Bail (Amendment) Bill 2015 highlights fundamental failure to stop crime by other means.
Those in support of the bail amendment bill essentially consider the potential abuse of human rights and civil liberties a necessary price to pay in order to fight crime.
This highlights the failure of efforts to stop crime by means other than draconian legislation.
Essentially inefficiency and corruption have brought us to a point where we have to sacrifice liberty for security rather than reduce crime by conventional means such as improving our police force or securing our borders to prevent drugs and guns from entering.
The American Statesman and Scientist Benjamin Franklin once said
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
We as a nation can do better if we would strive towards building a crime free society by changing our fundamental attitudes. Our culture of corruption, nepotism and skylarking is what brought us to this point. We do not need better laws so much as we need better men and women to abide by fundamental moral principles.
Published April 4th 2015 in the express
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/letters/Bill-highlights-failure-to-stop-crime-by-other-means-298636451.html
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