"Relieve the burden on the state by making criminals serve their sentence constructively by joining the Army and serving in war zones, this will eleviate the strain on our prison space and tax payers, and provide a more contructive way to repay their dept to society, whilst easing the current pressure on our Armed Forces."
Not only is the petitioner an inconsiderate muppet (c.f. my previous blog entry Prison Overcrowding - Conscription), but she hasn't the nous to check to see if she's duplicating another petition, either.
So let me repeat: this would be enormously unfair on the armed services, who have signed up to serve their countries as professional soldiers, not as prison officers. It would, I imagine, be grossly expensive in terms of NCO time and probably also military police time. It would further degrade the status of the armed forces in the public's eyes (and clearly petitioners like these don't think much of them in the first place!).
What I should have said in detail last time I posted about this, and didn't, was that for any woolly liberals who think they'd benefit from a more sympathetic and/or understanding and/or positive perspective on the military, I recommend either or both of John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata books and/or John Ringo and David Weber's Empire of Man series. The first two books in both series are available from the Baen Free Library. This blog is in general a stunningly negative thing; it is nice to be able to positively recommend some life-brightening things as well.
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