Met an old friend for lunch today and the topic of vandals and ordinary crims came up. I was telling him that (and I have had this confirmed by a member of the relevant authority) each and every person in Ireland that is sent to jail, automatically receives a 12.5 to 25% reduction on their sentence BEFORE they even leave the court !!! No matter what their behaviour is whilst in jail, they get this reduction.
I cannot confirm which of our 'genius' Justice Ministers brought this in, but when asked, a recent Minister said that is was a 'good' human rights thing to have !! These people have gotta be joking and have obviously NEVER been the victims of a crime(s).
It is in light of policies like this that the phrase 'bleeding heart liberals' becomes bandied around, and it is easy to see why. Our Judges often react quite virulently when criticised about their sentencing and they resist all attempts to make a more transparent system, with mandatory sentencing for certain crimes. It is all too easy to point out the ones that make the headlines, but the system does need a radical overhaul.
There was one female judge, no longer sitting in court, who used be quite lenient on those who appeared before her, charged with 'bag snatching', gentling reprimanding them and scolding them, like some sort of embarrassed mother of an unruly urchin - can you guess what happened next ? Yep ! You got it - her bag was 'snatched' - quite violently as it happened, and from then on, every person in front of her, got the full 'treatment'. Do Judges need to see what live is like 'on the streets' and not 'in their club' or in their 'leafy suburbs' ?
Another person who pleaded guilty to the rape of a foreign national in the South East, got a five year sentence, with two years suspended and the judge noted in his remarks that the guilty party was a man of some standing and character !!! You wouldn't believe it if you read it in a book ! You'd think it was too far fetched. Imagine if you will, if that girl (who was believed to be a prostitute) was Irish, and was related to the Judge ? Would there be a different outcome ?
The 'do-gooders' of this world, have turned society into a laughing stock from the criminal classes. They are simply laughing at the protection afforded TO them BY us, their victims. Don't get me wrong - I know they're not Revolutionary Bombers or trying to incite hatred from one society to another - what they are, is ordinary indecent bloody criminals who sometimes need a bloody good kick in the jaxxy - if you know what I mean ?
Oh... but they from disadvantaged families in disadvantaged areas .... poor little lads and lasses ..... we should help them ..... show them we care .... blah blah blah. Former Mountjoy Prison Governor John Lonergan, used identify three areas of Dublin's Inner City as being the areas where 90% of his 'clients' are from - but what bout the hundreds and thousands of people who come from and came from these areas, that never turned to crime ?
The Human Rights activists tell us that these people were bored and that is why they turned to crime - they had nothing to do !!! boo hoo - I had nothing to do when I was a 12, 13, 14 year old, but I didn't turn to crime, nor did my friends or family - is that now considered to be LUCKY - no way - that, in my view, is NORMAL.
I don't want prison to return to some Dickensian Institution, but surely, when you are sent to prison, it is supposed to one place that you never want to go back to ? The amount of recidivism in Irish prisons is MASSIVE - you'll never see an Irish prison on those channels that show the worst penitentaries in the world !
Here's a novel idea for those who, in my mind, are overly concerned about the 'rights' of our prisoners - IF YOU INFRINGE UPON THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS BY YOUR ACTIONS, OR AS A RESULT OF YOUR ACTIONS, THEN YOU CAN NO LONGER AVAIL OF YOUR OWN RIGHTS - INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND KICK YOUR OWN INTO TOUCH !
Does it not seem absurd to you, that a person can break into your house, be caught by you, or indeed injure themselves somehow, and they can successfully sue YOU ?! The law says that perhaps they might have strayed into your house BY MISTAKE - has this EVER happened ? has it ever happened often enough to be enshrined in our law ? What a load of old bullocks !
However, I will admit, that if we put the same amount of monies into the early schooling years that most other OECD Countries do, we might start to produce young children, who MIGHT not get involved in crime, but MIGHT go further in education and stay 'in the system' longer. There's no point in having free third level education to try and encourage people from certain income levels to go on to third level, when a huge amount of them haven't even finished secondary level
Think about it ..................
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