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24 Feb 2011, 6:55 pm

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Maybe to someone paranoid.


Or maybe just to someone who has been insulted by you across three different threads, with everything from my "inner belief" system, my parenting skills and even my neurology brought into it. Clearly you excel at taking cheap shots.

Me, I like to call a spade a spade, but there are some things you just can't say on this forum.


Thats rich coming from you.

Well you can't call a spade a spade cause people will be offended :!:


Oh. Have I insulted your capability in understanding a post because of your neurology at some point? Have I mocked your parenting skills somewhere in a thread? Have I said that you don't even actually believe in the things you choose to debate? No.

What I did do was prove you conclusively wrong in a thread, (Even more conclusively now if you actually monitor the papers on a daily basis, as I do.) ,and suggested you are of the type who "reads the mail." (A suggestion brought into sharp relief when you tried to reinforce your points with Mail-based articles, and reinforced even more by the nature of other threads you have started. Put together, they read like the Mail Website index. Gay Marriages are Bad, Criminals should have no rights, Muslims are evil.....)

You're a spade.


You used your kids to insult me.

Yeah, maybe the papers you read. The views you state could come straight from the Daily Mirror or any left wing paper. And if you actually read the thread, this one. I haven't really said gay marriages are bad, I said they shouldn't be allowed in church that is against it. I haven't said Muslims are evil, I said they shouldn't be able to dictate our way of living. Criminals losing their rights is just basic common sense. Typical lefty, they place anyone with an opinion further right than their's as a facist and racist.


Tell that to the people arrested for shoplifting in Weimar Germany during massive inflation, just to feed their families, who were branded asocial degenerates and shipped to concentration camps straight from release from prison. Go post it on the Amnesty International website. Tell it to the sorry bastards rotting in jail-cells around the world with no recourse left because they have no "rights". If we remove prisoners every right, that leaves the door open for prison officers to simply do whatever they like to their wards, to abuse or even kill. I'm sure all those people doing 18 months for non-payment of council tax would disagree with you for a start. It is in no way "common sense".

I don't think you're a fascist or a racist. I think you're a blind man who can only think in boxes. "Lefty", "Righty". Twat.


And tell Holly and Jessica's that you want Huntley to get a vote, so prisoner's can have the same rights as everyone else. For a start, i'm talking about our country, England. Not Germany! Well obviously its the law that needs changing in a case like that, 18 months for not paying council tax-a slap on the wrists for mowing someone down when you shouldn't be on the road. Obviously our justice system is a mess.

You still continue to be a huge hypocrite. Politics is like that, especially in the media. Like a left wing paper will just go against anything the Torries do, and a right wing paper will go against anything Labour do, they can't just agree with them on that one thing. You're a lot like that.


I've never once disagreed with you that our justice system is a mess. It IS a f***ing mess, and there is huge disparity between sentencing and crime. But that isn't going to be solved by reducing prisoners rights. A prisoner with no rights is about on a par with Fritzl's daughters or a political prisoner in a dictatorship.

What do you not understand about an example of a regime that reduced the rights of prisoners to virtually zero, and how singularly unpleasant it was?

Would it surprise you that I actually agree with some Tory policies? That I thought some Labour policies were good too? What I have an issue with is the fact that both sides of that divide also insist on making ridiculous policy decisions that bollocks up the rest of their policies.


Well I think it would help by reducing some of their rights, they should be doing physical activities or learning things the old fashioned way, rather than having an x-box to play with. I didn't say they should have no rights, but giving them the vote will do sod all to improve the justice system.

I understand that, but thats Germany, and this is England. Some countries prisoners do need to be treated better, but ours don't.

No not really, I just don't get it why you seem to disagree with things just for the sake of it.


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24 Feb 2011, 7:04 pm

murphycop wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
murphycop wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
murphycop wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
murphycop wrote:
Macbeth wrote:
murphycop wrote:
Maybe to someone paranoid.


Or maybe just to someone who has been insulted by you across three different threads, with everything from my "inner belief" system, my parenting skills and even my neurology brought into it. Clearly you excel at taking cheap shots.

Me, I like to call a spade a spade, but there are some things you just can't say on this forum.


Thats rich coming from you.

Well you can't call a spade a spade cause people will be offended :!:


Oh. Have I insulted your capability in understanding a post because of your neurology at some point? Have I mocked your parenting skills somewhere in a thread? Have I said that you don't even actually believe in the things you choose to debate? No.

