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Jun. 6th, 2007 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_amberWill be at the Tun tomorrow - who goes these days? and from when?
Wondering (in great haste) what anyone thinks of the suggestion to "name and shame" absent parents (ie fathers) who don't pay up on Child Support, on special websites.
The sanction seems weird - is completely disconnected from the crime. WE don't punish pickpockets by throwing custard pies at them - or indeed punish random acts of fraud by removal of passports (another threatened sanction under CSA.)
Isn't it intersting that when it saves the government money (as opposed to merely protects society), any old punishment will do? And does anyone think a man who is shitty enough not to pay for his kids will give a damn if his name is on a website?
Also what next - official websites for pedophile names? is this just a softening up for Megan's law??
Wondering (in great haste) what anyone thinks of the suggestion to "name and shame" absent parents (ie fathers) who don't pay up on Child Support, on special websites.
The sanction seems weird - is completely disconnected from the crime. WE don't punish pickpockets by throwing custard pies at them - or indeed punish random acts of fraud by removal of passports (another threatened sanction under CSA.)
Isn't it intersting that when it saves the government money (as opposed to merely protects society), any old punishment will do? And does anyone think a man who is shitty enough not to pay for his kids will give a damn if his name is on a website?
Also what next - official websites for pedophile names? is this just a softening up for Megan's law??
