Ian Huntley, Peter Tobin, Ian Brady, Robert Black. Those are the names of some of Britain's worst serial child-killers. Robert Black is in the news again today. Guilty of another murder. The news report stated that he had been given a life sentence. However, the 'minimum tarriff' was yet to be decided. Black is already condemned to be in jail until he is 82, at least.
His latest conviction must surely see him die in prison. Hopefully, the family of his, and all of the other victims of those convicted killers, will get some satisfaction that he looks set to remain in prison until he dies.
But i can't stop thinking what it must feel like to be a parent/relative/friend of a murder victim... any murder victim. My mind would implode while thinking about the 'punishment' our justice system hands down. Other than the removal of liberty, what do our prisons do to punish?
Those relatives will work for the rest of their lives to pay for the system that looks after the murderer and ensures that none of their human rights are breached. Do they not stop being human when they take life? If not, why not?
Is it not time we started actually punishing criminals. Should we not look for ways to make these people suffer... just like the relatives will?
Should the threat of prison not be a deterrent to would-be criminals instead of a potentially better standard of living for them?
Is it correct that the law abiding population should pay for the upkeep of people, such as those named above, that should (i hope) never be freed? Or, is it time that we adopted a more corporal approach and hang these pieces of shite publicly!
BTW, Caroline Hogg, Black's 3rd victim, was a neighbour before she moved to Portobello. I don't remember her, but i was only 3 or 4 years old. Caroline never made it to age 6.
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Fade to Grey, or Gray to Fade?
Rumblings today suggest that the useless, dull, boring and ineffective 'Scottish' Labour 'Leader' Iain Gray may be turfed out of East Lothian. What a result that would be!!!
You don't need much education to know that the Tories will be consigned to the dustbin in Scotland until those who lived through the Poll Tax era are six feet under. The unholy marriage entered into by the LibDems means that they are only a step or two behind the Tories.
That leaves us Scots with a choice between Labour and the SNP.
Well, i say choice. I feel that anyone who has the honour of being Scottish (and maybe those non-Scots who now live here) should hang their heads in abject shame if they intend to vote for Labour at this election.
Scotland has a massive problem with sheep-like Labour voters. Those who will always vote Labour simply because their faither voted for them, or their grandfaither was a miner or, even more mindbogglingly, 'cos Labour are fur the workin man'.
Vote Labour in memory of your grandparents.
Vote SNP in favour of your grandchildren.
You don't need much education to know that the Tories will be consigned to the dustbin in Scotland until those who lived through the Poll Tax era are six feet under. The unholy marriage entered into by the LibDems means that they are only a step or two behind the Tories.
That leaves us Scots with a choice between Labour and the SNP.
Well, i say choice. I feel that anyone who has the honour of being Scottish (and maybe those non-Scots who now live here) should hang their heads in abject shame if they intend to vote for Labour at this election.
Scotland has a massive problem with sheep-like Labour voters. Those who will always vote Labour simply because their faither voted for them, or their grandfaither was a miner or, even more mindbogglingly, 'cos Labour are fur the workin man'.
Vote Labour in memory of your grandparents.
Vote SNP in favour of your grandchildren.
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