""Punishment is too easy a band aid for a wound. Try a little human understanding
and compassion for those who have been left out.""

Have you not seen the cross section of the population being tried for these offences? Ages range from 11 to one man of 47 and all ethnic origins are represented.

A person who is deprived, and in need will steal what he needs, and he deserves your compassion.

If he is stealing plasma TVs and computers, while wearing designer clothes worth about three times my annual clothing expenditure, I would say that your commpassion is both misguided and wasted.

Don T.