an >>>>> available sentencing option for rape of a minor but then I'm not in >>>>> the UK.

    Bottom line is the current British government is in fear of Pakistani >>>>> migrants be they legal or illegal and think they can't win the next >>>>> election without Muslim ballots.

    If they're so scared of them, why do they keep importing thousands of them
    at
    a time?

    They're not just importing them in droves, the Labour government is
    actually planning to spend billions of pounds for a new airport IN
    PAKISTAN! Apparently, most Pakistanis in Britain come for a specific
    area in Pakistan that is fairly distant from the nearest airport so
    Labour wants to build them an airport, presumably so it will be easier
    for them to get back and forth when they go back to their home country. >>>
    Among other things, Pakistanis often take their pubescent daughters back >>> to Pakistan, supposedly for a holiday, but actually to be married to a
    first cousin they've often never met and who may be a decade older. The >>> girls are frequently horrified when they get to Pakistan and learn their >>> parents' plan; their father or older brothers will literally kill them
    to prevent shame to the family if the girl objects. Some girls simply
    kill themselves to avoid the forced marriage. Apparently, Labour wants
    to make this process easier for British Pakistanis with a shiny new
    airport....

    Yep, the number of young girls who kill themselves over this 'tradition' far
    exceeds the number of troons who kill themselves for not being 'affirmed'. >> We're told we have to remake our entire society and actively participate in >> the delusions of the mentally ill or they might kill themselves, but
    strangely
    there's no concern for the far more frequent suicides of young girls who
    face
    a lifetime of abuse and rape by men 30 years older than they are.

    When should one society inflict its social mores on another?

    People are free to inflict all they like. The government can't require.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 15 13:05:38 2025
    On 6/14/2025 9:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 3:08:06 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/14/2025 5:25 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 9:20:00 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
    On 6/13/2025 7:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 4:02:20 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 1:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 10:08:54 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 6/13/2025 12:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you
    to be a danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And
    regardless,
    even if they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're
    kicking in my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to
    abandon my home to thieves or stand aside and let them have their
    way with my property.

    And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
    should I do any different?

    Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
    when it comes to your own abode.

    Absolutely. In a world that values property more than life. >>>>>>>>>
    Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his
    own life
    more than my property, why should I?

    Umm, in most households anyway, theft isn't considered suicidal. >>>>>>>
    It is if you're in a place where gun ownership isn't restricted. >>>>>>
    And a place where property is valued more than life.

    If I'm at home when you come to take my property, my life is in danger,
    too.
    So on one side you have a life. On the other, you have one or more lives,
    plus
    property.

    The math does itself.

    They come to take your property, you come to take their life.

    But I don't know that. It's not like they announce themselves as mere
    non-murderous thieves with every kick on the door. And even if they did, I'm
    supposed to risk my life and the lives of my family banking on the honesty
    of
    the criminals who are kicking in my door?

    Who knows what you're "supposed" to do?

    I do.

    And I forgot to address last time around, where you said that "They come to take your property, you come to take their life". Only half of that is true. In that scenario, they came to me. I didn't come to them. I was quietly minding my own business in my own home when violence and terror arrived on my doorstep. I didn't start the fight, I just ended it.

    But some rational humanitarians might take into account how unlikely a
    burglar is to be also homicidal.

    All one needs to do is spend a day reading the FBI crime stats to see how many
    home invasions end up deadly for the residents, even when the thieves could easily have just taken the property and left. A lot of criminals don't like to
    leave witnesses to their crimes.

    If you're in Texas and considering home invasion as a vocation, the
    probability that you'll be shot sooner rather than later is >>>>>>> something you
    need to seriously consider.

    Or you find someone desperate enough they'll do the invasions for you.

    The[y] chose... poorly.

    And if it's the free choice you're envisioning, rather than a desperate >>>> one, then they must be suicidal.

    Yes, they desperately need my TV to feed their kids. Riiighhht...

    Yeah, he'll probably put it towards a new Corvette...

    Ironically, you don't realize how right you are.

    I was always appalled and amazed when we'd run a search warrant in a home in the ghettos in Houston and L.A., where we'd find babies sitting in their own filth, malnourished, cockroaches everywhere, but darned if there wasn't the latest PlayStation or Nintendo sitting under a giant TV on the wall.

