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What Type Of Prisoner Should The President Meet?

  • 11-11-2011 4:10pm
    #1
    Teclo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 496 ✭✭


    President Higgins has said that he hopes to meet all those on the margins of society, including prisoners. Visits to custodial institutions would need to be handled very carefully so as not to offend victims. What sort of prisoner would be appropriate, or inappropriate, for a presidential encounter? Terrorists, sexual offenders, murderers, drug dealers, burglars, white collar criminals(if and when they are imprisoned) etc. would be very problematic.

    Personally I think it's rather strange for the head of state to wish to meet any person who the state wishes to exclude from society.


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  • #2
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Oh my God,where will this all end.....Mr DeValera understood far better the function of Prisons.

    This sounds like numptyness gone berserk.....where would ye start.....Persons convicted of crimes against poetry perhaps..? :o


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #3
    Molloys Clondalkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭Molloys Clondalkin


    Hopefully it will be some of the bankers who ruined Ireland!!


  • #4
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,573 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    six

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  • #5
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Hannibal Lecturer?


  • #6
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,225 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Please make it be Bertie


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  • #7
    snafuk35
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 833 ✭✭✭snafuk35


    Everybody knows what wonderful people prisoners are.
    Is Higgins going to ask the victims of these animals what they think first?:rolleyes:
    How about he meets John Gilligan, Catherine Nevin, the Scissors Sisters, Joe O'Reilly and Mark Nash?


  • #8
    murphaph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,049 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    How about Higgins meets with ordinary middle class workers who foot the bill for everything.


  • #9
    Fitzerb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Fitzerb


    lets hope its Gerry Admas and Martin McGuinness and Ferris


  • #10
    anymore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,672 ✭✭✭anymore


    Teclo wrote: »
    President Higgins has said that he hopes to meet all those on the margins of society, including prisoners. Visits to custodial institutions would need to be handled very carefully so as not to offend victims. What sort of prisoner would be appropriate, or inappropriate, for a presidential encounter? Terrorists, sexual offenders, murderers, drug dealers, burglars, white collar criminals(if and when they are imprisoned) etc. would be very problematic.

    Personally I think it's rather strange for the head of state to wish to meet any person who the state wishes to exclude from society.

    I wonder if he will be meeting any unemployed plumbers, electricians, labourers, painters, masons, carpenters, subcontractors etc from the building trades or are people like these too contamionated by being associated with the construction industry ?
    Maybe he could ask Eamon Gilmore to ensure that the school the site was sold for goes ahead ?


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