Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 23:37:39 -0700 From: JustinTyme@ACSAINC.COM (Chris Lindsey) Subject: Fwd: Re: [kempgroup] Travesty in Britain To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
Boy, I just can't wait...
Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Kemp <minutemn@internetpro.net> To: kempgroup@egroups.com Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:41:22 -0700 Subject: Re: [kempgroup] Travesty in Britain
Same situation, another view. My response to it, on another list, is pasted below.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,212021,00.html
Farmer jailed for life for murder of teenage intruder
Profile: the gypsy-hating loner who shot to kill
Ros Taylor Wednesday April 19, 2000
Farmer Tony Martin has been jailed for life at Norwich crown court after being found guilty of murdering a 16-year-old burglar who broke into his Norfolk farm house.
Martin, 55, was also found guilty of wounding another intruder, 30-year-old Brendan Fearon, with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Both were majority verdicts of 10-2. Earlier, the jury had cleared Martin of attempting to murder Mr Fearon and of possessing a weapon with intent to endanger life.
Fred Barras, who died almost immediately of shotgun wounds, and Fearon had broken into Martin's isolated farm near Emneth in Norfolk, on August 20 1999, intending to steal antiques they believed to be inside.
Fearon was seriously wounded in the upper thighs, but managed to escape and reach a neighbouring farmhouse to call for help. The two intruders had a total of 114 burglary convictions between them.
There was a loud cry of "yes" as the verdicts were read out in the crowded courtroom. The jury of six men and six women took nine hours and 36 minutes to return the guilty verdicts. As well as the life sentence for murder, the judge, Mr Justice Owen, told Martin he must serve 10 years for the wounding offence and 12 months for the possession of an illegal firearm. All the sentences will run concurrently.
The bachelor farmer, who admitted possessing a shotgun without a certificate, opened fire after confronting Barras and Fearon, both of Newark, Nottinghamshire, on his property. He was arrested at a hotel in Wisbech the next morning. Bleak House, the farm inhabited by Martin, was "booby-trapped" and had a home-made security system, the court heard.
Rosamund Horwood-Smart QC, prosecuting, said Martin had rigged up his own electricity system and lived in near darkness. She said he had also taken security measures and created a "booby-trap" on his staircase by removing the top and bottom steps.
"He also installed iron bars inside his doors and windows on the ground floor," she said. "He would also sleep entirely clothed wearing his boots in contemplation of something happening."
The roofs of outbuildings had ladders on them and Martin had set up a "lookout post" in a tree which had four long ladders lashed to its branches.
Martin denied that he had booby-trapped the house. He said the stairs were in a state of disrepair and that he used the ladders for trimming his oak tree and cleaning a chimney.
>Martin, 55, was also found guilty of wounding another intruder,
>30-year-old Brendan Fearon, with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
>Both were majority verdicts of 10-2. Earlier, the jury had cleared
>Martin of attempting to murder Mr Fearon and of possessing a weapon
with >intent to endanger life.
Please note the most chilling aspect of the piece. *10-2*.
What we see in England today we can expect in Massachussets and such places tomorrow. What we see in Massachussets tomorrow we can expect in California the day after. The encroachment begins, spreading outward from such places as Atlanta, Cinci/Cleveland, Chicago, Denver... and so it goes. Never relenting, always striving to constrict the bonds. *Things* are illegal. *Things* which grow out of the ground... St Franklin got folks to buy giving up ALL their gun RIGHTS, now we have only privilege. All in the wake of (drum roll) War on Drugs, I. Real successful, wasn't it? Prohibition, that is, with all them nasty gangsters using machine guns to protect their turf and eliminate competition. About the only casualties were our pocketbooks, some thugs, our common law right to the products of the earth, the rule of law... and our firearms.
Oh, they just *outlawed* machine guns.
Wrong. They took away our RIGHT to own firearms, converted it into a privilege, and it's been downhill ever since. Ain't it interesting that within time measurable in months after stealing all the gold, St Franklin made sure he pulled the liberty teeth?
Wrk within the system, folks. Believe that all you have to do is bankrupt yourself to finance a campaign, survive the character assassinations, and then the real trick... avoid the *Colombian compromise*-- they are going to pay you to get out of the way, if you're effective... the compromise is whether they pay you in silver, or in lead.
Deny any of the above, deny that we can predict our destination by observing the path up to now. Them's the facts, from this point of view.
Mike Kemp
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