Orange Flightsuits

[Bayleaf48]

Another bad thing with the orange suits is that you stick out like a sore thumb in Imperial areas, unless you've stolen an Imperial uniform that is!

[Analise]

Actually, i have this vague thought that a-wing pilots wore red?

I think it depended on what craft you flew as to what color flightsuit you wore.

I have this vague idea that y-wing pilots wore a diff color, and b-wings another color.

and TIEs are black. Guess they don't have to worry much about their guys going EVA though, since everyone knows TIEs are made outta tinfoil and have no shields, they're more likely to just go BOOM.

~ana

[Dave]

This is going a little off topic, but it has been in the UK news all this week. Also, I'm painting the house this week, and I'm dressed in an orange boilersuit at this very moment....

Labour retreats on chain gang outfits

from the London Evening Standard

A proposal to force convicted yobs to clean the streets wearing orange boiler suits looks to have been killed off a day after it was floated by a minister.

Hazel Blears said in an interview that it was worth considering ways of publicly identifying criminals who were forced to work in their communities.

But within hours the Home Office was pouring cold water on the idea, making clear that it was "not a firm policy proposal".

Commons Leader Geoff Hoon also made clear that Ms Blears was simply "thinking aloud" when she suggested that "chain-gang" style punishment would win public backing.

A Home Office spokeswoman was forced to state that the police minister was not talking about those given anti-social behaviour orders or fixed penalty notices for yobbish behaviour.

Ms Blears's idea looked today to be heading the same way as Tony Blair's shelved plan to make yobs pay on-the-spot fines by marching them to cashpoints.

Harry Fletcher, head of the Probation Officers' Association, said there was no evidence that making offenders wear uniforms in the streets would cut crime.

"Introducing uniforms, caps, badges, or naming and shaming offenders is likely to degrade them, make them resentful and not turn up for community punishment," he said.

Labour has a record of opposing similar ideas. It ridiculed Tory moves to make offenders wear overalls with the words "Community Service Scheme" on the back.

But Ms Blears's idea follows a suggestion by Prisons and Probation Service chief Martin Narey that offenders wearing orange bibs would show the public that punishments were being carried out.

Shadow home secretary David Davis said the orange suits idea would only make a "minor" contribution to public confidence and would not make up for eight years of neglect on yobbery.

"Labour have been in power for eight years and what have they done? They have permitted 24 hour drinking, let over one hundred thousand prisoners out of prison early, while at the same time making the life of a police constable on the beat more and more difficult," he said.

Chris Stanley of the National Association for Care and Resettlement of Offenders said it raised the risk of vigilante action against criminals. "There's no evidence anywhere that this type of thing has any deterrent effect," he said.

Critics believe Ms Blears's idea is classic New Labour tactic of grabbing headlines while failing to tackle the real problems of yobs and crime.

The Prime Minister announced a crackdown on "disrespect" across society, although he later admitted that the Government's options were limited.

I've heard speculation that the real reason they backed down is because it wouldn't actually work. If you began dressing these criminals in orange boilersuits it would become a badge. A certain element would revel in that and it would become fashionable to dress in orange boilersuits -- the same way as it is to dress in loose-fitting grey tracksuits and loose shoes without laces. Apparently, this is how they dress criminals in the US and take away their laces.

Actually, my orange boilersuit is no longer orange - I'm not that good at painting!