Why do thieves, yobs and criminals get treated so well?
#1
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
Why do thieves, yobs and criminals get treated so well?
Just finished watching Wheeler Dealer on the Discovery channel just to find the programme after it called "Eddie Jordan's Bad Boy Racers" were a bunch of young offenders are given the chance to be coached by Eddie Jordan.
WHY?
Why should they get to do something like this because they are scumbags? If someone were to offer me this chance i would be over the moon infact it would be like a dream come true but unfortunately because i work, abide the law and "don't need to be given a purpose in life" it will not happen.
Disgusting
Can you imagine watching this programme and then realising that one of the fella's getting this once in a lifetime chance was a guy who stole your car? i'd be fooking livid to say the least! When are do gooders going to learn that instead of "helping" these low life bast*rds, we should be locking them up and throwing away the key.
WHY?
Why should they get to do something like this because they are scumbags? If someone were to offer me this chance i would be over the moon infact it would be like a dream come true but unfortunately because i work, abide the law and "don't need to be given a purpose in life" it will not happen.
Disgusting
Can you imagine watching this programme and then realising that one of the fella's getting this once in a lifetime chance was a guy who stole your car? i'd be fooking livid to say the least! When are do gooders going to learn that instead of "helping" these low life bast*rds, we should be locking them up and throwing away the key.
#3
SN Fairy Godmother
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Far Far Away
Posts: 35,246
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This will be my only post in this thread, otherwise my blood pressure will hit the roof and I will have to kill someone
This annoyed me so much, I can't express on this board without offending someone
Illegal immigrant who killed brilliant Oxford graduate after roaring through red light can't be deported... because of his human rights | Mail Online
This annoyed me so much, I can't express on this board without offending someone
Illegal immigrant who killed brilliant Oxford graduate after roaring through red light can't be deported... because of his human rights | Mail Online
#6
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: gravesend, kent
Posts: 4,721
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This will be my only post in this thread, otherwise my blood pressure will hit the roof and I will have to kill someone
This annoyed me so much, I can't express on this board without offending someone
Illegal immigrant who killed brilliant Oxford graduate after roaring through red light can't be deported... because of his human rights | Mail Online
This annoyed me so much, I can't express on this board without offending someone
Illegal immigrant who killed brilliant Oxford graduate after roaring through red light can't be deported... because of his human rights | Mail Online
i'm sure the human rights act helps an awful lot of people, but when it goes wrong, christ does it go wrong.
#7
this country and the lawmakers are a ****ing joke the story about the graduate whos life is over because an illegal once again cant even abide by the law of the country he flouted in the first place its high time that ****ing human rights act was burnt allong with tony blair
Trending Topics
#10
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (45)
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Huntingdon Cambs
Posts: 3,989
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This will be my only post in this thread, otherwise my blood pressure will hit the roof and I will have to kill someone
This annoyed me so much, I can't express on this board without offending someone
Illegal immigrant who killed brilliant Oxford graduate after roaring through red light can't be deported... because of his human rights | Mail Online
This annoyed me so much, I can't express on this board without offending someone
Illegal immigrant who killed brilliant Oxford graduate after roaring through red light can't be deported... because of his human rights | Mail Online
#11
Sentences are a joke. I have been to court where the punishment dished out is 'a day in the court house'. ie the fact that they have spent the day at court. Which makes me think that me, the victim and the witnesses also spent the day at court - so are we getting punished too.!!!
#12
The ok way of thinking for the authorities is that people don't commit crimes by their own fault, it is all due to external circumstances and therefore it is not their fault! They don't really like the thought of punishing them at all really! Re-habilitation is the magic word so they get all those advantages over those who behave themselves.
If a law abiding person misses out on say paying some money to them then they will get the book thrown at them of course.
We need some real punishment for criminals, prison with hard labour as it always used to be, ie something that they would rather not have to do again. That used to deter them from re-offending in the past.
Les
If a law abiding person misses out on say paying some money to them then they will get the book thrown at them of course.
We need some real punishment for criminals, prison with hard labour as it always used to be, ie something that they would rather not have to do again. That used to deter them from re-offending in the past.
Les
#13
Scooby Regular
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Here, There, Everywhere
Posts: 10,619
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Chain gangs doing some good in the community.
