Once upon a time, if you saw a couple of lads trying to steal your car, a shout from you, "Hey, what is going on here," would have sent the lads scurrying away as fast as they could. Not wanting to be recognised or to be caught. You would have saved your car and driven off the thieves.
But that as they say now, was once upon a time.
I believe that today's "lads", or a more proper description of them as mindless vandals, have no fear of recognition, being caught, or seeing the irate owner of the car, shouting or threatening them. It will not hold up or interfere with the particular theft in hand.
Thing have changed now, they operate with probably four or more of them together, they are armed with at least a knife, and anybody who has the audacity to interfere in the completion of their crime, well that is simple, beat him to the ground, kick him as much as you can, and almost mandatory stamp on the head, and maybe stab him for good measure.
At this time the crime they were committing may be abandoned, as they now have something more to brag about.
With all the C.C.T.V. coverage we now have in this country, it is almost inevitable that this gang will be found somewhere on the streets close by. They will be seen, and the public response usually will bring them to court. I say bring them to court, and not bring them to justice. Those two statements are so very far apart.
How much is a person's life worth? The variation in interpretation of the crime between the courts, is so far apart. And why do we have this wonderful word "Manslaughter," if a person dies trying to defend his property, he would not have died, had the vandals not been there, so in my book they have killed him, and causing or taking another persons life, to me is murder. So whether the person died accidentally during a confrontation, or by a deliberate act, surely once again the argument should be, that if they were not there the person would still be alive and well. They have murdered.
Even if a person falls down the stairs and dies as the result of a broken neck, trying to get away from the vandals, and they have not touched this person. Then once again the death was being caused by their presence and the fear they generated. They caused the death. If they were not there then it would not have happened.
The courts dish out sentences of a number of years, calling it life, and then saying that they must serve at least five ten or fifteen years. Life? Then have the audacity to let them serve only half of that sentence. A vandal of eighteen or twenty, may be out of prison in just five years, and at twenty-five to thirty years old, has his whole life to get on with, and maybe more crimes to commit, while the bereaved family of the victim, carry on with a true life sentence with the loss of a loved one.
But whatever you do, do not kill a burglar or vandal.
You will be arrested and thrown in the cells, your name published for all to see, and a big debate whether you are a murderer or a victim defending yourself.
A target for other lawless vandals to get revenge for killing one of theirs.
Years ago, children were executed for stealing a loaf of bread to stop them from starving. We would not wish that for today's children, breaking the law then, had serious consequences.
But that was once upon a time.
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