More complete madness

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 06 Jan 2007, 11:46

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/05012007/344/w ... ights.html

Post by **Garry Russell** » 06 Jan 2007, 12:11

There seems to be a complete lack of the ability to apply common sense.

Sometime laws as they stand need to be enforced selectively.

The world is becoming a place full of wonderful things but at the same time a place that is becoming impossible to live in.

Balance should dictate good reason.

There is a public safety issue here if that is not clear to those making this sort of decision then then should not be doing that job.

Never before have the lawmakers been so out of touch with reality.

Garry

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 06 Jan 2007, 13:01

The way I look at it, laws are there to provide a means to a just society. However, modern procedural, pen-pushing, PC attitudes mean that laws are applied so rigourously and with such attention to detail that the whole reason for them being, justice, is forgotten :huf:

Post by **DaveB** » 06 Jan 2007, 13:08

If the boy's-in-blue find em and shoot em.. there won't be any need to publish photo's and the taxpayers will save a few quid into the bargain. I realise that shooting them isn't exactly PC but it's not stopped em before!!

ATB

DaveB :tab:

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 06 Jan 2007, 13:38

That particular technique has dramatic effects on the reduction of re-offending rates

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 06 Jan 2007, 13:39

What the f? Grrrr why are the people who run our Country completely clueless?

Post by **Garry Russell** » 06 Jan 2007, 14:00

Simple Jonesy

They live in cosseted nice areas with gates and servants

They don't live in the real world

Garry

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 06 Jan 2007, 14:31

Today's Daily Telegraph indicates that Derbyshire police are now changing their story. Apparently there was no point in issuing the photos because they would already be in Manchester

But Lord Falconer has come out in support of rational-minded thinkers by saying that it is "absolute nonsense" to suggest that Human Rights Act might prevent publication of photographs of killers.

And slightly OT, but there is a trend for various "Acts" to be blamed by "authorities" for doing or not doing things. They just hope that everyone will assume they know what they are talking about. :tuttut:

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 06 Jan 2007, 15:52

Never mind the photos. Did you read the last sentence of the article?

More than 660 inmates have gone missing from Sudbury in the past 10 years and officials were criticised last year for spending Â£25,000 on a champagne party for staff as a reward for "high performance".

Ian

Tom Clayton · Post by **Tom Clayton** » 06 Jan 2007, 16:00

I guess that we on the left side of the planet can be grateful for tabloids and their hordes of paparazzi shutterbugs! It's because of them that we have a law that says if you're outside in public, then anyone can publish photos taken of you. Celebrities hate this, but it means that criminals can't sue for privacy violations when security camera stills are published after a bank robbery as well.

I can just imagine how the British government would react to our sexual offenders registries. Here, if you're convicted of a sexual crime, you're toast - on your release, you're required to register with the state, who then puts your name, address, and picture onto a searchable online database. Want to know if there's a convicted child molester in your neighborhood? It's just a few clicks away.