Madness in the UK: Villagers Incensed Over Police Order to Remove Metal Mesh From Shed Windows

Police warn metal mesh might hurt burglars

Photo of illegal immigrants crossing Barnett Ranch in Arizona
[Photo: Donald Barnett]

Over at the U.K.’s Daily Mail the report, Don’t put wire on your windows – it might hurt burglars! Villagers outraged after police order them not to protect garden sheds.

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Residents in Surrey and Kent villages have been ordered by police to remove wire mesh from their windows as burglars could be injured.

Home owners in the villages of Tandridge and Tatsfield in Surrey and in Westerham, Brasted and Sundridge in Kent have said they are furious that they are being branded ‘criminals’ for protecting their property.

Locals had reinforced their windows with wire mesh after a series of shed thefts but were told by community police officers that the wire was ‘dangerous’ and could lead to criminals claiming compensation if they ‘hurt themselves’.

A few of the comments:

Why don’t they just go ahead and demand that all householders advertise the contents of their home at the front of their property in all the various languages. This country has gone mad, I mean what are the police there for exactly? To fine you and give points for doing 31 in a 30 zone it seems. What a mess.

‘And a great madness descended on the land.’

‘These sort of pathetic pronouncements could only come from England. I really give up at this moronic mentality that pervades the police, judiciary and politics. Have they all lost their brains and common sense?’

The madness in the U.K. is here in the U.S. as Arizona rancher Roger Barnett was recently ordered by a judge to pay $90,000 punitive damages to undocumented immigrants he confronted with a gun.

FOX News:

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower court verdict ordering Barnett to pay the damages for the 2004 incident, in which the plaintiffs claimed that he approached them with his dog and said he’d shoot them if they tried to leave.

The court said that an Arizona law permitted a person to threaten to use – or actually use – physical force against someone else when that person believes it is necessary for protection “against the other’s use or attempted use of unlawful physical force.”

But the court said that Barnett held them at gunpoint even after becoming aware that no one in the group of 16 men and women was armed, and so he could not use the argument of self-defense.

And yet, there’s the ‘rest of the story’, a story which includes the fact Burnett encountered the 19 illegal immigrants on his ranch. Not only were the illegal immigrants trespassing on Burnett’s property, they were in the U.S. illegally. Prior to Barnett confronting the illegals, Barnett’s ranch had become an illegal immigrant ‘super highway’, Barnett and his wife purportedly apprehending 12,000 illegal immigrants in the last 6 1/2 years. Some illegal immigrants who smuggling drugs and many who littered his property with trash. Barnett was branded a vigilante by MALDEF, the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund. In the spring of 2009, the President and general counsel of MALDEF, John Trasvina, joined the Department of Housing and Urban Development as the assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity.

OpenSecrets.org:

Before joining the Department of Housing and Urban Development as the assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity, Trasvina, pictured right, worked as the president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

In this role, he lobbied Congress and various federal agencies, mainly on immigration-related issues. His name appears in the organization’s reports as an active lobbyist from 2006 through 2008. He officially left MALDEF in the spring of 2009, and the Senate approved his appointment by a voice vote in May 2009.

Previously, Trasvina also worked for the Department of Justice under President Bill Clinton, the Senate Judiciary Committee, Stanford University and the City of Los Angeles.

Link to the amazing photos of illegal immigrants crossing and caught on Barnett’s Arizona ranch.

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