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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.

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.

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 http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=9490&grp=2&cat=380

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Tony Martin?

06.10.2005 11:04

Tony Martin lived alone in a rural area with no policing. He opened fire on two burglars, he didn't recieve much support from Indymedia or similier. If he had been black, a muslim or an asylum seeker would he have gained support? This man in the article may deserve support, we need more facts and fewer double standards!

Thruster

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There are no double standards

06.10.2005 15:28

Tony Martin
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.

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St Tony of little England

06.10.2005 16:08

I thought that the difference with the case of Tony Martin was that he sat waiting for the intruders with a shotgun on his lap?

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

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Proof?

06.10.2005 16:42

Is there any proof that this guy faced that kind of racist abuse? Any proof that he planned to kill himself and not somebody else? He owned an illegal gun and he was recorded in a phone call to the CRE making threats to kill. Face it, he's just another criminal playing the race card.

Humpty Dumpty

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Max start living in the real world

06.10.2005 17:14

In search of Max - Tony Blair's police troll. Nothing to do with little England, it's about not victims. Only a sick troll would take the side of the offenders.

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

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saint cobweb

06.10.2005 17:21

The right and left both are hypocritres when it comes to this guy and martin.

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

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Ignore Humpty Dumpty

06.10.2005 17:22

Every comment I've read by Humpty Dumpty is full of shit. I wish he'd fall off that wall and smash his shell to pieces. Find something better to do and get a life you little prick. You're a racist troll not even worth having a discussion with. Your worthless commenting should be banned from IndyMedia.

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Why should perpetrators have rights

06.10.2005 18:06

To Mr Lustbather aka S.T.D.s.

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

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sexy

06.10.2005 18:17

STD me I am pure as the driven snow ,my cocks as clean as galloways libel bill.
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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