Friday, August 29, 2003

BRITAIN’S VANISHED RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENCE

British lawyer David Carr summarizes British law on self-defence as it now stands:

“Every British government since at least the 1940's has held as a core belief that safety of the citizen and the prevention of crime is a matter for the government and the government alone. Indeed, so deeply ingrained has this assumption become in every branch of the state that, in practice, any action taken by the citizen that is more than mere token resistance is regarded by the police and the judiciary as unreasonable”.

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