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I'm at risk of being misunderstood. In the scenario you described above, your life is clearly and reasonably in danger. As  (or "if") I understand the CCC, it is acceptable to use force, sometimes lethal force, to protect your life in self defense. That's fine. For a different example, in...

Ok, here's one thing I learned...if you hang around the Army long enough, everything comes back. Sometimes it's hard to stifle a nasty cynical old-guy smirk when the latest "revelation" gets announced. War Story!!  Ref the .50, I was once on a night mounted patrol with US MPs around the Bagram...

But to be fair here, most of the CF bands disappeared. We lost a very fine PPCLI band which we were quite proud of.  A bit of creative thinking might have given them a secondary role to keep them on the ORBAT. (No...CF Musician Branch members were NOT stretcher bearers-that was an old legend-but...

Concur.  IIRC, Islam makes dispensations when prayers aren't possible at the appointed moment such as flying an aircraft, performing surgery, fighting a fire, driving a train, or doing a section attack. This ad sounds very stupid and patronising.

Here is what I was talking about earlier, in terms of "the other side of the story", from the SK farming community: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/stanley-verdict-again-raising-concerns-over-rural-crime-1.4535146 One could argue whether this should have been presented earlier, but at...

...and frizzled.

Definitely: it pulled some of the rug out from under the guerillas, along with the announcement of independence.  A few more: -the guerillas were mainly ethnic Chinese, who were not well liked or trusted by the Malay people: it was not really a "popular uprising" of Malays; -the land mass of...

A more realistic goal for The Tories for next year is to play a long game and aim to become kingmakers to a Liberal minority government. Avoid courting the social extremists, focus on the economy and jobs, produce a workable and credible program to protect the environment without wrecking the...

I saw one of these in the USMC museum when I was at Quantico. A very odd little vehicle. Must have had one hell of a backblast signature.

Isn't it more likely that the people who don't like guns, etc are the ones who would immediately deny that the SK farmers have anything to be afraid of: in other words, claiming that what I proposed definitely "isn't the case" ?  Wouldn't those people be the ones who believe the farmers are just...

Maybe some deserved to be shot. It certainly happens. But I don't become "guilty" because a police officer decides (out of fear, poor training, psychological issues, misunderstanding, racism, or whatever) to kill me outside the bounds of the law. I worked for a few years in hotel security: I...

I agree that would be a bad idea, if I was doing it. But I'm not. I'm asking questions. Yes, me too. It's called "the Victim Industry" or "the Victim Culture". It's the abuse of something real and legitimate. Not talking about that. I think the "MSM" (which I follow) has made it pretty clear...

What assumptions were those? Or did I ask questions that looked like assumptions? I don't think I actually said "hail of gunfire" anywhere in my post. See what I  mean, though? It's hard even to ask questions about this subject, from either angle, without stirring up feelings that one...

It's probably also worth repeating that Malaya presented a set of unique circumstances which probably won't be repeated exactly again, and which IMHO tended to work in favour of the British. But, definitely one of the very key factors that aided the British was an army consisting either of units...

First off, if it's more than just SK in which people in rural areas are in fear for their lives, I go back to the question of finding out why. What is making these rural areas so dangerous that the response to a trespasser (or group of trespassers) is deadly force, seemingly right off the bat...

This is disgusting and quite disturbing. Politicians are risking grossly overstepping their bounds here, in a manner that I find very dangerous.  While I'm probably somewhat to the "left" on some issues as compared to fellow posters here, this case is not one of them. It is bad enough, in my...

I am also 100% sure these observations are correct, even though I am well past my best-before date. These were always my observations on my UN missions. I really don't see how anything else can be true. I recently read an article concerning the UN's intentions to improve the security of it's...

He made a decision. Let him live by it. And thus a message to anybody else who gets similar ideas.

I don't agree with that, exactly, If racism is the belief that one racial group is inherently superior or inferior to others, or that behaviours are determined by race (a set of physical characteristics), then I don't think facts are "racist". The dangerous implication there is that the basis of...

I've always thought the real value of nukes lies in the threat of their use. I do believe that fear of that threat has had a useful influence on the behaviour of nuke nations. Their actual use, on the other hand, I see as an utter disaster with very little real "military value", and one which...