{"id":9211,"date":"2015-06-10T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2015-06-10T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T07:26:10","slug":"the-british-police-are-objectively-pro-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/06\/10\/the-british-police-are-objectively-pro-rapist\/","title":{"rendered":"The British Police are Objectively Pro-Rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The right to self-defense in the United States is taken as a given.\u00a0 One may use force when one reasonably believes it is necessary to defend oneself or another from an unlawful attacker, provided that no more force is used than is necessary stop the attacker, up to and including killing the attacker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the U.K., there is no <em>de facto<\/em> right to self-defense, to the point where stopping a rapist is considered worse than a woman being raped.\u00a0 As the British &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.askthe.police.uk\/content\/Q589.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ask the Police<\/a>&#8221; &#8220;help&#8221; website points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The only fully legal self defence product at the moment is a rape alarm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or to put it more bluntly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You <strong>must not<\/strong> get a product which is made or adapted to cause a person injury. Possession of such a product in public (and in private in specific circumstances) is against the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In other words, the only self-defense that is allowed is one where the criminal is not harmed\u2026 reasonable force is denied, and thus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20150529\/uk-police-tell-subjects-not-to-harm-their-attackers-get-a-rape-alarm\" target=\"_blank\">the right to self-defense is denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While rapists, <em>de jure<\/em>, do not have a right to rape, rape victims <em>do not<\/em> have the right to <em>not be raped<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Remember: Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9212\" title=\"rapist\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rapist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rapist.jpg 327w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rapist-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/falfn.com\/CrusaderRabbit\/?p=26071\" target=\"_blank\">Crusader Rabbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The British Police are Objectively Pro-Rapist\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In the U.K., there is no de facto right to self-defense, to the point where stopping a rapist is considered worse than a woman being raped.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rapist.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The right to self-defense in the United States is taken as a given.\u00a0 One may use force when one reasonably believes it is necessary to defend oneself or another from an unlawful attacker, provided that no more force is used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/06\/10\/the-british-police-are-objectively-pro-rapist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1],"tags":[9,57,51],"class_list":["post-9211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gun-rights","category-uncategorized","tag-europe","tag-war-on-women","tag-51"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9266,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions\/9266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}