I am a hypocrite. I'm not proud and I feel ashamed. I always try to be fair and have a consistent view over time unless I am presented with new evidence to the contrary.
I previously posted on the perversity of a legal system that imprisoned a teacher for six months who was driven to take extreme measures (firing an air gun) to defend her family and their property from the local yobs (sixteen year old voters, Charles?) but took no action against the yobs themselves. I took the view that she should not have been imprisoned in the first place and that she was let down by the law of the land being the proverbial Ass. Much to my delight, she has been released, having served just one month in prison. However, I find the reasons around this ever so slightly disturbing. Why has she been released early if she was imprisoned for six months? Was it because some people (including myself) screamed and hollered about her imprisonment? Did the authorities cave in to her hunger strike? Do we now live in a country where people can be released early if their family and friends shout or holler loudly enough? Was it the legal system dispensing justice rather than the law?
See, I said I was a hypocrite...
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Was she released because there is an election today?
It's simply a coincidence!! Even Tony Blair said he could do nothing about the case the other day...
It's a political move, no doubt about it. She's been banged up 'to discourage the others' then released so she can't be an icon of Nu Labs failures on crime the way Tony Martin was.
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