| Pete Dashwood 2006-04-29, 9:55 pm |
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"Alistair" <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1146261723.834459.235150@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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> Pete Dashwood wrote:
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> Whoa!, I thought that you were the guy who thought that passing laws
> made criminals out of people and that one should not punish said
> aberrants?
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"If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken
Twisted by knaves
To make a trap for fools..." :-)
I have never suggested that passing laws makes criminals out of people. Just
the opposite; I firmly believe in the rule of law.
I don't see punishment as a good idea for getting people who break the law
back into society. I'd rather see them change their minds about being
criminal. Persuasion and encouragement rather than coercion and enforcement.
And I also believe the victims should be engaged in that process.
> In the UK, the death sentence would only be passed for offences of
> treason where there was a serious attempt at killing HM QE2 or the PM.
Don't be too sure. At least one member of the intelligence services who was
turned and worked for the Russians was under no illusion that he would get
the death sentence if he ever tried to return to the U.K.
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> Back to Bill's URL. If the WBC believe that dead US soldiers is God's
> punishment for supporting gay rights then, when some mourner takes
> offence and goes postal, that will be God's way of telling the WBC to
> shut up?
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:-)
You'd have to ask the WBC. I believe they have a hot line to God so they
could ask Him themselves.
Pete.
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