Gun Culture

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

The Westminster Blair Hounds

The Blair, as we all know, is a member of the Mustelid family, first introduced to the Westminster area in May ‘97 by a misguided group of electors and antipodean newspaper owners. It is an unpleasant, destructive, troublesome little creature with few of the redeeming traits of the Mink. It is highly mobile popping up all over the country with a distinctive irritating call. Whilst it is known to be migratory any set pattern of migration is hard to distinguish. Short-term migrations across the Atlantic are common where it is seen in mixed flocks with the native Bushes, as are trips to Brussels. The latter is thought to be a fertile feeding ground. Family parties are often seen in the Tuscany area in summer.

Courtesy of Phil on the Sportsmans Association Forum

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

PC dies from gunshot wound

The outline from News & Star

“A CONSTABLE has been found dead with a gunshot wound at a Cumbrian police station.

Philip Beckett, 37, was found at 6.40am today at Ulverston in the south of the county.

Mr Beckett, who worked with Cumbria Police’s Mobile Support Group, who lived in the Barrow area.

An investigation is underway and the coroner has been informed.

There are not thought to be any suspicious circumstances.

A force spokesman said: “It was a sudden death and we are trying to establish the circumstances.

“Inquiries are continuing and police are working closely with the Health and Safety Executive in relation to this incident.”

Mr Beckett’s family has been informed”

It sounds like the officer has either been victim of a tragic accident or has chosen to end his own life.

Monday, June 28, 2004

Grave Robbers Thwarted

Whoa! Where did this one pop up from?

MPs Reject Opt-Out Plan for Organ Donation

Amazingly we have rampant statists Labour to thank in no small part for this being kicked to the kerb, due to the Labour whip being imposed on the issue.

Health Secretary John Reid defended the imposition of a whip on Labour MPs, insisting: “This decision over one’s own body is for the conscience – the conscience of individual citizens in this country.

“It is not for this Parliament, by free vote or other vote, to impose upon them a requisition of their bodies after death for the state.”

Bravo Mr Reid, now perhaps you might like to extend that thinking to other areas where the individual should have sovereignty over their own bodies - such as what substances we are allowed to put into our own bodies for example.

The move was proposed apparently by Lib-Dem Evan Harris, but a supporter of the idea was Mr Stephen Pound.  This would be the same Stephen Pound who promised to back Radio 4’s Today programme’s “Listener’s Law” until the Listeners decided that what they wanted was actually to defend themselves in their own homes.  Then Mr Pound declared the listeners to be “Bastards” and called into question their intelligence.  Mr Pound quietly forgot his promise leaving Mr Gale to actually introduce such a Bill to parliament.  Labour ministers then talked the Bill out.  Mr Pound’s favoured option that the “Bastards” spurned?  Presumed consent for organ harvesting.

The Conservative stance was to allow a free vote, wholly inappropriate for this kind of measure.  This kind of statist thinking should be anathema to true Conservatism, this reminds us how far the Conservatives have strayed from their roots.

Mad Dog Blunkett Bites Wrong Guy

Imagine getting your dream job, the one you’ve worked your whole career towards.  You get stuck in and start to make some real inroads into changes you think are needed.  Life is good.
Then you are told that, because of something your predecessor did, you must carry the can.
Injustice? You bet.

Mr Wells told The Mail on Sunday: “The inquiry into the murders has become a major political issue and we have found that shocking. We have always understood Mr Westwood to have our best interests at heart and to be willing to take the blame for troubles which pre-dated his promotion. If that brought an end to his career it would be a travesty.”

(my emphasis)

Mad Dog Blunkett finds he needs to blame someone for the errors leading up to Huntley’s crimes.  Mr Westwood will do, and the Police Authority can come into line or face the consequences.  This Home Secretary is surely the most statist, authoritarian in recent memory.  He must be removed as soon as possible.

For further examples of Mad Dog Blunkett’s statism see White Rose and Big Blunkett

Sorry I’m late

Late start today.  My beloved Seat Leon Cupra (Ovni Yellow natch!) had to go to the doctors today regarding an excess emissions light.  T’was only supposed to take an hour, but that soon turned into two.  Tiresomely the fault is still not fixed and it must return when the part required comes in.  Still the garage was a very pleasant place to wait, good coffee, good newspaper (Telegraph, I’ll forgive them for having the Mail) and the service desk jockey was an extremely well turned out young lady.
Harper & Hebsons of Carlisle.  Recommended.

