It’s nice to see E.U. commie degenerates (like disgusting Jewish pervert Cohn-Bendit) showing concern for their fellow pedophiles. I hate the E.U., and you can quote me.
AN UNSUITABLE INSTRUMENT’ FOR SEX OFFENDERS
EU Politicians Angered By Polish Chemical Castration Plan
By Christina Hebel
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to pass a law that would
impose “chemical castration” on pedophiles. Politicians at the
European Parliament in Brussels have raised their objections to the
proposal, but there is little the EU can do to stop it.
At first it appeared to be just an overly emotional lapse in
judgment on the part of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, but now it’s
official. The Polish government wants to pass a law that would force
convicted pedophiles to be chemically castrated.
An incest case in the outskirts of the eastern Polish village of
Grodzisk triggered the current debate. Police recently arrested a 45-
year-old man who allegedly sexually abused his daughter for six
years. His 21-year-old daughter claims she gave birth to two
children sired by her father.
The news appalled Tusk. “I don’t believe that such individuals, such
creatures, can be called human,” he said. “In this case one can’t
even argue on behalf of human rights.” He wants to impose “chemical
castration” as a punishment in Poland. In his words, castration
would not come “at the request of the convict, but rather as a part
of the verdict.” The forced punishment would apply “mainly to
pedophiles, particularly those who have no hope of reform.”
“Pure Populism”
Poland’s Health and Justice Ministry is currently drafting the
needed changes to the country’s penal code, and Tusk hopes to have a
forced castration bill prepared for parliament by October. “I want
to introduce the toughest possible laws against criminals who rape
children,” Tusk said last week.
Christoph Joseph Ahlers views the Polish plan as the product
of “pure populism.” The clinical sexual psychologist is co-founder
of the Dunkelfeld Prevention Project at the Institute for Sexual
Medicine at Charité Hospital in Berlin, Germany and works there as a
therapist consultant.
It’s also still unclear who Prime Minister Tusk is actually
targeting with his bill. One minute he speaks of “pedophiles” and
of “criminals who rape children” and the next it’s “convicts” who
need forced castration.
Sexual psychologist Ahlers warns against convulting the
terms. “Pedophilia isn’t a criminal act, it’s an illness in which
sexual interest is directed at children,” he says. “But that doesn’t
mean that every pedophile automatically abuses children.”
Studies conducted in the United States have shown that only one-
third of convicted criminals who have abused children are
pedophiles. Two-thirds assaulted children for other reasons
including illnesses like alcoholism. The left-leaning Polish daily
Gazeta Wyborcza, which opposes the government proposal, has
published such statistics repeatedly. The newspaper also reported
that the 45-year-old arrested in eastern Poland hadn’t even been
assessed to be a pedophile.
Combination of Psychotherapy and Medications
It also remains unclear what, exactly, Tusk means by “chemical
castration.” According to sexual psychologist Ahlers, there are
three possibilities for the medical treatment of sex offenders.
Certain anti-depressants are one option, and so-called anti-
androgens are another. Both are medications that reduce sexual
desire.
But a class of drugs normally administered to prostate cancer
patients can also be used to treat sex offenders — and these are
the only ones that technically qualify to be described as “chemical
castration.” They “almost completely eliminate sexual desire, and it
remains depleted afterward,” Ahlers says. The medications aren’t
officially approved for treating sex offenders, and they can only be
administered at the express wish of the patient.
Great Britain, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden and Germany already
offer convicted child molesters the option of “chemical castration,”
but only on a voluntary basis and if administered by a qualified
psychotherapist. In Germany, sex offenders have the legal right to
psychotherapy.
Sexual psychologist Ahlers criticizes the prevalent belief that
medicines alone can do the job. “Forcing these medications on
patients would not be the correct professional treatment,” says
Ahlers. “Medicine alone doesn’t automatically lead to an improvement
in behavior control.” He advises a combination of psychotherapy and
medication.
