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Now keep the SOBs locked up for good.
Now keep the SOBs locked up for good.
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As NJ said when this was being discussed, a law which applies retrospectively is a breach of a "basic tenet in UK law that the sentence passed down should be that which was available at the time the offence was committed."
I can't say I'm sad to see this law passed, but the fact is that it is likely to be challenged for good reasons, and there's also at least a decent chance that the challenges to any retrospective would be successful. Even if the previous law was a mistake, the principle NJ talks of above is not.
I can't say I'm sad to see this law passed, but the fact is that it is likely to be challenged for good reasons, and there's also at least a decent chance that the challenges to any retrospective would be successful. Even if the previous law was a mistake, the principle NJ talks of above is not.
You worry about the perpetrators of rare events while real terrorism goes on every day around you.
In the UK, someone is murdered by their partner or ex-partner almost every second day, while thousands are abused mentally and physically. The vast majority of the victims are women.
What is being done about that? Does anyone care?
In the UK, someone is murdered by their partner or ex-partner almost every second day, while thousands are abused mentally and physically. The vast majority of the victims are women.
What is being done about that? Does anyone care?
Well the small t terrorism, domestic violence kills a lot more people than Terrorism you nobody really cares as was demonstrated by the responses.
No, Naomi its not unique to the UK though I was surprised that it is apparently even worse than we have it in Australia per capita.
If pouring petrol on one's wife and three little children then setting them on fire isn't a form of terror than I don't know what is. That is what an Australian man did last week.
The point I am making is that the public gets excited about something that affects hardly anyone while hundreds die in violence that gets very little attention.
People should be asking their politicians to prioritise the real threats.
No, Naomi its not unique to the UK though I was surprised that it is apparently even worse than we have it in Australia per capita.
If pouring petrol on one's wife and three little children then setting them on fire isn't a form of terror than I don't know what is. That is what an Australian man did last week.
The point I am making is that the public gets excited about something that affects hardly anyone while hundreds die in violence that gets very little attention.
People should be asking their politicians to prioritise the real threats.
If retrospective change is a problem then maybe modify things. Let them go at the allotted time, from at the time of the offence, and afterwards take them to a place where, for their own sake, they can be monitored over an additional period to help them not feel a need to harm others in society. Perhaps some kind of asylum. Since this would be a new law that wouldn't trigger until someone leaves gaol, it isn't part of any existing punishment. It's simply compulsory for their own benefit; and for society's too, as it happens.