Friday, June 25, 2004

Posiedon Cleared!

Fantastic news is that Nathan Kirk has been aquitted of charges of possesion of an offensive weapon and of grevious bodily harm with intent.

Nathan Kirk was cleared of unlawfully possessing an offensive weapon after earlier being acquitted of one charge of grievous bodily harm with intent.

The 25-year-old, from Hungerford, Berkshire, was also cleared of grievous bodily harm, on Thursday.

The full story from BBC news here.

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Coffee free coffee

Scientists discover decaf coffee bean

It’s the news coffee-loving insomniacs the world over have been waiting for - scientists have discovered a naturally caffeine-free coffee plant.
A cup of decaf could soon taste as good as caffeinated thanks to an Ethiopian variety of Coffea arabica, which provides high-quality coffee for about 70% of the world market.

Scientists hope that by crossing the caffeine-free variety with commercial crops they can make natural brands that could be available in five years

Er, why?
Seriously though, I just don’t get it.  De-caf ranks up there with alcohol-free beer!

La la la, I’m not listening

Tony Blair’s idea of consultation:

Hot Property

Kirsty Allsop, star of Location, Location, Location and other such shows that your wife insists on watching, says that there are eight naked pictures of her in existence.  Hubba hubba!  Apparently they were taken in her younger years by an artistic photographer.  Further she would be willing to pose nekked again - if the price was right.  C’mon Playboy, dig deep chaps!

Sadly this is the best picture I could find of the delectable Kirsty.
Now I am aware that not everyone sees the appeal of Kirsty, but to me she smoulders with rampant sexuality and she has a splendid frontage.  Oh and the posh totty accent!  Delicious.
Orf for a cold shower now!

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Which Marvel Superhero are You?

Found this one on Seat Cupra Net
I would appear to be Punisher:

Political Meetings RIP

Last night I attended what seems to be a dying beast - a political meeting.
This meeting was a presentation by Dr Richard North and Elizabeth Burton.  Dr North spoke on the genesis of the EU constitution and the origins of the EU.  Two of my favourite metaphors were employed, “boiling frog” and “if it looks like a duck”, I was slightly disappointed to see that “eating the elephant” wasn’t there but two outta three ain’t bad as the saying goes.
Elizabeth Burton spoke about our pre-existing constitution i.e. the English constitution.  This is not something that is widely acknowledged as existing, as if the fact that we do not have a document with “The Constitution” writ large across the top means that we do not have one.  This is far from the truth, we have a superb constitution which is the template for the most famous constitution - that of the USA.
Both speakers clearly knew their topics, Dr North’s practice showed through with his passion and depth of knowledge.  This leaves me cursing to the seventh hell the conspirators in the Yorkshire & Humberside Commitee who blocked Dr North’s bid for MEP candidate list status through shady backroom deals.  It is most unfortunate that the disciplinary process of the UKIP did not allow for these wasters to be put to the torch for the UKIP has lost a very great asset throught their selfishness.
For more of Dr North’s analysis see his book “The Great Deception” and his website EU Referendum

Why do I say Political Meetings RIP?
These two knowledgeable speakers are giving information of critical importance to the survival of the UK as a sovereign nation and yet attendance was miserable.  Just as troubling I was the youngest attendee by at least twenty years.

Update
Thank you to Richard for correcting me on the other speakers name - I didn’t take notes and the memory isn’t what it was!

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Pensioner may lose sight following burglary

From Haringey Independent

A PALMERS Green pensioner may lose her sight in one eye after being viciously attacked by a burglar in her own home.

The thug attacked 66-year-old Eileen Fox, of The Grove, when he was disturbed coming out of her bedroom, punched her to the floor and kicked her in the head, back and chest as she screamed for help. He smashed a torch over her head and continued his assault by attacking her with a workman’s belt, which had been left by a builder carrying out repairs to the pensioner’s property. Mrs Fox managed to strike him with a second workman’s belt before the burglar ran out of the front door. He fled with just half a packet of cigarettes he had swiped from the kitchen.

