THERE MAY NOT ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND – AT 9:09 A.M. ET:  For those who love England, stories like this are a depressing reminder that there are leftist forces within the country that constantly undermine traditional British values.  This is pathetic:

Five activists who caused £180,000 damage to an arms factory were acquitted after they argued they were seeking to prevent Israeli war crimes.

The five were jubilant after a jury found them not guilty of conspiring to cause criminal damage to the factory on the outskirts of Brighton.

The five admitted they had broken in and sabotaged the factory, but argued they were legally justified in doing so.

They believed that EDO MBM, the firm that owns the factory, was breaking export regulations by manufacturing and selling to the Israelis military equipment which would be used in the occupied territories. They wanted to slow down the manufacture of these components, and impede what they believed were war crimes being committed by Israel against the Palestinians.

And, get this:

They are the latest group of peace and climate-change activists to successfully use the "lawful excuse" defence – committing an offence to prevent a more serious crime – as a tactic in their campaigns.

No doubt our own left-leaning law schools, and members of the Obama administration, are looking at importing this kind of thinking, which they consider "advanced." 

It's a sad thing that's happening to Britain.  But I'm afraid it will happen here unless we can reverse what is happening in major precincts of our own society.

July 1, 2010