Wednesday 28 July 2010

I cannot add anything to this ...

... without doing myself a serious damage.

8 comments:

Kingbingo said...

How can you be against the idea of volunteer policing. That how police used to operate before they were professionalised by Robert Peel, or Bobby Peel thus their nickname ‘Bobbies’. A town or village would nominate a burley bloke for a couple of weeks to be the police, then someone else would do it.

I thought you liked the idea of something not being in governments hands?

Obnoxio The Clown said...

"That how police used to operate before they were professionalised by Robert Peel, or Bobby Peel thus their nickname ‘Bobbies’. A town or village would nominate a burley bloke for a couple of weeks to be the police, then someone else would do it."

How do you nominate a "volunteer"?

And at what stage would this all not be in the government's hands?

Kingbingo said...

"How do you nominate a "volunteer"?"

A bunch of men make it known their up for it, once a week one of them gets it.

Obnoxio The Clown said...

So, not actually nominated, then?

Kingbingo said...

Apologises. I’m not sure if immediately performing hara-kiri is strictly necessary for my mistake, but I don’t want to take any chances. Good-bye.

Obnoxio The Clown said...

Before you go, I'm still interested to hear how this will remove policing from the government's control.

I'm really curious to find out how you think this is not going to create an even bigger morass of un-uniformed-chocolate-teapot plastic plod?

Kingbingo said...

Sounds like a load of tosh to me that will never go anywhere.

I know I’m supposed to be a libertarian, but I have a soft spot for a much tougher justice system. From my point of view the criminal law book should be very short and contain just the basic stuff. And its implementation should be very harsh.

Like if you break into some ones house the first time you have to pay all their costs for repairs in full plus £xk. If you have a job to pay this from fine, if not you work for the local council picking up litter/storing through sewers etc until your done.

The second and third time as before.

The fourth time onwards they start removing a finger at a time.

No need for jail at all, cheaper and a better deterrent. Prior to the last century jail was never considered a punishment; it was only the place you stayed UNTIL you were punished. And if you have a 3 strikes rule no innocent person is going to get accidently found guilty on three separate occasions.

As far as I’m concerned you can have as much liberty as you want, but when you decided to violently or fraudulently deprive others of their liberty you should be treated very harshly.

Obnoxio The Clown said...

"Sounds like a load of tosh to me that will never go anywhere."

In other words, indistinguishable from a New Labour policy?