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Subject: Re: Headmaster faces sack over criminal record... for an out-of-date fishing rod licence Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2008 06:48:29 +0100

On Sat, 03 May 2008 09:16:23 -0700, karomiow wrote:

> On May 3, 2:28 pm, Phil Stovell wrote:
>> On Sat, 03 May 2008 06:21:36 -0700, s_pickle2001 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?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> I am sure you would have been happy to have Myra Hindley and Ian Bradley
> to babysit youyr children as well, but many people would not.

How would I know that a taxi driver had a conviction for .? I would
assume that taxi drivers were considered "safe".

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Phil Stovell, Hampshire, UK