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Message: [QUOTE="Jason Simmons, post: 2912374, member: 8275"] I wouldn’t. People can jump up and down in outrage all they like but the entire point of our criminal justice system and America’s too for that matter is rehabilitation. Not vengence or retribution. It wants to stop people from re-offending and help them develop into better people that lead healthy and productive lives. What better way for someone to rehabilitate themselves than by hard work, supporting their families and trying to be a better person and role model moving forward? I have never said Russell Packer shouldn’t be allowed back in the game, and you won’t hear me say it about Lodge either, until the point is reached where they break the rules and continually bring the game into disrepute. That is the difference between these blokes and Todd Carney. These blokes have indiscretions under their belts, but until and unless they continually breach rules placed upon them, they are in my opinion fully entitled to play in the NRL if they are up to it. They have done what has been asked of them by the NRL since their indiscretions and this along with their hard work means they should be given a chance. Christ there is even a specific act in Qld to try to help them do so, it’s called the [I]Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 [/I]and it is intended to, guess what? Help rehabilitate offenders... All the bad boys should know they are skating on thin ice with the NRL and if anything good comes out of this in my book, it should be the NRL setting the example. We will give you a chance, we want you to rehabilitate and become a decent person and we will help even if you stuff up, but we want certain things from you and if you don’t do them or break our rules again, see you later. No ifs, buts or maybes. The carrot has to be balanced equally with the stick and that is what we all complain about at the end of the day with NRL, the inconsistency. Hopefully this incident helps them settle on what that consistency is and what they will do to maintain it, rather than the vague and ineffectual responses we normally see from them. [/QUOTE]

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