Mr. Vance, Did You Know That ...

... A, the sanctity of Church asylum is a tradition of the Church going back to when it became legal?
... B, this had a precedent in the Old Covenant?

The need to protect the public is actually met by keeping someone in a sanctuary. And some violent criminals are in fact not very violent people, if only certain others would leave them alone.

I was convicted of violent crime once. It was in 1998. About a month earlier, I had been acquitted.

So, I was only convicted in a court of appeal.

The people I would have preferred to be left alone from were mental health professionals.

I have spent 20 years in France (or it will be 20 years a few months from now) and 15 + years in Paris with surroundings. The time in the South functioned as a sanctuary, meaning, it was in some sense repressive, though obviously less so than a prison, the time in Paris and surroundings has been more and more intensity of indirect, palpable but not seizable, harrassment from mental health professionals. Or people pretending to be. I have not committed any second violent crime despite this, but I sometimes wish I had. The criminal party is they, and the harrassment makes me irritated and they can describe me as dangerous.

It's obviously a very different story with someone who had simply assaulted a perfectly innocent person, for instance to commit a robbery or a rape, who has been convicted of that. But I bet some people who are even convicted of certain violent crimes could be in a situation where they were in some sense defending their dignity against an unjust aggressor like psychiatry. The Swedish one being apparently prepared to compare someone denying a current explanation in sciences to someone committing radical scepticism over all sense experience and use the deviance from Swedish very prevalent scientism to crack down on someone as mentally ill. And obviously, there are very obnoxious people here and there who will try to crack down on someone simply for having his luggage somewhere in the street or a corner of a building or for needing a place to pee and maybe even shit when the closest toilets are closed. When it comes to missing children, in how many cases are they missing according to the other side of a custody battle? Maybe even involving CPS? At least hear the children out in what they say themselves./HGL

PS, to clarify. When I say different, I do not mean in relation to the right of asylum granted by a Church. I mean in relation to getting back one's honours as a respectable citizen./HGL