What I did do was prove you conclusively wrong in a thread, (Even more conclusively now if you actually monitor the papers on a daily basis, as I do.) ,and suggested you are of the type who "reads the mail." (A suggestion brought into sharp relief when you tried to reinforce your points with Mail-based articles, and reinforced even more by the nature of other threads you have started. Put together, they read like the Mail Website index. Gay Marriages are Bad, Criminals should have no rights, Muslims are evil.....)

You're a spade.


You used your kids to insult me.

Yeah, maybe the papers you read. The views you state could come straight from the Daily Mirror or any left wing paper. And if you actually read the thread, this one. I haven't really said gay marriages are bad, I said they shouldn't be allowed in church that is against it. I haven't said Muslims are evil, I said they shouldn't be able to dictate our way of living. Criminals losing their rights is just basic common sense. Typical lefty, they place anyone with an opinion further right than their's as a facist and racist.


Tell that to the people arrested for shoplifting in Weimar Germany during massive inflation, just to feed their families, who were branded asocial degenerates and shipped to concentration camps straight from release from prison. Go post it on the Amnesty International website. Tell it to the sorry bastards rotting in jail-cells around the world with no recourse left because they have no "rights". If we remove prisoners every right, that leaves the door open for prison officers to simply do whatever they like to their wards, to abuse or even kill. I'm sure all those people doing 18 months for non-payment of council tax would disagree with you for a start. It is in no way "common sense".

I don't think you're a fascist or a racist. I think you're a blind man who can only think in boxes. "Lefty", "Righty". Twat.


And tell Holly and Jessica's that you want Huntley to get a vote, so prisoner's can have the same rights as everyone else. For a start, i'm talking about our country, England. Not Germany! Well obviously its the law that needs changing in a case like that, 18 months for not paying council tax-a slap on the wrists for mowing someone down when you shouldn't be on the road. Obviously our justice system is a mess.

You still continue to be a huge hypocrite. Politics is like that, especially in the media. Like a left wing paper will just go against anything the Torries do, and a right wing paper will go against anything Labour do, they can't just agree with them on that one thing. You're a lot like that.


I've never once disagreed with you that our justice system is a mess. It IS a f***ing mess, and there is huge disparity between sentencing and crime. But that isn't going to be solved by reducing prisoners rights. A prisoner with no rights is about on a par with Fritzl's daughters or a political prisoner in a dictatorship.

What do you not understand about an example of a regime that reduced the rights of prisoners to virtually zero, and how singularly unpleasant it was?

Would it surprise you that I actually agree with some Tory policies? That I thought some Labour policies were good too? What I have an issue with is the fact that both sides of that divide also insist on making ridiculous policy decisions that bollocks up the rest of their policies.


Well I think it would help by reducing some of their rights, they should be doing physical activities or learning things the old fashioned way, rather than having an x-box to play with. I didn't say they should have no rights, but giving them the vote will do sod all to improve the justice system.

I understand that, but thats Germany, and this is England. Some countries prisoners do need to be treated better, but ours don't.

No not really, I just don't get it why you seem to disagree with things just for the sake of it.


Ah, so you think that we should follow the American system of allowing cons to pump iron until they can unscrew your head without breaking a sweat? Are you aware that plenty of prisoners pass exams and gain qualifications from inside already? Have you ever been "inside" in any respect? As prisoner or staff?


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24 Feb 2011, 7:25 pm

:roll: a lot of the prisoners do lots of weights anyway, out of choice. My friend went to visit his friend in prison recently, I won't repeat what he said. I know more about prison through people i've mixed with, than you've learnt from wikpedia. Where did I say that prisoners haven't gained qualifications. Its pretty pointless attempting to communicate with you. You can't have a discussion without you getting paranoid, jumping the gun and questioning my own experiences, in a manner of point scoring. I'm done wasting time and energy with a lost cause. Act your age.


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24 Feb 2011, 7:34 pm

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:roll: a lot of the prisoners do lots of weights anyway, out of choice. My friend went to visit his friend in prison recently, I won't repeat what he said. I know more about prison through people i've mixed with, than you've learnt from wikpedia. Where did I say that prisoners haven't gained qualifications. Its pretty pointless attempting to communicate with you. You can't have a discussion without you getting paranoid, jumping the gun and questioning my own experiences, in a manner of point scoring. I'm done wasting time and energy with a lost cause. Act your age.


