British Justice

[poliphilo]

The woman who was jailed for five months for accepting a pair of looted shorts from her lodger has been freed on appeal. Instead she gets 75 hours community service (plus the week in jail she's already served). That's better: more proportionate, less vindictive. Some of the sentences that were handed out in the first flush of judicial reaction have been making us look like a panicky third world dictatorship.

Comments

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

"Look like"??!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Call me naive, but I still think we're better than that.

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Not by much, read the Civil Contingencies Act!

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Are you aware of your country's history in Northern Ireland?

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

When you put peasants in power this is how they behave. They are not secure in their persons, their convictions or their place in society, so they tend to overreact -- especially at the threat posed by other peasants.

Paradoxically, the Tories are the peasant party.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Also, did you see this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/17/looing-with-lights-off