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Post by rebel2020 on Feb 14, 2020 14:33:09 GMT
New laws to ensure the most dangerous criminals spend longer in custody have been announced. So, who decides which crimes require time in prison and how long that should be? What does the government want to change? In the Queen's Speech, the government said it would toughen sentences for the most serious violent offenders, including terrorists. Automatic early release at the half-way point of their sentence would be scrapped. Those given sentences of four or more years for serious violent crimes would be made to serve a minimum two-thirds of that time in prison before being released. They would also increase the number of people who could spend the rest of their life in jail. The minimum for serious terror offences would increase to 14 years More; www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49886053
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Post by Big Lin on Feb 14, 2020 23:31:56 GMT
I agree, it's madness.
I'm actually considered a bit weird by some people because I support prisoners' rights, alternatives to prison for minor offences, the death penalty, corporal punishment for violent offenders and castration for sex offenders.
Maybe that's why people can't seem to make up their minds if I'm left or right wing!
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Feb 16, 2020 17:24:00 GMT
I agree, it's madness. I'm actually considered a bit weird by some people because I support prisoners' rights, alternatives to prison for minor offences, the death penalty, corporal punishment for violent offenders and castration for sex offenders. Maybe that's why people can't seem to make up their minds if I'm left or right wing! I agree that many people want to categorize everyone into either right or left. Most of my political views are strongly conservative so people wrongly assume that I'm pro gun, deeply religious, and anti-abortion, I'm none of those things. My conservative leanings mainly derive from economic issues such as wanting lower taxes, less intrusive government rules and regulations for business, etc. I strongly believe that Socialism has been an abysmal failure whenever and wherever it has been attempted. Venezuela and Cuba are just the lastest examples. I'm strongly opposed to the welfare state. People need to be responsible for their own well being rather than becoming wards of the state. However, I am strongly supportive of some social issues such as basing immigration on merit and needed skills, prioritizing fee speech over political correctness, keeping illegal drugs illegal, and supporting a tough stance on crime. I think Capitalism is arguably mankind's greatest single invention.Trade leads to mutual interdependencies and lessens the possibility of future wars. Even though China, for example, is building up her miitary she is unlikely to attack her best customers. Capitalism is what has made America a great country. It has been the land of equal opportunity. Anyone is free to start a business and build it into another Apple, Google, Amazon, or Microsoft. Wealth isn't so much inherited as it is built for ambitious entrepreneurs. r High taxes, excessive government regulation, and governent handouts can get in the way of entrepreneurial successes. Our bedrock economic principle should be "Equal Opportunity for All," and not "Equal Results for All." How depressing it is to visit Communist and former Communist countries and see those Soviet style high rise apartment buildings where the government assigned people to live and gave them their jobs. Not much future for someone like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos in that kind of a country.
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