"The British government is to roll-out the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the pressures on the prison system, which is running out of space.
In a statement to parliament on Thursday following the release of an independent sentencing review, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said so-called chemical castration would be used in 20 prisons in two regions. …"
California’s been doing it since 1996, and it’s not the only state.
I remember studying a case wherein the defendant, a rapist, asked to be castrated, said he knew that was the only way he would keep from reoffending. But the judge refused calling it cruel and unusual punishment.
Nowadays, of course, all he’d hafta do is say he identifies as a woman, and the state would obligingly arrange for clean anaesthetized surgery to remove his cock ‘n’ balls.
I think you’ve hit upon a necessary additional acronym to supplement existing ones, like ‘top’ surgery & ‘bottom’ surgery. Thanks to your post, we’ll know what they mean when they say C&B surgery!
That was the term which made me realize that Olde England has sunk below the waves. There were aboriginal inhabitants, later maybe Celts, then Romans. Scandinavians invaded, followed by Anglo-Saxons, and then the Norman French tried to civilize them. They brought in rulers from elsewhere – Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany. But not a single one was called Mahmood.
It’s very difficult to fight an enemy after you have invited them into your territory, offered them hospitality, etc. That’s what the Brits did, I don’t think they can reverse it now.
One of the oddities about the English emigration situation is that – reportedly – the first generation immigrants from the Commonwealth circa 1960s were very glad to be in Blighty and not in the Carribean or Pakistan or elsewhere. They became an important part of the community – driving the buses on Saturday night when the English drivers preferred to be out on the town, and running the essential little corner stores (long hours for low income), and providing the English with curries. The problem arose with their children and grandchildren, who bought into the story that they were discriminated against.
Looks like the basis of the problem of poor integration was the defective English educational system. Of course, England is not the only country to suffer from educators who despise their native land.
I was gonna write that the problem originates when the immigrant group established its own enclave in the host country, which they always do when their numbers increase. In our country we always regarded that phenom as kinda…cute: Little Italy, Chinatown….but as you say, in a generation or two, if cultural appropriation doesn’t kick in, they plan and conduct raids against the host country.
But it’s weird: the only people Western nations ever deliberately segregated like that were the Jews. Living in the ghetto wasn’t voluntary, it was the law. Also it made things very convenient when the rest of the population decided, as it periodically did, that they didn’t want to have to repay the money they had borrowed: they knew where to find the hated creditors and could destroy them all in one fiery night.
In our country, we despise segregation, it’s part of the benighted past, and we would not dare impose it by law—yet we respect and even encourage it if a group chooses it voluntarily, as a gesture of contempt toward the host society.
Every principle, if carried to its extreme, morphs into its own exact opposite. And therein lurks our country’s ultimate demise.