    Yes, that ready stereotype does have some basis in fact, afaik. But I'd
    need some actual statistics before I'd adopt it as prevalent.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 15 15:48:13 2025
    On 6/15/2025 1:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 15, 2025 at 9:56:25 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 6/14/2025 11:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 14, 2025 at 7:32:39 PM PDT, "Rhino" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 2025-06-05 12:53 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:
    On Jun 4, 2025 at 4:55:25 PM PDT, "The Horny Goat" <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote:

    On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:55:45 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I've seen plenty of commentators remark on their frustration with how
    crime is handled in their country and the meagre sentences most people
    get for serious crimes. Meanwhile, people who do mean tweets get longer
    jail terms than serious criminals. Many of these comments are probably
    by people who just repeat the same gossip they hear from others. >>>>>>>
    There was a recent case in the UK where a woman who wrote a "mean >>>>>> tweet", then deleted it 2 hours later (after someone had taken a >>>>>> screen shot and e-mailed it to the Crown Prosecutor) got 3 1/2 years.
    It seems she got bad advise from the public defender and took a guilty
    plea while others who did likewise with her but pled not guilty were >>>>>> either acquitted or token sentences like probation.

    That is of course the risk one takes when you 'take a plea' but this >>>>>> one seems especially high even though she is likely to get parole in 9
    months.

    Meanwhile the "groomers" are being found guilty and getting suspended
    sentences.

    I personally think it's appalling that suspended sentences are an >>>>>> available sentencing option for rape of a minor but then I'm not in >>>>>> the UK.

    Bottom line is the current British government is in fear of Pakistani
    migrants be they legal or illegal and think they can't win the next >>>>>> election without Muslim ballots.

    If they're so scared of them, why do they keep importing thousands of them
    at
    a time?

    They're not just importing them in droves, the Labour government is
    actually planning to spend billions of pounds for a new airport IN
    PAKISTAN! Apparently, most Pakistanis in Britain come for a specific >>>> area in Pakistan that is fairly distant from the nearest airport so
    Labour wants to build them an airport, presumably so it will be easier >>>> for them to get back and forth when they go back to their home country. >>>>
    Among other things, Pakistanis often take their pubescent daughters back >>>> to Pakistan, supposedly for a holiday, but actually to be married to a >>>> first cousin they've often never met and who may be a decade older. The >>>> girls are frequently horrified when they get to Pakistan and learn their >>>> parents' plan; their father or older brothers will literally kill them >>>> to prevent shame to the family if the girl objects. Some girls simply >>>> kill themselves to avoid the forced marriage. Apparently, Labour wants >>>> to make this process easier for British Pakistanis with a shiny new
    airport....

    Yep, the number of young girls who kill themselves over this 'tradition' far
    exceeds the number of troons who kill themselves for not being 'affirmed'.
    We're told we have to remake our entire society and actively participate in
    the delusions of the mentally ill or they might kill themselves, but
    strangely
    there's no concern for the far more frequent suicides of young girls who >>> face
    a lifetime of abuse and rape by men 30 years older than they are.

    When should one society inflict its social mores on another?

    People are free to inflict all they like. The government can't require.

    You say that like our government doesn't enforce our mores here.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 5 21:43:13 2025
    On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:48:13 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Yep, the number of young girls who kill themselves over this 'tradition' far
    exceeds the number of troons who kill themselves for not being 'affirmed'.
    We're told we have to remake our entire society and actively participate in
    the delusions of the mentally ill or they might kill themselves, but >>>> strangely
    there's no concern for the far more frequent suicides of young girls who >>>> face
    a lifetime of abuse and rape by men 30 years older than they are.

    When should one society inflict its social mores on another?

    People are free to inflict all they like. The government can't require.

    You say that like our government doesn't enforce our mores here.

    Britain has a serious problem right now with Muslim immigration - much
    of which is illegal. And is isn't helped by King Charles sending
    greetings on Muslim religious holidays but saying nothing for
    Christian holidays which is nothing but bizarre given he is legally
    head of the Church of England.

    I wouldn't complain if he had either acknowledged both or neither but
    what he actually did is unconscionable.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 5 21:40:08 2025
    On Thu, 29 May 2025 09:11:36 -0400, Rhino
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Maybe Reform can preside over a major rewrite of the laws in the UK so
    that they make sense again. (Reform is substantially ahead of both the >Conservatives and Reform in polling on a national basis but the next
    election is still a few years away so anything could happen between now
    and then.)

