English Farmer Tony Martin Denied Parole Because He Is A Danger To Burglars The British, unsure of why their crime rate has risen 40% in the last three years, cannot seem to see the obvious. In Britain the criminals have more rights than the victims. To wit, Tony Martin's case is in the news again because he was denied parole. Why? Because he might kill a burglar trying to break into his house again. Originally, Martin was sentenced to life imprisonment. An appeals court reduced his sentence to manslaughter, which only carried a five year penalty ... yet a parole board had an option of letting him out early and chose not to because they aren't convinced burglars who might try to break into his home can do so safely. What the court does not take into account was that he had already been burgled seven times. A few months prior to the shooting which sent him to jail he lost $9000 worth of furniture to criminals. Fred Barras, the now-dead criminal who saw Martin as an easy target, was an experienced burglar and already had 29 convictions. Strangely, the British did not see fit to put him in jail, but apparently Martin is more of a criminal for having a gun and using it to protect his home than Barras for his 29 convictions. So British courts have made a choice -- the rights of a gypsy burglar with 29 convictions means more than the rights of a lonely farmer who had been assaulted multiple times ... because the farmer used a firearm he "was not entitled to have" according to Lord Woolf, Court of Appeal judge. I would like to state here, publicly, that I, too, am a danger to burglars. British liberals think we need to become 'part of the 21st century' ... if that means letting criminals hurt me in the name of their social engineering, I'll stay old-fashioned. Article Here