" A right that can't be defended is a right that exists only in name. In Britain there is, in effect, no right to life or property."
It's true. In this country, we have no right or authority, despite the citizen's power of arrest, to do fuck all. We will be tried for injuring our would-be attackers. Despite his eccentricity, Martin should be lauded as a hero for embodying that which our fathers and grandfathers fought for in the first and second world wars. They defended their right to their freedom and property and life and land and so many of them perished in this defence. We, on the other hand, are not even given the opportunity to defend our right to freedom, property and life because of the government we supposedly appointed.
After the miner's strikes were crushed, the people of Britain have no power. Thanks to the draconian rule of Thatcher and her repressive ways, the people of the UK will go along with anything without putting up a fight. We have no freedom, much as our government trumpets that it does.
We are over-taxed, over-priced, over-worked, under-paid, under-valued and under the line of poverty. And yet, we are unable to even defend ourselves from other forms of terror or injury beyond the metaphorical kick in the bollocks that we each receive.
I almost wish there was a God. One who might inspire all sixty million of us Britons to action. But no.
Edited by Ash, 07 June 2008 - 04:07 PM.