Mad Dogs and Englishmen

[elfs]

This is ridiculous. Government lawyers are fighting to keep the Norfolk, England farmer Tony Martin behind bars. His "crime" is shooting at two men who entered his home while he slept with the intent of robbing him. The lawyers will apparently tell a High Court judge tomorrow that "burglars are members of the public who must be protected from violent householders."

At first, I thought Theodore Dalrymple's recent article, The victims of liberalism, was over the top. Now I'm convinced otherwise. By the by, if you you've never read Theodore Dalrymple, start now.

Two strangers, in his home, in the middle of the night, known to be out for criminal intent, and he's not allowed to defend himself? What kind of logic is that? I love the phrase "violent householders." I suspect that Mr. Martin is no more violent than anyone else out to protect his family from those who are out to flagrantly flaunt the law.

In other news (fallenpegasus, you want to see this), the magazine The New Atlantis has launched. It's supposed to be a "balanced and fair" analysis of the new techonolgies and what they mean for the rest of us, but it has a distinctly Static feel to, at least to my reading. When the flagship article is by Leon Kass, I have serious worries.

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But I don't believe it either.