Monday, 1 July 2013

Lynne Featherstone: “If Something’s Hard To Do, Then It’s Not Worth Doing…”

Police should target “cutters” who perform genital mutilation on girls in Britain, rather than the parents who pay for it, International Development minister Lynne Featherstone says.
Yes, and police should target fences rather than the armed robbers who held up the bank, I suppose?

And if someone hires a contract killer, better just arrest him – after all, all the client did was pay for it!
Ms Featherstone, who plans to meet Detective Chief Superintendent Keith Niven, of the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, to discuss the issue, said: “The cutters who are performing illegally… they must be the first route in. It will remain difficult to get the parents. Prosecuting cutters is the more obvious route in…the view is it is challenging to get parents. The answer is not 20,000 sets of parents in prison. But we do need the prosecution message to be made. I am afraid there does need to be an example case.”
Oh, it’s too hard, is it? Oh, well. Nice to know we have a Minister who takes advice from Homer Simpson...
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11 comments:

  1. Joe Public1 July 2013 at 11:11

    1. Why not target both sets of criminals?

    2. I would have thought it was easier to detect 'the parents' than the 'cutter'. It's not exactly a crime which can be concealed.

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  2. L fairfax1 July 2013 at 11:23

    " The answer is not 20,000 sets of parents in prison."
    We could deport some instead of putting them in prison.
    Just say that anyone who gets a British passport loses it if they do this.

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  3. Anonymous1 July 2013 at 11:36

    Some years ago, there was a crackdown on this offence in a midlands town and the 'cutters' were found to be either religious leaders or grandmothers of the child in question (it's their tradition and culture innit).
    Perhaps one way of dealing with this is that, as the religion is mysoginist in nature, all the males involved undergo a similar 'removal'. I would suggest it would concentrate the mind wonderfully, though make the eyes water a bit!
    Penseivat

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  4. Fidel Cuntstruck1 July 2013 at 11:42

    What makes her think it will be any easier to find the "cutters" than to find the parents who paid for the service ... What's she going to have the old Bill do? raid people at random? that'll work won't it?

    Perhaps she's not telling us that the masterplan is to carry out an examination on each young girl of a certain religious creed? - that's bloody dangerous ground and no doubt she'd need their parents consent anyway.

    I didn't play the video, but no doubt anyone who did would be able to hear her knees jerking furiously.

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  5. Angry1 July 2013 at 14:11

    It's not difficult to read between the lines these days (and thanks for your continued efforts to point this out): 'Horses loose...', travellers involved; 'man shot/stabbed/beaten to death by gang in N/S/E/W London', blacks involved; 'FGM', almost certainly Somalis.

    Unsurprisingly, this prize tit's ('scuse the language) constituency is in the London Borough of Mogadishu. Can anyone name one beneficial thing, just one, that Somali-kind have contributed to this country?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23125075 there goes another one

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  6. blueknight1 July 2013 at 22:39

    Unlawful wounding with intent. Maximum sentence is Life.
    And I suppose it could be argued that the offence is racially or religiously aggravated..

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  7. Trevor1 July 2013 at 22:51

    Angry said: '...there goes another one...'

    If this carnage continues, we may run out of 'aspiring rappers'.

    What a dystopian prospect that would be.

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  8. drsolly2 July 2013 at 00:00

    I don't really understand why no-one ever seems to mention male genital mutilation.

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  9. Woman on a Raft2 July 2013 at 01:08

    It will remain difficult to get the parents.

    Will it? I bet if I took a child to hospital with a urine infection and on examination it turned out that I had commissioned this mutilation, it would be the police station, social workers and automatic adoption down the family courts quicker than you could say "multiculturalism".

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  10. JuliaM2 July 2013 at 05:34

    "1. Why not target both sets of criminals?"

    Well, quite! Why should it be 'either/or'?

    "Just say that anyone who gets a British passport loses it if they do this."


    If only! The ECHR & it's 'right to family life' would prevent it. :/

    "I would suggest it would concentrate the mind wonderfully..."

    :D

    "What makes her think it will be any easier to find the "cutters" than to find the parents who paid for the service..."

    What makes you think that any thinking was involved here?

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  11. JuliaM2 July 2013 at 05:37

    " Can anyone name one beneficial thing, just one, that Somali-kind have contributed to this country?"

    Why limit it to THIS country?

    "Unlawful wounding with intent."

    Well, indeed. But no doubt some new offence will be dreamed up especially for this.

    "I don't really understand why no-one ever seems to mention male genital mutilation."

    Well, it's not quite in the same ballpark. So to speak.

    "... it would be the police station, social workers and automatic adoption down the family courts quicker than you could say "multiculturalism"."

    Soft targets. Always.

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