In Germany, the conservative Christian Democrats have pushed
numerous times for the introduction of “chemical castration.” The
debate became especially heated in the 1970s after the death of
convicted sex offender Jürgen Bartsch, who abused and killed three
children. To avoid lifelong detention in a psychiatric hospital,
Bartsch opted for castration. In April 1976, operating room nurses
administered ten times the normal amount of anesthesia, and Barsch
died shortly after the operation.
Ahlers warns against expectations for castration that are too
high. “Even castrated men can have relapses,” he says. It all
depends on whether the medication is provided together
with “qualified psychotherapy. ”
EU Has No Authority to Prevent Castration
In Poland, the debate over the issue continues to rage. Human rights
activists and legal experts point out that the Polish constitution
prohibits corporal punishment. They also argue that forced drug
therapy against the will of the patient would violate Polish and
international law.
And even though Poland is a member of the European Union, there is
little that can be done in Brussels to prevent the country from
adopting the penal measure. “It doesn’t have the authority because
criminal law is an issue for the member states,” says Klaus Hänsch,
a German member of the European Parliament and former president of
that body representing the center-left Social Democrats. The death
penalty is the only punishment expressly prohibited by the EU, he
says. At most, the EU could condemn the plan on moral and ethical
grounds.
“I don’t believe that this forced castration would be an appropriate
punishment compatible with modern criminal law,”says the EU legal
expert.
Elmar Brok, a German member of the European Parliament with the
conservative Christian Democrats also views the planned law
critically, describing it as “an unsuitable instrument.” Both
politicians said they believed it would be possible for Polish
citizens to challenge the law at the European Court of Human Rights
in Strasbourg.
84 Percent of Poles Support Tusk’s Plan
At first it appeared to be just an overly emotional lapse in
judgment on the part of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, but now it’s
official. The Polish government wants to pass a law that would force
convicted pedophiles to be chemically castrated.
An incest case in the outskirts of the eastern Polish village of
Grodzisk triggered the current debate. Police recently arrested a 45-
year-old man who allegedly sexually abused his daughter for six
years. His 21-year-old daughter claims she gave birth to two
children sired by her father.
The news appalled Tusk. “I don’t believe that such individuals, such
creatures, can be called human,” he said. “In this case one can’t
even argue on behalf of human rights.” He wants to impose “chemical
castration” as a punishment in Poland. In his words, castration
would not come “at the request of the convict, but rather as a part
of the verdict.” The forced punishment would apply “mainly to
pedophiles, particularly those who have no hope of reform.”
“Pure Populism”
Poland’s Health and Justice Ministry is currently drafting the
needed changes to the country’s penal code, and Tusk hopes to have a
forced castration bill prepared for parliament by October. “I want
to introduce the toughest possible laws against criminals who rape
children,” Tusk said last week.
Christoph Joseph Ahlers views the Polish plan as the product
of “pure populism.” The clinical sexual psychologist is co-founder
of the Dunkelfeld Prevention Project at the Institute for Sexual
Medicine at Charité Hospital in Berlin, Germany and works there as a
therapist consultant.
It’s also still unclear who Prime Minister Tusk is actually
targeting with his bill. One minute he speaks of “pedophiles” and
of “criminals who rape children” and the next it’s “convicts” who
need forced castration.
Sexual psychologist Ahlers warns against convulting the
terms. “Pedophilia isn’t a criminal act, it’s an illness in which
sexual interest is directed at children,” he says. “But that doesn’t
mean that every pedophile automatically abuses children.”
Studies conducted in the United States have shown that only one-
third of convicted criminals who have abused children are
pedophiles. Two-thirds assaulted children for other reasons
including illnesses like alcoholism. The left-leaning Polish daily
Gazeta Wyborcza, which opposes the government proposal, has
published such statistics repeatedly. The newspaper also reported
that the 45-year-old arrested in eastern Poland hadn’t even been
assessed to be a pedophile.
Combination of Psychotherapy and Medications
It also remains unclear what, exactly, Tusk means by “chemical
castration.” According to sexual psychologist Ahlers, there are
three possibilities for the medical treatment of sex offenders.
Certain anti-depressants are one option, and so-called anti-
androgens are another. Both are medications that reduce sexual
desire.
