I suggest that one of the most dangerous features of the BBC is the persistent advocacy of the idea that prison does not work and that criminals should not be punished.
In this new Ken Clarke era of liberal Justice, the BBC is doing everything possible to remove prison as a destination for criminals. This morning, on Today, at 6.50am, Northern Ireland’s “restorative justice” model was held up as a shiny example of “enlightenment” As someone who lives here, I can tell you that “restorative justice” is a massive con, a perverse fraud endorsed by liberals. It is, in fact, an opt out for enforcing the law. If you’ve been watching the news in recent days you will have seen just how effective it has been – as youths riot, burn, attack and rage on our streets – restorative violence?
Anyway, the BBC followed this item up with ANOTHER one at 7.51am when Ann Widdecombe and Sara Nathan debated the same issue. If you listen to it Widdecombe is berated with the marvel of how “restorative justice” works in Northern Ireland. In fact I felt sorry for Widdecombe as the sneering Nathan and the interrupting BBC interviewer gave her little chance to make her sensible opinions.
Moving on, to 8.30am the BBC was not finished. You see apparently AIDS is still on the increase amongst drug users.An academic doctor (sic) was brought on to discuss the issue. Can you guess the line he was taking? Yes – it would be more enlightened if we legalised all drugs and did not criminalise those who take them.
All morning, the BBC is relentlessly pushing the idea that Prison does not work and that we need to look for new and exciting ways of dealing with crime that do not criminalise the offender. To think that £3.5 BN of OUR money is being used to subvert our society in this way is truly shocking.
The average beeboid, nay the lot of them, dont come across the criminal underclass and dont live amongst them. They dont see the day in and day out misery they cause for their decent neighbours.
And the majority of them do drugs of various kinds, so would love to see all drugs decriminalized for personal reasons. Remember the manufactured concern over methedrone or whatever it was? The BBC spent days coming up with ways to present the case for keeping it legal, including one expert who said it should be kept legal to save children from getting a criminal record. That showed the BBC’s priorities right there.
When I was growing up overseas(Africa) in the 70’s, the BBC world service was a shining light and a reminder of life back home, maybe through rose tinted glasses but all the same something good.
Now it seems that for the last 30 years the BBC has slowly been infiltrated with the 60’s generation and has become a propaganda tool for this group of tree hugging. neo Liberal, champagne socialists. It has now become so emboldened, it doesn’t even try to hide its agenda anymore and yet there is no public outcry. Almost daily I wonder what it will take to stir my fellow countrymen from their stupor.
Maturecheese
Sad but true.
We are continually told that prison does not work but look at two law and order stories that have been reported and analysed over the last week or so. First we were told that the UK prison population is at a 25 year high, this is according to the BBC a bad thing. Next we are told that reported crime is at an all time low. Does anyone else think there might be a link between these two statistics?
More thoughtson this – http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2010/07/might-these-two-stories-be-connected.html
DV
“Restorative Justice” is, as you say, complete junk. However, the legalisation – or rather the de-criminalisation – of drugs is all we’ve got left. What do you want? Another 100 years of failure? More billions thrown at organised crime? More petty crime by addicts? Under the relatively enlightened pre-1960s policy on drugs in the UK we had less than 1,000 registered addicts. And now?
As the interviewee on Today said, we’ve handed over regulation of the drugs trade to organised crime. Apparently decriminalisation of using drugs (trafficking is still illegal) in Portugal has not had the baleful effects feared by those opposed to partial legalisation. Legalising drugs isn’t a surrender to the forces of criminality and BBC-approved liberalism (which is what the “peace process” in NI and Ken Clark’s “no prison” policy are). The drugs “war” is one 1. we can never win, and 2. we shouldn’t have started in the first place.
“I suggest that one of the most dangerous features of the BBC is the persistent advocacy of the idea that prison does not work and that criminals should not be punished.”
Except for licence fee evaders, they are the lowest of the low naturally.
The evening BBC News at Ten on Thursday 15 July covered the latest crime statistics. “After steady rises under Tory governments in the 1980’s and into the next decade things began to change in the mid 90’s. During Labour’s 13 years in power crime dropped 43%”.
So, got that? Tories – crime rises. Labour – crime falls. From the fast scrolling graph it’s hard to see that the decline started in 1995. Still, a more accurate “The decline in recorded crime that started with the last Tory government continued during the Labour years” doesn’t have quite the same, well, spin.
Shameless.
The odd thing about the BBC and the liberal-left generally is that though insist “prison does not work” they always want to imprison people they don’t like.
They think the best way to prevent fox -hunting, or to stop people making racist comments – is to make it a crime and imprison those that break it.
But when we it comes drug dealing or burglary – all we hear is “prison doesn’t work” and talk about “root causes”.
Why can’t they see the contradictions in their own logic.