o sung wu,

I am "quite correct", and I do "fully understand" what filth kiddy-fiddlers are. What you do not understand is, that if you go down the track you talk about, you turn yourself into an animal, no better than they are. And, for all your tough talk, you might come of second best. Big talk is easy. Action, not so easy. These things are best left to the law to deal with. The actual thought about what you would like to do is understandable; doing it would be profoundly stupid and dangerous.

There is also the fact that any harm you did to a paedophile would be a criminal act, and you could end up in jail yourself, also subject to a good thumping from another prisoner or prisoners who didn't like you, for one reason or another. Don't let your emotions, understandable though they are, get the better off you.

Dear O Sung Wu,

Your knowledge of these things is far greater than
mine and you know that I value your opinion.
However I have to agree with ttbn on this one.
The rule of law has to apply even to these degenerates.
It may not be justice (I'd castrate the lot of them)
but ttbn is right - the law may not be just but it is
the law and that's all we've got to go by. I suppose that's
why the statue of justice wears a blindfold.

As for the Religious institutions and the harm that they've
done. I do feel that they should not be above the law.
That in this day and age is intolerable. And they should
be held accountable - definitely!

If we want things to change, and there are already laws to protect and prosecute, then we don't need new laws. We need to stand our ground and hold to the laws already in place.

That's why I quoted 1 Timothy. By the bible's standards the clergy should not be protected. They should at the very least lose their roles in the positions they have in the church, if not more then that and serve their punishments by the justice of the state. (Because they are no longer protected by a place of power in a church position).

Stand by the laws of the state, and let the church know they are against their own teachings by protecting pedophiles.

Sorry I didn't explain that better before.

Hi FOXY & HERENOW...

Unfortunately TTBN is again showing his naivety when he thinks a whole room full of coppers are going to arbitrarily drag one of these pieces of filth out of his slot and give him a good kickin' in front of a whole heap of witnesses, of course not, the utter absurdity of such an idea. You'd never risk, either your retirement benefits, nor your good fame and character on a lousy paedophile. And his further naivety lecturing me on the risks of flogging someone, is rather quaint; albeit ridiculous considering the first lesson a new copper learns is:- CYA. Still our serial 'Propagator of Topics' for 'The Forum', is trying to be helpful in his own inimitable way I suppose, and he does have a penchant for pointing out others failings, when his own are oddly apparent to us all, except to TTBN himself? In any event - the word 'metaphoric' is a useful term whenever one has a need to deal in 'narrative form', with the communities slime 'n vermin emanating from Societies vast underworld?

I'm sorry HERENOW, I'll try to respond to your comment later if you don't mind?

While what the Catholic priests did was putrid I find it hypocritical that the same outrage is not evident for the numerous indigenous elders and Muslims who have done similar crimes in much more recent times. Oh well just shows we all have our pet hates. And I am certainly no fan or supporter of the Catholic religion