Public Address | Cafe | Island Life: All those in favour, raise your hands

John Francis Logan

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:49:43 +1300

Well at least Burton can't say he wasn't warned — that if he broke his probation he wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

Scott Fannen

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:19:32 +1300

All very well in theory but suffers from closer investigation – and the problems you get with the death sentence.

* They hardly keep statistics on criminals lack of body parts.
* Some crimes don't have obvious bits to cut off.
* What about severity of the crime? Do we…

paulalambert

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:42:25 +1300

David wrote I hope I understand the report correctly: not one amputee has been sent to the Big House in this country in thirty years.

amputee medpot users Neville Yates (grew a few plants twice and jailed both times), and Danuiel Clark (once for same) unfortunately spring to mind.

Zippy Gonzales

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:02:20 +1300

Heh, reminds me of some graffito I grew up with in Palmy. It said: Disarm Rapists.

Paul Litterick

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:26:23 +1300

I like the way you're thinking, David; all you need to do is factor in some private sector involvement and we could promote this to National as a corrections policy.

While we are on the subject of removing body parts, I was not surprised that all the namby-pamby liberal do-gooders…

Che Tibby

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:13:53 +1300

jeremy. LOL. and on the same vein i was intending to refer to.

perhaps the circumstantial evidence will further our concern with the feminist conspiracy. they do not suffer such amputation, after all.

"they're trying to keep us men under control"

brian poffley

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:55:45 +1300

Hi i recall in the mid 80,s an inmate who had his arm blasted by his partner in crimes shot gun during a robbery and then the remains amputated. he worked in the painting and wallpaper hanging gang.
A one armed paper hanger.
Cheers

andrew llewellyn

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:26:00 +1300

Is it coincidence then that just a few years shy of 30 years ago, the police in Wellington trailed a one legged (although 'armed" with an axe/baseball bat/hammer – I can't recall exactly) man called Miggsy Morgan to a Wainuiomata landfill & proceeded to shoot him dead (prompting a beautiful piece…

Alex Coleman

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:38:09 +1300

Your talents are being wasted here. I understand Bob Clarkson would give a lot for sound poltical suggestions such as these.

Jeremy Andrew

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:28:27 +1300

Perhaps we could do a small amputation on all the little babies, and create a generation that will finally respect its elders.

I wonder if all the little Jewish & Moslem boys (& some Moslem girls) are more respectful of their elders than the non-amputated ones. That would be more than circumstantial…

Martha Craig

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:49:23 +1300

Perhaps we could do a small amputation on all the little babies, and create a generation that will finally respect its elders.

Crunchy Weta

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:39:45 +1300

In a similar vein to your last link, you could try to download the documentary "The God Delusion (part1)" -Richard Dawkins. The point about amputees is mentioned there also.

Juha Saarinen

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:16:04 +1300

That was very good indeed. I am reminded of the Modest Proposal of many years ago, a perfectly reasonable suggestion that was turned down by socialist namby-pambies, for they existed at that time too.

Public Address

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:16:03 +1300

Discussion from blog post.