Jack Straw ? A Cynical Ploy?

[Officer Dibble]

Jack Straw, speaking at the ?Noo-Labour? Conference, said today that decent citizens should be able to 'have a go' at criminals without fear of prosecution - Unlike at present, where if you are rude to a scumbag while he assaults you, burgles your house, or takes your mobile phone off you at knifepoint, you are liable to get five years in clink, while the afor mentioned nere-do-well is sent on a Safari to recuperate and get over the intense trauma of your recklessly administered tong lashing.

So does this now mean that decent citizens will have the green light to administer thoroughly deserved kickings to anti-social chavs, pikeys, 'gang members' and the like? Is Jack trying to pass himself of as ?a man of the people? with his tales of non-poncy direct action? Does this speech signal a new government offensive on the brainless, lowlife, street scum that blights 21st Britain - or is it just a cynical electioneering ploy, to be swept under the carpet after the next Nu-Lab victory? After all, in the last decade there have been umpteen private members bills to give more leeway to 'have a go heroes?, but the government has put the kybosh on 'em all.

What does the panel think? Are you gleefully rubbing your hands at the thought of punching a pikey or chinning a chav?



Officer Dibble

[diplodocus]

ah, dibble, dibble, dibble

the law as it stands is pretty clear, if a scummer walks into your house and has a go you are well within your rights to hit them with a big fuck off brick. If they snuff it then you will not be charged with anything.

If you catch them in your house any you shout 'fuck off pikey' and they leg it out the window, you chase them and batter then to death with a golf club, you will be charged.

The grey area is when you batter a scummer in your house and they survive, they can then charge you with civil damages - civil and criminal law are different like that, The change in law is meant to close that loophole so you can't be charged under civil law

about time too I say

all power to the brick

[Sam Slater]

[quote]If somebody walks into your house you don't have the right to assault or kill them.[/quote]

What, not even a member of the clergy? That's disgusting!

[diplodocus]

if you kill them in the act of defending yourself, whether that be with your hands or what you have picked up, that will be deemed reasonable defence in your own home, highly unlikely you will have a problem,

the problem arises if you go after them if they decide to run

[diplodocus]

true, you don't have the right to kill or assualt, no one does

but if someone has a go at you in your home and you kill or seriously hurt them in the act of defending yourself, then the law is on your side

[mart]

Ah!
The brave officer in Bulldog Drumond mode again.
Does he realise his hero didn't like Jews either.

Mart

[eroticartist]

Dibble,
I could never turn the other cheek and because one is under surveillance with every move recorded I decided to leave. After all "murderers" of gangsters who tried to kill one's family are always in the wrong in Orwellian Britain!
Mike Freeman.