Was watching Discovery Channel at a friend's house the other day and there was this show on 'America's Hardest Prison'. The prison mentioned on the show happened to be Lebanon Prison. It is a closed-security prison. Just one step away from maximum.
However, something disturbs me as I watch on. Now I am sure some of you had watched Fox's 'Prison Break'. Apparently those illegal activities going on in that drama is real and happening, in this case, in Lebanon Prison. There is always a leader running a syndicate.
Personally I feel that these scums, mostly murderers and rapists, had already been given a second chance. Yet they do not know how to treasure and make use of this given opportunity to turn over a new leaf. Everyone deserves a second chance... only when they treasure it.
Part of the reason is, i think, they were given too much freedom. I am not sure whether if the inmates were given special treatment because Discovery Channel was filming them or not. But come on, they can have TV in their room, or anything they wish as long as its not contraband! Its like a hotel in there!
To reform those who casted aside their second chance, they need to be cracked. Hard! How to do that? I think they should be stripped naked, be forced to wear an electric collar, a Chasity belt, chains to restrict movement and given less rights then a stray rabid dog. That means a 2 meter by 2 meter cell with a plastic bucket as lavatory, nothing else. Yes, some may say that this act is against human rights. But are they humans in the first place? Do these people who kill and hurt deserve to have equal rights as those who follow the law all their lives? If these dangerous people were to have any chance of successful reformation, that will be through these cold and harsh methods. Extreme people needs to be dealt with using extreme measures. To make them think that they are no longer treated as humans, that they no longer have any rights. Like a dead animal. Once cracked, they can then be slowly reformed. Like building a new house, you need to demolish the old one first. That is presuming that the old house is beyond the point where renovations can be done. For criminals of petty crimes and criminals that truly wish to be given a second chance, they should be given an opportunity and if they succeeded in changing themselves for the better; I believe their past crimes should be put behind them and they should be viewed anew.
Till now, months after the last episode of Death Note was aired, I am still very much in support of Kira aka Yagami Raito's view. For those who had committed hideous crime, their judgment should be death. The world will then be a safer and better place for all others. Too bad he met his downfall due to his own ego. The night he decided to take up the challenge to kill the fake 'L' who appeared on TV, he had doomed himself. 'L', then, did not commit any crime, Kira's decision to end 'L''s life is purely due to his own ego. He lost at episode 2 of the whole anime. But I will save this for another post another day.
However, something disturbs me as I watch on. Now I am sure some of you had watched Fox's 'Prison Break'. Apparently those illegal activities going on in that drama is real and happening, in this case, in Lebanon Prison. There is always a leader running a syndicate.
Personally I feel that these scums, mostly murderers and rapists, had already been given a second chance. Yet they do not know how to treasure and make use of this given opportunity to turn over a new leaf. Everyone deserves a second chance... only when they treasure it.
Part of the reason is, i think, they were given too much freedom. I am not sure whether if the inmates were given special treatment because Discovery Channel was filming them or not. But come on, they can have TV in their room, or anything they wish as long as its not contraband! Its like a hotel in there!
To reform those who casted aside their second chance, they need to be cracked. Hard! How to do that? I think they should be stripped naked, be forced to wear an electric collar, a Chasity belt, chains to restrict movement and given less rights then a stray rabid dog. That means a 2 meter by 2 meter cell with a plastic bucket as lavatory, nothing else. Yes, some may say that this act is against human rights. But are they humans in the first place? Do these people who kill and hurt deserve to have equal rights as those who follow the law all their lives? If these dangerous people were to have any chance of successful reformation, that will be through these cold and harsh methods. Extreme people needs to be dealt with using extreme measures. To make them think that they are no longer treated as humans, that they no longer have any rights. Like a dead animal. Once cracked, they can then be slowly reformed. Like building a new house, you need to demolish the old one first. That is presuming that the old house is beyond the point where renovations can be done. For criminals of petty crimes and criminals that truly wish to be given a second chance, they should be given an opportunity and if they succeeded in changing themselves for the better; I believe their past crimes should be put behind them and they should be viewed anew.
Till now, months after the last episode of Death Note was aired, I am still very much in support of Kira aka Yagami Raito's view. For those who had committed hideous crime, their judgment should be death. The world will then be a safer and better place for all others. Too bad he met his downfall due to his own ego. The night he decided to take up the challenge to kill the fake 'L' who appeared on TV, he had doomed himself. 'L', then, did not commit any crime, Kira's decision to end 'L''s life is purely due to his own ego. He lost at episode 2 of the whole anime. But I will save this for another post another day.
2 comments:
Yeah I heard some difference abt the situation in here (Perth) and the middle east. Here, when your house gets robbed, you're supposed to walk out of it as though you're letting the robber do his job! If you attack the robber for stealing things from your place, you'll get sued! Now where's the justice in this?
But contrast with the Middle East. Everyone leaves their door open, because the punishment for crime (robbing) is so great (probably death) that no one dares to commit it. That's a great thing.
Yup, sometimes the iron rule of the extremists works.
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