Sometimes I really do love the London underground. Without it I wouldn't have some of my genius ideas. Take for example the shining epiphany I had when reading all the commentary on the detention without trial thing that Smith and Brown are trying to push through. It seems to me that Jacqui Smith is absolutely right, sometime in the future we might need longer than 28 days so we need to extend it to mitigate the risk of not having enough should that moment arise.
Taking on board the beautiful logic of this argument I had another Home Affairs policy brainwave. Seeing as you, me, and everyone else, from the moment of our birth, has the potential to commit crime in our lives, and probably will commit low-level crime all the time (stealing paperclips that sort of thing). Why don't we make it compulsory for everyone to serve a year in prison when they're 18?
Why bother with a trial and messy stuff like Police work when we could just assume that everyone is doing it and might even do worse in the future? Far simpler surely to just force everyone to do a bit of bird before the crime is committed on the basis that we might commmit it later? Sensible policies for a happier Britain!
Back on the 'terrorism/detention without trial' thing for a moment. I nearly fell off my chair this morning because I actually agreed with almost every word Steve Richards had to say on the matter in this morning's Independent. It's worth a read because he totally monsters Brown on the subject.
5 comments:
You're not thinking straight, Dizzy. Why have all the expense of putting everyone in prison for a year? Seeing that everyone is going to commit a crime, far better to sterilise everyone to stop criminals being born in the first place.
And just think - no need for hospitals, schools, taxes. We'd even have abolished war.
And politicians.
Is that a Blackadder quote in there?
Prince Regent technically.
Dizzy -
I'm afraid you can't take credit for that brainwave. The credit for it has to go to my mother.
When we complained that we hadn't done whatever we were getting punished for, her standard reply was, "Well, I'm sure there's plenty you've done that I don't know about yet, so consider this punishment for that."
Why prison? Was it not quite common for people to be offered a 'go to prison' or 'join the army' choice when found guilty in the past?
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