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| Castrate rapists, says French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy |
| 2005-09-29 |
| THE French interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, right, has said he wants to introduce enforced chemical castration for repeat sexual offenders upon their release from prison. Suggest first time offenders personally His comments, which were supported by the justice minister, Pascal Clement, came amid anger in France following the rape and murder of a 24-year-old student by a convicted rapist who had served two prison sentences and the rape of three young women by a serial rapist who had been released from jail after serving a ten-year sentence. Mr Sarkozy's proposal met with opposition from judges and psychiatrists who warned yesterday of "the illusion of the miracle treatment" and stressed the legal importance of obtaining a patient's consent. But the minister said: "If we have to wait for these individuals to undergo treatment voluntarily, we could be waiting for a long time." |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #7 "It was good enough for Marcus Aurilius, by gum!" |
| Posted by: Snineck Unolurt5849 2005-09-29 17:03 |
| #6 And Sarko is also a proponent and advocate of affirmative action measures geared up toward helping muslims; I can't remember the exact quote, because I'm a miserable failure(Tm, as seen in Google), but he once said something in the lines of "I find normal that the child of Fatima and Abdel is to be more helped than the child of Carole and François". If I vote in 2007, which is not a given, I'll certainly not vote Sarkozy, just for that. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-09-29 12:01 |
| #5 Sarko, the über would-be president, courting french popular votes that might otherwise go to the National front in 2007 : "I'll be tough on crime", "I'll clean up the (crime-ridden) Courneuve with a karsher", "hey, let's castrate rapists", "by Gawd, we'll expel more illegals",... The same Sarko, courting the 6 millions muslims (or shouldn't it read 8-10?) : "hey, Courneuve kids and juvenile delinquents, take that money and go to all-expenses paid vacations in the south of France, so you won't bother the cops this summer", "I've got a swell idea, let's change the 1905 law on state & church separation, so mosquees can be state-funded", "dudes, did you notice than, thanks to me, strangers having served their time in France are no longer expellable?", "whoa, I really increased the number of algerian visa when I was first interior minister!", "boy, I'm so proud of being the interior minister who finalized the CFCM, the muslim brotherhood-dominated org that represents french islam",... Morality is Sarko is a double-faced ambitious man, who is sadly the only "free market"-minded alternative in the right (though his stint as business minister was not that free-market oriented), and who is very dubbious when it comes to the islamization of France. Also, he's much more atlantist than the Chirac boyz. His "tough on crime" electoral stance can be summed up in one metaphor : twice he and his bodyguards were chased up by mobs of "youths" while touring difficult hoods, and had to go hide in police HQ to save themselves. Didn't help much with the insults and the spitting, though... do you know that Jacques Chirac, our Dear President Who Stands Up To The Evil Anglo-saxons, was too copiously spat on live on teevee by North-african and african youths, back in the 2002 campaign? Being spat on and doing nothing about it is the mark of a true french pol :-) |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-09-29 10:36 |
| #4 Ah, but I ask but one qualification. Any false accusation of rape brings the accuser penalties along the same level as that which would have been applied to the accused. True equality can be a bitch. |
| Posted by: Spirong Phavinter9038 2005-09-29 09:30 |
| #3 JFM. The victim was 24. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-09-29 05:55 |
| #2 Anyone noticed the detail? He had served two prison snetences and he was only twenty four. How long could have been each one of those sentences for rape? The solution is not castrate rapists. It is to castrate judges who sentence rapists to ridiculously short prison sentences when one of |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-09-29 04:33 |
| #1 A common sense approach from Phrance? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-09-29 04:13 |