    I'm quite skeptical regarding opinion polls right now - and I
    particularly hate Trump right now not for the reasons most of his
    non-fans cite but became he DIRECTLY commented on April's Canadian
    election in a way that turned a 25+ point lead for the Conservatives
    to a 2 1/2 point loss.

    Bottom line is that foreign leaders are not expected to take a role in
    ANY election other than their own country's.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Sun Jul 6 12:06:38 2025
    On 7/6/2025 12:43 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:48:13 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Yep, the number of young girls who kill themselves over this 'tradition' far
    exceeds the number of troons who kill themselves for not being 'affirmed'.
    We're told we have to remake our entire society and actively participate in
    the delusions of the mentally ill or they might kill themselves, but >>>>> strangely
    there's no concern for the far more frequent suicides of young girls who
    face
    a lifetime of abuse and rape by men 30 years older than they are.

    When should one society inflict its social mores on another?

    People are free to inflict all they like. The government can't require.

    You say that like our government doesn't enforce our mores here.

    Britain has a serious problem right now with Muslim immigration - much
    of which is illegal. And is isn't helped by King Charles sending
    greetings on Muslim religious holidays but saying nothing for
    Christian holidays which is nothing but bizarre given he is legally
    head of the Church of England.

    I wouldn't complain if he had either acknowledged both or neither but
    what he actually did is unconscionable.

    I don't think there *is* a winning move...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sun Jul 6 20:25:12 2025
    On Jul 6, 2025 at 9:06:38 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 7/6/2025 12:43 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:48:13 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Yep, the number of young girls who kill themselves over this
    'tradition' far
    exceeds the number of troons who kill themselves for not being >>>>>> 'affirmed'.
    We're told we have to remake our entire society and actively
    participate in
    the delusions of the mentally ill or they might kill themselves, but >>>>>> strangely
    there's no concern for the far more frequent suicides of young girls who
    face
    a lifetime of abuse and rape by men 30 years older than they are. >>>>>
    When should one society inflict its social mores on another?

    People are free to inflict all they like. The government can't require. >>>
    You say that like our government doesn't enforce our mores here.

    Britain has a serious problem right now with Muslim immigration - much
    of which is illegal. And is isn't helped by King Charles sending
    greetings on Muslim religious holidays but saying nothing for
    Christian holidays which is nothing but bizarre given he is legally
    head of the Church of England.

    I wouldn't complain if he had either acknowledged both or neither but
    what he actually did is unconscionable.

    I don't think there *is* a winning move...

    They could start by closing their borders.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 7 18:46:19 2025
    On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 12:06:38 -0400, moviePig <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I wouldn't complain if he had either acknowledged both or neither but
    what he actually did is unconscionable.

    I don't think there *is* a winning move...

    Some people would demand Muslim services in Westminster Abbey - uh no
    - for what it's worth besides being a national museum it's also a
    working church.

    And I speak as one who has received Holy Communion in Westminster
    Abbey (in June 2016) - I'm assuming everyone here knows Christian
    sacraments are not an ecumenical type affair though the priest that
    day said (direct quote) "if you would be welcome to participate in
    your home parish you are welcome to participate here" - in other words
    no ID checking <grin>

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 7 18:51:02 2025
    On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 20:25:12 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Britain has a serious problem right now with Muslim immigration - much
    of which is illegal. And is isn't helped by King Charles sending
    greetings on Muslim religious holidays but saying nothing for
    Christian holidays which is nothing but bizarre given he is legally
    head of the Church of England.

    I wouldn't complain if he had either acknowledged both or neither but
    what he actually did is unconscionable.

    I don't think there *is* a winning move...

    They could start by closing their borders.

    Anybody regularly following Youtube knows all about this - it's a
    pretty top of list subject among British politicians and political commentators.

    If you've been living in a cave these last five years just go to
    Youtube and search the phrase "British grooming gangs" and you'll find
    plenty. Part of Keir Starmer's problem on this file is that before
    going into politics he was a Crown Prosecutor (which is British for
    what Americans would call a Senior States Attorney) and to wit in a
    region of Britain that was very close to the epicenter of all this. In
    other words "plausible deniability" just isn't on for Starmer on this
    matter.

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