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June 15, 2008

How Heroes Are Treated in Airstrip One

In the wretched remnants of Great Britain, no good deed goes unpunished:

A one-legged Royal Navy veteran was arrested after he rescued his neighbour from being harassed by two men.
Stephen Beerling, 52, dialled 999 and raced to help the women and her baby after hearing screams during the night.
But he was arrested when officers spotted a retractable truncheon he had picked up in case he had to protect himself.

Beerling has been wearing a prosthesis since 2004, when he lost his leg while serving with the Navy. In return for a night in jail, he received a valuable lesson about the country he lost a limb for.

Defense of the innocent is no longer to be permitted of private citizens. The Government will see to all. Good citizens are merely to sit passively and await instructions. The Government will feed them in return for their votes, so long as they don't do anything foolish like take personal initiative.

On a tip from Byron.

Posted by Van Helsing at June 15, 2008 7:50 PM

Comments

OT - similar but different.

I had to look at the page 3 times to make sure I was not reading some article about the UK.
Hospital calls cops and feels the sting

Posted by: Oiao at June 15, 2008 8:13 PM

This is a good article, even though it is in the UK, I’m very concerned about helping some people in CA and depending on the ‘Good Samaritan’ laws to protect.

I’ve regretted having to disassociate myself from several charities and non-profits, over the years, that I was heavily involved in because of the lack of sensible liability insurance carried by those groups.

At the end of the day, some half-wit MoonBat Prosecutor who wants as many ‘wins’ as he can get, will just throw charges your way. There are no lack of untalented attorneys (ambulance chasers) who will take such a case and turn your ‘good deed’ into the most costly mistake of your life.

Posted by: Oiao at June 15, 2008 8:20 PM

Posted by: Oiao at June 15, 2008 8:21 PM

OT -

I’ll try to find the story that recanted the ‘BIG ICE SCARE’ in Oakland last month. The nuts and bolts, to include the truth is that someone may have seen an ICE van drive down a public street somewhere near one school, while some raids on Illegal Law Breaking Immigrants were happening, somewhere in the city. So, of course, the MoonBats who run the school started a scare and text messages and everything were flying around……. Basically, the MoonBats yelled ‘FIRE’ and blamed it on ICE.
Rep. Lee lashes out against ICE – after they fabricated the entire story about ICE in schools

Posted by: Oiao at June 15, 2008 8:33 PM

OT - Well, everyone in San FranFreakShow is pissed because someone beat them to it.

Argentina raises 'Che' Guevara statue

Posted by: Oiao at June 15, 2008 8:38 PM

OT -

'There is no evidence of a polar bear being killed by oil and gas activities in Alaska since 1993, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.'

However, some countries now have food riots because the US burns Corn, and not our own oil and natural gas resources (nor coal, nor nuclear, nor......) Idiot Liberals.

Polar bears' protections eroding
Bush administration allows oil companies to disrupt habitat

Follow up to this article Companies get OK to annoy polar bears, EnviroMoonBats loose their minds….

Posted by: Oiao at June 15, 2008 8:53 PM

They dropped the charges against him... and the two thugs:

Kent Police and Senior Crown Prosecutor Janet Garnon-Williams said in a statement: 'A decision has been taken jointly to discontinue the case as there is not a realistic prospect of conviction.'
A police spokesman said the two men arrested with Mr Beerling were charged with affray, but the cases were later dropped.

Posted by: Lyle at June 15, 2008 10:27 PM

Oiao, you have to watch out for tricky links. Above, you posted a link that included a suffix of "?nclick_check=1" This causes the site to look for a cookie from its own site. If it doesn't see it, it kicks you back to the site you came from.

This is the link about Rep Lee and ICE you wanted wanted to post:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_9582619

Bottom line: Always be wary of anything following a question mark in a link. It may be needed/legitimate, but most of the time, it is not.

Posted by: Lyle at June 15, 2008 10:35 PM

Thanks Lyle!

I read you 5 by 5!

Posted by: Oiao at June 15, 2008 10:49 PM

Ho-hum. Another article about moonbattery in England. Another bump in the road toward Nirvana. They've taken everyone's guns and knives away now they need to look hard at retractable truncheons. (What the hell is a "truncheon" anyway?) And can you imagine charging a mugger-with-an-attitude in New York with "affray" and then letting them go? What a country! How low can they go?

Posted by: MarineCorpsVet at June 16, 2008 4:14 AM

What the hell is a "truncheon" anyway?
Posted by: MarineCorpsVet at June 16, 2008 4:14 AM

It's Brit talk for a telescoping baton.

Posted by: Lyle at June 16, 2008 7:59 AM