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Originally Posted by eric@
I have no wish to politicise this discussion; <snip>
Certainly there are a vociferous bunch of people of certain political leaning that will defend the most bizarre activities in the name of †œcivil libertiesââ‚ ¬ÂÂÂ. Personally, I think they have lost the plot when they extend their campaign to include the †œrightsà€Â of serial rapist.
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Pardon me if I suggest there seems to be a slight contradiction between these two paragraphs.
And I remind you again of what I said (and which you quoted and agreed with) just below here:
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Originally Posted by Graham
I do not and will not pick and choose who has rights and who does not. *EVERYONE* should have the same rights whether they have been convicted a crime or not.
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As a general principle I agree, however, when the system releases serial rapist (who by the very nature of their description are likely to commit similar crimes again) it makes this very correct principle hard to defend.
Hence, it is my belief that the system is failing when it releases people (who are likely to do real harm to their fellow citizens) back into open society.
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Maybe it is failing, or, at least, maybe it has failed in the case of this man.
However it has *not* failed in the context of this thread where this woman who, I can only assume was very poorly advised, decided to sue for compensation and lost her case because her action was taken outside of the period the law permits.