Criminals should be stripped and whipped in public - Laois FG Councillor

[Tubberman]

People may laugh or throw their eyes to heaven, but I actually think ideas like this have a lot of merit.
The current system of throwing them in jail costs an absolute fortune and there is very little 'punishment' invloved.
Anecdotally at least, they meet other criminals who teach them the tricks of the trade and they emerge into society even more likely to continue their criminal ways.

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    A Laois Fine Gael councillor wants corporal punishment brought back with stripping and whipping dealt out to the culprits of crime.

    John Bonham made the remarks following Monday night's kidnapping and armed robbery of a 50-year-old woman in Cullohill.

    He said public humiliation for criminals was the only option.

    Shirley Bergin was left badly shaken but unharmed after four men with Dublin accents armed with crowbars forced her to leave her home and take them to her place of work, a Topaz filling station.

    Councillor Bonham told Midlands 103 he would be interested to hear what "Joe and Mary citizen" thought of his proposal.

    "I think Joe and Mary citizen are entitled to do their day's work...without the fear of tiger-kidnappings."

    Read more: http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/laois-councillor-calls-for-criminals-to-be-stripped-and-whipped-in-public-504623.html#ixzz1M2QgsKZd

[johnneycool]

People may laugh or throw their eyes to heaven, but I actually think ideas like this have a lot of merit.
The current system of throwing them in jail costs an absolute fortune and there is very little 'punishment' invloved.
Anecdotally at least, they meet other criminals who teach them the tricks of the trade and they emerge into society even more likely to continue their criminal ways.

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    A Laois Fine Gael councillor wants corporal punishment brought back with stripping and whipping dealt out to the culprits of crime.

    John Bonham made the remarks following Monday night's kidnapping and armed robbery of a 50-year-old woman in Cullohill.

    He said public humiliation for criminals was the only option.

    Shirley Bergin was left badly shaken but unharmed after four men with Dublin accents armed with crowbars forced her to leave her home and take them to her place of work, a Topaz filling station.

    Councillor Bonham told Midlands 103 he would be interested to hear what "Joe and Mary citizen" thought of his proposal.

    "I think Joe and Mary citizen are entitled to do their day's work...without the fear of tiger-kidnappings."

    Read more: http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/laois-councillor-calls-for-criminals-to-be-stripped-and-whipped-in-public-504623.html#ixzz1M2QgsKZd

By the time he's finished with the Bankers, Property developers and his fellow politicians he'll have a whip arm like Popeye.

[deiseach]

People may laugh or throw their eyes to heaven, but I actually think ideas like this have a lot of merit.
The current system of throwing them in jail costs an absolute fortune and there is very little 'punishment' invloved.
Anecdotally at least, they meet other criminals who teach them the tricks of the trade and they emerge into society even more likely to continue their criminal ways.

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    A Laois Fine Gael councillor wants corporal punishment brought back with stripping and whipping dealt out to the culprits of crime.

    John Bonham made the remarks following Monday night's kidnapping and armed robbery of a 50-year-old woman in Cullohill.

    He said public humiliation for criminals was the only option.

    Shirley Bergin was left badly shaken but unharmed after four men with Dublin accents armed with crowbars forced her to leave her home and take them to her place of work, a Topaz filling station.

    Councillor Bonham told Midlands 103 he would be interested to hear what "Joe and Mary citizen" thought of his proposal.

    "I think Joe and Mary citizen are entitled to do their day's work...without the fear of tiger-kidnappings."

    Read more: http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/laois-councillor-calls-for-criminals-to-be-stripped-and-whipped-in-public-504623.html#ixzz1M2QgsKZd

It'd be more fit of him to do the decent thing and reform Led Zeppelin.

I'll get my coat . . .

[whiskeysteve]

he obviously doesn't have a Whole Lotta Love for these criminals...

(exit stage right)

[no mo do yakamo]

Communication Breakdown???

[Puckoon]

Good times...

[thejuice]

Make them sit through the 30 minute drum solo from "The Song remains the Same".

[Blowitupref]

Stripped and whipped in public?

[Maguire01]

Seems a bit over the top. Maybe he was Dazed and Confused.

[thejuice]

Next they'll be hanging from the Gallows Pole.

[seafoid]

The criminals that did the most damage got massive pensions. Eugene Sheehy, Brian Lenihan, Patrick Neary, Seanie Fitz, Fingers.