A Matter of Priorities and Values?

[Mr T.]

Something's gotta be wrong here.

In yesterday's print and broadcast media, some of you may have the seen the case of a Personal Assistant (a secretary in other words) to some big 'City' bankers who siphoned-off over £4.3 million quid for her own nefarious purposes.

Now, apart from her being an incredibly stupid woman in thinking she could, in the end, get away with a gig on this scale, and displaying a breath-taking level of avarice and arrogance, she's now facing 10 years of 'where's the soap - yes it does, doesn't it' in the showers at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

Now, contrast this, if you will, with the case, also shown on TV this week, of a known Ned and car thief who, in his attempt to get away from the police, in a high-speed chase through Blackpool, knocked down and left virtually quadriplegic a young lad out on the town with his mates. The Ned got 2 years inside!

So, merely because one has a £-value attached to it, it makes it a more heinous crime which warrants a longer sentence: 10 years for cash; 2 years for nearly killing someone?!

The law is an ass? No, the Law is a whore - and she bases her dealings on a strictly cash basis.

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<font color='#0000FF'>Bren look back at the great train robbery life for money

[Adrian Kelland]

Property has always mattered more than life, probably because most property belongs to the few who made the law.

Call me cynical, but I'm rarely disappointed.

[Mr T.]

What greater or more valuable property do we own than life?

[Noel Johnson]

True but they do not own YOUR life, try as they might... The kid was unfortunate with 2 years. He was expecting a fine

This great sceptered isle is rapidly going the way of the Americans. The directors of a company called Koch industries knowingly jettisoned a cancer causing chemical into the air and water supply whereas a young black man tried to convince a bank he was Tiger Woods to get some money (he succeded). Both were known to the criminal justice system but guess which one was pardoned by Dubya and which one got 200 years to life

Money talks I'm afraid, and the world is a lot poorer because of it

[Ian B]

<font color='#0000FF'>Mind you, if someone broke into my house to steal my property, I'd like to hit him hard, but the law won't let me. In fact I believe he could sue me.


A strange but true story....the guy I bought my house from used to keep guns (legally) and was ex-SAS. He also kept a baseball bat next his bed. I asked this 6foot4inch ex SAS man why he needed a baseball bat. He answere &quot;in case there's more than six of them&quot;....much respect to him

[Andy the Coastie]

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Quote[/b] ] I asked this 6foot4inch ex SAS man why he needed a baseball bat. He answere &quot;in case there's more than six of them&quot;....much respect to him

NO NO NO , thats to fool foresnics , as there would be so much blood ,,,,,,,,,, HE won't get jail, as he would say &quot; They came at me with a baseball bat , &amp; I disarmed them &quot;

[Iestyn]

<font color='#000080'>Its impossible without hypocrisy to simultaneously argue that the law shouldn't value property more than life and that it should allow you to defend property in a way that might lead to loss of life. Not that anyone individual has actually argued both things yet, but they have argued one without dissaproving of the other. You cannot have it both ways...it cannot be right that the law should value property above life when its your property but not when its someone elses.

[Janos]

Do you think &quot;They came at me with a 6 inch dive knife&quot; is just as plausible?

Well I gues it was until I posted it here.



Laters,
&nbsp; Janos

[Gavin Yates]

<font color='#000F22'>Iestyn,

Wonderful use of semantics .... congratulations. I mean it honestly.

The judiciary - those that decide sentencing &nbsp;- are independent.

This is a good thing.

It stops law becoming a political football to be kicked around.

You might - and I do - think that some sentences are inadequate but I'd rather a judge make that decision than someone with an election to win.