Set Farouq Kamara free. Police did not protect his family from racism.
Right to protect yourself when the law fails you | 05.10.2005 16:51 | Anti-racism | Culture | Repression
BLINK today launches a campaign to free Farouq Kamara from behind bars where he is languishing after defending his family from attack.
You can write to Mr Kamara to show your support.
You can write to Mr Kamara to show your support.
Farouq Kamara: dream of country living turned into a nightmare in the face of violent attacks. Devout Muslim Mr Kamara blames police for failing to protect his family during six years of racist and Islamophobic abuse.
Leading human rights law firm Birnberg Pierce are expected to launch an appeal on behalf of Mr Kamara soon.
The original defence barrister at the Winchester Crown Court trial failed to present character witnesses on behalf of his client. Mitigating circumstances, the abuse and attacks suffered by Mr Kamara and his family, were hardly mentioned.
Farouq Kamara, his wife and children are victims who weren't protected. He deserves to be freed.
Article
http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=9490&grp=2&cat=380
Leading human rights law firm Birnberg Pierce are expected to launch an appeal on behalf of Mr Kamara soon.
The original defence barrister at the Winchester Crown Court trial failed to present character witnesses on behalf of his client. Mitigating circumstances, the abuse and attacks suffered by Mr Kamara and his family, were hardly mentioned.
Farouq Kamara, his wife and children are victims who weren't protected. He deserves to be freed.
Article
http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=9490&grp=2&cat=380
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Tony Martin?
06.10.2005 11:04
Thruster
There are no double standards
06.10.2005 15:28
I thought Tony Martin was right to protect himself and should not have gone to prison. The burglars had no right to go into Tony Martin's home and put Mr Martin's life at risk. He had no other way of protecting himself, police would have taken too long to come out to his home. The repeat offenders he shot at could have intruded on a woman or disabled person living alone. If someone intrudes into your home you can't know what they'll do and should have a right to protect your life. They were there to cause harm, had no right to be there. Many people who have been burgled never feel safe in their own homes again.
Farouq Kamara
Read the article it explains what Farouq Kamara has gone through. There's an address where you can write to Farouq, and show your support for Mr Kamara and his family. You could cheer him up with cards and books.
Right to protect yourself where the law fails you
St Tony of little England
06.10.2005 16:08
there is a significant difference between defending yourself (and property) from attack and putting yourself in a position where you shoot another person - it was not about defence it was about vengeance & punnishment.
And just who put who's life at risk? the burglars or the man who, believing that he was to be burgled, sat waiting with a shotgun on his lap instead of securing his property or perhaps even at worst firing warning shots as the intruders entered his grounds
In search of Max
Proof?
06.10.2005 16:42
Humpty Dumpty
Max start living in the real world
06.10.2005 17:14
How can an older man like Tony Martin who lives alone in the middle of the countryside risk his life by tackling the burglars who broke into his home? - Yeah I bet you'd take them on!!! Mr Martin would not know if they’d to be violent. Tony Martin had been a victim before. Why should Tony Martin put his life at risk when he doesn't know what the arseholes who shouldn't have been at his home in the first place are capable of? The burglars put their own life at risk by ruining other people's lives. "In search of Max" Tony Martin's life in his own home is worth more than these criminals who could harm him.
“Max” if you'd been a victim like you deserve, then you wouldn't make such stupid comments.
Ignore the trolls
saint cobweb
06.10.2005 17:21
The right for hailing martin as some sort of folk hero and not relaise that martin was mentally unstable.
The left for critiscisng the martin case ,but when suddely when a "new opressed" does the same thing defending him.
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Mr Lustbather
Ignore Humpty Dumpty
06.10.2005 17:22
Farouq Kamara supporter
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Why should perpetrators have rights
06.10.2005 18:06
You say Tony Martin is unstable because you don't agree with what he did.
Even if he had a problem, some were caused by previous attacks on Tony Martin. We all have a right to protect ourselves. He should not be in prison, Tony Martin did the right thing. You are criticizing victims which shows your twisted instability.
STD Lustbather - it's you who is unstable. Get help STD for your sick ego.
Although different situations, I support Farouq Kamara and Tony Martin.
I'm not a hypocrite, they both have a right to protect themselves.
Do you have to be left or right wing to support both and put the victim first.
Real world
sexy
06.10.2005 18:17
Yes i do support the right of self-defence,but i dont use it like the left and right for petty poltics.That muslimguy and martin are just putty in the hands of the polticos.
Mr Lustbather
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