And all these teenage hooligans - joy-riding in other people's cars, setting fire to them, crashing into other joyriders - you know the score.
I remember a few years ago, in Singapore, they caught an American youth who had spray painted somebody's car.
In Singapore there is a strict quota of cars that can go on the road, and only as cars are scrapped that new ones can be sold to replace them. Lot of good sense there, US Government.
They caught the youth who had defaced the car somebody had waited years to get, and sentenced him to be flogged.
Clinton made special appeals to the Singapore PM that he should be spared. Th PM promptly told him to get lost, and they flogged the youth, and did a good job of it too.
I bet anything you like he will never go back to Singapore and spray somebody else's car.
And I extremely confident that if that law was reintroduced into America, there would be a sudden, dramatic and sustained drop in the rate of this sort of crime. Teenage hooligans would be a thing of the past, especially if their names and faces were published on the social networks and all round town.
Here's a wiki report on the aftermath of the incident:
Public opinion polls were divisive, but mostly supportive of Fay's punishment.[17] A significant number of Americans were in favor of the caning, claiming that Singapore had a right to use corporal punishment and that the United States did not mete out severe enough punishment to its own juvenile offenders.[18] Others pointed out that once Americans go abroad, they are subject to the laws and penal codes of the country they visit.[19] The Singapore Embassy received "a flood of letters" from Americans strongly supporting Fay's punishment, and some polls showed a majority of Americans favored it.[20]
in Singapore.
The streets of Britain were once safe places to walk in at night - but no more. Some parts of London were guarded by the Kray brothers - big time criminals, but one thing was sure, they treated the elderly and the helpless very properly, and woe betide any thug who they found beating or robbing the weak.
Now it seems that only the criminals can mete out proper justice to traitors, terrorists, paedophiles, thugs who assaulted the weak and feeble. In prison they have an extremely hard time: but why should it be left to criminals to do the right thing? Why is the right arm of the law become so weak and feeble?
You stick them in jails, and just today I heard that UK prisons, in some areas at least, are going to be held responsible if the prisoners they release re-offend! They haven't been trained properly not to re-offend, by the prison authorities!
Isn't this insane? If sufficient pain was inflicted on those who deserve having pain inflicted, then it's a pretty fair assumption that, like that kid in Singapore, they would not want to come back for a repeat prescription.
Arpaiao was on the right lines:
On July 2, 2011, when the temperature in Phoenix hit 118 °F (48 °C), Arpaio measured the temperature inside Tent City at 145 °F (63 °C). Some inmates complained that fans near their beds were not working, and that their shoes were melting from the heat.[36] During the summer of 2003, when outside temperatures exceeded 110 °F (43 °C), Arpaio said to complaining inmates, "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents, have to wear full body armor, and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths."[37]
Instead, UK prisons are going to be punished for their prisoners evil.
Sure, flogging 'em won't cure all crimes. Nothing besides the Return of Christ will do that. But America's and Britain's streets would be safe to walk at night once more, and schools to attend again.
That would be worth having.
