Bookworm on Jul 15 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England
In a bizarre act of unexpected intelligence, the British government passed a law allowing Brits to defend themselves in their own homes (and on the streets) without fear of reprisal — not from the burglars within, but from the government forces without:
Home owners and “have-a go-heroes” have for the first time been given the legal [...]
Bookworm on Jun 09 2008 | Filed under: Holland
My earlier post about the knifing atrocity in Japan, which seemed to happen without any citizen attempts to block the attack, garnered a lot of interesting comments. Danny Lemieux now sent me the perfect follow-up link to Bruce Bawer’s blog. (I can’t find any permalinks there, but just land on the June 9, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Japan
There is a horrific story out of Japan today about a man who crashed a truck into a crowd of people, and then proceeded to complete the carnage by stabbing as many of them as possible. The story says that the man ended his spree only when surrounded by police:
A witness told NHK the [...]
Bookworm on Feb 15 2008 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve returned to martial arts after a ten year hiatus. I wasn’t good then, and I’m worse now (and definitely more rickety), but oh! how I love it.
One of the things I’m learning at this dojo, which I didn’t learn in my last go round at martial arts (since it was [...]
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