We locked you up in jail for 25 years and you were innocent all along?
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:wtf::wtf::wtf: Could it be worse? For example, he could have been executed, and then when innocented the governement could charge the price of the execution to his family...it wouldn't be more disgusting.
Dansez sur moi, dansez sur moi, Le soir de mes funerailles Que la vie soit feu d'artifice Et la mort un feu de paille Claude Nougaro (1929-2004)
Luckily the last capital punishment was handed out in the 60s. Although given David Blunket's track record it won't be long before it is reintroduced.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
Blunkett’s fight has been described as “outrageous”, “morally repugnant” and the “sickest of sick jokes”, but his spokesmen in the Home Office say it’s a completely “reasonable course of action” as the innocent men and women would have spent the money anyway on food and lodgings if they weren’t in prison. The government deems the claw-back ‘Saved Living Expenses’. Except they havent be earning, and are unlikely to ever be able to follow their chosen career. It's sick, utterly sick. Any compensation should be just that - compensation for having the state take your life away from you - not treated as lost income. You can't buy a life. Maybe we should charge Blunkett for disabled access provided with our money?
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Putting the laughter back into slaughter
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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Luckily the last capital punishment was handed out in the 60s. Although given David Blunket's track record it won't be long before it is reintroduced.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Although given David Blunket's track record it won't be long before it is reintroduced. UK would have then to withdraw from the EU. Indeed, it could be a good idea ! :-D;)
Dansez sur moi, dansez sur moi, Le soir de mes funerailles Que la vie soit feu d'artifice Et la mort un feu de paille Claude Nougaro (1929-2004)
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:wtf::wtf::wtf: Could it be worse? For example, he could have been executed, and then when innocented the governement could charge the price of the execution to his family...it wouldn't be more disgusting.
Dansez sur moi, dansez sur moi, Le soir de mes funerailles Que la vie soit feu d'artifice Et la mort un feu de paille Claude Nougaro (1929-2004)
In recent years, however, numerous studies have found that one in seven people sent to death row are later proven innocent. And in one disturbing recent case, a prisoner was 48 hours from execution when he was proven innocent. In the last 25 years, 102 innocent people have been released from death row. http://www.aclu.org/DeathPenalty/DeathPenalty.cfm?ID=9961&c=65[^] And who is the number one proponent of death sentence: Bush! jhaga --------------------------------- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
And I suppose the dearly beloved Mr. Blinkett will pay back the current market value of the house his family couldn't afford to keep ? :mad: Oh - and yet another argument against the death penalty. The tigress is here :-D
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That's insane.
My neighbours think I am crazy - but they don't know that I have a trampoline. All they see my head bobbing up and down over the fence every five seconds
Just in case you haven't heard of this guy, he is a government minister who has upset everyone in the country several times with tricks like this. It's long past time the PM got rid of him. The tigress is here :-D
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Blunkett’s fight has been described as “outrageous”, “morally repugnant” and the “sickest of sick jokes”, but his spokesmen in the Home Office say it’s a completely “reasonable course of action” as the innocent men and women would have spent the money anyway on food and lodgings if they weren’t in prison. The government deems the claw-back ‘Saved Living Expenses’. Except they havent be earning, and are unlikely to ever be able to follow their chosen career. It's sick, utterly sick. Any compensation should be just that - compensation for having the state take your life away from you - not treated as lost income. You can't buy a life. Maybe we should charge Blunkett for disabled access provided with our money?
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Putting the laughter back into slaughter
David Wulff wrote: Maybe we should charge Blunkett for disabled access provided with our money? Exodus Ch.21 Vs 24-25: An eye for an eye....
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
Cripes! And I thought my life was miserable! This is unbelievable, and totally unjust.:mad: Will Build Nuclear Missile For Food - No Target Too Small
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Although given David Blunket's track record it won't be long before it is reintroduced. UK would have then to withdraw from the EU. Indeed, it could be a good idea ! :-D;)
Dansez sur moi, dansez sur moi, Le soir de mes funerailles Que la vie soit feu d'artifice Et la mort un feu de paille Claude Nougaro (1929-2004)
KaЯl wrote: UK would have then to withdraw from the EU. Indeed, it could be a good idea Hey! What is wrong with the UK being in the EU?
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
That's completely fucking insane. :wtf:
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In recent years, however, numerous studies have found that one in seven people sent to death row are later proven innocent. And in one disturbing recent case, a prisoner was 48 hours from execution when he was proven innocent. In the last 25 years, 102 innocent people have been released from death row. http://www.aclu.org/DeathPenalty/DeathPenalty.cfm?ID=9961&c=65[^] And who is the number one proponent of death sentence: Bush! jhaga --------------------------------- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
Does that mean the death penalty is wrong or that our justice system is so screwed up? For that matter let's not even have jail, because some might get locked up who was innocent. Fix the problem... Sorry over-paid lawyers, sorry judges, and stupid people on juries.
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
That is absolutely disgusting. Blunkett is a complete pratt. :mad: Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
FUCK FUCK FUCK! Outrageous! Who the fuck is that Blunkett, and why does he still have a job!? The guy who did the time should have £800,000 back - at least! Someone ought to make Blunkett do the 25 years. -- Futue te et ipsum caballum.
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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In recent years, however, numerous studies have found that one in seven people sent to death row are later proven innocent. And in one disturbing recent case, a prisoner was 48 hours from execution when he was proven innocent. In the last 25 years, 102 innocent people have been released from death row. http://www.aclu.org/DeathPenalty/DeathPenalty.cfm?ID=9961&c=65[^] And who is the number one proponent of death sentence: Bush! jhaga --------------------------------- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
jhaga wrote: And who is the number one proponent of death sentence: Bush! Bush gets blamed for a lot of stuff, and although I believe he supports the death penalty, I would hardly call him it's number one proponent. I presume you say this because of the number of death penalty's that were carried out in Texas during his administration. If so, I would point out that although he chose not to stop any, he did not pass any of those sentances, and all who were executed had exhausted their appeals (a process that can require 25-30 years). To blame bush for merely concurring with the original jury, and all appeals courts involved, is a bit extreme. Needless Bush-bashing methinks...(it is not as if Texas was the only state -or country- that carried out death sentances in that time frame):| Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. - Vint Cerf
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That’ll be £80,000* please.... WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit?[^] Well, all I can say is that this is totally outrageous. There are no words strong enough to describe it. *£80,000 = US$144,000 or €116,000
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
Stupid is as stupid does! X| Jeremy Falcon
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Stupid is as stupid does! X| Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Stupid is as stupid does! I feel it's more "Stupid is as Blunkett does", myself. I had considered writing a letter to him saying that you'd have to be blind to not notice how stupid various proposals he's had in the past are, but unfortunately - he is blind :rolleyes: (That's not to knock blind people, BTW)
Ian Darling "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell