LAW1:- Reason. Laws were created in order that people could live together. The laws that were required to "control" a population of a few are no different to those required for billions. Today the law is so complex that no one understands it, including the legal profession. The time has come to clarify the basics, which will be done by the legal profession who have vested interest in continuation of status quo ( if laws were simple, how many lawyers would we need?). The "white line" in the road is covered by grey to the point that the surface is black (or anything goes if you can pay the lawyer to confuse the issue). 2:- Basics. If someone's actions are with the intention to break the law, then they are guilty. For example:- Being on someone's property (or in possession of) without permission or just cause. The punishment should fit the crime :- Rape would get 2 hours in a women's prison, second offence would get the nuts chopped. Child molesters would get 2 hours in a women's prison, 2 hours in a men's prison, if there is anything left, turn them loose. Murder would get death. The guilty should be given the same rights as they gave their victims, which usually varies between:- not a lot to zero. 3:- Reality. Society has taken the risk factor out of society. Taking chances, getting the buzz by risk, finding the limit cannot be done, risk taking has been made illegal. So now we have the individual in court on drug taking, car theft etc. Up to a few hundred years ago, males from an early age were practicing war, (if there was not a war on, there will be soon) it's in genes, even today boys play war games. That genetic urge cannot and should not be quelled (if my parents had known half of the risks I took as child, they would have gone ballistic. If they knew half when I was older ?), if it cannot find one outlet it will find another, estimating and taking the risk is part of growing up. Jumping of high places with your feet tied with a piece of knicker elastic is one way of taking risk (but you know it's safe), but the missing element is DANGER, that is estimated by someone else, that is where fun comes in nicking cars and roaring round creating havoc with everyone against you. No one else is setting the limit, YOU ARE!. The fact is, no one can legally replicate that, you would be locked up, sued. It could be done for little cost and not a lot of effort. All it would need is a piece of land, a few co-operating car-breakers, some mechanically minded individuals (first-aid experience would be useful). Get some working cars from the breakers and teach the kids how to drive, then let them loose. If they break-down show them how to repair them, if they are irreparable send them back to the breaker and get another one. A "no come-back" signature from the parents (lets face-it, it might be dangerous, but not as dangerous as doing it on the roads), I reckon a lot of grown ups would like a go, judging by the standard of driving on the roads. It would be interesting to watch the crime figures if Chief Constables, Judges and Defense lawyers had to live in the "no-go" and high crime areas. Dear Editor :-Morals The callers were mostly stating symptoms. The problem is that there are no "white lines in the road", the "white lines" have all been blurred until they are grey by lawyers and "do-gooders" in the protection of "wrong-doers", nobody gives a damn about the victim today, yet we are all victims of the consequences. I come from an age where if you put your foot on "the line", someone stood on it, and hard. If you went over it, the world fell in on you, if you got into trouble at school, you got another dose when mum and dad found out. If you were seen dressed or acting in an improper manner, even at week-ends or holidays, you were up before the head-master. I had the cane on the first day at secondary-modern school, I was not being defiant or unruly, but another boy and me (out of the thirty-two kids) forgot the rules we had been told two hours previously, the result was thirty-two lively kids learnt a valuable lesson, the teacher was not exercising his jaw, he spoke for a reason so listen. It did not cure us of being lively, but we recognised a "white-line" when we saw it. Mind you that was an age when the teachers had had at least ten years "out-side" before going to teacher training college. Their teaching related to their experience, unlike today where most have never left school and do not have faintest idea what the "out-side" is like. p.s. I'm another 59year old geriatric.
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