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‘The interigation of Tony Martin’
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<blockquote data-quote="Osca" data-source="post: 5702026" data-attributes="member: 11501"><p>When someone is targetting you, destroying your business, invading even your domestic privacy you have good reason to feel entitled - you ARE entitled - the law should protect you. It failed him, as it is presently failing so many others beset by scum. And yes, you will also feel resentment - you should! - and deep anger - again, you have every right. But there is still fear; in self reliant individuals and in the really desperate it takes the form of anger and aggression. None of this is surprising or even wrong; it is human nature, survival instinct and any of us could be that man.</p><p></p><p>Unless you've been in that position you have NO IDEA what it feels like and what it does to you. I've been there; not on a farm (although I have had thefts, etc.) but in my home, such as it was, on a degraded, badly run council estate; you become permanently twitchy, every little noise suggesting the next assault. And yes, I think most people would consider me fairly well balanced and mild tempered, but my mental state as a result of fear, sleepless nights, lack of support from the authorities, ineffectiveness of police and council, the sense of isolation and vulnerability, brought me very close to killing someone on one occasion - a young yob, one of a crowd who was trying to stop my car while my little daughter was in there with me. I drove at him and he jumped out of the way with a surprised squeak; he really didn't think he was doing anything wrong - I was a fair target, an exploitable resource, in his world. It would of course have seemed OTT to the Fallowfields of this world, isolated and ignorant (I have to conclude from all these witless, ill-informed posts), from real experience of animals or communities or the real difficulties of life. Had I hit him, I could have been jailed; but in reality I was myself a victim.</p><p></p><p>So yes - I have a lot of sympathy for Tony Martin; and I think many others at the receiving end of un-policed thuggery would feel similarly; many- maybe the majority, not even farmers. Fallowfield and his ilk, secure and ignorant, are a huge part of the problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Osca, post: 5702026, member: 11501"] When someone is targetting you, destroying your business, invading even your domestic privacy you have good reason to feel entitled - you ARE entitled - the law should protect you. It failed him, as it is presently failing so many others beset by scum. And yes, you will also feel resentment - you should! - and deep anger - again, you have every right. But there is still fear; in self reliant individuals and in the really desperate it takes the form of anger and aggression. None of this is surprising or even wrong; it is human nature, survival instinct and any of us could be that man. Unless you've been in that position you have NO IDEA what it feels like and what it does to you. I've been there; not on a farm (although I have had thefts, etc.) but in my home, such as it was, on a degraded, badly run council estate; you become permanently twitchy, every little noise suggesting the next assault. And yes, I think most people would consider me fairly well balanced and mild tempered, but my mental state as a result of fear, sleepless nights, lack of support from the authorities, ineffectiveness of police and council, the sense of isolation and vulnerability, brought me very close to killing someone on one occasion - a young yob, one of a crowd who was trying to stop my car while my little daughter was in there with me. I drove at him and he jumped out of the way with a surprised squeak; he really didn't think he was doing anything wrong - I was a fair target, an exploitable resource, in his world. It would of course have seemed OTT to the Fallowfields of this world, isolated and ignorant (I have to conclude from all these witless, ill-informed posts), from real experience of animals or communities or the real difficulties of life. Had I hit him, I could have been jailed; but in reality I was myself a victim. So yes - I have a lot of sympathy for Tony Martin; and I think many others at the receiving end of un-policed thuggery would feel similarly; many- maybe the majority, not even farmers. Fallowfield and his ilk, secure and ignorant, are a huge part of the problem. [/QUOTE]
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