But a class of drugs normally administered to prostate cancer
patients can also be used to treat sex offenders — and these are
the only ones that technically qualify to be described as “chemical
castration.” They “almost completely eliminate sexual desire, and it
remains depleted afterward,” Ahlers says. The medications aren’t
officially approved for treating sex offenders, and they can only be
administered at the express wish of the patient.
Great Britain, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden and Germany already
offer convicted child molesters the option of “chemical castration,”
but only on a voluntary basis and if administered by a qualified
psychotherapist. In Germany, sex offenders have the legal right to
psychotherapy.
Sexual psychologist Ahlers criticizes the prevalent belief that
medicines alone can do the job. “Forcing these medications on
patients would not be the correct professional treatment,” says
Ahlers. “Medicine alone doesn’t automatically lead to an improvement
in behavior control.” He advises a combination of psychotherapy and
medication.
In Germany, the conservative Christian Democrats have pushed
numerous times for the introduction of “chemical castration.” The
debate became especially heated in the 1970s after the death of
convicted sex offender Jürgen Bartsch, who abused and killed three
children. To avoid lifelong detention in a psychiatric hospital,
Bartsch opted for castration. In April 1976, operating room nurses
administered ten times the normal amount of anesthesia, and Barsch
died shortly after the operation.
Ahlers warns against expectations for castration that are too
high. “Even castrated men can have relapses,” he says. It all
depends on whether the medication is provided together
with “qualified psychotherapy. ”
EU Has No Authority to Prevent Castration
In Poland, the debate over the issue continues to rage. Human rights
activists and legal experts point out that the Polish constitution
prohibits corporal punishment. They also argue that forced drug
therapy against the will of the patient would violate Polish and
international law.
And even though Poland is a member of the European Union, there is
little that can be done in Brussels to prevent the country from
adopting the penal measure. “It doesn’t have the authority because
criminal law is an issue for the member states,” says Klaus Hänsch,
a German member of the European Parliament and former president of
that body representing the center-left Social Democrats. The death
penalty is the only punishment expressly prohibited by the EU, he
says. At most, the EU could condemn the plan on moral and ethical
grounds.
“I don’t believe that this forced castration would be an appropriate
punishment compatible with modern criminal law,”says the EU legal
expert.
Elmar Brok, a German member of the European Parliament with the
conservative Christian Democrats also views the planned law
critically, describing it as “an unsuitable instrument.” Both
politicians said they believed it would be possible for Polish
citizens to challenge the law at the European Court of Human Rights
in Strasbourg.
84 Percent of Poles Support Tusk’s Plan
But there’s a good chance Tusk will succeed in pushing the
initiative through. Conservative President Lech Kaczynski backs the
center-right prime minister on the issue. And that’s not support
Tusk can always count on — after all, he ousted Kaczynski’s twin
brother Jaroslaw as prime minister during elections in October 2007.
Parties of almost every political leaning in the country are also
calling for sharper punishment for sex offenders who abuse children.
A conservative attitude still prevails in Polish society today. A
recent poll taken for the conservative daily Dziennik showed 84
percent of Poles supporting Tusk’s plan. It’s backing the prime
minister and his administration haven’t always been able to take for
granted. Only 38 percent of Poles thought the government was doing a
good job after Tusk’s first 300 days in office, surveys showed.
But support for Tusk and his government has since grown. According
to a poll taken for the Warsaw dailyGazeta Wyborcza, if Poles went
to the polls this weekend, Tusk’s Civic Platform (PO) would garner
58 percent of the vote, an increase of 10 points since the last poll
was taken two weeks ago.
http://www.spiegel. de/international /europe/0, 1518,580284, 00.html
revolution and overthrow.
I gagged a little when the crypto-jew said: “Pedophilia isn’t a criminal act.”
Absolutely disgusting.
I’d rather see them surgically castrated, or, better yet, summarily executed.
If criminal law is indeed a matter for EU member states then they would do well to emulate Singapore’s quasi National Socialist social policies by passing laws to make homosexuality illegal.
Mass-hysteria