Now I'm mad.

I know there are people on GC that think I am a soft woolly liberal on crime but I just saw on the news that the 2 idiots who killed the guy who remonstrated with them when they threw a wrapper into his car have got 4 years each. That means they will be out in 2.

The mind is so boggled it is ridiculous.

 

here is my view ... and its cheap as chips

 

You're too kind boys I would take them out for a good roast on one of these



You know me firm but fair! Hel.xxx.

 

Marley. My training and everything I stand for says that all human life is sacrosanct. So I can't go along with the death penalty, it is against everything I stand for. I know that is impossible for some people to understand but I took an oath to preserve all life. Even low life.

But 4 years? Which is actually 2. No. 40 years (which is actually 20) is the least I can go along with.

 

The longer you lock them up for the more it cost US.
Now the chances are they will never be any good, so what do you do with them?

I for one do not want my taxes being spent on them living a good life in prison for the next two years, let alone having to pay for twenty.

That only really leaves one option.
Or.

It would be perhaps acceptable to lock them up for twenty years if we had the likes of "Devils Island" to send them to.
I'm sure somewhere like that could well send them back as reformed characters.

 

Sentencings mad, down my way a local girl and her partner atacked a guy at a cash point with a knife leaving him intensive care with extremly severe stab wounds.

Atemted murder youd have thought? No wounding with intent and sent down for just two years. out in around 12 months.

Sadly the victims family are probably too scared to give the perpertrators the 'welcome back' they deserve when they are relesed.

I know whhat id do if it was one of my own familly whod been atacked.

 

The justice system really needs a good kick up the ar*e there use to be pretty longer stretches, I mean back in the Krays day the twins were banged up good style along with so many others although I still think they all got off light!

This yobb culture has to be stopped before more law abiding people are hurt or killed it's happening everywhere and it's just really sad to see that some people are so scared to say boo to someone who is causing some havoc, not to mention too scared to pick up the phone! :eek:

There was a time that a good clip round the ear would sort our some unruly lout out but now that's classed as assault and the clipper will end up being in more trouble than the lout!
Don't you just love our justice system? :( Hel.xxx.

 

The word DETERRANT doen't seem to figure any more as far as crime goes in this country.

 

It really is an encouragement. You get away with it if you are not caught, and you get away with it if you are caught. As Strongy says where is the deterrant?

 

I am intrigued you are not Superman are you?
Is this a religious or professional oath? On the subject in hand I think that what is annoying is that a serious crime has been committed and treated in a seemingly trivial way. Like you I would rather cure than kill but in this case neither seems to have been accomplished (not that I am advocating killing) but a longer sentence would have fitted the crime better and allowed more time for rehabilitation.

 

Antheus. No I am not a superman. (Superman is not real). That is why I don't have the right to take life. I just try to give it when I can (or tried before retirement). And the oath? The Hippocratic Oath. I'm a real weirdo I took it seriously.

 

I once dressed up as superwoman for charrity, Thats when i was invited on the ship in the officers mess :D

 

Ah I understand now!

What do you mean Superman is not real!!??
Don't listen to him toothfairy!