Assuming that I have no experience of prison life? How presumptuous of you. Also so very very wrong.

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot how you know my "inner beliefs" better than I do myself. How silly of me. I should have known that you would know my experiences better than I do myself as well.


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25 Feb 2011, 1:30 pm

Today's prisoner is tomorrow's person on the street. With a relatively small number of exceptions, all prisoners return to society, and it is incumbent upon us, as a society, to ensure that when they do return to society they are least likely to reoffend as possible.

Voting is the most fundamental expression of membership in a democractic society. No one should be deprived of that membership for any reason other than the need for the impartiality of the vote. In Canada only two people are prohibited from voting: the Chief Electoral Officer and the Deputy Chief Electoral Officer. Every other person, no matter what offence that person has committed, no matter what their thought, belief and opinion, has the right to mark a ballot. You are always, at the end of a the day, a Canadian with the fundamental, inalienable rights that this represents.

If we deprive prisoners of their vote we send the tacit message, "you are unworthy to participate in our society." Rather than looking towards that prisoner's reintegration into society, we deepen the prisoner's marginalization from society. In my view, that increases the likelihood of marginalization after release, and thus, the likelihood of recidivism.

Punishment is an important part of the criminal law, yes. But the first focus of the criminal justice system should be crime prevention. And one of the ways to prevent crime is to give potential offenders a stake in the world around them--and that starts with voting.


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26 Feb 2011, 8:14 am

Oh prison and the fit tough prisoners pumping weights and mentally alert and so on?

That is one depiction.

Here is another. I encourage you to read it.

www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.ph ... _id=136858

if this doesn't kill every criminally deviant bone in anyone's body, I don't know what will.



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26 Feb 2011, 8:36 am

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Punishment is an important part of the criminal law, yes. But the first focus of the criminal justice system should be crime prevention. And one of the ways to prevent crime is to give potential offenders a stake in the world around them--and that starts with voting.

No disagreement there -- respectable philosophy. However, and during my own "time", not once did I ever hear a fellow inmate say anything about how much it might mean to him or feel rehabilitative to be able to vote after we all got out.


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26 Feb 2011, 1:21 pm

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Punishment is an important part of the criminal law, yes. But the first focus of the criminal justice system should be crime prevention. And one of the ways to prevent crime is to give potential offenders a stake in the world around them--and that starts with voting.

No disagreement there -- respectable philosophy. However, and during my own "time", not once did I ever hear a fellow inmate say anything about how much it might mean to him or feel rehabilitative to be able to vote after we all got out.


Which was a large part of my reasoning as to why giving prisoners the vote was a non-issue...because many of them really don't care either way. Just like people outside prison who don't vote either, for whatever reason.


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26 Feb 2011, 6:51 pm

I don't get what's wrong with this. No one's forcing a religious institution to perform gay weddings. Not even letting people have hymns at their wedding just because they're both male? Pretty stupid imo



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26 Feb 2011, 9:15 pm

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Oh prison and the fit tough prisoners pumping weights and mentally alert and so on?

That is one depiction.

Here is another. I encourage you to read it.

www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.ph ... _id=136858

if this doesn't kill every criminally deviant bone in anyone's body, I don't know what will.


:?:


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26 Feb 2011, 9:18 pm

murphycop wrote:
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Oh prison and the fit tough prisoners pumping weights and mentally alert and so on?

That is one depiction.

Here is another. I encourage you to read it.

www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.ph ... _id=136858

if this doesn't kill every criminally deviant bone in anyone's body, I don't know what will.


:?:

He is saying the ugliness of the reality of prison life should be sufficient to make anyone do anything they can to never have to ever go there.


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26 Feb 2011, 9:52 pm

Oh, the fact this guy missed out on being around when the i-pad was released, and Justin Bieber hit the scene? Poor bastard!!


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27 Feb 2011, 5:26 am

No. Not for the Justin Beiber or I-Pad?

How far did you read?



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27 Feb 2011, 11:03 am

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No. Not for the Justin Beiber or I-Pad?

How far did you read?


I'm being sarcastic.


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28 Feb 2011, 1:21 pm

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I'm being sarcastic.


Being sarcastic on an Aspie board.

Seems to me that that is a simple recipe for misunderstanding. :?


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01 Mar 2011, 6:34 am

I think it was pretty obvious. Not like it was hidden sarcasm.


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