Daily Times

Punish one and fear a dozen and such punishment mechanism ensure not only creating constraint element of law but also the social output of any legal system. The social effect of any punishment is important in checking the crime rates. When the punishments are offered in public, this adds to the punitive aesthetics which get imprinted on the people. The fear of law is created and in rudimentary societies like ours ripe with all kinds of unbridled crimes committal, it is that factor of fear of law which is required rather than the respect of law. A society like ours which has fallen off the social ethics and norms is in desperate need of strong legal sanctions. Though predominantly religious to the core, religion has not yielded in easing out the problems the reason for which can be contributed to the absence of adopting any Islamic punitive legal system. So, religion is less to be blamed in this case. Our society is facing desperate circumstances and calling for desperate measures like the present stance of the Government of public hanging the child molesters. Again, our weak and freak Democracy has got the opportunity to disagree on this initiative only to perpetuate their petty interests and champion the awkwardly put human rights.

Punishment is a deterrence which warns the human psyche from abstaining from acting in the likely adverse manner. It is the element of long lasting fear out of any punishment which is important in controlling crimes. Imagine in a public place a dacoit hands are amputated and picture the man is brought in shekels and blindfolded and as the hands are separated from his body, he shrieks and cries terribly. The public witnesses the scene and imagine would someone ever get into repeating that crime again, surely not. The social worth of punishment is more important than the legal course and outcome of any case.

Ours has sadly become a society where we are unable to protect our children which is thus worth non inhabitance. The schools, religious seminaries, and public places have become unsafe for our children. The national impression which we are relaying internationally is one teeming with utmost human shame. Being caught within these fake clutches of freaky status quo democracy of disagreements, we are yet more debating frivolously in this sensitive issue. The people who are opposing the public hanging of child molesters must get themselves in the shoes of the victimized parents and families. The pain they take in raising the child and the social stigma which that child is labeled with lives forever. The fanciful enchantment land of a child is turned into a horrific nightmare. The child’s psychology is hit hard and he lives on with this traumatic shame imposed for lifelong pain. His childhood is cut in trash and this must have a price and as citizens of the society, this price is liable on each one of us. Imagine the hatred, and distrust which such an individual would develop for good. The social damage caused to that family and victim is not assessable and the social loss is irreparable. Furthermore, our cruel society neither forgets nor forgives and strangely in this case the victim happens to be the culprit.

The people who are opposing the public hanging of child molesters must get themselves in the shoes of the victimized parents and families

The European and American history has had a long phase of public executions with the last public execution taking place in USA in 1936 when the accused was hanged in public on molesting and murdering a seventy years old woman. The same was in practice in the United Kingdom till the good end of the 19th century. Those societies felt the heavy brunt of rampant crimes and so they adopted desperate measures of which public executions was part of. The society was ripped apart by serious social crimes and the frequency was rapid. They evolved into becoming civilized society not over the sweet democratic laurels as blown out by our freaky democrats. Their civilization episode is colored with blood, pain, misery and sadness. The social cleansing is important and it comes through coercive application of structured, codified and controlled legal state mechanics of punishment paraphernalia.

Our fake Democrats are giving instances that such public hangings would be in human and would portray Pakistan as a draconian state while in reality getting fully played into the hands of and professing the dictates of the Graham Hancock’s ‘Lords of Poverty’ without applying any indigenous wisdom to indigenous social problems. We have to take all out and all possible measures through which we can protect our children. We have failed and we are failing miserably in redressing the economy, stopping corruption, improving good governance through state institutions and enforcing the rule of law and all these failures are acceptable but if we fail to protect our children, this will absolutely be non acceptable. The societal lowliness which we have fallen to has created desperate circumstances which call for adopting desperate measures such as the public executions in the children molesting cases.

The writer is a civil servant based in Quetta