Rioting E Petition
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The petition is well and truly open for signatures again and I have added mine sending this address to all my contacts:
Convicted London rioters should loose all benefits. - e-petitions
If anyone can think of a better or more democratic way in which the public can express their views on these criminals...let me know.
Convicted London rioters should loose all benefits. - e-petitions
If anyone can think of a better or more democratic way in which the public can express their views on these criminals...let me know.
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It isn't really appropriate to single out just 'London' rioters for loss of benefits - benefits to all such rioters should be reviewed, no matter where they are caught. Neither would loss of 'all' benefits be wholly appropriate - although perhaps a minimal benefit level might be?
I've signed the e-petition purely because it will probably now be debated, hence the disapproval of rioters' benefit abuse will be brought into focus and cannot be ignored.
I would sooner these thieves having to earn their 'benefit' by being forced to clear up the damage they've caused.
But if you remove their benefits completely, they'll just start thieving again.
I've signed the e-petition purely because it will probably now be debated, hence the disapproval of rioters' benefit abuse will be brought into focus and cannot be ignored.
I would sooner these thieves having to earn their 'benefit' by being forced to clear up the damage they've caused.
But if you remove their benefits completely, they'll just start thieving again.
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Might I suggest a 'chain gang' system of hard community service, wearing pink high vis jackets with "Criminal" printed on the back. They could start by clearing up all the areas that were damaged during the criminal activity, they could help the shopkeepers whose stock and premises were looted, and when all of that is cleared up they can start repairing potholes on our roads. Preferably whilst it rains, hard...
Tent City Jail + Chain Gang
How about this as a model - "Tent City" jail and chain gang in Maricopa County, Arizona. All inmates, male and female, are required to wear issued, pink underwear. Inmates food costs are $0.40 per day - police service dog food costs are $1.15 per day !
Whenever the mamby-pampies claim that it is "inhumane" to house inmates in tents in temperatures of up to 130 deg F without air conditioning, Sheriff Joe Arpaio (age 79) always says "If our troops in Afghanistan have to endure it, why should criminals have it any better".
Whenever the mamby-pampies claim that it is "inhumane" to house inmates in tents in temperatures of up to 130 deg F without air conditioning, Sheriff Joe Arpaio (age 79) always says "If our troops in Afghanistan have to endure it, why should criminals have it any better".
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"Might I suggest a 'chain gang' system of hard community service, wearing pink high vis jackets with "Criminal" printed on the back. "
They'd regard it as a badge of honour What should be done is to deport them to a prison labour camp in the Falklands for a year or two Send our asylum seekers there as well
They'd regard it as a badge of honour What should be done is to deport them to a prison labour camp in the Falklands for a year or two Send our asylum seekers there as well
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Or we could specify sensible sentences and penalties for crimes, which our judiciary imposed in a fair manner (thereby allowing the lenient end of a term to be applied to genuine hard luck types while the hard cases got the hard end of same), and when we put people into jail to serve those terms they didn't get out early unless there really had been some amazing turnround in attitude.
Oh, hang on, that's the way it's meant to work already.
How about we don't rough out a punishment over 20 minutes hard thinking and a bottle of red for the latest thing to annoy us from our media services, driven as they are by advertising and viewer/circulation count with little if any regard for the truth.
There's no need to pass special laws if the law itself is correctly framed, and whipping up a quick law based on the last thing to hit your TV in between the Emmerdale and Corrie omnibuses is a bloody stupid way to run things.... it's also an invitation to nasty people to do stuff you'll bitch about 2 years down the line when your uncle Kevin gets topped for mowing the lawn on a Sunday.
E-petition...great, the great unwashed get to make policy - for heaven's sake, that's worse than letting the bloody politicians do it.
BTW RAFENG, please point me towards any part of the UK with a temp of 130F, 'cos I've frozen my nuts off in the past 3 weeks and it'd make a nice change.
Oh, hang on, that's the way it's meant to work already.
How about we don't rough out a punishment over 20 minutes hard thinking and a bottle of red for the latest thing to annoy us from our media services, driven as they are by advertising and viewer/circulation count with little if any regard for the truth.
There's no need to pass special laws if the law itself is correctly framed, and whipping up a quick law based on the last thing to hit your TV in between the Emmerdale and Corrie omnibuses is a bloody stupid way to run things.... it's also an invitation to nasty people to do stuff you'll bitch about 2 years down the line when your uncle Kevin gets topped for mowing the lawn on a Sunday.
E-petition...great, the great unwashed get to make policy - for heaven's sake, that's worse than letting the bloody politicians do it.
BTW RAFENG, please point me towards any part of the UK with a temp of 130F, 'cos I've frozen my nuts off in the past 3 weeks and it'd make a nice change.
That'll do. Stop the scrotes procreating!
These dropkicks on the streets invariably come from single mothers, or broken homes (in general), where generations have never had jobs or burdened responsibility, or known the meaning of discipline.
Society allows this to continue, otherwise it is an infringement of human rights and personal freedom, or other such crap. Why work when the Govt doles out the dole and any number of benefits?
David Campbell - despite his ignorance of defence affairs - recently got it right: "There is a problem with children growing up not knowing the difference between right and wrong."
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