I had intended to talk about how I felt that I was coming to the end of this blog, when I noticed an article in the Guardian newspaper open on the table next to me. It was called, 'Humiliation - the latest weapon in America's war on crime. If you'd like to read it in its entirety, click here. Otherwise, you can just read my rant.
Apparently, in some states (have we guessed the country yet?) sex offenders and drunk drivers have different coloured license plates to the rest of us, so we will know then immediately. If you have shop lifted, you may be made to carry a sign outside a store, proclaiming your guilt. And of course we, the public, are expected to be complicit in this punishment by berating the guilty. Why not just put them in stocks and then we could buy rotten tomatoes (or even shoplift them) and bombard them. I wonder if that would be considered assault or 'just desserts'! Branding! We could bring that back as well. Why set up a site listing and giving the pictures of convicted prostitutes! (Would that not be advertising?) We could just brand them instead! I'm warming to this topic! (I hope you realize that I'm being ironic!)
(Cliff has just suggested that we could use cream pies instead of tomatoes so that they really did get their 'just desserts'!)
Oh no, could Tony Blair be about to suggest the same in the UK? If he does, I'm moving to Norway!
I want to be angry about this but instead I feel somewhat depressed!
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