Another week, another set of stories chronicling the sad demise of individual rights in the United Kingdom, where gardeners with pruning tools are treated like dangerous criminals and insulting crooks who plunder your store attracts more police attention than the thieves themselves.
This is what an English-speaking culture without a right to arms or self-defense looks like, a cringeworthy nanny culture that treats normal adults like children and shrinks from the challenge of confronting real lawlessness.
In late July, U.K. news outlet the Guardian published an article titled, “Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester.” The item recounted the story of 35-year-old theatre technical manager Samuel Rowe, who was arrested while trimming hedges with a gardening tool outside his home in Manchester. Rowe had just come back home from a gardening allotment with his tools, along with a basket of vegetables.
Click the link to read the whole article: U.K. Police Targeting Gardening Tools & Salty Language
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