Jamaica to abolish cat o' nine tails

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-cat-onine-tails.html

If this British colonial-era law was considered so 'degrading', why wasn't it removed from the island's statute books, the day that they gained their independence from the British?

[nannybooby]

Jamaca has a real problem with muggings , a bit like Barbados before Grantly Adams, he seemed to know how to deal with the problem so lets hope Jamaca gets to grips the same way. Cat of nine tails ,think they will just see the scars as badges of honour ! Not going to work . Now Capital punishment for murder thats another thread ....dont get me started.

[emmie]

high crime linked to drugs, guns, some of this doesn't make very pleasant reading..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Jamaica

[sandyRoe]

em10, I agree.
In NI for a while there were kangaroo courts where the only punishment was a violent one. Joyriders would be shot in the leg. A few were shot so many times that they eventually had to have a limb amputated.
Whatever the answer is to violent crime, it isn't violence.

[sandyRoe]

I was agreeing with your post of 15:18

[emmie]

DT no we won't, the use of the cane has long been outlawed.

[humbersloop]

em, I think dt was mischievously alluding to the compulsory introduction of sharia law across large swathes of the uk, which is imminent.

[emmie]

humber, if so you had better watch the news, as i will be on it brandishing a very large weapon, and not my oversized handbag.

[NOX]

Yeah we absolutely had it down pat didn't we Sandy, and look how well it worked,I mean you couldn't get a safer more peaceful place than Belfast in the 80's could you?

[Mick-Talbot]

If this British colonial-era law was considered so 'degrading', why wasn't it removed from the island's statute books, the day that they gained their independence from the British?



I would imagine they were too busy partying

[humbersloop]

^ mick, see post @14.03 :)

[Mick-Talbot]

ooops, sorry Sloopy

great minds think alike.....but one of them thinks faster than the other. :0/

[humbersloop]

no mick, I was laughing

[DTCwordfan]

correct, sloopy...... :-[)

[humbersloop]

and most particularly in rural areas, of course dt

replacing our beloved pitchforks and flaming brands with their funny furrin' ways

[FredPuli43]

Plenty of laws here don't get repealed for many years after they were last used. We have Commissions to weed them out so they can be abolished by an Act, but it's a somewhat eccentric process; it was only a couple of years ago that we got rid of laws governing the East India Company, which had ceased to exist over a hundred years ago , a law against giving falsely favourable references to servants, and a law whereby complaint could be made in the magistrates' court if a brass band failed to move away when requested by a householder, when it was playing within a certain distance of his house.

Perhaps Jamaica hasn't got such a commission and simply repeals a law which has fallen into desuetude when someone notices it's still in force.

[jno]

is it still illegal to impersonate an Egyptian in England?

[FredPuli43]

Is impersonating an Egyptian illegal in England? It would have been an offence under the Vagrancy Act or one of its predecessors, aimed at stopping nuisance trading or begging, under various guises; exposing wounds, for example, or 'being a petty chapman wandering abroad'. (a personal favourite, and one which survived until at least the earlly '60s) As such, it would have gone the way of the dodo, and been killed off, to the dismay of many. (The 'sus' law was part of the Vagrancy Act and that went too, to less popular dismay)