In this beautiful country of ours it is still a hanging offence to plot to kill the government of this country and yet we still do not enforce this and I want to know why. The young man who has confesssed to ploting to kill thousands of Britons with chemical and dirty bombs let alone denounce his fellow countrymen why should he not die as a treator for thats what he is. We allow these people to moveinto our country settle down and bring more children in to this world, yet all the time they are ploting to kill the very people who live in their community. Why do we still sit on our hands and do nothing about it and when they are caught, tried and convicted allow them to live in our jails in style being fed three times a day because it's the right thing to do, they didn't think like that when they were planning there bombing missions so why should we?
2006-11-07 09:11:57 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Because this country is too soft.They will wake up one day to find that the citizens will take the law into their own hands, and sort the mess out themselves. We need a strong government and not a namby pamby lot that are too scared to tell the truth about what, or who are causing most of the unrest. We know who are to blame,but cannot rely on this cowardly government to act against them in any way, as they rely on these people for votes to keep them in power.
2006-11-07 09:30:48 · answer #1 · answered by hakuna matata 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because this is not some barbaric tinpot dictatorship. We are a civilised country.
Countries and US states with the death penalty still have a high rate of violent crime.
The death penaly makes martyrs.
The Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4 were 10 innocent people that we jailed for years. They were set up because people were baying for blood. You can't pardon dead people, its taking the p155.
The death penalty has been abolished, 'even' for treason. Which means plotting to bring down the govt, not plotting to hurt people.
The rest of us have the right to live in safety. Life should mean life. Prison is not a cushy option.
2006-11-07 17:26:28 · answer #2 · answered by sarah c 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
None of the people you have referred to have been convicted of treason or even charged with it. So you question really should be why when people plot to kill a mass of citizens do we not charge them with treason
Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the parent nation.
So for this to be treason the acts would have to be seen as helping a foreign power do a serious injure to the nation. Maybe it is. It is a good debating point but to make it treason you would have to decide how many citizens would have to be killed before it was classed as a serious injury to the state and decide what a foreign power was.
2006-11-07 17:28:32 · answer #3 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually with a law passed in the 1960's the Death Penalty was outlawed in Britain. And before that Treason was the only crime that carried capital punishment. The maximum even for that now is life inprisonment.
2006-11-07 17:19:26 · answer #4 · answered by uk_lad_2003 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's still a capital offence to start a fire in her majestys boatyard and piracy.
Can't seen them carrying it out for those crimes, can you?
If you kill the terrorists then they become a martyr. A symbol for other impressionable people (not all from outside our country) Bang them in jail for 40 years and see how long it takes before they stop picking up the soap in the shower. Prison is anything but a cushy lifestyle. Killing them gives them the 'get out of jail free' card
2006-11-07 17:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by Ecko 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because of death row. USA isn't a barbaric country like Iraq or Cuba. But they won't be pardoned. It depends on the government and law in whatever country that suits the crime and punishment to fit like a glove.
2006-11-07 17:18:41 · answer #6 · answered by Kristen H 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are supposed to be a civilised democracy aren't we? So it's all about not stooping to their level, showing the stiff upper lip and doing what we do best which is carry on living despite the threat of terror.
We had a lot of time to get used to this with the IRA campaign didn't we? And how many of them were freed under the Good Friday agreement? So you have to ask does any of it really matter anyway?
2006-11-07 17:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by Oldgirl 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
because no matter what we think of our justice system, there has been times when they have been wrong, birmingham 4, for example, what would have happened if we did sentence these men to corporal punishment, and years later we then find they are innoncent.
it's an extremely difficult stance to take, it is right to take their life just cos they wanted to take others?
the difficulty i have is that it says he is sentenced to life imprisonment, but that means he could be in for 40 yrs, is that life?
2006-11-07 17:22:17 · answer #8 · answered by redsticks34 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I agree with your statement 100%. Now, if you can find a way to convince our judicial system to create a law(s) to put this in motion, besides the obvious letter writing, someone will sit at your feet and probably one day elect you president.
2006-11-07 17:19:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You are wrong...try researching the facts before you say there are still hanging offences...there are no longer any offences carrying the death penalty.
2006-11-07 17:18:25 · answer #10 · answered by Mr Glenn 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