tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post5579278758651278470..comments2023-06-11T13:12:20.435+01:00Comments on The Anger of a Quiet Man: It may be the law, but it isn't justiceQuiet_Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-3184494689901349292011-04-12T20:03:45.794+01:002011-04-12T20:03:45.794+01:00Surely revenge has no part in a civilised society?...Surely revenge has no part in a civilised society? a good question don't you think? <br /><br /><br />How true, and how right I would argue. And one of the purposes of stern penalties is to prevent revenge by making it clear that the law has real teeth. But a toothless law will lead to the return of revenge among us. The bargain we strike with our rulers is that we give up the right to personal vengeance, and the endless blood-feuds that follow it. And in return, we ask our rulers to wield a stern law, dealing with wrongdoing in such a way as to drive home the moral lesson that no evil deed goes unpunished. <br /><br />It's a simple contract. <br /><br />Civilised, law-governed societies rest on it, but our political class prefer not to fulfill it because they haven't the moral guts to take responsibility for sending a lawfully convicted criminal to prison for a long time nor a lawfully convicted murderer to his death. It is this gutlessness among politicians, more than anything else, that has led to the abolition of the death penalty and the joke leniency of sentencing we see today. <br /><br />They the political elite won't take the responsibility. This cannot be said often enough. The result is that responsibility is increasingly handed over to an unofficially armed police force, which shoots people without trial, appeal or the possibility of reprieve, and often gets it wrong. <br /><br />Watch the numbers grow.<br /><br />But that's only the beginning. If (as we are seeing now) respect for the Police, the criminal justice system continues to dwindle and is gathering pace especially among the abandoned honest poor, we can expect to see an increase of vigilante private 'justice', even lynch-mobs.<br /><br />What the left-liberals don't seem to grasp is that if they strangle justice, revenge is what they will get. And then, rather too late, they will eventually be able to tell the difference between the two. <br /><br />I wish there was some other way to explain it to them.Andy Baxternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-72687323184806908562011-04-10T10:24:42.083+01:002011-04-10T10:24:42.083+01:00Note also the subdued response in the media. This ...Note also the subdued response in the media. This should have been a very large story since is shows that the HRA needs dumping and quick about it i.e. it is a political issue, not a legal one. <br /><br />The judges have correctly interpretted and applied very bad law. There's nothing unusual in that in English law; it's been happening since the Conquest. <br /><br />Now is the time to re-establish the idea of equity; that those coming before the courts to plead their rights must come with clean hands.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-18931324432379775862011-04-09T10:57:56.116+01:002011-04-09T10:57:56.116+01:00What Julia said (in spades!)
Of course, this is w...What Julia said (in spades!)<br /><br />Of course, this is what happens when you elect a load of idiots and then let them make the law - law based on flawed beliefs of their own and in no way reflecting the views of their constitutents.WitteringsfromWitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16026875251366365154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-26455284782789075022011-04-09T06:49:01.681+01:002011-04-09T06:49:01.681+01:00"Oh yes I'm sure they took the rights of ...<i>"Oh yes I'm sure they took the rights of his new family to have a "man" in their life into account..."</i><br /><br />They still can, even if he's deported. They could go with him. <br /><br />Good riddance.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.com