Yep, interpreting the constitution is that easy. If you attempt to escape arrest, or to escape from either the prison or the police cells (you know how comfy those establishments are) you run the risk to get shot. Is that a license to kill? You bet.
In the Netherlands escaping from jail isn't even a punishable offense, as long as you don't use violence or break other laws (like stealing a getaway car).
Funny thing is though, as I discovered later, that these exceptions stem from the European Human Rights Charter. Maybe this is new for you: the charter is already (in this sense) applied in the Antilles. So draft constitution or no draft constitution, escape from prison could get you a bullet in your behind.
I thought that this ought to become a point of public debate.
So what exactly do you think is untrue in the article?
Interpreting is THAT easy
O Psilos | Tue, 2008-03-11 16:29
Yep, interpreting the constitution is that easy. If you attempt to escape arrest, or to escape from either the prison or the police cells (you know how comfy those establishments are) you run the risk to get shot. Is that a license to kill? You bet.
In the Netherlands escaping from jail isn't even a punishable offense, as long as you don't use violence or break other laws (like stealing a getaway car).
Funny thing is though, as I discovered later, that these exceptions stem from the European Human Rights Charter. Maybe this is new for you: the charter is already (in this sense) applied in the Antilles. So draft constitution or no draft constitution, escape from prison could get you a bullet in your behind.
I thought that this ought to become a point of public debate.
So what exactly do you think is untrue in the article?
O Psilos
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