Isn't it freakin' marvelous, just how much entertainment a crapped out AM radio can bring? Driving home from the Sunshine Coast, I heard on a show called Counter Point, of a bloke who wanted to bring back flogging. He said the the present way we do things doesn't work. The prison of today is a byproduct of an age of enlightenment. Floggings and torture were all the rage, but public opinion began to turn against the way things were being done, and you can't blame them, for they were usually the ones at the end of the line, copping the cat o' nine tails. So it was decided by the fair minded of the time, to make prisons places of rehabilitation. Nice sentiments, but stupid all the same. Take a person who's broken the law, toss him into a walled off edifice full of other criminals, and expect a better class of person to emerge? Not bloody likely. Of course it was going to fail. It did fail. So we just gave up and threw away the key. Out of sight, out of mind!
Not only did the system back flush it's own excrement, it also charged the cost to the good folk who had to pay taxes. Talk about the f u c k e r s, f u c k i n g the f u c k e d. In the first world today, prison numbers have over the decades, usually climbed. So much so, that now in the United States there are more people in prison than in the Armed Services. At roughly $30,000 per Annam, per person, the cost is enormous. There has to be a better way. And there are no end of ways of cutting the number, mostly by a change of the laws of the land. How many fine defaulters, swindlers, drug addicts and the like are housed at out expense? These are subjects than can be debated. Some will stand the test of scrutiny, others will fall in a heap. There is one idea that I'd like to raise, flogging. If given the choice of a few strokes of the rattan or a year in the slammer, which would you take? So I ask, should flogging make its way back onto the penal books?
Not only did the system back flush it's own excrement, it also charged the cost to the good folk who had to pay taxes. Talk about the f u c k e r s, f u c k i n g the f u c k e d. In the first world today, prison numbers have over the decades, usually climbed. So much so, that now in the United States there are more people in prison than in the Armed Services. At roughly $30,000 per Annam, per person, the cost is enormous. There has to be a better way. And there are no end of ways of cutting the number, mostly by a change of the laws of the land. How many fine defaulters, swindlers, drug addicts and the like are housed at out expense? These are subjects than can be debated. Some will stand the test of scrutiny, others will fall in a heap. There is one idea that I'd like to raise, flogging. If given the choice of a few strokes of the rattan or a year in the slammer, which would you take? So I ask, should flogging make its way back onto the penal books?
