Friday - July 13, 2012

cwime and punishment

We have not had a day without rain since the beginning of June.
Just thought I’d mention that for no particular reason.

OK .... this morning’s starting post from peiper.  One of the many things in today’s mixed up left wing touchy feely answer to crime and crinamals.
Spelled that way because I have this vision of how a libtard would spell the word. It has a slightly less harsh sound to it then criminal. See?  That ‘n’ makes all the difference in the world.
I do not know if this sort of hair brained experiment has been done in the USA or not.  If not, please don’t try it no matter what the bed wetters on the left claim.  Of course, you will all be surprised. Right?

A number of years ago, some loony tune whose name just happens to be McNutt, thought it would be a neat idea to send a yootful offender on a world trip, expecting that he would be turned from a life of crime cwime. No surprises of course that the grand social engineering project in this case failed.  Miserably. 

I don’t know what the rate of exchange was back then, but in today’s dollars £7,000 would come to approx. $10,800.

Take a look.

Safari Boy back in court for his 112th crime
By Nick Britten, The Telegraph

When he was sent on a three-month safari to Africa 19 years ago, the plan was that seeing less privileged societies than his own, and removing him from his criminal surroundings, would act as a cure for Mark Hook’s unlawful ways.
Two decades on, it has clearly not worked.

Mark Hook – dubbed “Safari Boy” after his £7,000 foreign trip paid for by the public purse caused outrage in the early 1990s – was dubbed a “perpetual villain” by a judge who sentenced him for his 112th crime on Thursday, July 12.

Hook’s spectrum of criminality covers burglary, theft, driving offences, assault, handling stolen property, and possessing an offensive weapon.
Before Thursday he had made 32 court appearances over the last 20 years comprising 111 offences, 43 of which were thefts.

His latest brush with the law involved him mugging a woman shopper last September and handling credit cards stolen from another woman, and at aged 35 the fear is that there’s plenty still to come.

Hook’s latest crimes were exactly the same as when he was last jailed – for two years – in 2009 for mugging a frail 80-year-old man in the street.

In 1993, aged 17 but already transgressing the law, Gloucestershire County Council sent him to Bryn Melyn, a North Wales therapy centre for troubled youths.

The principal, Brendan McNutt, had not long before hit upon the idea of taking persistent offenders out of their criminal environment and abroad; where they would not know the culture, money or geography; where they could build a relationship with their guide and crucially, where they would be unable to run away.

Funded by the money the centre was receiving from social services, Hook went on an 88-day visit to Egypt and Kenya to visit places where people were worse off than him.

Whatever the immediate outcome was meant to be, it did not work. Hook began offending again as soon as he returned, continuing on an almost non-stop crime spree which has never stopped.

A descendant of Private Henry Hook, the Rorke’s Drift VC hero of the Zulu Wars, Hook is not the only youngster to be sent abroad, but is certainly the most notorious.

When word got out about his safari, it caused such a national outcry that John Major, then Prime Minister, put an end to such foreign trips.
His Home Secretary Michael Howard, accused the authorities of having “more money than sense” whilst Virginia Bottomley, then Health Secretary, waded in, saying that “children involved in wrongdoing should not feel rewarded for their actions”.

Brendan McNutt, the former Bryn Melvyn manager and the man who dreamt up the idea of foreign trips, accused ministers of “attacking a myth”.
He said: “We organise a very intensive therapeutic programme in places throughout the world. We are not sending children on holiday. One member of staff is with the youngster for 24 hours a day, re-parenting every aspect of their behaviour.”

complete story here

What?  Re-parenting?  Uh huh. We can all see how well that has worked out.  What’s with libtards and these new fangled words and expressions they come up with to justify soft approaches to crime?

Now that’s out of the way we can concentrate on another similar article going back to more recent times.

I originally posted this back in ‘09.  Good gosh.  How long have I been with BMEWS now?  Time flies.

Now a reasonable person, usually a conservative although from time to time you might run over oops, run into, oops. You might meet a reasonable liberal.  I’m sure they exist someplace. Anyway, a person could assume it’s hoped, that based on prior experience, the authorities would have avoided this blunder.  But no.  Being hand wringing, bed wetting, weepy eyed, bleeding hearts, their answer to this cwiminal was, another twip.
Remember this one?

‘Canal Boy’ who was treated to boating holiday jailed for new wave of burglaries

7:30AM GMT 17 Dec 2009

A serial criminal who earned the nickname “Canal Boy” after social services paid for him to go on a boating holiday in the hope of turning him away from crime has been jailed for a string of burglaries.

Clinton Bowen, who was 15 when he was treated to the three-month trip in 1997, appears not to have benefited from the attempted rehabilitation.
The 28-year-old is now starting a now starting a five year jail term after stealing family heirlooms from elderly victims in a string of raids.

Bowen was on parole from an earlier jail term when he committed 22 burglaries between March and July this year to fuel his drug addiction, Gloucester Crown Court was told.

In the late 1990s Bowen was one of a number of young offenders who appeared to be rewarded for their crimes by being taken on holiday at public expense or given excessive pocket money in a bid to steer them away from crime.

Safari Boy Mark Hook, who was taken to Africa and Egypt for 88 days, and Pocket Money Boy Casey Bowen, who was given £60 a week by social services, have both also been jailed this year for their latest crimes.

complete article to refresh the memory

I’m pretty certain they aren’t doing that these days with “austerity” being preached from the rooftops. That’s austerity with a capital ‘A’ folks but it only applies to the peasant class.

Posted by peiper     on 07/13/2012 at 05:34 AM   
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