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Criminal Citizen's Arrest law may soon be changing, in Canada at least
It may become legal again to actually be able to defend your property from criminals.
About freaking time.
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The day had best be soon when Canadians no longer have to fear certain arrest and possible jail for defending their property, their family, or even their lives from criminals.
The time of being a good little victim is over.
It took a Chinese green grocer in the media epicentre of Toronto being charged and later acquitted for assault and unlawful confinement of a drug-addicted serial shoplifter to produce enough national outrage for the Harper government to take notice.
If David Chen had had his shop in Torquay, Sask., however, or in any rural Canadian outpost where calling 911 is akin to calling long distance, we suspect no one would give a damn.
Or notice.
Nonetheless, we were heartened to see Prime Minister Stephen Harper have a sit-down with Chen last week to discuss a bill that would make citizen's arrests easier to carry out without the cops and the Crown attorneys defending the criminals' rights to commit their crimes without fear of getting their asses kicked on the way to being trussed up and held for authorities.
And we're are not talking old-time frontier justice here.
We talking about reasonable responses to victimization.
What, for example, did Taber oilfield consultant Joseph Singleton do that was so wrong that the cops ended up charging him with assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm?
He returned home to his Alberta acreage last May to find his home being ransacked and a thief making a run for it. When the burglar began ramming his car, Singleton took out his trusty hatchet and, using the flat non-business side, hit the thief twice upside his face.
Who did the cops listen to? Why the burglar, naturally.
And then there is Ian Thomson in rural southern Ontario who fired a couple of shots in the air from his legally registered Smith & Wesson handgun when his surveillance cameras caught two masked intruders tossing Molotov cocktails at his house and firebombing his dog pens.
The Crown, of course, wants Thomson in jail.
Parliament returns Monday, and legislation to change this ridiculous situation must come quickly.
The time is now to get back our rights.
The time is now to demand them.
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I can't wait for this ridiculous law to change. Personally, law or not, legal or not, I see a crook pulling something around my house it's go time. Period. Same goes for anyone messing with my neighbours' homes and properties. Sure, call the cops, but if they're breaking into your house and coming at you you're supposed to what? let them kick your head in or kill you?
Maybe they're just there to rob you, but I'm of the "why chance it" mentality. :D
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