ShadowHM,Sep 28 2005, 01:10 AM Wrote:whybish, could you elaborate on that?Yeah, i was trying to when I did the original post, but I couldn't find any links available on free websites ( I now have to relinquish my Google black belt :P )
Was this individual convicted of child murder 200 times and still not incarcerated? :blink: Or was it 200 convictions for possession/trafficing in "P" ? (What exactly is "P" anyway?)
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The prior convictions were for various thing up to and including drug offenses,domestic violence and breaking-and-entering.
There was a three-strikes bill a number of years back that didn't get very far due to the beliefs that everyone is redeemable. I fall on the other side... everyone has potential, but once someone shows that they disregard the rules of society (repeatedly??) then change is unlikely.
How biased towards the offender we are over here is shown by this article:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?...bjectid=3582201
With comments from :http://capitaldiary.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_capitaldiary_archive.html which nicely point out that money spent on criminals is at the expense of those who have never committed crime:
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I believe Niusila should be deported back to Tuvalu. We have a man who, as an overstayer, was shown compassion by being given dialysis treatment. He then assaulted his wife and again, through compassion, avoided the full consequences of his actions. This is a man without regard to the law and to the society who has provided him with life-saving medical treatment. The consequences of deportation will be Niusila's death and that is a heavy moral burden. But dialysis treatment costs $70,000 per year per patient. New Zealand currently spends $600,000 per year treating foreign patients for kidney conditions. Niusila is using valuable health resources that could be used to save other people's lives. It is easy to point to Niusila and claim deportation is a death sentence; but what of the countless, unnamed, more deserving others who are not receiving treatment. Why should they be denied treatment because this man is receiving chance after chance?
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"P" is the street name of a psychotic drug... methamphetamine.