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UK Home Secretary Bans US Martial Arts Expert
Big Hairy Ian writes "An American expert in violent self-defense has been excluded from entering the UK by the Home Office. From the article: 'Tim Larkin tried to board a plane from his home in Las Vegas on Tuesday, but was given a UK Border Agency letter saying "his presence here was not conducive to the public good." Mr Larkin, who was due to host seminars, told the BBC the move was a "gross over-reaction." The Home Office said he was subject to an exclusion order. A spokeswoman said: "The home secretary will seek to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good." Mr Larkin — who trained as a US Navy Seal — runs a company teaching combat to military and law enforcement clients in the United States.'"
This is not the first time someone has been prevented from entering a country. While the US refuses people all the time, we're supposed to get indignant that this person is refused entry to GB?
I'm sure the mental train wreck in some peoples' minds regarding this is epic.
However, this is not news.
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"making shit up" is not very smart.
Since thats exactly what you did...
The UK just so happens to have codified what common practices it considers to be anti-social and to have laws in place to give police and the courts specific powers to deal with them.
Maiming and killing in self defence is sometimes necessary. Unprovoked violent attacks to happen. On the rare chance that such a situation were to occur, I would like to be able to defend myself or my friends and family. Yes, you can study many martial arts and sports in the UK already, but they are of limited use in an actual street fight. There are no tap outs, there's no "soft" canvas mat, no ref to tell the guy he can't use that broken bottle to gut you.
Ultimately, however, this is not the point. This man will teach a civilian how to cause serious injuries to a person, but we let these same people point 2 tonnes of motorised steel around our roads on a daily basis, operate plant machinery which can destroy whole buildings, run our healthcare infrastructure. Learning how to do something dangerous doesn't mean they will employ that knowledge improperly. These people are still culpable for their actions.
Ultimately all the government is done is prevent the spread of knowledge.
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Reasonable force must be proportionate. The position (to kill in self-defence) that this man was advocating was untenable and can be classified as incitement. There is no reason why the UK should let him in, esp. when the US routinely turns away British citizen for infractions such as sending the president an email while drunk.
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You don't mind violent nut jobs if he looks like you, and not "one of them".
Only an American would call the current UK Government "left-wing".
The last time the UK had an actual left-wing Government was sometime back in the '70s. Like most of the Anglosphere, it's been moving further and further to the right for decades.
This is the same Norway where Beer factory workers went on strike because the company wouldn't let them drink on the line and drivers could only take two beers on the road for all day? My mistake, it must be the other Norway.
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Amen. This is why cases of intentional homicide per capita are four times higher in the UK than the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Oh no, wait a second. It's the US where more people are intentionally murdered. Guess all that self-defence didn't really pay off...
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the UK has explicitly abandonded the principle that everyone is equal before the law.
Everyone is equal before the law. After the law, everyone not wealthy and connected is fucked..
Here in the USA we have the biggest and most offensive example of not everyone being equal before the law — Disenfranchisement of Felons. If the state declares you to be a criminal, you lose your right to vote. Therefore, all the state has to do to prevent you from voting is pass a law criminalizing your behavior. It will probably take longer to get your voting rights back than it will to repeal the fucking law. The same is true of every other right we hold dear; it can be trivially denied you and it is most likely to be denied you if you oppose the corrupt status quo.
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red lights are there for a reason
And sirens and lights are on emergency vehicles for a reason: to make everyone stop at green traffic lights so the the vehicle can pass quickly through the intersection and reach the emergency. Moving out of the way of the emergency vehicle is the primary responsibility and the law should be updated so that driving through a red light to prevent forcing an emergency vehicle to wait (when the traffic has stopped) is not just legal, but required.
But in actual fact they were wrong with the most likely reason he was on the no-fly list being that he has a relatively common islamic name shared with a bunch of other dudes who spell it different ways. It's a bit like Jon Smith being banned from flying 'cos a bloke called John Smyth may or may not be a terrorist.
It is highly unlikely that anyone actually needs to proceed past a red light to let an emergency vehicle through.
Emergency responders are well trained, have well established procedures for dealing with hazards, including exemptions so they can do things like taking paths through junctions that are not normally legal, and have vehicles equipped with high profile warnings to alert other road users that they may be doing this.
The average driver has none of those advantages, and is almost certainly better off moving as far to the side of the road as they can and letting the emergency driver do the rest. There is no need to try to be a hero; they drive the vehicles with the pretty blue lights, and if you want to do that, you should go and undertake the same training and qualifications as they do first.
No doubt there are isolated exceptions, but the thing about these policies is that they are based on a vast amount of real world experience that gets updated every day. Given the kind of person who chooses to work for the emergency services in the first place, if they are saying don't run the light, they probably know that on balance running the light does more harm than good.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
At BAC 0.02%, your driving is not impaired in any meaningful way. Being mildly tired from a long day at work would have more of an impact. It's nice to see that the prohibitionist ladies that ruined the USA's liquor industry and emboldened organized crime in the 1920s are right at home in Norway.
Post hoc.
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