Re: DRE: CTS community mail

  • From: Di Lhong <geosaurus8@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:53:49 +0200

Right i remember you telling me that about the policemen's advice.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Ilitirit Sama <ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The law is actually the same in many parts of the world, it's just that
> courts and juries usually value the idea of "private property" over the
> rights of trespasser.  In South Africa, courts value human life over
> property.
>
> You're not allowed to kill a trespasser (this is true in most places in
> the world), or even injure them unless you feel that your life is being
> endangered.  So criminals take advantage of this, and South Africa's
> emphasis on human rights in this way:
>
> I break into your house.  You confront me with a pistol and tell me to
> leave.  I refuse and approach with a knife in hand.  You shoot me, but I
> survive.  I tell the cops that I put the knife down and surrendered when I
> saw you with a gun.  Now you have to prove that you shot in self-defense,
> and I was lying.  That is why cops advise home owners to shoot burglars in
> the head.  Dead men tell no tales.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Di Lhong <geosaurus8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Also it's kindda odd how the law here protects criminals more than the
>> victim some how...like if a robber robs your house...it's illegal to defend
>> yourself by injuring them? or something like that. Now that's fucked up.
>>
>

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