So, women who cheat are exempt? And what business is it of a government to pry into people’s lives like this? Next step: branding.
Sweden’s justice minister Beatrice Ask wants families to know if their husbands or fathers are suspected of buying sex and has proposed that coloured-coded envelopes be sent to their homes.
“It is a little like being shamed on the town square,” the government minister said at a seminar on Thursday.
Ask made her controversial statements at a parliament seminar on prostitution on Thursday, saying that a sex-buyer’s family and friends should be informed.
“I could imagine having envelopes in a very garish colour and sending them home to people suspected of this offence,” she said.
Ask argued that naming and shaming sex-buyers would be an effective deterrent.
“I think that the worst thing which can happen to many of them who are out there buying sex, is that someone in their circles finds out about it,” said Ask. […] “In practice maybe we can’t have coloured envelopes, but we have to show who they are and let those around them know,” she said to the newspaper.
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Maybe Elin Woods is related to this Swedish minister??
Umm,
Stupid?
If ya do it to 1, you do it for ALL of them.
Male and female, young and old. RICH and stupid.
Why not just take it all the way and make them wear an “A”???
I think it was an ‘A’ branded on the forehead.
right?
Go buy some of the color coded envelopes and send to all the government officials.
I think this clip defines her perfectly
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aOvoCfe5DCM
Bring back corporal punishment. Drag them to the town square and lash their asses!!
This is as god intended.
Stupid and immoral. Shaming children and undermining families without proof or a trial. There may be an argument for informing a convicted person’s partner for health reasons but otherwise this idea has no merit.
The envelope please…
Anyone who starts out with the idea of punishing those who are suspects should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.
…certainly zero chance of endless color coded envelope practical jokes…
Just another broad jealous that she’s not the one getting laid.
Yeah, I totally can’t wait for when women take over. ugh.
What am I missing here? If you’re p*ssed at someone, send them a “Scarlet A” coloured envelope. Or 10 or 100 …
It’s legal to sell it, but illegal to buy it. So in a bust the hooker walks and the John is charged. I don’t think that’s working to well for the Swedes. But what the hell, they have a beautiful princess and a royal wedding.
Shame for a suspect? More like shame for an idiot Cabinet Minister who should know better.
Time to find her address and start sending her colored envelopes. Let loose the hounds!
Why not just mind yur own bizness and let others do the same. Don’t need no stinking biatch telling us how to act.
I do like perty colors tho, so please send an assortment of perty colrd envelopes.
A new kind of “Dear John” letter.
“I could imagine having envelopes in a very garish colour and sending them home to people suspected of this offence,”
Ever time they get it wrong, and you know they will, Mrs. Ask should be publicly flogged.
This plan cries out for multiple colors of envelopes denoting various sex acts, since obviously not all offenses are equal. A yellow envelope could be used where the man merely received a handjob. A green envelope would denote the greater infraction of oral sex. A bright red envelope should be used to convey all the shame and/or glory of full coitus.
As for who should be in charge of this bizarre program, I would simply paraphrase an old saying… Let he who is without sin mail the first envelope.
P.S. I’ll pick #20 Jimmy J for the win.
This puts a whole new meaning to the phrase “don’t Ask, don’t tell”. Maybe Ms. Ask shouldn’t be telling Swedens what kind of sexual choices others may have made, that aren’t government approved. I guess they don’t have that Bill of Rights thing about not being accused outside of a court of law.