tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post2444186342049073342..comments2024-03-28T18:32:00.146+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: A Failure Of Ideology…JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-64279521618393218842010-09-22T16:58:51.168+01:002010-09-22T16:58:51.168+01:00"Hmmm. Can we find one with poisonous snakes ...<i>"Hmmm. Can we find one with poisonous snakes and spiders, venomous jellyfish and huge sharks off the coast, giant predatory reptiles in the rivers, and one which is mostly desert in the middle? "</i><br /><br />I was thinking of transportation here of course, but these days it's much too nice for 'em. It wants to be some where without much of the magnificent, awe inspiring desolation and lots of the mind numbing, soul shrivelling kind. It should be cold, miserable, joyless and incapable of receiving a mobile phone signal. No trees, or at least nothing big enough to make a raft out of, much less any kind of boat. Gruinard Island might have done the job except for the fact that it's a bit too close to the mainland and they cleaned up all the anthrax, but I'd suggest something along those lines.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-47738208207158822892010-09-22T05:43:24.032+01:002010-09-22T05:43:24.032+01:00"I think it's time to bring back banishme...<i>"I think it's time to bring back banishment. Britain has hundreds of little islands, many of which are in waters that make swimming back to the mainland an iffy proposition."</i> <br /><br />Hmmm. Can we find one with poisonous snakes and spiders, venomous jellyfish and huge sharks off the coast, giant predatory reptiles in the rivers, and one which is mostly desert in the middle? <br /><br />That'd be perfect! ;)<br /><br /><i>"Many conservatives were forceful advocates for the care in the community programme."</i> <br /><br />Yup, it was one of their biggest mistakes.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-48331798263942621612010-09-22T03:53:24.615+01:002010-09-22T03:53:24.615+01:00Many conservatives were forceful advocates for the...Many conservatives were forceful advocates for the care in the community programme.<br /><br />However, Tyburn Jig sounds about right. Then a suite of rooms in hell.Rielouisehttp://rielouise.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-65907884034193690452010-09-21T10:52:06.471+01:002010-09-21T10:52:06.471+01:00Misanthropy levels at Chez Exile now nudging 11 ag...Misanthropy levels at Chez Exile now nudging 11 again. What the hell is to be done with such scum? I don't trust the state with the power of death over its citizens and its not likely I ever will, and yet paying for these animals upkeep in a nick is just as distasteful. I think it's time to bring back banishment. Britain has hundreds of little islands, many of which are in waters that make swimming back to the mainland an iffy proposition. Surely a few of them would be suitable as a social landfill for these bipedal maggots in fake Burberry. I'm sure some hand wringers would worry about a <i>Lord of the Flies</i> situation developing but firstly, who gives a fuck? And secondly, isn't that happening in towns all over the country because of these same kind of 'people'? Give the bastards a few sacks of seeds, a book on growing vegetables, a few rabbit traps and tinderboxes, and a one way trip to an island that could sustain them indefinitely but lacks the resources to enable them to get back on their own. If they last, fine, and if not the place will become available for more like them before long.Angry Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02491082312193274360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-21247748051770849812010-09-19T23:08:09.690+01:002010-09-19T23:08:09.690+01:00"For many of us it's hard enough to tell ...<i>"For many of us it's hard enough to tell where people are in that range so God knows how mentally damaged people are supposed to work it out ..."</i> <br /><br />Quite!<br /><br /><i>"What ever anyone thinks about prison I defy them to dispute that whilst a criminal is behind bars for that period all persons and property are safe from harm by that person."</i> <br /><br />No disputing that, that's for sure.<br /><br /><i>"I agree prisons should be for real criminals and not thought crimes."</i> <br /><br />And certainly not - unless you've ignored other sentences - non-violent crimes.<br /><br /><i>"PS: I also felt sorry for the cat in the bin, but compare the outcries. There is something rotten in the state of..."</i><br /><br />And yet, other animal outrages don't get that publicity... <br /><br /><i>"...it turns out that the real reason for wanting to move him around is to pass the buck to the other town's social services so that he will be somebody else's problem."</i> <br /><br />Indeed! 'Speed bump' mentality, it seems...<br /><br /><i>"Not a damn thing, I would guess! Their minds don't work like that."</i> <br /><br />I'm not sure their minds work, full stop!JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-1304238148831936262010-09-19T19:12:26.223+01:002010-09-19T19:12:26.223+01:00"I can't help but wonder what the feminis..."I can't help but wonder what the feminists are going to make of a comparison to people with learning difficulties!"<br /><br />Not a damn thing, I would guess! Their minds don't work like that.Uncle Gushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03481255226021523113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-28600036100314221322010-09-19T18:19:58.262+01:002010-09-19T18:19:58.262+01:00Somebody said recently in some far flung place tha...Somebody said recently in some far flung place that we don't do the difficult things if we can avoid them these days. Caring for the vulnerable requires effort; much easier to say the good, caring-typ words and tick boxes than actually do something.<br /><br />It's what I call the 'speed-bump' mentality: a Council will hurry round installing raised tarmac patches to slow motorists but does nothing to repair the whole road as it too costly and too involved. The easy options are so much more attractive now.