The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119670   Message #2602351
Posted By: meself
01-Apr-09 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fred Goodwin's home attacked - hahaha!
Subject: RE: BS: Fred Goodwin's home attacked - hahaha!
Just in case anyone is so naive as to buy into this "violence-against-property-is-acceptable-but-violence-against-people-is-not-unless-someone-is-attacked-then-of-course-they-have-the-right-to-defend-themselves" nonsense, which I highly doubt, welcome to the real world. Here's how things happen:

Someone damages property. Property owner or hireling arrives to protect property. Someone is shoved. In response, someone is hit. In response to that, someone is clubbed. A rock no doubt aimed at a window hits somebody in the head. In response, a shot is fired in the air. More rocks, clubs, hatpins, tear gas, more shots in the air, shots on the ground, shots into bodies. When the dust clears, the dead and wounded taken away, there are great cries of, "Look what they've done to us! Peaceful means don't work against such brutes!" And soon, "They've got us outgunned, so we are fully justified in planting bombs, kidnapping their children", etc., etc.

If that's what you want, just say so.