The English gave us the principle that a “man’s home is his castle.”
But not the back yard, apparently. Not any more:
Groups of immigrants have moved into the gardens of at least six properties since November last year, leaving a trail of cider bottles, bags of human waste and drugs needles behind them.
Though homeowners have appealed for help, the police and council say they cannot arrest the trespassers – who have no passports and are mostly from Eastern Europe – because they claim it is a civil, not a criminal matter.
The immigrants gained access to the land through an open alleyway and sleep on dirty mattresses, using rolled-up blankets as pillows.
Ian Treasure, 41, one of the homeowners affected by the camps, said a man named Joseph from the Czech Republic was living in his garden coal shed.
Despite six phone calls to Peterborough City Council pleading with them to evict the immigrants and remove the mountains of dumped rubbish, he could not get the man to leave.
If the constabulary can’t be bothered to help the citizenry maintain their property rights, the citizenry will eventually take things into their own hands.
Which is when it can get ugly.
Shotgun. Rock Salt. Rinse. Repeat.
Nuff said.
Try owning a shotgun in the UK. YOU become the criminal. Just like Massachusetts.
“Confrontation will inevitably result” — ya think?
But how will that play-out when the Eastern European squatters have the guns http://preview.tinyurl.com/yetoze7 and the law-abiding, property-owning Brits have been disarmed http://preview.tinyurl.com/ydlblkk ?
It’s gonna get ugly.
Byron … Or, you could move to Texas where we really do believe “a man’s home is his castle” and get a shotgun and some birdshot [or a Taurus the Judge revolver which fires shotgun shells filled with whatever you want, including rock salt] and tell the intruders to get off your property or else. That works — at least it does in Texas. At least it did.
Marianne
Fair lady, I live in Florida, where it’s just as easy if not easier to defend your home. All I need is “threat to my life or my families life” and I can blow them out of their sneakers.
Although it could just as well be an appropriate comment about any number of recent posts, I thought I’d lay a recent post by rexbob, retired naval “aviator” here on the blogroll and fellow Louisianan living “across the Lake” on “the North Shore” of Lake Ponchitrain, on the gentle readers here in response to this subject as an appropriate rejoinder to the questions posed:
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 2,065 YEARS?
“The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed least Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” –Cicero — 55 BC
EVIDENTLY NOTHING.
(h/t rexbob)
VX, BurocRats have the learning center of their brain turned off when they are hired. For some (I was always a lousy BurocRat) it revives and causes problems. With me, it never really took. You have to quit reading conservative SciFi for entertainment or it doesn’t work.
The British police would much rather push around law-abiding citizens than criminals.
Much safer.
Cowards.
And no charges of “racism” or being “anti-immigrant” or, if they be Muslims, an “Islamophobe,” either.
Gentlebeings,
Where is your sense of “Social Justice”? Obviously, the homeowner was not fully using his back yard, and it is only right that some societal victims should avail themselves of the excessive plenty. Why, I’ll bet that the homeowner has a room or two that he is underutilizing, and thus during the cold, cruel winter weather the less fortunate can make use of those too.
And when they have a general amnesty of illegals, turning them all into citizens who can vote — why, they can vote for more taxes and fees to “spread the wealth” and achieve a society in which the promise, “from each according to his means; to each according to his needs” can finally be realized.
Fundamental Change — as promised by our Savior during the campaign.
Edward, your comments bring to mind that classic scene from the film “Dr. Zhivago” when the good Dr. (Omar Shariff) returns to Moscow after service in WWII only to find the family home has been turned into a tenement–with the occupants carting off objects d’art? And all done by his half-brother the Communist CHEKA General Yegraf (Alec Guinness) to express his displeasure with the ideological sympathies of the Doctor? And who, with a snap of his fingers, shows the power of “the party” to Dr. Zhivago by waving the squatters away? THAT’s where we’re headed.
Did you know that as far back as 2005 the political left in Italy was calling for just that VERY THING? They wanted second homes given over to “immigrants” (read Arabs illegally living in Italy from N.Africa) as well as “unneeded” rooms in principal homes over a certain sq. footage.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you….
“WWI”
vx: My thoughts went to that self-same scene exactly! Our ver own BHO “Yevgaf” isn’t able to move people, well, at least half the populaton anyway, with the same ease as the snap of his fingers, or his glib tongue, however.)
There aren’t a lot of shotguns in Britain to load the rocksalt. And you’d probably get life in prison for owning that shotgun if you took it out to use it. It’s the government they deserve. ‘Nuff said.
Liz: Coalshed = coal dust + air + ignition = No mattresses, no old clothes, no wastes, may even dispose of drugs if hot enough.
I think this would be a good time to get a pet skunk.
Rottweilers? Do the Brits have a version of the old Bouncing Betty mine? Pits with punji sticks? WTF?????
Switzerland had the same problem last fall — until some bankers’ demesnes in Zurich were sullied.
Poof. Instant evictions.
And so it will be in Formerly-Great Britain, until a few Lib parliamentarians get a few “new neighbo(u)rs”….
Britain is doomed, and has been for some time.
Fail Britannia!
VX,
If I had a second home and they came for it, I’d go quietly and leave ‘em the keys.
‘Course they’d have to wait for the ashes to cool before sifting through to find those keys.
What, they don’t have lawn sprinklers in England?
Sounds like a business opportunity to me. Rent-a-thug to go and drive off other thugs. You’d have to it up as some sort of pest control front and probably pay a monthly service fee and maybe they could spray too!
Suppressed weapon. Double Tap.
Bag of concrete. New overshoes.
Boat. Burial at sea.
Guiness/Macallan. Green flash of sunset on the water.
Keep it simple.
Cricket Bat. Apply directly to the forehead. Vigorously.
They are going to strain you till have to strt to moralize yourself because if you are to tired to figure out how the law should go then we people have allready lost. And you will not unfortunately start to think. You are to affraid to just do it too. Bats? Cmoon 50 years??
I believe they cannot start action because you all still resist hardening of all heavy physical violence to penlty of death(wich is only way to keep gun carry law because only then you get people away from showing real violent tendensies).
So i quess you will loose your guns and then… like in europe now–> zero rape penalties(newer real prison) ect..
Slowly europen leaders will find their refuce in countryside and under Chinese leaderships protected mansions. Then we will dissappear..
