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Subject: Re: Headmaster faces sack over criminal record... for an out-of-date fishing rod licence Posted on: 3 May 2008 14:48:10 GMT

s_pickle2001@yahoo.com wrote:

> On May 3, 2:16 pm, Phil Stovell wrote:
> > On Sat, 03 May 2008 06:10:41 -0700, s_pickle2001 wrote:
> > > As I remember, until fairly recently even convicted rapists could
> > > get taxi licences, because the councils felt that they would be
> > > infringing on the poor rapists' human rights or something like
> > > that if they refused the licences.
> >
> > Do you think that everybody who has committed a crime and served
> > their sentence should be permanently excluded from employment?
>
> No, but a . offender should not be a taxi driver. Would you be happy
> to have your wife or daughter in a car alone with a rapist?

To make the analogy complete, would you be happy to have your wife or
daughter in a car alone with a vetted driver who once looked at an
indecent photograph of a child?

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