Mrs Fox, who lives alone, was treated for her injuries at Edmonton’s North Middlesex Hospital following the attack which happened just before midnight on Tuesday. She needed 14 stitches in her scalp and suffered a fractured cheekbone. She may also lose the sight in her left eye.

These are the people denied any means of self-defence by government policy of victim disarmament.  Mrs Fox is probably lucky the assailant has not been identified as no doubt a claim for damages would be forthcoming after Mrs Fox dared to fight back - not mention a charge for ABH.

Monday, June 21, 2004

Helpful Robber

This you’ve got to see!

This helpful criminal believes shopkeepers should be allowed to defend themselves so much, that he gives the shopkeeper his gun!
Dumbassed Robber

Baton ban

Determined to render the public citizen defenceless, government instigates yet another ban...

With virtually no fanfare, the government snuck in yet another ban on tools of personal defence.  The extending baton, carried by police officers up and down the land has been added to the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988.  This means that these useful tools are now illegal to sell, manufacture, hire, lend or expose.

Section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that any person who manufactures, sells or hires or offers for sale or hire, exposes or has in his possession for the purpose of sale or hire, or lends or gives to any other person, a weapon to which that section applies shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both. The importation of any such weapon is prohibited.

The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Offensive Weapons) Order 1988 specified descriptions of weapons to which section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 applies. This Order adds the weapons the stealth knife and straight, side-handled or friction-lock truncheons, to the list of specified weapons contained in the 1988 Order.

This is allegedly to ensure airline safety, in other words 9-11 is yet again being used as an excuse to push through laws to control the public.

Ms Blears: Prohibiting the sale, manufacture and import of stealth knives and batons or truncheons is a matter of airline security and public safety. I believe that the measure will have clear benefits. It is the most effective way of stopping the supply of wholly unacceptable and dangerous weapons that have no legitimate purpose and of trying to reduce the possibility of their ending up in the hands of criminals. It is of the utmost importance that we bring the measure into force..

Let us be clear, this is yet another piece of legislation which the criminal underclass will take absolutely no notice of.  Terrorists are hardly likely to be worried by it either.
You may be thinking that this of little import, after all are these items not illegal to carry anyway? 
Well the answer is not quite that clear cut.  You will note that police officers carry these and pepper sprays as part of their duty belt kit.  They are able to do so because there is an exemption in the offensive weapons act which states that such items are illegal when carried without lawful authority. 
This lawful authority comes, not just by virtue of being a police officer, but from the duty a police officer performs.  i.e. the prevention of a breach of the peace and maintenance of public order.  Whilst a police officer is a citizen who is employed to carry out this task on a professional basis, each and every English citizen has a common law duty to prevent a breach of the peace and ensure maintenance of public order.  This is not widely known or understood even by so called legal professionals.

A stealth knife, in case you were wondering is defined as:

a stealth knife, that is a knife or spike, which has a blade, or sharp point, made from a material that is not readily detectable by apparatus used for detecting metal and which is not designed for domestic use or for use in the processing, preparation or consumption of food or as a toy;

That seems to ban sharp edged tools used in industry then.

Friday, June 18, 2004

Poseidon Fights Back

A novel self-defence weapon…

Nathan Kirk, a man who being a good citizen stopped a youth vanalising a ‘phone box near his girlfriends home, was rewarded by being stabbed in the chest.

...the teenager returned with two men and attacked Mr Kirk, who was dressed only in boxer shorts, punching, kicking and stabbing him.

I’d say that means that Mr Kirk is entitled to use lethal force to defend his life.  If we could remind ourselves, self-defence is considered a valid defence if:
It is proportional
The defender genuinely believes their life to be in danger

Nathan Kirk, 25, fired the harpoon after being stabbed just short of his heart, Reading Crown Court heard.

Sounds to me like his life was in danger, and I’d say a harpoon was a proportional response to a knife to the chest.  What was he supposed to do - look around for a knife the same size?

His lawyers argue that he was acting in self-defence but the prosecution say that the violence had already stopped and that it was a revenge attack.

So in other words, the harpoon was the last blow thrown?  Sounds like the self-defence did the job to me.

The full story is on the BBC website here