Hi Paul,

Hmmmm ....... how long is an elastic band ? Some of your arguments seem a bit stretched :) [Yuk ! yuk ! Geddit ? 'Elastic band' ? 'Stretched' ? Brilliant.]

My points were:

* that fascist thugs like Prakash are, in my limited view, in something like a special category of prisoner: provided - as you rightly point out - that this bastard is found guilty of the most dreadful Nazi-like crimes, can he be locked up with other prisoners ? I'm respectfully suggesting: no.

* IF it is considered by a court that murderers and rapists like Prakash CAN'T be locked up with other prisoners, since the danger of his infecting them with his fascist ideology is too great, then where ?

* clearly mongrels like this would have to be held in confinement away from any other prisoners for life. Then why not in some very remote area ? Remote areas need economic boosting, don't they ? So why not Oodnadatta and/or Betoota ?

In many countries, people are shot while trying to escape, Russia and China for example. Nothing particularly 'Nazi' about it, so you can put that one aside, Paul.

You perhaps notice that, in none of the above, have I resorted to personal insults of you. If you have any argument at all, I respectfully suggest that you stick to the issues and avoid revealing your lack of any argument by sliding into insults.

But if you can't do that, no worries, keep going, I can take it :)

Joe

Hi Joe,
Starting from the bottom up. Where have I insulted you?

As for your argument, if what you see as necessary, is what is adopted by the Government, and we have had 'Supermax' prisons for incorrigible people like the 'backpacker' murderer Ivan Milat and a few others. Then providing we are not pulling the wings off the fly's, as I put it previously, then i have no problem. As for your suggested locations of north of Oodnadatta or west of Betoota. they may present logistical problems due to their own isolation.

As for my quip about Nazi's using the line "Shot while escaping" I would not hold up Russia and China as justification for such a crime.

Pual 1405
So Hitler should have been given a fair trial then(had he not killed himself)

My opinion is he should have been shot by firing squad as quickly as possible.

I think the same about this Prakash, he should be shot by firing squad, to show
those who wish to turn traitor what the penalty will be.

Also, a 70year old is quite capable of planting a bomb somewhere, Which means it will never be safe to release him, given
the record of successive parole boards, for years.
unless life means life it will never be safe to just keep him in prison until quite old.
Chances are when people forget, he will be let out because if his age and innocent people will have to once more die at his hand.

Firing squad is the only sure way to protect our society from him forever.
Put your sympathy with his victims, don't waste it on him.
Show some intestinal fortitude and end his reign of murderous terror.
Chances are he's a physcopath, like a lot of Isis leaders appear to be
with their unnecessary cruel acts.

Great post, I totally agree!

Paul,

" As for your suggested locations of north of Oodnadatta or west of Betoota. they may present logistical problems due to their own isolation"

The Army overcame the logistical problems of supporting the troops in Afghanistan, a prison out in the far desert country should prove no problem.

Such a prison would be isolated from the rest of the country, fly in, fly out only and all of the buildings to house the inmates could be flown in; I would suggest standard demountable school classrooms.

The guards, Infantry, on a 3 to 4 month rotation and no one to serve there twice in three years, just to stop/hinder any plans to help a prisoner.

Water in by pipeline and only small electric vehicles for local transport.

One of the problems with our current prisons is that they are conveniently placed in cities and close to roads and public transport, it's time to stop considering the convenience of prisoners. Prisoners who are a danger to society should be placed where they cannot possibly do any harm, that, or executed.

When are we going to wake up to ourselves, tell the bleeding hearts to go jump, & apply the death penalty to those who obviously have earned & deserve the death penalty?