<br /><br />Let's move a problem on until it isn't a problem any more.bumps in the roadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-75620797201148252022010-09-19T17:51:02.216+01:002010-09-19T17:51:02.216+01:00Simply heartbreaking. I'm beyond words.Simply heartbreaking. I'm beyond words.Mrs Erdleighnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-15294200907786877482010-09-19T17:38:23.436+01:002010-09-19T17:38:23.436+01:00My nephew is well below average IQ, he is now in h...My nephew is well below average IQ, he is now in his twenties but mentally half that age. <br /><br />After several "muggings" which were really just his so called mates taking his mobile or money and walking off, the social services suggested that he might be better living somewhere else and he was given a flat in another town.<br /><br />Of course the same thing is now happening in the new place and social services now suggest moving back home again. <br /><br />Nothing ever gets done about the thefts and it turns out that the real reason for wanting to move him around is to pass the buck to the other town's social services so that he will be somebody else's problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-49873052807369852302010-09-19T15:00:20.221+01:002010-09-19T15:00:20.221+01:00It would be of some consolation to know a point ex...It would be of some consolation to know a point exists on the cruelty scale when all stomachs heave.<br /><br />Steven Hoskin was sadly unaware that there was no basis for his trust in a gang bound by neither inherent constraints nor anything like conscience. This was an utterly depressing story of shared indifference to torture and suffering.MTGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-40629076259073476432010-09-19T13:32:21.497+01:002010-09-19T13:32:21.497+01:00PS: I also felt sorry for the cat in the bin, but ...PS: I also felt sorry for the cat in the bin, but compare the outcries. There is something rotten in the state of...Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708444000412716821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-91460441788447158802010-09-19T13:30:44.091+01:002010-09-19T13:30:44.091+01:00I actually did weep when I saw this story.I actually did weep when I saw this story.Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708444000412716821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-40928737083703348962010-09-19T13:16:47.249+01:002010-09-19T13:16:47.249+01:00Building more prisons is not the answer, but a reg...Building more prisons is not the answer, but a regime change certainly is. Cells like a room in the "Holiday Inn", takeaway food and colour TVs is a better life than most of them could live on the outside, so where's the deterrent?<br /><br />I agree prisons should be for real criminals and not thought crimes.<br /><br />Prison food should be nutritious, not particularly appetizing and not a lot of it but just enough that the hunger pangs are gnawing an hour before their next feed.<br /><br />Cells should contain no more than a concrete slab, a foam mattress, pillow and quilt and go back to slopping out.<br /><br />Prison should also have a hard labour element to it too, 14hrs a day breaking rocks ought to do it, but yes use of carrot and stick should be encouraged and those who toe the line earn privileges, the "I'm not doing that and you can't make me" brigade can be fed gruel while the others tuck into meat and tattie pie.<br /><br />I guarantee that 6 strokes of the lash on the town hall steps on a saturday morning for persistent violent antisocial chavvy scrotes would temper this behavior to next to zero. They don't look quite so hard screaming for mummy (and they will) as a 16st police sargeant flays the hide from their back, a liberal rubbing of salt into the wounds to help the healing process and the knowledge that it will still hurt 2 weeks later as bruised ribs hurt everytime you move and even breathe.<br /><br />The likes of Hindley, Brady and Huntley should have danced the Tyburn jig years ago, nuff said.Budvarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01411709142357622721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-60577935257542879482010-09-19T12:00:41.664+01:002010-09-19T12:00:41.664+01:00I think you've missed a bit of parlance: those...I think you've missed a bit of parlance: those who use the services provided by 'service providers' are not 'people with learning disabilities' or indeed 'vunerable adults' but 'service users.' <br />You must not have received the latest Newspeak Dictionary!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-76019235247737681112010-09-19T11:45:31.959+01:002010-09-19T11:45:31.959+01:00What ever anyone thinks about prison I defy them t...What ever anyone thinks about prison I defy them to dispute that whilst a criminal is behind bars for that period all persons and property are safe from harm by that person.Antistheneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10120647617145756102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-86155570003866056492010-09-19T11:41:11.762+01:002010-09-19T11:41:11.762+01:00There's a spectrum running from selfish, user,...There's a spectrum running from selfish, user, sociopath to psychopath. For many of us it's hard enough to tell where people are in that range so God knows how mentally damaged people are supposed to work it out ...<br /><br />Reading those stories is yet another reminder of how utterly useless our justice system is at dealing with real crime. If there is any use at all for Authority it should be to protect the most vulnerable among us from predators. Yet we see, time and again, nothing useful happening except indifference, irritation with the victim or buck-passing.<br /><br />More prisons? Yes, please. Or at least use them to house the real criminals rather than those committing thought crimes...Jiksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-47323255649232389982010-09-19T11:12:39.932+01:002010-09-19T11:12:39.932+01:00Prison does work, if it is run correctly. In this ...Prison does work, if it is run correctly. In this case, I'd advocate a rope, or a bullet, not fussy really.English Vikinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03144810217381651105noreply@blogger.com