Comments on: Lord Philips and his citizen’s arrest of 10-year-old lad

By: Samantha Bennett - from Australia

Samantha Bennett - from Australia — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:06:40 +0000

I totally agree with what Lord Philips has done and over here in Australia one would hope the same thing would happen. Basically the boys are not wicked, they need to learn some manners and a good neck scruffing should make them think twice.

By: FlipC

FlipC — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:28:51 +0000

@jailhouselawyer: Battery perhaps, as far as we know no threat of force was used just the force itself.

The question remains whether this was a lawful arrest? Is the criminal damage by a minor of a bike that one assumes cost less then £5k an indictable offence?

By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:59:05 +0000

OK, so we don’t want a return to hanging, but do we want to go to the other extreme where killers are allowed to be ‘rehabilitated’, perhaps given a new identity, and even lecture us about charging upstanding members of society with crimes they have not committed?

By: jailhouselawyer

jailhouselawyer — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:38:16 +0000

Elle: I seem to recall something like that happening with a judge and a bicycle and if my memory serves me right I think he got sacked…

By: Ellee

Ellee — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:07:53 +0000

Jailhouselawyer, I have been wondering if that might happen, a court would decide whether such force was necessary in restraining a 10-year-old, and if he exceeded that.

Steven L, no way.

By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:23:44 +0000

Bring back hanging!

By: jailhouselawyer

jailhouselawyer — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:06:37 +0000

Charge Lord Philips with assault…

By: electro-kevin

electro-kevin — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:03:06 +0000

A clip round the ear, Ellee.

It was a much nicer country when I were a lad.

I expect my previous sentence would render anything I say as irrelevant in the circles of power as I have now portrayed myself as an old curmudgeon (I’m only 42 !). That is our biggest problem – we are ruled by people whose greatest fear is of being … unfashionable.

Good to have you back, Ellee.

By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:35:36 +0000

So in effect the liberal lefties ‘citizenship’ lesson, when you bring in the ‘equality and iversity’ module, says:

Slavery is wrong, so is any form of racism. Britain is institutionally racist but we are getting better. We don’t believe in slavery any more but we don’t believe that one man’s cultural values are superior to another mans. All of our cultures and religions are equal. In parts of the world where slavery still occur, no blame can be ascribed to foreign cultures and religions, it is all the fault of globalisation, capitalism and the fact that demand for labour is short of supply for labour. Hey, perhaps if we print lots of money and give it to the poor people we can stop slavery. Forget economics because all university degrees are equal too, why not go to the University of Stalingrad and study ‘Refugee Science with Citizenship’ and apply for a nice cushy public sector job from the guradian like I did?

By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:28:27 +0000

It is worth taking note of what Saudi-sponsored textbooks try to teach British kids:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2006861,00.html