Bulletin
on the 15 TFPs,
Vol. I – No. 8 – 1988,
Pleasantville
,
N.Y.
,
page 5
Colombian
TFP Defines Legitimate Self-Defense
With
the present crescendo of violence threatening public order, the Colombian
TFP, commissioned by a group of farmers, has published a statement signed by
many eminent jurists affirming the measures of legitimate defense that one
may take in defense of hearth and home.
"The
TFP Informs Public Opinion of the Clear Thinking of Eminent Jurists about
the Application of Legitimate Defense in the Colombian Countryside,"
read the announcement in the capital daily El
Tiempo [6-8-1987]. Quoting extensively from legal pronouncements, laws
and jurisprudence, the jurists' study affirms the legal basis for legitimate
defense, especially in remote areas that lack governmental protection
and are thus attacked with impunity by guerrillas. He who attacks, the
study claims, puts himself outside the law, whereas he who defends himself
upholds the law.