On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:30:46 +1000, Tim Lambert wrote:
>Jailing Lindsay for eight years Mr Justice Hughes said the
>dealer had been severely provoked and initially acted in self defence.
So far, so good.
>"As they fled you stabbed one assailant four times in the back," he
>told Lindsay.
>"You took a life by deliberate retaliation using a lethal weapon you
>kept in your home when aware you were a high risk target."
None of the reports has indicated "why." Did the decedent appear to still be a
threat? We can conlude that Lindsay thought so because he kept defending
himself until it was clear the threat was neutralized. His Honor really didn't
appear to address the details.
>Appearing in the dock alongside Lindsay were the robbers Ashton, Ryan and Page.
>There were loud gasps from the public gallery when they were each
>jailed for 14 years for armed robbery.
That there were gasps perhaps is the most-revealing statement about so-called
"justice" in the U.K. today.
>Note that the judge said that Lindsay had initially acted in self
>defence -- it was the subsequent back stabbing that wasn't self
>defence.
"Back-stabbing" certainly puts a negative spin on it, but if the armed robber
was still appearing to resist, under the laws and wise public policy of the
"colonies"--that is, those whose ancestors were smart enough to leave the
realm--this was still a valid self-defence.
--
"There is not crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of
law and in the name of justice."
--Montesquieu, 1742
--
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most
oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral
busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some
point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without
end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C.S. Lewis
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