Our legal ass stinks

7 December

Are you as surprised over the football child sex story that has broken? I certainly am, but why are we surprised? Saville showed that where kids are available there are men who will prey on them. I’m more surprised now that is out in the open that is has taken so long to happen. We should be asking whether it is happening in other sports and activities that haven’t come to light yet.

In most activities these days there are ridged child protection measures in place, and yet even there the odd one gets through, even with a criminal records check. But perhaps the most disturbing concern is the sentencing when these people get to court. A report on MSN this morning, (which now seems to have disappeared!) was about a man in Greater Manchester who befriended girls as young as 11 and threatened to kill them if they didn’t send him photos of themselves naked. He eventually got sent down to nine year after admitting a number of offences against young girls. Nine years is not enough in my mind, but it’s made worse because he will spend six of those years ‘on licence’. And yet this is his second court appearance in two years for the same type of offence.

What is wrong with these judges? Can’t they see the danger these people are to kids everywhere? That man will come out in three years and start all over again and we, the tax paying public, will have to pay for another court case after more kids are harmed, perhaps permanently so, because a judge didn’t act properly in the public interest in the first place. Enough of that though, what about nine other judges who are looking into the possibility of forcing our government to ignore the people of the UK.

‘BREXIT means BREXIT’ says our new prime muppet. After the referendum there were calls for Article 50 to implemented the day after the result was announced. Well, I can understand that once Daft Dave had said he was standing down, then of course there had to be a delay while the replacement was chosen. But I see no reason why it shouldn’t have been triggered after she over. Now we have a situation where the tax paying public, having made its voice heard, is having to pay even more money because someone who has more money than common sense, doesn’t like the democratic choice made and has raised a case. I hope she fails this time round and is ordered to pay all costs involved. The British legal system is certainly broken in pieces.

A lot of the problem however lies in that we don’t have a written constitution as such. Ours is laid down in the long held traditions and practices we have had since Magna Carta. It’s not wonder there so many who think differently about what it means and says. But do we really want such a document as the US has? I’m not so sure folks; look at all the problems they have in their legal system where lawyers earn mega-dosh on interpreting that document to suit their needs and wants. Do we really want to go down that road? I don’t at least.

Today’s photo …

I don’t know what this guy has to do with Sandvik, or is he taken advantage of the tree …

Today’s funny …

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Ferdie.
Ferdie who?
Ferdie last time, open the door.