No but, it might help all those people the Bali Boys would have gone onto supply over the following 20 or so years.. Simmo.
tonyd said
11:40 PM Oct 30, 2015
And the whole point about the death penalty is that it is the only sanction in the legal system with a 100 per cent success rate: nobody subject to it has EVER reoffended.
We have to get away from this weak culture of making excuses for criminals and return to a culture of punishment for offenders.
Far too many of our magistrates and judges have this idealised view of themselves as some sort of social workers.
That's fine, so long as they resign their well-paid sinecures, do the appropriate course of study and get out on the streets.
Tony
03_Troopy said
12:49 PM Oct 31, 2015
tonyd wrote:
And the whole point about the death penalty is that it is the only sanction in the legal system with a 100 per cent success rate: nobody subject to it has EVER reoffended.
We have to get away from this weak culture of making excuses for criminals and return to a culture of punishment for offenders.
Far too many of our magistrates and judges have this idealised view of themselves as some sort of social workers.
That's fine, so long as they resign their well-paid sinecures, do the appropriate course of study and get out on the streets.
Tony
Including the innocent ones.
Young Simmo said
12:59 PM Oct 31, 2015
John, it didn't help the Bali Boys, but it did stop them, and hanging has to be enormously cheaper than keeping and feeding them for 20 years.
Also how can you or anybody say, "neither did it stop others from continuing to do the same stoopid thing with drugs". Nobody will ever know the answer to that question.
Sorry mate, I really do appreciate the value of life, as we lost our youngest at 4 1/2 years, 43 years ago.
Cheers......Simmo.
Young Simmo said
01:01 PM Oct 31, 2015
Oop's wrong page my last comment was intended for rockylizard at bottom of page 1.
Simmo.
rockylizard said
11:10 AM Nov 2, 2015
Gday...
We lost our first at one hour old 32 years ago .... not that it matters or has any bearing on anything.
All I am suggesting is that despite the hanging of the "Bali Boys", the death penalty has definitely NOT stopped the mules, suppliers or dealers from their very lucrative business.
Quite probably that is the guts of the problem ... there is so much money in the carting, delivering and supplying of drugs that hundreds continue to do so ... DESPITE whatever penalty is applied.
No but, it might help all those people the Bali Boys would have gone onto supply over the following 20 or so years..
Simmo.
We have to get away from this weak culture of making excuses for criminals and return to a culture of punishment for offenders.
Far too many of our magistrates and judges have this idealised view of themselves as some sort of social workers.
That's fine, so long as they resign their well-paid sinecures, do the appropriate course of study and get out on the streets.
Tony
Including the innocent ones.
John, it didn't help the Bali Boys, but it did stop them, and hanging has to be enormously cheaper than keeping and feeding them for 20 years.
Also how can you or anybody say, "neither did it stop others from continuing to do the same stoopid thing with drugs". Nobody will ever know the answer to that question.
Sorry mate, I really do appreciate the value of life, as we lost our youngest at 4 1/2 years, 43 years ago.
Cheers......Simmo.
Simmo.
Gday...
We lost our first at one hour old 32 years ago .... not that it matters or has any bearing on anything.
All I am suggesting is that despite the hanging of the "Bali Boys", the death penalty has definitely NOT stopped the mules, suppliers or dealers from their very lucrative business.
Quite probably that is the guts of the problem ... there is so much money in the carting, delivering and supplying of drugs that hundreds continue to do so ... DESPITE whatever penalty is applied.
Cheers - John