Every single time I hear or read something about people defending themselves, or others in one way or another. there's always the pool of people, that see it as vigilantism. They usually complain about the defender using too much force, as to not get hurt. And always, defend the assailant somewhat. Even sometimes going as far, as to call for punishment for the defender, just for using illegal tools, as a way to protect themselves. (pepper sprays, tear gas, knives - Almost every tool that makes for a good defensive weapon, have been made illegal to carry in Denmark.)
One of the excuses for this, is that "we should let police handle such a thing. For, citizens defending themselves would lead to chaos". Which is utter bullshit, since it's practically already chaos, with the police not having time to solve breakins, assaults, rapes, and other violent crimes. Since they're busy with scraping in traffic fines, and hunting people for possesion of cannabis, or tools for self defense.
- There was an episode from my youth, where me, my brother and some other people where having a party. Some people that wheren't invited, and which we didn't have a specially good relationship with, threw a bike through a window, and started to force their way into the house in which we where. - My brother who was a big guy at the time, was singlehandidly holding them back in the entryway with a crutch. And because of that, no charges where put on the people that had attacked us. Simply wasn't possibly, because he had done more damage to them, than they had done to him. So the cops took him away for questioning.
^ Quite a rediculous thing.
But that's nothing, compared to the old laws, that really point out the idiocy of government. And which quite possibly still exists today, since I can't find any talk anywhere, about them being repelled.
You can't clean the drains on your house, from a tractor.
A year or 2 ago, a guy had to clean the drains of his house. He didn't have a ladder, so he had to use something. And since he happened to have a tractor, with a working lift. He decided to use just that. Unfortunately, someone saw him, and called the cops. And he was sentenced to some time in prison.
- For his own safety, right?
"begging for money"
I've seen some stuff, about homeless people begging for money, food, and what not. Not sure what the laws have been up until now, but because more and more immigrants are doing it, the almighty dictators seem to want to do something about it. And it's been proposed that it's going to be made illegal. (Or it is already illegal, not entirely sure.)
- Not only does this create less empathy in the population, but it also gives the state a good argument for why it should exist. (Without the state, the homeless wouldn't get any help, right?)
Hurting a politicians feelings
I was convicted for this last year. So it might be the law I know the most about. - I'd written a comment to a politicans facebook post (His name is Jan E. Jørgensen), calling him corrupt and a tyrant. And he dragged me to court straight away. (Keep in mind, that the law covers EVERY government employee. - While it don't cover the general population.)
- Though, fortunately for me. It was a case, where he had dragged multiple people along, and while he spent hours upon hours, and even more money on the case. I got off with spending 5 minutes, with no lawyer, and I even skipped out on court. - And from that, I was sentenced to 14 days on "conditioned" prison time. (Which just means, that If I get caught breaking the law again, I'll get a tougher sentence next time.)
When it comes to laws, people always defend them with it being chaos without them. That if not for the police, you'd get assaulted, robbed, murdered and raped.
But what people fail to see, is that it happens anyway. Though, with laws and cops, you actually risk of even more abuse, if you defend yourself. And should you defend yourself from a cop assaulting you, then you're very likely to actually die.
- There haven't been many cases where Danes have defended themselves against police. And even fewer, we they actually defended themselves enough, as to end up getting shot. (It have happened, but very rarely) which makes it something like "the elephant in the room". And pointing it out, will get you ridiculed, and sometimes even attacked.
_I'll end it off here, as I ramble too much about nonimportant stuff, and lost focus again.