Jennie
Monday 12th May 2014 9:40pm [Edited]
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Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 12th May 2014, 10:30 PM BST
I can name any number of messed up legal judgements in the UK. The difference being is that the householder defending his property from criminals would be put in jail in the UK. That's how screwed up this country has become.
There is nothing quite as messed up as that. Firstly, there aren't many (if any) householders defending property in jail. Tony Martin made news because he was an exception.
Secondly, even if there were - at least that has a logic to it. You may disagree that they should be convicted, but at least that person picked up a gun and chose to shoot another person. The conviction of those boys in Indiana is entirely without logic.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 12th May 2014, 10:30 PM BST
As much as I'd like to believe in the fantasy that everyone on Death Row in America is an innocent victim fitted up by the state, that is simply not true.
I don't believe that for a second. Even if they are all guilty, even if there wasn't yet another miscarriage of justice reported last month for a chap who has been on death row for 30 years..it doesn't make it OK.
Notice how every other sophisticated Western society has ditched it? But not the Americans, they special.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 12th May 2014, 10:33 PM BST
And look at these Europeans - they're not even prisoners. What kind of sick society, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agDZMWH8oS8
a) The fact they are prisoners makes it worse - their choice to participate is constrained (do the rodeo for prison status and not get raped) as opposed to a totally free choice. They are lower in status to the baying crowds.
b) Those bulls look happy. Hardly any butting going on. When it briefly happens, there are safety stewards pulling the bulls away. Missing from the American rodeo.
c) The Spanish free people are allowed to run away! They are not required to remain in their pinball ring as part of the game.
I agree that's f**king weird, but hardly comparable.