of rape & lawyers
I have never made any bones about the fact that I am ‘a hanger & a flogger’. In fact, if I had my way, & you never know dear readers, that glorious day may come, the current problems relating to prison overcrowding will be resolved with alacrity. So, should you open your newspaper one morning & see that your humble correspondent has been declared benevolent dictator for life, phone your broker immediately & go long in Free Market Hemp Rope Company stock because their order book is going to be very very full.
I freely confess to you all, with head hung in shame, that in my more benevolent & liberal younger days, I favoured a policy of mere transportation. However with the benefit of both age & hindsight, I have come to realise that such a policy has way too many hidden social costs - now that former colonies have retaliated by inflicting soap operas like Home & Away on the mother country.
The one collective exemption my Tyburn Tree Decree, would be the legal profession because every time I think of them en masse I get this picture in my mind that just wont go away… of a pile of corpses, all with still smoking large calibre exit wounds. Now maybe one or two of my more rational liberal readers (are there any?) might think that these policies are a tad extreme – right before you realise how much money the taxpayer would be saved & how much you will have ‘stagged’ on the aforementioned share trades.
But to illustrate my point, I would like you to consider the case of Dwayne Best & the manner in which it has been handled by the legal profession.
Dwayne Best from East Dulwich at the age of 15, assaulted & raped a Westminster City School teacher. During the rape, Best partially strangled the 28-year-old teacher, her left her beaten, with a black eye & in need of 13 stitches.
Best was convicted of the crime & even in my most authoritarian rage, I concede that every felon, no matter how utterly vile, has a right to its day in court. Once convicted however, as Best was, it is my most grovelling assertion that all so-called rights go straight out of the window – other than to request that the hangman ensures that the excellent & durable products of the Free Market Hemp Rope Company are properly oiled.
However, our Nu Labour infiltrated bleeding heart liberal criminals have feelings as well legal profession have created a system that the likes of Best can be sentenced to life imprisonment yet could be eligible for release on licence after 4 1/2 years. That isn’t justice, that’s a repeat offenders mandate. Wilkins, please pass me the mess Webley & the spare .455 ammunition – I will be needing all of it.
Now I might be a happier sort of chap if the story ended there, but sadly & with the sickeningly inevitability of my little Toni’s Britain it doesn’t. Convicted rapist criminal pondlife Best goes to the High Court to try & keep his name out of the press. He had initially not been named because of his age (what!), a ban which was later lifted & then challenged by Best's lawyers … & you might be wondering who is paying the stratospheric costs of a legal challenge in the High Court? Us, that’s who. Us increasingly poor taxpayers that fund this country’s increasingly absurd & wasteful Legal Aid system that serves no purpose than keeping barristers in increasingly large holiday homes in Tuscany. Still think that there shouldn’t be an annual lawyer cull? May be the season could start with terriermen going cubbing in law schools?
I remain completely flabbergasted that a convicted violent rapist like Best thinks that the legal system & legal profession might keep his name out of the public domain because of his age – if you are old enough to commit such despicable crimes then the public has the right to know - & maybe the legal profession might want to stop trying to use bad laws to protect wicked people, at our expense.
Comments
I have to agree with you Mr FM. Why should any criminal remain annoymous? If the're (which I doubt) ashamed of their crime well they shouldn't have done it should they?
Legal aid (like all aid) would be best abolished lawyers fees would automatically come down to a more market driven level, and as for those that can't afford it then it would be tough, but there's no reason to suppose that lawyers pro bono work would cease, or to suppose that people are generally incapable of answering for their actions, before a court, without a lawyer present.
Posted by: fdm | July 13, 2005 10:25 AM
"Our Dwayne" should never be allowed to see sunlight again.
As for the lawyers, I suggest a large oubliette.
Posted by: nbc | July 13, 2005 11:16 AM
Mr. FM, you old softie! No, cure the problem at once by the public hanging of one hundred lawyers across the country, chosen at random. No drawing or quartering for the first offence mind you.
Posted by: Solomon | July 13, 2005 1:47 PM
You sweet thing, you! At least here we haven't disarmed our people YET, although that is around the corner as the Po-lice will confiscate a weapon used in self defense, even though the District Attorney's office would be in agreement with the use of aforementioned weapon.
Pepper spray, a tazer and if he still keeps coming up, kill him.
Posted by: Cricket | July 14, 2005 11:55 PM
What the other people said too. I detest trials, but the bleeding hearts will tell you it is all about the children, and for their sake, doncha know?
Posted by: Cricket | July 14, 2005 11:57 PM
Well Said, if it is a little tounge in cheek ,When is this countrys leaders going to listen to what the people want and not pander to these human rights brigades. This guy might be walking the streets in four and a half years from now, what about the poor woman this is something she will live with and no doubt take that terrible memory to her grave what about her human rights. This guy needs to be named and shamed remember he could be living next door to your wife/sister/mother in just four and a half years
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