[Ohioan]

“The problem comes in cause many citizens will tell you that you have a right to protect your property and if they get to a jury they'll say they would do the same thing," said Robert Jenkins, a local defense attorney.

Well, I must say that Robert Jenkins and I do not see eye to eye as lawyers. What he calls a "problem," I call common sense. The right to defend one's property is very basic to most Americans. The idea that one's property is somehow in a different class from one's life, shows a misconception. One's property reflects a segment of one's life, or the life of one's ancestor. Property does not grow on trees. It reflects the labor and ingenuity of one who secured by labor and ingenuity the means to acquire it. When you steal a man's property, you steal a segment of his life. No man should have to submit to that.

Hopefully, the local Prosecutor will decline this Prosecution. Let the thieves of the world, beware!

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[calvin sun]

Correct me if I'm wrong , but I think I read somewhere that in the old West, horse theft was a capital offense. Thanks.

[the bottle let me down]

He's still facing one heckuva wrongful death civil suit.

[Freedom4US]

I can't agree (in general) for citizen's doling out the death penalty for thievery. But I've came to the exact same conclusion -- personal property represents in a tangible sense a portion of someone's life. When property is stolen, part of the owners life is 'killed' in that sense.

[Lurker]

"When you steal a man's property, you steal a segment of his life. No man should have to submit to that. "

Unless of course 51% of the voters say it's ok, of course.

L