The question I would ask both you and Hysteresis though is ... What are you both doing to get the law changed
MW
Megawatt - You are not being serious about trying to get the Law changed.
This country is riddled with the PC Brigade and the Law is almost an immoveable object. The Law has been changed many times but only in the direction of the criminal. Look at the News only yesterday when a Church going guy with his Son, tried to stop some YOBS from digging up a memorial in His Church yard. He and his Son were then charged with some trumped up offence of assault or some such nonsense by the Law.
Fortunately the Jury saw the stupidity of it and threw the case out.
The Law is a Joke biased in favour of the criminal. Guys like Zimmers have no option but to deal with it in the way they know best. Whatever happened to Zimmers family will, I am sure, not be repeated. If the Law were not such a Joke then Zimmers would not need to deal with it himself.
The Law should defend the people who live by it, but I am afraid the Law forces people like Zimmer to defend himself.
As I said in my earlier mail, I only wish I had the capability of defending myself in the way Zimmers has. I know the argument about were this sort of action will take us and I know that ultimately it would lead to total lawlessness. But the answer lies with the Law itself. When people like Zimmer have to resort to this sort of action then the Law should Wake Up and asK the simple question Why.
To suggest Changing the Law is not really practical as the infiltration of the PC Brigade is so complete that the only change that is possible is changes in the wrong direction.
Zimmers did what he had to do to protect the most important thing in his life - His Family, and until the Law gets real, and accepts that it is falling a long way short of protecting the general public from all sorts of Scumbags we will all have to resort to Zimmers Rule.
I applaud Zimmers for his actions as I have no doubt that the guy who ended up in hospital totally deserved it and should consider himself lucky he got away with his life. It sounds to me that the guy does not deserve a life but I am of course making rash assumptions as I do not know anything what so ever about the circumstances surrounding the case. But Zimmers sounds to me to be doing what most of us wish we could do and that is defend our families with whatever means is at our disposal, because the Law certainly isn't there to help.
I don't blame the Police here, as they have been stripped of all of their powers and are fighting a battle with their hands tied behind their backs. It must be totally demoralizing for the Police to pursue a crime with a tremendous amount of time and effort, just to have a Scumbag given a slap on the wrist.
I am of an age that allows me to remember when the Police had the power that allowed them to carry out their duties. A clip around the ear did me no harm what so ever and in fact did me a whole load of good. But that is Child Abuse I hear. 'B*ll*cks' it is not child abuse it is instilling discipline in us and so preventing the slide to Yobishness. Yes there are the inevitable cases of misuse of powers in a small number of cases but that is a price well worth paying to give the Police the Powers they need.
The fault lies at the very top of the Government and Judiciary. I am afraid I am not going to try to get them to listen to any argument. Brown and his cronies have never listened to anyone in the past and they are certainly not going to listen to me.
It does not take an Einstein to see the problems we all face with the PC Brigade and actions such as Zimmers should be seen as a big wake up call for the Government. But Brown it appears is in a Coma and incapable of being woken up.
I only wish Zimmer was my mate and I am certain he would stand by me in ANY crisis and help me resolve issues with Scumbags.
The Law is a Joke ran by comedians, and we all know it is a lost battle to heckle comedians.
We know that 'ZIMMERS RULE' works at least in the short term.
