Reconciliation

[mfewell]

Please could someone reconcile the following:

We have BRITISH TERRORISTS attacking ....BRITAIN.

What is the answer ? - probation, or an ASBO ?

[daicoses]

Sorry, what is an ASBO?

[kempie]

Anti Social Behaviour Order 

[mfewell]

I am sorry diacoses, I was reacting unfairly and was out of order to you. An ASBO is an 'Anti-Social-Behaviour-Order'.  I am reacting to current news that folk born and bred here will still bomb their fellow British, and also that our culture now is to hide truth. Britain has the ultimate Freedom of Speech (provided you say the right things)

The penalty for murder in this country is a political and religious discussion followed by a telling off.

[jno]

mfewell is going a little over the top. Britain does not have the death penalty (unless it still exists for piracy; I'm not sure about this) but people are sentenced to jail for murder, usually I believe for what amounts to about 12-14 years, but sometimes forever. So they would have been in this case had they been caught alive, tried and found guilty. Nobody is 'told off' for murder, whether single or mass.

[jno]

sorry mfewell, that should have been addressed directly to you. In relation to what you say here and on another thread: the bombers didn't attack Britain - that is, spy or fight against the government or its agents, which is I think what treason usually implies. They simply killed their fellow citizens. That's simply murder, which is carried out by Britons upon Britons pretty much every day. In this case it was mass murder; but I think the penalties for murder, not treason, would apply.

[Kay]

Should these ************** be imprisoned in the Tower? Surely this still comes under treason!!

[jenstar]

Just to clear this up, Britain does not have the death penalty for any crime now. The last two crimes for which it existed were high treason and piracy with violence, for which the death penalty was abolished in 1998 - though it is likely that had anyone been convicted for either crime prior to this, their sentence would have been commuted to life imprisonment anyway.

[jno]

thanks for the clarification jenstar.