Bag's Rants

Oh goody! Justice based on personal feelings.

'Victims may decide inmates' fate' are the headlines. The text says plans for this are being considered by our new Home Secretary. Read more here. This is sure to be a good votewinner. It will allow revenge to be used against criminals and thus ease the victims torment a little. Unfortunately it will only be used against a certain element of the criminal class and only by certain elements. A few people will raise a media frenzy about someone and they will get punished out of all proportion. Who will speak up for Justice?

Isn't justice supposed to be blind to weigh up the crimes and mete out punishment. I'm all for crime and punishment but it needs to be consistent which it won't be under this stupid proposal. If they punished correctly in the first place then people would not be complaining. Let them put people in jail for life and mean it. Not life and out in six years. People see no justice and complain. The reply is this sort of political crap. Still not justice but people who want to can persecute and get their revenge. Victims are happy because they see a punishment being made. Government are happy because they are not getting moaned at. Who cares about the guilty? Well to be honest no one, not even me. Whatever they get it should have been more anyway.

Let's get rid of all this which just makes a mockery of Justice and make the default punishments fit the crime and them make then do the time. That way crime will come down, either they will be locked up or too frightened to move. Costs may soar initially but longer term it will be better. People won't moan then either.

posted by Bag @ 4:56 pm