The Other Side...

I'd like to know what this judge was thinking when he gave "community orders" to two girls who stabbed another in the eye with a pair of scissors. Apparently there was "another side" to the girls.

I just love Community Orders and think we should use them more. What can be more frightening to teenagers than to have to turn up somewhere on a regular basis and DO WORK. What's more, if they fail to turn up, they will have to go back to court and get a good talking to. No wonder we are winning the war on crime.

While on the subject, I recently applied for an ASBO. The Council decided not to support my case in the end as the lad who had committed eight shopliftings in a month was "disturbed". Tell me something I don't know.

The daily papers will tell us that ASBOs are failing because two out of three are breached - this is just astonishing. I just can't believe that a toe-rag who has been terrorising his neighbourhood with petty crime and vandalism won't keep to a bunch of restrictive rules designed to stem his behaviour. It just goes to prove that ASBOs don't work: this is because they are only ever placed on people who are ANTISOCIAL. If we would just slap them on law-abiding citizens the figures would improve drastically.

So what was the government thinking? Is it possible that the invention of the ASBO was some kind of crazy plan to give you one last chance to fix your behaviour before being sent down? Perhaps it was always intended that they be breached, to give greater sentencing powers for otherwise minor examples of criminal damage and theft?

I apologise, I drifted off into a fantasy world for a moment. I mean, it isn't as if the courts have any power to send you to prison for breaching an ASBO...

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