Thursday - March 12, 2009

AN EDITORIAL ON LAW AND DISORDER ….  A MUST READ FROM PETER HITCHENS

I’m a few days late getting this posted.  It’s been at the top of my do now stack but things just haven’t gone as planned with posts.
But no matter.  I think Peter Hitchens is exactly right.  I’ve tried to say the same but he says it better.  He should of course as he’s trained for it.
So that’s my excuse for not being as literate or articulate as perhaps I want to be.  This is an excellent editorial by him. It appeared last week in The Mail on Sunday.

“The more you appease criminality with weakness and offers of ‘understanding’, the more criminality you will get.”

Yeah, sweet ... the two sneering words a killer said to the police
Peter Hitchens
The Mail on Sunday

Last updated at 12:08 AM on 08th March 2009

If we can’t make criminals fear the law, then we will have to live in fear of criminals. It is that simple.

When I first warned of this some years back, it was still a theoretical problem for most people. Now it’s becoming a practical one.

I’m pretty sure that we’re finished as a country and a society anyway, and would advise anyone who can do so to think seriously about getting out while it’s still possible.

But because we have saved ourselves from near-disaster so many times before, I feel I have a duty to carry on trying, just in case there’s still a chance.
But I beg of you, do not look for any help or hope from the Tories. All that they offer is a change of faces without any alteration of policy.

(TORIES,,, CONSERVATIVES.  And as usual, Hitchens is correct.)

Every stupid decision of the past half-century was either made by them or later supported by them. They are merely a machine for getting Cabinet posts for the sons of the rich. They have entirely adopted the soppy spirit of the age. Anyone who votes for them in the hope of reform is deluded.

Don’t believe me? The next time you hear some Tory spokesperson blethering about crime under Labour, as they have taken to doing, ask him a few questions.

Does he believe that police officers should be free to administer informal wallops to louts?

Does he think there is any crime so bad that the perpetrator deserves to hang?

Does he believe prisons should punish, through fear and hard conditions? I can tell you that he will at best mumble. If he tells the truth, he will say ‘no’ in all cases.

Yet without such measures, implemented soon, no possession and no person will be safe from random, impenitent criminality.

Last week we ‘learned’ from surveys and statistics the following things, all of which you and I have known for years: that miscreants laugh at ‘community punishments’; that dozens of convicted murderers are released to strike again, in many cases to kill again; that our criminal courts are now so clogged up with cases they cannot cope.

Our prisons, likewise, are swollen like boils ready to burst, however hard the Ministry of Injustice seeks to empty their inmates on to the streets, or the judges strive to dilute their sentences.

This is no surprise to anyone apart from the ruling elite. The more you appease criminality with weakness and offers of ‘understanding’, the more criminality you will get. Here’s a recent example from real life.

Karl Bishop, told that Robert Knox had died from wounds he had inflicted, remarked: ‘Yeah, sweet.’ He also told police to take him straight to Belmarsh prison, saying: ‘I’m going down anyway. I don’t mind. I get gym every day, meals, just take me there.’

Bishop, by the way, a regular user of supposedly ‘soft’ cannabis, knows – as transgressors all do – that after 50 years of Left-Liberal government, he has nothing to fear from the police or the courts.
In my view, he should have been shaking with uncontrollable fear of the noose and trap-door that ought to await him.

But what would I know? I’m an extremist, out on a limb, with views that exclude me from any significant political party.

Yeah, sweet.

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Posted by peiper     on 03/12/2009 at 11:57 AM   
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