Is westernised justice able to cope with terrorism.?

Question

Is westernised justice able to cope with terrorism.?

Answer 1

No.........It jails them........As someone has already said give them a nice semtex jacket.

Answer 2

no, it promotes it.

Answer 3

The civilised jury system is totally inaquate to deal with modern day criminals. In fact our beloved jury system is a pipe dream. Think OJ Simpson. I rest my case.

Answer 4

Not yet, but it's catching up slowly.

Answer 5

Of course it is.  "Veritas" indicated that terrorist crimes are committed on such a scale that the regular justice system can't cope.  That is simply ridiculous.  In the first place, most individual terrorist attacks lead to casualties no worse than some of the mass shootings that occur in the US -- and certainly not as bad as the Oklahoma City bombing -- and all of these were treated as criminal matters.  As for scale, no terrorist has come close to the kind of carnage wrought by the n***s, yet the perpetrators of many of those crimes were dealt with quite effectively by the legal system.

Those who claim that Western justice cannot deal with terrorism are buying into the myth that terrorism is some kind of special crime, and particularly that "911 changed everything."  That is just an excuse for certain governments to run roughshod over the rule of law itself, which is one of the cornerstones of modern Western civilization.

Answer 6

Depends on your definiton of terrorism.

What the tabloids call "terrorism" is really just murder with another name.

Answer 7

No, they want to die for their faith so let them,and having died they should be buried wrapped in pigs skin

Answer 8

Terrorism is conducted on a scale wholly disproportionate to that designed to be handled by the ordinary civil law, which deals with individual criminals who murder for personal reasons. Terrorism, by way of contrast, is normally conducted for pseudo religious/ideological reasons by 'agents of the cause' who may not mind killing themselves as they randomly target large numbers of innocent victims as part of  their crusade. Each martyr being replaced by another foot soldier. It is this that makes it very different to crimes normally dealt with by our civil law.

Accordingly, I believe that our civil law was never meant to try and deal with this scale of random murder, and clearly it doesn't deal adequately with it.

As in war time, special powers may have to be made available to law enforcement officers to enable them to deal with the special problems created by terrorism, with a particular emphasis on prevention. It is, in effect, a war against a declared enemy.

Answer 9

Not if you are talking about the UK. The only type of justice in the UK is for the accused. If a court does manage to convict the sentences are a joke.

Answer 10

We don't have enough of the old hang 'em and flog 'em brigade anymore and so the judicial system has gone right down the pan!

Answer 11

No - far too lenient... Terrorists should get what they dream of.... a body warmer with some Semtex in the lining...and sent out into the desert...

Answer 12

You know they can't why else ask?...western europe is c**p at dishing out relevant punishment, They fall soft in fear or infringing their Human rights...