(August 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm)Napoleon Wrote:
Interesting to note that while the EU is generally moving away from corporal punishment and the death penalty and generally has a low violent crime rate, the USA pushes more of both and has the highest violent crime rate in the industrial world.
I wonder if those are related.
Such behaviour is extremely rare in Europe, it is all too common here.
Bear in mind the UK government has pointed blame at Research in Motion, because the Blackberry has encrypted messaging service and they implicated some Blackberry users in the looting. Now they want all RIMs records; presumably with all those CCTV cameras in London, anyone caught using a Blackberry during the time of the looting will be subject to summary arrest.
It's not the lack of corporal punishment, it's RIM's fault.
Spanking the adult looters (such as the numerous relatively wealthy folk like real estate agents and such that were involved in the looting) would have worked well I think. Pull their britches down in Trafalgar Square and televise their spankings.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
