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Thursday, May 08, 2008

More fashion

Evenin' all.

I've blogged about something really similar before, but I'm really wound up by a news story on the BBC News website.

For starters, the headline says "Criminal tag 'not fashion item'". Precisely!

This man committed a criminal offence. That is fact. He was found guilty by a court and convicted under the UK judicial system.

Imagine if another person had convicted an identical offence, at the same time, and been given an identical punishment, yet had not got a job that "required" the wearing of shorts. That other person would now still be receiving their punishment, whereas Aaron Morgan gets away with being "free" now, just because of his job.

Punishments should be given to all convicts of a particular crime as equals. Equal crime/equal punishment.

Part of our punishment system is about the removal of priviledges, such as parts of an individual's freedom. This has failed to happen here.

If his tag happens to make him look 'unfashionable', then so be it! It's not there to look good, it's there to make sure he's in a particular place, at a particular time.

What is the point in laws, if justice isn't carried out fully? Idle threats will give this person the view that he is above the law, and can continue to commit crimes with no consequences.

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