On May 3, 3:48=A0pm, "joe" wrote:
> s_pickle2...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > On May 3, 2:16=A0pm, 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?
>
As taxi drivers may carry unaccompanied children, it is better if
there is no suspicion that they may have any .ual interest in them, |