Comments on: Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself

By: roho

roho — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:27:03 +0000

During the Korean War, there was a problem with teens climbing the fences and stealing U.S. Government suplies to sale on the black market, that were intended for our troops……….Being a U.N. operation, it was suggested that the troops from Turkey take responsability for gaurding the cargo at the naval base…………….Shortly afterwards, day shift arrived to find a considerable number of dead teens shot and hanging all over the fence from the night before……………..The theft stopped………The desire to live is normally greater than the desire to steal. This same aplied policy is why MANY nations don’t have 20 million uninvited illegal alliens in their country’s!

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:02:34 +0000

At the risk of sounding like a complete nut (trust me, I’m only a little nutty), I’m going to disagree with this statement as a general rule, although not necessarily as it regards this case:

“In my sincere, gun toting opinion, no property is worth killing over.”

Our country was founded on three basic principles: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The pursuit of happiness being widely understood as the pursuit of personal property at the time that was written. Not only was property worth defending, it played a large role in why we went to war with Britain in the first place. If you separate a man from his property, you separate him from the product of his labor and his liberty.

To be guaranteed life alone, we may as well live in a socialist nations such as China.

In a system such as ours which does generally support property rights and with a penal system generally does capture and punish those who steal our property, it really isn’t necessary to go gunning down people who are breaking the law.

But as a general rule, I am not so sure that we can say that “property” isn’t worth it. Property as a concept is very much worth fighting for.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:31:01 +0000

The entire event is on You Tube. I’ve listened to it. In my sincere, gun toting opinion, no property is worth killing over. I agree with everything the dispatcher said to the man. Especially since plain clothes officers had been dispatched to the scene.

Howevere, the Texas Penal Code provides a defense in this situation:http://www.bakers-legal-pages.com/pc/0942.htm

In law school my criminal law professor’s joke on this topic was: “In Texas, a homeowner that uses deadly force doesn’t need a throw down weapon, all he needs is a throw down clock radio”.

Based on my review of the 911 tape, the homeowner was well within his rights. I know others in Harris county have killed in defense of property so I don’t really expect an indictment. It will be interesting to watch.

By: brian

brian — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:25:41 +0000

Good for him!

BTW… do you think there’s any Texan sensitivity training in that dispatcher’s future?