Category Archives: anti-prison

Here’s a great example of the BBC advancing its own narrative by choosing to have a faux “debate” with both participants holding the same liberal view as the BBC. Ken Clarke is another BBC hero and it continually finds opportunities to “prove” how his liberal approach to criminal justice works!

Two criminal justice experts from each side of the Atlantic – filmmaker Roger Graef and the Harvard professor of Criminology Christopher Stone, discuss why showing “respect” to convicts along with reducing prison sentences and making prisons nicer places..

I usually start the day with a warming bowl of porridge but the BBC tends to start the day worrying about those tender souls doing Porridge! Yet  ANOTHER story given prominence this morning by the BBC advocating the idea that we must stop sending people to prison. This is a recurrent theme and it is being pushed remorselessly. The BBC seems unable or unwilling to make the connection that the reason we have more people than ever behind bars (albeit in soft liberally run prisons) and that reported crime has fallen to a new low may be in some way related! Check out the 7.32am story (No link yet)

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.  

A Biased BBC reader writes…

Last week the newsfeatured Ken Clarke’s sentencing proposals based on the premise that prisondoes not work. The UK public have been softened up for the last 30 years tobelieve this, to save money, and because the liberal left/anti prison lobbyhold sway. The proposals are that basically no one, apart from on extremelyrare occasions – burglars, thieves, robbers, or any other acquisitive criminalcan expect prison. Community punishment will be the order of the day.

Then this morning the BBC4 at 7.30am 6/7/2010 ran a piece that vast amounts offines imposed by magistrates courts as part of community sentences are simplynot paid. At no point during the questioning of someone from the LordChancellors Department was the link made by the interviewer between this andlast weeks proposal – Why?

Of course we all know why. The BBC believes that Prison does not work and so will turn reality on its head to try and spew forth such nonsense.

Well, it was inevitable that the BBC would start cooing when Ken Clarke takes the same line that has been pushed for years by the likes of the Howard League. The “Prison doesn’t work” meme is recurrent and now that there is a Conservative Justice Secretary with uber-liberal values, we can expect him to get an easy ride. I note that David Green from Civitas got an outing to dispute the Clarke roll-over just before 9am – when listener-ship numbers tumble.

They say that there is nothing like a Dame, and that is assuredly true when one reflects on Dame Ann Owers – the Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales. This wet as a fresh fish liberal maroon can always be relied upon to echo BBC sentiment and so it is that she was on Today this morning (7.24am) to inform us that Muslim inmates of our prisons could be radicalised because of… insensitive treatment by Prison Officers. We need to respect these Muslim inmates as individuals and ensure that care is given when dealing with them. Remember, when good Muslims go bad, it’s OUR fault.

Liberal-minded Owers is perfect for the BBC. She regularly parades onto Today to attack the penal system and she must be a real downer for all those hard-working prison officers who do their best to keep order in the liberal system that Owers and her ilk have put in place. Why was there no one allowed on to put a counter view to the drivel served up by Owers? With some of our prisons being virtually taken over by Muslim gangs, I would have said staff are already far too easy on practitioners of the Religion of Peace

A recurring BBC meme is that Prison is “a bad thing” and that better results are obtained by keeping criminals out of jail. So when the Prison Governor Association (PGA) urges government to scrap one year sentences essentially for economic reasons, you can be sure this will receive a warm welcome with the State Broadcaster. Naturally there is A concern expressed but it is that those guilty of even worse crimes might end up getting…GASP…even longer sentences.