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Italian bid to castrate rapists
BBC News ^ | June 23, 2005

Posted on 06/23/2005 6:57:55 PM PDT by RWR8189

Giuseppe Pisanu
Pisanu: No link between nationality and criminality
Italy's far-right Northern League has presented a bill to castrate convicted rapists, after a series of rapes in northern Italy by suspected immigrants.

The bill says chemical or surgical castration of offenders is necessary to remove a social disease which is a threat to life and public safety.

But Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu has said crimes by immigrants should not influence policies on immigration.

The bill has been heavily criticised and is unlikely to be passed.

The anti-immigration Northern League is one of four parties in the centre-right coalition government.

Laws 'effective'

"The comparison between illegal immigration and criminality is groundless and should not have an audience in a civil nation like ours," Mr Pisanu told parliament.

He said that the current laws are effective and therefore did not need changing.

Recent rapes in Bologna and Milan by suspected immigrants have led to anti-immigration rallies.

Some 53% of Italians think that the increase in the number of immigrants has increased the threat to citizens' safety while 45% said immigrants posed little or no threat to safety in the country, according to a poll commissioned by L'Espresso magazine this week.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: castrate; castration; italy; rape; rapist

1 posted on 06/23/2005 6:57:56 PM PDT by RWR8189
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To: RWR8189

This is the least that could/should be done to them.


2 posted on 06/23/2005 6:59:13 PM PDT by k2blader (Was it wrong to kill Terri Shiavo? YES - 83.8%. FR Opinion Poll.)
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To: RWR8189
But Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu has said crimes by immigrants should not influence policies on immigration.

I'd say that cutting their balls off might affect immigration.

3 posted on 06/23/2005 6:59:45 PM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: RWR8189

Like they say at the Opera - Long live the knife!


4 posted on 06/23/2005 7:02:34 PM PDT by null and void (2ยข plain)
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To: RWR8189
Do they place these bids on eBay?

Damned If I Know

5 posted on 06/23/2005 7:03:27 PM PDT by sharktrager (My life is like a box of chocolates, but someone took all the good ones.)
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To: RWR8189

"The comparison between illegal immigration and criminality is groundless and should not have an audience in a civil nation like ours..."

And not in ours either, apparently. Any suggestion that a person who breaks the law is a criminal is just plain uncivil.
Read Oriana Fallaci's THE RAGE AND THE PRIDE for incisive analysis about the PC plague in Italy.


6 posted on 06/23/2005 7:09:55 PM PDT by RedRover (Allen and Condi in 08)
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To: RWR8189
Wouldn't it be better just to cut back on immigration?

What exactly does chemical castration do? Is it a pill and what if the person stops taking it?

Also can we get the Northern League to put up some candidates over here???
7 posted on 06/23/2005 7:16:40 PM PDT by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: RWR8189

"Italian bid to castrate rapists"

This will have shocking ramifications regarding the population of Italy.


8 posted on 06/23/2005 7:41:01 PM PDT by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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To: sharktrager

ROFLMAO!

I was wondering in a similar fashion how much those bids ran.

"Two for a lira...now two for ten...two for twenty..."


9 posted on 06/23/2005 7:45:30 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (<-- sick of faux-conservatives who want federal government intervention for 'conservative things.')
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To: CzarNicky

"I'd say that cutting their balls off might affect immigration."

No, they could still immigrate whereever they want. They'd probably walk a little funny, though.


10 posted on 06/23/2005 7:47:51 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (<-- sick of faux-conservatives who want federal government intervention for 'conservative things.')
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To: RWR8189

In other news, Bill Clinton cancels trip to Rome.


11 posted on 06/23/2005 9:30:39 PM PDT by WOSG (Liberating Iraq - http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com)
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To: RWR8189
Where is the ACLU and Turban Durbin decrying this "torture"?
12 posted on 06/23/2005 9:34:43 PM PDT by joonbug
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To: RedRover

I did - Orianna has been a favorite for years.

Read Letter to a Child Never Born and Interview With History among others

Another good one about the Mooslems try Eurabia by Bat Te;or


13 posted on 06/23/2005 10:37:47 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: RWR8189

Just send them to the U.S. The femi-nazi's have been in the biz of castration for many years......


14 posted on 06/24/2005 1:54:28 AM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: RWR8189
Definitely a good idea for 2nd time offenders. I can imagine the amount of rape would go down for sure. Really, not a bad idea.
15 posted on 06/24/2005 2:20:22 AM PDT by Bellflower (A new day is Coming!)
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To: escapefromboston
What exactly does chemical castration do?

Perhaps an acid dip from the waist up ? ;-)
16 posted on 06/24/2005 7:11:33 AM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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