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Thread #128065   Message #2863186
Posted By: Dead Horse
13-Mar-10 - 04:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Highering Age of Criminal Responsibility
Subject: RE: BS: Highering Age of Criminal Responsibility
Cut & pasted from news site:
The age of criminal responsibility should be raised from 10 to 12, says England's children's commissioner.
Maggie Atkinson said the killers of James Bulger should have undergone "programmes" to help turn their lives around, rather than being prosecuted.
Most criminals under 12 did not fully understand their actions, she said.
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How about adding an Upper Limit to the age of responsibility?
As we get older we can look forward to being seen as less responsible, so when I reach that hoped for Upper Limit, I shall get me a nice gun and go seek out a few names I have from my hit list.
Then I would be put on a 'programme' and given a new identity while enjoying the benefits of a full NHS service and possibly a well earned break in the sun on a tropical island of my choosing.
There I would lie back and contemplate the error of my ways in my increasing dotage.