This is such a powerful shot from Ryuichi Hirokwara.
His subject is war. He graphically captures the horrors and realities of war…..
Daily Archives: April 30, 2009
Welcome to cyber mob rule….
So many websites, so little time….
If you are after cheap insurance you click on confused.com. If you want to compare supermarket food prices you have a peak at price checker.co.uk.
And if you want to check out details of punishments given to criminals in your local area…then now you can. You will be a couple of clicks away from finding out that information.
Jack Straw, head of that inglorious Orwellian department Ministry of Justice, counters criticism by literally saying that you commit the crime, you do the time, don’t be surprise you are on this pilot website…..(NL loves their pilot schemes!)
“There has to be consequences,” he said. “If they feel slightly ashamed then they will realise that doing community punishment is not a soft option and they will be less likely to come back”.
Where do you start in condemning this wholesale attack on civil liberties? Are Jacqui Smith and Jack Straw arguing for ye olde mob law, pitchforks and lit torches hunting down people who have committed crimes by dishing out some rough justice? This is totally obscene. Are we going to get a re-run of Paulsgrove?
These proposals are a continuum of attacks, along with the offensive modern day branding with offenders wearing high visibility vests with the words ‘Community Payback’ emblazoned. Where will it stop? Next stop stocks in the town centre? Witch hunts Salem style?
Oh so lets carry on humiliating and demeaning people and the bloody irresponsibility of NL by letting people seek retributive ‘justice’. This measure is nothing more than ye olde fashion branding, degradation and vigilantism. And the continued erosion of democracy.
Aren’t people allowed to move on with their lives? What about miscarriages of justice? What about people who may have moved into the same house that someone previously, with a criminal conviction, had lived?
As the organisation Justice states: There is a danger innocent people may get attacked, such as those that move into the home of a former criminal or share the same name as one.
This is an appalling and incendiary move by NL as they are lighting the touch paper……
A public consultation on the website ends on July 31……..
