Re: Self defense injustice in the UK

On 2025-05-29 10:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 29, 2025 at 2:00:57 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

On 2025-05-29 3:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On May 28, 2025 at 10:43:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
  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.
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  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