Re: Would you give this man a licence to drive a Taxi?
 

easy mate...

Re: Would you give this man a licence to drive a Taxi?
 

Well I agree with the sentiment completely. But we cannot punish the individual becuase we do not agree with the sentance. Surely this is a case that would be solved if paedophiles were sentanced to life in prison - life meaning life.

But then how can we get that kind of legal system when judges are let off for similar offences? Another thread I guess.

Re: Would you give this man a licence to drive a Taxi?
 

My objection is not based on the sentence itself. But my own personal hate of this kind of person. In our society we are supposed to protect the young of the species, not sexually assault them. While other people on this forum may be happy to jail all criminals of all types. Personally I see it as a huge waste of taxpayers money. Spend £1500 a week feeling a convicted sex offender or murderer in prison for the rest of their lives, or spend £1 and shoot the filth in the back of the head.

I'll go for the extreme example of cost effectiveness, thankyou very much.

Re: Would you give this man a licence to drive a Taxi?
 

Given his history, he would proberably nick all the takings anyway.

Re: Would you give this man a licence to drive a Taxi?
 

Well I guess the death penalty is whole new thread, save to say public opinion is roughly 50/50 as far as I remember. Personally I don't believe that any human being has the right to kill any other human being, and I particularly think this is the case when using the death penalty for punishment. I have heard all the shallow arguments that those with the same beliefs as me come up with, like what if we get the sentance wrong etc etc etc.

Personally this has nothing to do with it for me. I as one man have no right to take the life of another. Full stop.

But to go bck to the relevance of this thread, I am more than happy to pay for someone who commits this kind of crime to be kept in prison for the rest of their life. They are a danger to society, generally peodofiles cannot be 'cured', so they should be kept away from society.

But it is not this individual's fault that he was (in my ideal world's standards) inadequately sentanced. He has served his time like it or not.

Re: Would you give this man a licence to drive a Taxi?
 

Well just an update on the issue, it's all gone belly up at the Council, someone seen the CRB that I posted on another site who works for the Council, they wern't impressed when they found out he had been given a badge by the licensing officer, they weren't bothered about where the information came from they were more interested in how he got a badge to drive women and kids around.