Gnads wrote on Oct 18^th, 2024 at 6:11pm:


My schizophrenia has saved my life a few times. My schizophrenia has realistically saved a few people's lives around town. When I was 19 years old, I got both reprimanded and praised for saving the life of a young mother over town from her drug addicted boyfriend. You don't have to believe that story.

And that long-winded story I told the other day about my time out at the shooting range, let us call that the made-up story. I cannot prove to you what I saw or what I did. Even if I gave you my real name to check up on the credibility, both the perpetrators and the victim are now dead. I am the only witness to the story. Police could not piece together what had happened. My story was the only credible piece of evidence that could be put to record. Let us just say that some guy pulled out a handgun at an alleyway, in 1997 (or whenever). The mugging was thwarted by some bikie looking fellow, hitting the mugger in the back of the head with a 750mL XXXX bottle. Does that sound more realistic? You don't even have to believe that story.

There is a reason why Rockhampton's crime rate dropped in the last 20 years, but we are considered one of the more dangerous regional cities in the country. My friends, my ex-girlfriends, and some family members started doing patrols around town in our spare time. Thursday nights are considered "lap nights" where all the car enthusiasts like to show off their expensive cars and talk about their latest home theatre system. The closest thing I have to a stereo system is the 3.1 channel sound bar that I have attached to my $700 computer. It was a bit of a splurge. But I managed to save enough money to buy the computer, after the last computer was overwhelmed with privacy traces moreso than usual. People call those moments "the blue screen of death".

I drink a bottle of scotch once every 3 weeks (on average). I buy at Aldis when the other major supermarkets are not being competitive. I sleep 5 to 7 hours a night, given my age and socioeconomic circumstances. And I have a couple of really cool employers who understand my situation and give me a bit of leniency with my attitude problem (according to some 20 to 25 year old age range co-workers).

Why should I be condemned for my "old school" personality? I mean, I am only 45 years old. There are people out there who are 17 years of age. The justice system lets them off with a warning for mugging women my age. But, when I as a white kid, being 9 years old at the time, gets blamed for something that a 30 y.o. did to his daughter... racial background did take priority over facts. That is why a local police officer gave serious consideration to making me a missing child, rather than bump off a migrant university lecturer.

...and that is why I (sometimes) drink, your Honour. Yes, I do embellish my stories. Up to you if you want to believe them. Or I could continue my novelisation that I had started on my ex-girlfriend's computer and write up these far-fetched encounters I had throughout my childhood.

Their age, is totally irrelevant, imo.

10 year old, or 15 year old.

If an individual commits a criminal offence,
AND,
if that individual   >> knows** <<   that the action they chose to 'do' is wrong [i.e. against the law],
then they need to be made accountable, IN LAW, for whatever they did.

**
....if they know, because this current 'incident'......'isn't their first rodeo'.



Not so ????

Why ?

Why would anyone [in Australia], get 'a pass' to do,
something which they already know,
is wrong [unlawful] ???

Give it up, Rocky.

On the subject - though I raised it, I haven't had a lot to say.

I will now speak my mind definitively - when the offender is a serial serious criminal offender and shows no sign of remorse or willingness to change his/her ways, and it is clear that parents are incapable of controlling anti-social and criminal behaviour in their offspring yet cannot have those offspring taken away from them due to silly public misconception and a totally unwarranted fear of consequences for doing what is right - there is little to no choice left but to place that offender in a program to properly guide him/her in the paths of righteousness..... (hoo-rah) ..

Tough titties!

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Oct 18^th, 2024 at 5:43pm:


And neither of you are interested in how to avoid war via effective  international law... ok, a tough nut to crack.

Nor how to eradicate entrenched poverty and its associated crime - admittedly also tough, given the current neoclassical economic orthodoxy.

The Conservative solutions: war - shoot them; poverty-related crime - lock'em up...though did I see you referencing re-training in a later post, as opposed to 'lock'em up'?

That's progress. 
 

thegreatdivide wrote on Oct 21^st, 2024 at 4:26pm:
International law never stopped a single conflict.

Whatever you say - the USNC could slap them around with some wet lettuce leaves and bring about law and order...

We've seen time and again how a too-little too-late too-weak-kneed response from the UN costs millions of lives.  can't see that changing in any way.

How's the planning for the quarantine zone around Israel's borders going?  How're the peace initiatives and then peacekeeping in Gaza and Lebanon going?  Lot of jumping up and down and slinging accusations around indiscriminately - not much forward movement.

Wait until Israel does the job required on the Barbarians, then come in with loud trumpets and declare peace/victory for civilisation amid promises of a better future for all in peace and harmony.

Meanwhile the clock counts down to WW III ... the alliances are lining up.... the national boundaries are hardening....

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Oct 21^st, 2024 at 6:22pm:


No,  the UNSC (if the members united and willed it)  could eliminate the war criminal Netanyahu  (..even Hezbollah apparently found his house with a drone),
and war criminal Putin if he refused to negotiate - Russia, not Putin, is a member of the UNSC;    bulldoze the illegal settlers out of the WB;  and then lay down the law for would be trouble makers.

"Lettuce leaves"?

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..because the UNSC isn't united behind rule of law.

Meanwhile even Austen is getting restive re Israel's genocide/total war policy.

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Neither can I, so long as your instinctive 'survival of fittest' ideology rules the UNSC.

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Yep, there's a possibility the ancient, unconscious 'survival' instincts will in fact destroy civilization on this planet, via MAD..... ironic.

Epitaph: "they didn't succeed in "knowing themselves". 

Now, back to the causes of poor parental role models living in generational poverty.

Gnads wrote on Oct 20^th, 2024 at 9:36am:


At 34 years of age, I had packed on about 130kg total.  Between the ages of 30 and 34 years of age, I weighed anywhere from 95 to 130kg. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age 35. There was no doubt about that.

I was not a regular drinker until about the year 2021. I discovered how insane people can get. Watching those videos of riots throughout the world, I am left to wonder how it was that I managed to afford those bottles of scotch. Then I recalled the term "coronavirus bonus payments".

Detectives don't review my profile, over a matter of traffic tickets. Police review my profile over a matter of yours truly being labelled "a potential risk to public safety". That is rather an ironical way of saying "subject encourages road rage by eliminating general antisocial behaviour".

I read social media posts about there being a serial killer in our region. I laughed at my computer screen and wondered how well people sleep at night. If you followed Aorta Complexus, ignorance is bliss.