http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20527269-2702,00.html

I'm definitely going to be toasting some smart illegitim with a penchant for pyromania. Best line of the article '"You couldn't wipe the smile off her face," her father said yesterday.'

Hell yes. I think sex crimes are far worse than murder so seeing that happen gets 11/10 from me.

I voiced my opinion on the law already. I dislike any perversion of a legal system claiming its neutral stand point when it turns a blind eye to vigilantism, or when it takes a right well rooting from the Parliament. But yeah, I mean 3 and half years is pathetic... for any serious crime, especially sexual abuses. I don't know why the Australian legal system is reluctant to hand down larger punishments but it sucks, and because of Australian courts being so lineant people turn to vigiliantism or petetion the parliament to intervene - the latter here being a complete perversion of our constiutuional heirarchy. A child molester deserves every bit of a punishment, but in a country such as Australia there is no room for people taking law into their own hands.

Funny but wouldnt it be much more wiser to not burn down the house and sell it off, to pay for the compensation for the victim?

The system seems to fail at the judges. Their terms and so forth seem to be lenient and too open-minded. But especially with sex crimes. Rape/molestation is as bad as murder if not more. It may not be killing a person but it's certainly permanently damaging their mind, body and soul. It's a violation of privacy, sanctity and safety that no one should ever have to feel. The thought that there are that many irresponsible people that don't give a damn about other people, society or whatever just ticks me off. That they give an illusion to society while they invoke a living hell on one person. Many of these crimes go unreported, unsolved, unprosecuted. I've spoken to physchologists and they tell me the most chilling people they've ever met are sex offenders. They are almost incurable, if at all. They are convinced that they've done nothing wrong and they aren't regretting what they've done at all. Anyone who would do such a thing to another person, especially a child, is absolutely sick and twisted and deserved to be exterminated.

Two comments:

1. The thing about justice is that it must not only be done, it must be seen to be done. Otherwise people start to lose faith in it. Thusly, rather triumphant vigilantism of this kind.

2. Did they have marshmallows?

All male sex offenders should be sent to Kangaroo Island, all female ones to New Zealand. Murderers should go to Tasmania. Deporting them solves problems, and they can serve life sentences on these penal colonies. We air drop them in.

Makes sense, we don't really like people from those places either, just saves on having to divide our discrimination.

If that gets passed , don't forget to put in the permission for "hot" exercises for the navy clause Ryan .

Psike81 wrote:If that gets passed , don't forget to put in the permission for "hot" exercises for the navy clause Ryan .

Ah yes, my plan for solving the illegal immigration problem. Our navy could get in a lot of practice if they started targeting boat loads of peolpe breaking our laws, especially some Indonesians that think it's great to fish out our territorial waters.

What's the point of sending these people to places where there are other people? Choose somewhere where nobody wants to be, but anyone there will have a hard time leaving.

South Georgia Island sounds pretty good.

Anyways, as far as I know, nobody has actually substantiated that this was an act of vigilantism. The chances of it not being are as remote as South Georgia Island, but until someone gets charged all arguments are pretty moot.