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I agree with you on this Bat (SHOCK !!!! HORROR !!!) – it’s a fine idea in principle but in practice it probably wouldn’t work.
I am somewhat torn between the two positions personally. As the father of a young daughter, I would naturally want to be aware of any threats to her well being (in the form of locally residing paedophiles for example). Being aware, I could ensure that said person dodn’t get near her.
However, I equally don’t want to see hordes of ‘vigilantes’ hounding them out of house & home and generally taking the law into their own somewhat dirty hands….. which I fear would be the case.
We have such an incident locally. A bloke was ”generally known” to be a paedophile – he looked ‘odd’; was unmarried; was middle aged; and he lived with his mother. Every so often (around once a month or so) local youths (presumably) target his house or car and throw eggs and flour at it or bricks through the windows.
I’ve no idea if he is or isn’t a paedophile. My own enquiries with the local Police (unofficially) indicate that there is no reason to suspect him of doing anything. but the rumours persist as do the attacks.
Mallow
I love your Spring ‘daffs’ Esme …. a nice refreshing addition if i may say so.
I agree, she is a brave and determined woman….. but do you really think that a “Sarah’s Law” could work???
Or do you think that it’s a fine idea on principle but would rapidly be abused ???
The current number being quoted today is 443 killed and 2050 injured. It was also said that in spite of this Hamas had kept on firing rockets and mortars into Israel and were now threatening to commence a campaign of suicide bombings.
So roughly 330 or so killed were actually Hamas terrorists – bet you won’t see too many of their funerals eh???
@bat wrote:
………The children are allowed to wear slippers instead of shoes.
Be fair Bat – they aren’t allowed to wear dressing gowns or pyjamas though.
BTW the slippers are worn to protect the nice new carpets from getting dirty in wet weather. Not too unreasonable eh?
Many primary schools allow their children to do this – but that wouldn’t suite the Daily Mail who never wants to let the truth get in the way of a good argument.
Yup i spotted that as well Bas. Quite ironic isn’t it?
So if the Israelis say they have had enough of being constantly bombarded by rockets and mortar fire (by Hamas terrorists) for month after month and finally decide to put a stop to it ….. they are branded ”wrong” by the largely left leaning Media.
Journalists flock to Gaza and are carefully shepherded by Hamas ”spokesmen” to areas where they can take pictures of women and children ‘suffering’ as a result of ”criminal” Israeli oppression.
Sadly, this conflict is nothing to do with territorial possession (or gain); its nothing to do with who is right or wrong; it is everything to do with who wins the propaganda war in the world’s Media.
To date, Hamas (and their Syrian / Lebanese paymasters and Iranian suppliers) have shown that they are pretty good at getting tear-jerking pictures published around the world to support their points.
BTW have you noticed that in all the TV footage of ‘victim’s’ bodies being paraded through the streets in Gaza (for the Media to photograph) the crowd always seems to consist of several hundred young men. Not a female in sight; not a grieving parent to be seen anywhere; only angry ‘fighters’ burning flags and screaming abuse…… for the benefit of the TV cameras of course.
@bassingbourne55 wrote:
Drunk women generally are less of a problem than drunk men. How many random GBH attacks have been made by drunken women? Yes, I have heard of a case, but they are very rare.
Oh I don’t know about that Bas …… a woman’s tongue can kill at 100 yards.
Bat dear … this is the entire point isn’t it? Bentley was convicted, sentenced and executed pursuant to the laws that were applicable THEN – not those that apply now.
The law (as it was then) made him equally guilty of murder as his accomplice Craig – even though Craig did the actual shooting. It was enough for Bentley to be there as a willing participant in the burgulary (and therefore in the murder) to secure his convition – rightly so im my opinion.
The thing that I do find somewhat ironic is the contrast between all those who set out to describe the terrible punishment that they’d inflict on say a child molester, and yet when it comes to cold bloodedly murdering a Police officer, acting in the course of his duty, suddenly they change their tune and want the killers to go unpunished.
@bat wrote:
And that was what pissed me off about that report PB. Not so much the blokes, even though they had been fighting, it was the state of the women. There is nothing worse than a drunken woman falling over in the gutter out of her skull on booze.
Quite right Bat – and you’ve made my point. IF they’d only stick to drinking pints of real ale, none of that would happen.
