Is This Law And Order?
Is The Law not an amazing thing?
Originally it was intended to protect the innocent against criminal elements but lately it seems that it is merely in place to protect the rights of criminals while it does nothing for the victim who, apparently, has no rights. Well, so it seems. And it would appear that The Law favors the one who can gather the most and the best liars to testify in his favor.
Even more amazing is that a family man, a father of daughters himself, can afford a temporary lapse in morals to defend a rapist and then be congratulated all round when he gets a guilty criminal off the hook on a technicality, smiling at the journalists all the way to the bank, claiming that justice had prevailed; all for money and a pat on the back. And afterwards he goes home and writes a letter to the local newspaper to complain about the lawlessness in the city.
It is times like this when I wonder why we still have a code of laws. Anarchy can’t be much worse when stealing is okay if the thief was hungry or when murder is tolerable if the murderer was upset and even worse, when a short dress is seen as mitigation for rape.
And when the court gets it right to send a criminal to jail, all you can do is wonder how much of the sentence will be served before he picks up a ‘Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free’ card due to over-full prisons.
Methinks it is too comfortable in the prisons and sometimes I wonder if those convicts are not upset when they are kicked out of the prisons before their time. It would certainly explain why they end up back in there, often within a few weeks.
Enjoy the day and in case I'm not around at the time, Merry Xmas!