You just have to look at fines. Pay your car insurance (say £600/year), pay car Tax (£210/year), get an MOT every year (£45), but get caught speeding. BAM..... £60 fine & 3 points.
Drive around with none of the above. Get pulled once in 5 years......
Stupidly low fine of £180 or whatever it is.
Always the law abiding public that get screwed.
#14
As much as it is unfpopular you do have to rehabilitate criminals. Ultimately after punishment there has to be a plan to convince scummers to not commit crime anymore and in the long run it will cost less to rehabilitate than it will to keep locking people up.
#15
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 12,304
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This will be my only post in this thread, otherwise my blood pressure will hit the roof and I will have to kill someone
This annoyed me so much, I can't express on this board without offending someone
Illegal immigrant who killed brilliant Oxford graduate after roaring through red light can't be deported... because of his human rights | Mail Online
This annoyed me so much, I can't express on this board without offending someone
Illegal immigrant who killed brilliant Oxford graduate after roaring through red light can't be deported... because of his human rights | Mail Online
#16
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Back of Beyond
Posts: 276
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
#17
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 12,304
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
#18
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Back of Beyond
Posts: 276
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
We still have the power of veto and rights reserved in the Commission so the UK government is not exercising its veto and then blaming the EU. They don't enact all Directives. For example, all white goods in the EU are supposed to have a 2 year warranty when you buy them but in the UK it is still only 1 as we have never enacted the legislation after lobbying by the supermarkets etc.
#19
Scooby Regular
iTrader: (2)
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: l'on n'y peut rien
Posts: 2,922
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
here we go again, it's NOT the EU who enforce it, it's our own government.
Other countrys ignore it, but not us. eg: Italy last year rounded up 1000 Albanians they didn't want, and just sent them back.
Ever wondered why? Could it be so that most UK citizens hate the EU?
#20
The whole point is that there is so significant punishment for real criminals in the first place. Also in all honesty, most hardened criminals are not going to think of being rehabilitated. They will smile and nod at all the good words and then laugh behind your back. Why are there no more places left in prison?
Les
#21
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Back of Beyond
Posts: 276
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
That is precisely the attitude which is dragging this country down as it is.
The whole point is that there is so significant punishment for real criminals in the first place. Also in all honesty, most hardened criminals are not going to think of being rehabilitated. They will smile and nod at all the good words and then laugh behind your back. Why are there no more places left in prison?
Les
The whole point is that there is so significant punishment for real criminals in the first place. Also in all honesty, most hardened criminals are not going to think of being rehabilitated. They will smile and nod at all the good words and then laugh behind your back. Why are there no more places left in prison?
Les
#22
Scooby Senior
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: West Midlands
Posts: 5,763
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
...well we certainly have the largest number of pensioners in prison who haven't paid their "poll tax"!
But "more to the point" - do you have a source/reference for your claim that "we have the largest prison population per head in Europe."?
Cheers,
mb
But "more to the point" - do you have a source/reference for your claim that "we have the largest prison population per head in Europe."?
Cheers,
mb
#23
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: a more anarchic place
Posts: 1,828
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Luxembourg has the largest in Western Europe according to the latest (2007)count England and Wales are second with 148/100000 population.
That's a long way being the US (740/100000) Russia and China though.
Those numbers took approximately 10 seconds to find using this fantastic new utility called "Google". You should try it some time...
That's a long way being the US (740/100000) Russia and China though.
Those numbers took approximately 10 seconds to find using this fantastic new utility called "Google". You should try it some time...
#24
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Epsom
Posts: 5,832
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
http://www.civitas.org.uk/data/prisonPopEU2003.htm
Last edited by warrenm2; 07 November 2008 at 11:36 AM.
#25
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Epsom
Posts: 5,832
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
#26
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 12,304
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
True, but let them serve their sentence as punishment, then have a period of re-habilitation, say 10% of the sentence at the end.
#27
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 12,304
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Other countrys ignore it, but not us. eg: Italy last year rounded up 1000 Albanians they didn't want, and just sent them back.
Ever wondered why? Could it be so that most UK citizens hate the EU?
Ever wondered why? Could it be so that most UK citizens hate the EU?
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post