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Tough on minor crime, lenient on serious crime?
Is this where political correctness is taking us? A mother who hit her 8-year old son on the shoulder with a hairbrush is to be prosecuted, while her son has been taken into care.
A man who sprayed shops with a concoction containing his own wee and poo has been jailed for 9 years when he should really be receiving psychiatrc treatment.
Yet a policeman who pushed over an innocent bystander, possibly causing his death, and another one who was filmed attacking a woman demonstrator, have merely been suspended.
A family who organised a brutal fatal attack on an innocent man have been jailed for life, but recommeneded minimum terms of 14-18 years.
How long before you get life imprisonment for putting your rubbish in the wrong sack and an OBE for filming yourself kicking a pensioner to death on your mobile?
Further evidence of my theory posted above, fresh from the BBC News website – Tory MP Damien Green says he was told by police he could face life imprisonment if convicted of leaking government secret.
@bassingbourne55 wrote:
Further evidence of my theory posted above, fresh from the BBC News website – Tory MP Damien Green says he was told by police he could face life imprisonment if convicted of leaking government secret.
’tis madness.
Everybody has these stories of over-reaction. Last week an 11 year old boy had four policemen knock on his door. He had called a classmate ‘Gay’ in an e-mail. But kids have been using this term for donkeys and by it they mean ‘Naff’ not ‘Homosexual’. Surely there should be a teacher or childrens social worker present in this kind of situation – someone who can translate for Mr Plod.
Which proves that the English language evolves a lot faster than the authorities can sort out their wasteful operational methods, which will include having to attend a hearing as the parents have made a complaint and imagine the paperwork now involved.
Public Service department think they can run things like a business and use buzzwords like ‘Internal Market’ and ‘Consumers’ but it’s all rather a load of round-shaped fingys really.
On our money..
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