something that wasnt mentioned was that the squat is still going strong and everyone are still there!

It would be nice if the someone can post the name and address of the owners from the land registry, do posters around cardiff town with the details of this attack. It can really aide building support for this squat as well as sending a message to the owners to back off.

solidarity from london

If you are demanding respect, how about showing some decency. If you don't get out of someone's property, then I give my support to them kicking some ass. The homeless situation is an increadibly important issue that deserves to be the focus of more parliamentary attention - HOWEVER, pissing off landlords et al is not really the best way to solve the problem. What gives anyone the right to move into someone elses property, refuse to leave, and then get upset when the owner takes things into his own hands?

I am not a landlord, and I support homeless charities, but squatters (especially when they are infringing someone elses rights) cannot complain when they are moved on..

Sorry, wrong.

The majority of squatters have both legal and moral rights.

Legally under Section 6 of the Criminal Law Act 1977, which states that it is an offence to use or threaten violence to people in the building which is their home, and morally when the buildings are being kept empty deliberately purely for private profit and exploitation of the property and 're-development' markets, squatters have the rights.

If you honestly think that people squat other people's homes to deprive them of their livelihoods or their own homes, then you are living in deluded Daily Mail land.

The law is an ass. If you look at the Universal Declaratíon of Human Rights, Articles 12 and 17 may be of interest to you. You may argue that article 25 goes some way for your support, but so what.

Morals are subjective. Regardless of their motivation for keeping property empty, the property still belongs to the owner. Many squaters (I know this from personal experience before anyone starts rambling of statistics) have jobs, and squat to avoid paying rent. Very moral. Again, before someone starts misquoting me, this is not the majority of cases, but true none the less.

"If you honestly think that people squat other people's homes to deprive them of their livelihoods or their own homes, then you are living in deluded Daily Mail land." You must have a few PhD's in communication to infer this from my comment. I never said anything of the sort - however, squatting does deprive people of their livlihoods. Refute this if you like, but you will be wrong. Hate landlords, fine, I do too (they take my hard-earned money), but recognise that they can't rent out property that has squatters in it - they wont have squatted to 'deliberately' irritate the landlord, but this will be the result.

Oh yeah, and I hate the Daily Mail. I am quite upset about that comment.

what's so moral about rent and private (as opposed to personal) property? The same arguments were used against 'poachers' in 'royal forest' a few hundred years ago. Squatters rights are an old common law recognition that private property has no grounding in reality - only law (as title). It is ultimately therefore both infinately expansionist (or at least expansionable) and morally unjustifiable.

these people aren't squatting the 'owners' home, so hurrah for squatters!

The building in Cardiff that these guys are squatting has been empty for years. they cleared it up; a favour to the landlord if anything.