Posted on 08/21/2011 10:15:10 AM PDT by massmike
Paedophiles have won unsupervised access to their own children because it would breach their human rights to keep them apart, judges have ruled.
They ruled that the "right to a family life" must be taken into account before the "sexual offences prevention orders", known as SOPOs, are issued.
The ruling, issued after a legal challenge by a group of men convicted of using the internet to view child pornography, significantly weakens the ability of the criminal courts to place restrictions on paedophiles. It means judges cannot impose blanket bans on men and women convicted of child sex offences spending time with their own children because they breach the right to a "family life".
The development comes amid a review by ministers of the way the Human Rights Act has had a "chilling effect" on British law.
The judges said total bans on surfing the internet and coming into contact with teenagers aged between 16 and 18 cannot be imposed after a paedophile has been found guilty.
Last night the ruling was described as "very worrying" by MPs.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
See my comment 56. Laz is completely correct. Our minds are basically sponges/recorders; GIGO is the way it works. Of course each mind (and soul) is unique, but the laws of nature are inexorable. One of these laws is that whatever we focus on with our senses, affects our mind and desires, and whatever thoughts we entertain - the ones we focus our attention on, ask to stick around - lead to action.
Will power won’t work very well if we let our senses and mind focus on stuff that will lead to actions that cause harm, to oneself or others.
Think of someone who needs to lose weight, whose tongue is their downfall and eats not only fattening foods, but too much of them. Is it sane for such a person to collect cookbooks, foodie magazines, pore over them, stroll by restaurants and hang around outside, savoring the aromas, etc? Or to just involve him or herself in activities completely away from the food that so attracts them?
That’s it - in fewer words than it took me to say it.
Can we not talk about food?
How are you doing, BTW?
What's been happening lately?
All depends on if someone needs to lose 100 pounds and loves to eat whole cartons of ice cream and bags of donuts!
And some things, like pornography, serve no useful or moral purpose at all; whereas food is obviously a necessity for every human (and every living being) so the analogy is not perfect but no analogy is 100% perfect.
Thanks for asking!
Still the odd rumble of discontent, but it seems to have mostly died down. The neighborhood patrols are carrying on, people found that they actually like being good neighbors in a crisis.
Got my workshop up and running again, thanks to my totally awesome staff who tool a week unpaid so we could get the replacement tools and machinery in without waiting for the insurance to pay out. It has put us about a week behind on orders, no more.
My son in law has been stalking around the workshop with welding gear and chunks of angle iron, re-inforcing everything that can be re-inforced, until I swear the place could withstand a bomb blast!
Good. I’m glad to hear that you weathered it well and are now better prepared.
It will make it easier for you next time and harder for them.
Are the neighbors willing to talk about and participate in a neighborhood watch group? Getting some sort of informal militia, dare I say, together?
Before this, the neighborhood watch was 4 people. It is now 40 and people are actually enthusiastic about looking after their homes.
Being technically an unarmed society, we have worked out a few work arounds for the night patrols - you would be amazed at how many roses in front gardens are now propped up by 4 foot long iron bars, for example, instead of wooden stakes. ;)
We do what we can.
Nothing like a crisis to bring folks together.
The thing it, now that the threat has proved real, it will be far easier to organize the next time, because, sad to say, the way I see this world going, there will be a next time.
The thing IS...... (that is) typo.....
Therefore, goes the logic, according to the most ancient and customary of laws the criminals should not benefit from the proceeds of the crime, that is, the sale or use of the pictures.
Using it, reading it, buying it, selling it ~ all contribute to the fact of the original crime against the victim in the pictures.
That is to say, there's a crime and the perpetuation of the crime is part of the crime. And that means there is no difference!
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