I wrote last year about the moral vacuum that exists in Europe because gun control laws in nations like France make it very difficult for Jews to protect themselves from barbaric attacks.
But the principle applies more broadly. All law-abiding people should have the human right to protect themselves.
Politicians in Denmark don’t seem to understand this principle. Or maybe the do understand the principle, but they are so morally bankrupt that don’t care. Not only do they have gun control, they even have laws against pepper spray. And they are so fanatical in their desire to turn people into sheep that the government apparently will prosecute a girl who used pepper spray to save herself from rape.
Here are some excerpts from a report in the U.K.-based Daily Mail.
A Danish teenager who was sexually assaulted near a migrant asylum centre has been told she will be prosecuted after using pepper spray to fend off her attacker. …she managed to prevent the man from attacking her further by spraying the substance at him. …However, as it is illegal to use pepper spray, the teenage girl is set to face charges.
How disgusting.
And what makes the situation especially frustrating is that the criminals and terrorists in Europe obviously don’t have any problem obtaining firearms.
So the only practical effect of gun control (or bans on pepper spray) is to make life easier for the scum of society.
And the real insult to injury is that a teenage girl who should be hailed as a hero now faces the threat of punishment. Just like the unfortunate British woman who was persecuted for using a knife to deter some thugs.
And here’s some of what the BBC reported about
Italian hospitality for the visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has stretched to covering up nude statues. Italy also chose not to serve wine at official meals
Pathetic. Particularly since the Italians bent over backwards for a truly heinous regime.
Kudos to President Hollande in France, by contrast. The Daily Mail notes that he held firm.
A lunch between the French and Iranian presidents in Paris was scrapped today because France refused to remove wine from the menu.
By the way, there clearly is a role for common courtesy and diplomatic protocol. It obviously would be gratuitously rude for a nation to serve pork at a dinner for officials from Israel or any Muslim nation, just as it would inappropriate and insensitive to serve beef for an event for officials from India.
Moreover, officials from one nation should not make over-the-top demands when visiting other countries. Just as it would be wrong for French officials to demand wine at state dinners in Iran, it’s also wrong for Iranian officials to demand the absence of wine at meals in France. After all, it’s not as if they would be expected to partake.
In the grand scheme of things, though, the kerfuffle about wine and statues doesn’t matter compared to the potentially life-and-death issue of whether Europeans should be allowed to defend themselves.
That’s why Europe isn’t merely in trouble because of fiscal bankruptcy, but also because of moral bankruptcy.
P.S. While having the ability to protect your life or to guard against rape isn’t a human right in most European nations, take a look at some of the things that are “rights.”
- A committee from the Council of Europe claims there is a right to other people’s money.
- Across Europe, a satellite dish is now a human right.
- In Finland, broadband access is a basic right.
- In France, it is against the law to say your husband is under-endowed or that your wife is fat.
- There’s now an entitlement for free soccer broadcasts in Europe.
- In Italy, you have the right to…um…your testicles.
All this is amusing…in a very sad way.
the most important function of government is to protect the health and safety of it’s citizens… any government not willing or capable of doing that will ultimately fall… the ruling elite of the EU has sacrificed the welfare of Europe’s people in exchange for the Utopian ideals of multiculturalism and political correctness… in effect… governments have unleashed millions of un-vetted migrants on their societies who have little or no regard for the European rule of law… their numbers include pedophiles… rapists… murders and terrorists… some have little or no respect for law enforcement… and less regard for the sanctity of infidel womanhood… the same units of government responsible for this disaster… forbid law abiding Europeans from defending themselves… racism… anti-Semitism… and sectarian strife… are all there… in the unending stories coming out of the continent… a.. morally corrupt and inept government… overwhelming numbers of migrants intent of criminal pursuits… and citizens stripped of their initiative by generations of government propaganda… secularism and the relative complacency of socialism… thousands are fleeing… afraid for their safety and the safety of their families… Europe’s Jews can no longer publicly wear clothing or symbols associated with their faith… Europe’s women and girls can no longer wear revealing items… one’s wardrobe could well lead to a confrontation… perhaps rape…………… or worse… freedom? not much of that in old Europe… at least not just now…
Looks like Europe will have to relearn a very painful lesson. I am really tried of trying to tell people what is obvious!!!
[…] Reposted from International Liberty […]
The primary purpose of law enforcement these days is to protect criminals from the over-reaction of law-abiding people who try to defend their lives or property.
I wonder if the prosecutor will give the attempted rapist immunity so that he can testify against this girl.
rapes and sexual assaults perpetrated by migrants are occurring throughout Europe… governments and the media are downplaying the events… minimizing the consequences… and in many cases blaming the victims for the crime… the people in authority are not acting rationally… and in time… vigilantes will take matters into their own hands… in Finland… a group calling it’s self “Soldiers of Odin” has already began patrolling Finnish streets… the group is composed of fathers and husbands intent on protecting girls and women from violent assault… in Germany the gang rape and 30 hour detention of a 13 year old Russian girl by 3 migrants prompted a negative reaction from the men in the local Russian community… the German authorities blamed the event on complicity on the part of the 13 year old child… in Sweden a group of young migrants was attacked by an estimated 200 Swedish men… the attack was in part because of the knifing and murder of a 22 year old social worker by a 15 year old migrant… the media branded the attackers “football hooligans”… no matter what lies are spread by the morally corrupt government alliance of state and media… ultimately politicians and bureaucrats will pay a price for their violation of the public trust… that will mean little to the 13 year old gang rape victim… or the family of the murdered 22 year old social worker… but perhaps it will turn the tide on multiculturalism and discredit other flawed ideologies based on arrogance cultural naiveties… and old fashioned stupidity…………..
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