Sweden's Foreign Affairs Minister, Margot Wahlstrom
[From article]
Now that we understand that was just discussing matters of law in general, there is something that is not clear to me. As I understand the law, if someone tries to murder you, you have the right to use lethal force to defend your life. In addition, if you witness someone attempting to murder someone else, you may intervene with lethal force to prevent the murder. To be clear: in either case, whether self-defense or defense of other, you may kill the person attempting to commit murder.
Furthermore, if two people are attempting to murder one person, you may take the lives of both of them to spare the life of the intended victim. One who sets out to murder forfeits his own right to life. The same rule applies no matter how many attackers there are. Numbers are irrelevant. I believe that to be the rule in all Common Law jurisdictions and it is my impression that it is the law everywhere. If Swedish law is different, please set me straight. I suspect it is not.
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In a case where one side of a conflict employs as a strategy the incitement of ordinary citizens to carry out terrorist murders and they are killed in the course of such attempts, what force was excessive? How many random civilians have to be killed in order to justify killing others who attempt to kill? Where is this rule embodied? Is it a rule of general application? If so, it should be codified or embodied in precedent somewhere. Or is it something that everyone “just knows”? If it applies only to Israel, then this has a name. The Swedish government knows what it is. So do the Israelis. Perhaps Madam Wallstrom should explain the laws she referred to.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/sweden_israel_and_the_law.html
December 10, 2015
Sweden, Israel, and the Law
By Jack Golbert
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