Friday, March 9, 2007

It's murder out there

Judges are saying that we're locking up people (specifically murderers) for too long. So our prisons are now filled with aged, broken people who can't remember, and can no longer engage with, life on the outside. It's blatantly obvious that this is due to the Government's Daily Mail pleasing criminal justice system, which demands mandatory sentencing when often it's completely unnecessary just so the baying horde of Middle England can relax in their 4 bedroom mock-tudor, commuter belt idyll a little more securely .

My own view is that murder should be decriminalised. Making it illegal just drives it underground and makes it impossible to police. We should have murder cafés where small amounts of recreational murder takes place in designated areas so it can be controlled. We should look to the Continent where the Dutch have tried it successfully with cannabis and Belgians with rich chocolates.

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