European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of Man Britain Birch society by Apple new Yetk times on toe me of they Mil believe that those who spans the and spoil m a the government that of Britain found thewl won trial in the european court of human rights at strap Coutt Kan pern human rights commission that the minx ice of bunching beating Youthful offenders whip made of Burch an illegal form of de grading because to is a Crown the Isle of Manila its own parliament and considerable local when the whip was outlawed in Britain in and in Northern Ireland in it was retained on the Island the seven judges will deliver their verdict in a couple of if they find against the the British parliament will have to decide whether to ignore the court or to create a political storm on the Island by overruling the parliament and prohibiting birthing Here we Uwi la Lithe who Oak rider us disappearance Corporal Pon Lehment a bad the they a lathe would of cart got of haad u they a or Graham a conservative member of tried to introduce a Bill bringing bade the but he was squelched by a minister who told you Are marching resolutely Forward into the 19th Man la a 220squaremile Island that lies off the Western coast of England in the Irish it is known for its horse drawn us summer motorcycle its tailless cats and its stubbornly Independent in the controversy Over they Are living up to their reputation and Peggy a determined recruited Tome of her friends to circulate Probir Ching petitions last and they collected the signatures at of the 000 Manx the total population is she or Gan cd a March of More than birthing supporters through the islands u was the biggest Public demonstration Ever staged we dont want to become ule the rest d Brit she Tate the other of oily is becom so degraded and so and Ibe people Are so demo Rathial its disgusting Over Howard a lawyer who has sat in the Manx legislature for 21 describes birthing As the insurance Premium paid to protect us from Al though he concedes that he cannot prove that the islands Low rate of violent crime results from the deterrent effect this whole Strasbourg thing is about As phony As it can he said in an that court was set up to prevent torture in concentration not to inter Fere in our the most important human right u the right of the Ordinary human being to the Queens Jack another says his study of comparative crime statistics indicates that the level o violence lower on the Isle of Man than in Brit Ain As a but the he fares no belter in the charts than other Remote and Rural parts of the kingdom Sudi As Cornwall or the i dont think that violence should be corrected by Vio be i think we ought to make our Laws according to the new not according to the old the Manx courts order birthing Only for Youthful of fenders Between the Ages of is and m everything i carefully prescribed the whip must contain duly four Mich ii can weigh a More than it can be no longer Uusi 40 a doctor most be present and no Mare than tax strokes can be in years the beating was applied to the miscreants Bare but at the end of 1977 the Law was mow a can keep his trousers the policeman May not raise his Arm above shoulder and person being punished la not tied Down he is simply made to lean Over a table in the jury room in the old court building in according to chief Constable prank no one was birthed last and Only a Down people have been birthed since at the British were clearly embarrassed to have to defend something out at a Hal forgotten the lash disappeared from the Boyal Navy Yean the Cane has almost disappeared from the Public and the Birch survives Only in the Isle of Louis representing took Refuge in Legal he told the court that the govern want did not be eve that judicial Corporal punishment deterred Vio Lent but he added thai u the Manx believed that was their it was left to Jack the Manx attorney to state the broader defense in the which resulted from the 1972 whipping of Anthony then u Yean for his part in gang assault on another the Island is proud of its Freedom from crimes of Vio he there has been a redaction in Vio Lent since 1 am not saying that judicial Corporal punishment is responsible Tor but in the Light of this reduction it would be the utmost Folly to Abol the ultimate deterrent by Robert Husel United press Uena Roaal it s you tit Down to read this you Are the envy of a fair bomber of British on toy Given Day quite few find sitting Down o punishment is still part of the but inflicted often enough to Surprise visiting local in Are sur their reputation for is Radt Tobal that Tracten at school Are acting in places the British system is thai a local educational Council decides whether to permit Corporal pulls Meol in its Slid the the Satin Btl tract determines whether or not to permit it in his or her the pfc Miu its a Emo Orol where it which Cononi pulls Haitt u this sounds Tike the Sorto Tthum that would have parents to other i the the British Parent most be of a different a few months woman own Magazine polled millions of readers on the subject and found that 73 per cent of the parents replying favored Corporal punish not Only but a Large majority was in favor of More Homework or the question of physical chastisement in schools is bound to erupt again in the Wake of the decision of the european court of human rights in Strasbourg to consider the Case of a youth who was birthed on the Isle of off the coast of in 197z when he was that was a judicial punishment meted out for assault causing bodily the youth alleges that us sentence of three strokes of the Birch amounted to a degrading treatment or punishment in breach of the european convention on human ninety percent of the residents of the resort Bland Are believed to be in favor of the retention of Birch ing As a deterrent in minor crimes of they have the support of the Bishop of Sodom and Man who says the Island is determined not w permit the desperate state of morals in England reaching the a tar Tauher form of aug ish Mest u permitted Ivow schools where the went to leather or a a hats out applied acres tie pc catty at tache is of Phil try Seal pub knot base excessive we it the in a banter to i in one London District Croydon More than pupils were caned in hot according to us Colin but my demand Tor an to Auguy received to slate reception from Hartm atm and teachers Union Leaden who described Topp As a pressure group that a spokesman or the is Tipeti Unkn of Ian eat of leading 11 opposed any rational recut for or against Corporal punishment by the ministry of n believes be probity is Best handled As it is that is on the local minister of education Shirley Williams to known to be a canst physical correction but she is reluctant to by to Force education away from a practice so Many believe to especially when some in the words of the opposition spokesman on Norman so John Are witnessing Trench War fan Between and january 1178 the stars 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