The Necessity Defense

[Smokin Joe]

Yes, folks, this is real, and involves the assertion that what would ordinarily be illegal, isn't, because it was done for the safety of the public.

Where this turns into a manure heap is when it is linked with the actions of radical environmentalists who claim to be saving us all from global warming (AKA "Climate Change")

To learn more about what to expect from the environmental folks...

Look here:

http://www.climatedisobedience.org/necessitydefense

[DiogenesLamp]

Yes, folks, this is real, and involves the assertion that what would ordinarily be illegal, isn't, because it was done for the safety of the public.

Where this turns into a manure heap is when it is linked with the actions of radical environmentalists who claim to be saving us all from global warming (AKA "Climate Change")

To learn more about what to expect from the environmental folks...

Look here:

http://www.climatedisobedience.org/necessitydefense

They were threatening violence years ago.


https://youtu.be/JfnddMpzPsM

[Smokin Joe]

They were threatening violence years ago.


https://youtu.be/JfnddMpzPsM

Sure they were. Predicating a 'defense' on the basis of an unproven and deeply flawed theory that is finally getting picked apart (The Petition Project was twenty years ago!).

I think people need to be aware of the legal tactic, though.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Let them get away with One step down that road, just one:

"We had to destroy the village to save it Sir!"

[Smokin Joe]

Let them get away with One step down that road, just one:

"We had to destroy the village to save it Sir!"

Well, if they can use that, can we use this defense?

"He just needed killin'."

--and not necessarily in the context of self-defense, but stopping someone from creating a disaster--and how far would that go?

[bigheadfred]

Deliberately breaking the law is a highly controversial tactic

 

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Gets me onto the rhetorical question, "If, knowing what we know about Hitler now, if you could go back in time would you kill him?"

Which leads me to my favorite Hitler story.

Before he Was anything, he was on the campaign stump delivering his screed in beer halls.

He finished up one, all worked up, and in the ensuing silence one of the patrons asked him:

"Did someone shit in your brain and forget to flush?"

Supposedly the only time he didn't have an answer.

[Smokin Joe]

Gets me onto the rhetorical question, "If, knowing what we know about Hitler now, if you could go back in time would you kill him?"

Which leads me to my favorite Hitler story.

Before he Was anything, he was on the campaign stump delivering his screed in beer halls.

He finished up one, all worked up, and in the ensuing silence one of the patrons asked him:

"Did someone shit in your brain and forget to flush?"

Supposedly the only time he didn't have an answer.

If I had my druthers, the Kaiser would have been done before 1914, and the little corporal would never have made private. (and the Soviet Union would have stayed Imperial Russia)..