EalingBlue2
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nimrod said:EalingBlue2 said:foetus said:I'm suggesting we should have locked up a guy who:
raped 7 women
sent hate messages to families of dead troop's families
accomplice in ex wife's murder
And I am suggesting that as he was not convicted of those crimes and there was apparently very weak evidence presented that maybe just maybe it is better to live in a society with a UK approach to justice than live in a Stalinist regime where people get locked up at the whim of the regime as soon as an allegation is made.
Yes it would be great if he had been locked up but would you sacrifice the basis of a free western democracy and our society that you live in so cheaply and would you rather see thousands of people locked up every week on allegations just to stop odd freak tragedies happening?
Ive read all your posts on this and you seem to keep taking things to the exteme, your comments "so you want a facist state" and "would you rather see thousands of people locked up every week on allegations" blah blah blah
Nobody wants this and it will never happen in Australia, so maybe stop the grandstanding, and stop being inflammatory.
What were saying is that people like this who are a known by police danger to the public, unbalanced, calling for deaths should maybe be removed from society, we are a very rich country and there should be facilities, not necessarily jail, for mentally disturbed people who are a threat to the general public.
So just to make it plain, not a facist regime, but a country that removes threats from the streets such as people who are obviously dangerous to other citizens and/or people who promote extreme violence such as beheadings.
It is though - as to do this you have to allow the police to take away the people they deem dangers, it has to be extra-judicial (as in this case you clearly aren't happy with the legal process . So if people are allowed to be taken off the streets by the police in an extra judicial process what else is this but repression and a police state? You can't just do it on religion either , football hooligans who threaten violence, bike gangs etc would be locked up too. Where do you draw the line?
It is so simplistic to just demand we subvert the way we live because of one example but as it would mean a fundamental change in society and out values and one that I don't think is worth it.