Australia:
‘How top judges go soft on worst crims
HALF of all defendants who challenged convictions or sentences in the Court of Appeal last year succeeded, leaving crime victims feeling betrayed.

…….* A thug who used a cricket bat in an unprovoked attack on a teenage stranger and a man who came to the teen’s aid, inflicting a fractured skull and a broken arm. He was given three years’ jail, entirely suspended.
….A serial offender with four convictions for drink-driving who critically injured a pedestrian – who later died – as he rode an unregistered, unlit motorcycle at night while disqualified, drunk, and speeding. His minimum jail term was 16 months.’

What these elitist idiots don’t “get” is that for a certain type of person, only the prospect of severe consequences prevents them from behaving like feral assholes. These judges have the luxury of showing “mercy” because they’re largely sheltered from the kind of lowlifes they pamper. Why does Singapore–for example–not have a problem with this kind of thing? Apparently the connection between crime and consequences is too complicated for Australian judges to make.

‘A MAN wearing a “drink responsibly, pace yourself” T-shirt charged with drink driving after allegedly crashing into a security guard twice.’       source

KARL du FRESNE, talking about the use of that slimy word “inappropriate”:

‘“At the core of the increasingly hysterical debate … lies a choice between a free
society – in which we accept that a minority of people will behave criminally or
irresponsibly, and take reasonable steps to control them and minimise the harm
done – and an unfree society, in which unreasonable constraints on the responsible majority are justified by the need to control the behaviour of the irresponsible minority.”

‘…Obama and his justice department are siding with criminals against the citizens of America. Arizona is attempting to restore order to a system of chaos created by the federal government. Instead of welcoming the help and choosing to uphold the U.S. Constitution, the Obama administration is imposing a socialist dictatorship and has drawn a line in the Arizona sand. The question is now whether that line becomes “Ground Zero” for this century’s American Revolution—a fight against the Balkanization of our country, and the eradication of our borders, our sovereignty and ultimately, our nation.’   source

‘…..One must admire the leftists’ determination and skill, if not their goals. Under the banners of “fairness” and “equality,” the Obamunists are conducting a master class in how to seduce a people into self-enslavement. America’s one hope of halting the lessons without bloodshed lies in the elections of Novembers 2010 and 2012. Should those fall short — should we fail to dethrone enough statists and aspiring tyrants to arrest and reverse our slide into bondage — we will fetter not only ourselves, but our posterity into the remote future. The sole Christian-Enlightenment society remaining on Earth will have been toppled from the heights of the nations by the actions — and inactions — of its own people, without its external enemies having fired a shot.’

‘Master Class’

‘A 32-year-old took the needle into his hands when he tired of the wait at Sundsvall hospital in northern Sweden and sewed up the cut in his leg himself. The man was later reported to the police for his impromptu handiwork.
…….But hospital staff were not as impressed by his initiative and have reported the man on suspicion of arbitrary conduct for having used hospital equipment without authorization.’     source

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“..don’t tell me how much you’ve given, don’t tell me how tired you are, don’t tell me how frustrating it is.
This country was created by people who were willing to say “victory or death” while marching in burlap bags in the middle of a snowstorm.
We’re going to have to find those people again..
..we’re going to have to isolate and crush the socialist secular left…”

Newt Gingrich, from an inspiring video clip posted by  Col. B. Bunny over at Eternity Road