What on earth… I was making a playful joke about him leaving a bear corpse in Central Park…
A little hard for me to be a Democrat when I’m not even American you manic buffoon.
What on earth… I was making a playful joke about him leaving a bear corpse in Central Park…
A little hard for me to be a Democrat when I’m not even American you manic buffoon.
Please no, Central Park doesn’t need a pile of rotting animal corpses.
The couch cleanliness demographic
The 95 year old, a 70 something year old (both 1st hand witnesses) and her book published 10 years ago, yes.
I’ve listened to them a lot, but had never seen any music videos apart from Smoko. Need to have a watching session now!
I’d never seen the video for this. It is spectacular.
You, like most people in this thread, are confusing support for a person with support for a form of punishment which is humanitarian and rehabilitative, rather than vengeful and punitive.
Is it? What do you read into that?
That’s a very interesting piece of information actually, I didn’t see that anywhere else. Implies they didn’t agree with the UK verdict in the first place.
I get your point, but a convicted criminal who is rehabilitated could also be considered a good role model. Not saying he is, but not really a means to disqualify him.
Well on that same vein, the IOC unilaterally disqualifying a country’s chosen athlete is likely to be even more politically problematic.
I also saw those statements on his wiki. Also saw some about it being “the worst mistake of his life”. I don’t imagine he would get parole without showing remorse.
He was first extradited by the Dutch and also imprisoned in the Netherlands (as is normal in international crimes). It’s not like they sprung him from a UK prison.
I mean that is the idea of rehabilitation, yeah. I don’t know where you are getting “under a month” from. He was in prison for 13 months and was released on parole, which would probably also include some rehabilitation activities.
Nice slogan, but back in reality, there’s a phenomenon documented in psychology literature called Projection. It’s usually those who rabidly accuse others and calling for harsh punishments that are guilty of those same behaviours they are condemning.
Please point me to the words I posted in defence of his actions.
This is exactly the point I’m trying to make, but am getting downvoted because I apparently sound like a “child rape apologist”.
I understand the crime is emotionally charged, but that doesn’t mean anyone convicted of it should just be thrown in the oubliette.
I agree, it seems like a small amount on the face of it.
But at the same time, I’m more inclined to trust the judgement of the prison system (at least in The Netherlands) as to whether he is ready to return to society.
Just imagine if all of these billionaires were actually paying tax instead of pumping hundreds of millions into political parties.