The
Law Is An Ass (1)
It would seem that if you are a judge - and therefore one who
assumedly knows the law - there is now one law for judges and
another for us. There was the recent case of the Crown Court
judge who had accumulated child porn on his computer, yet was
allowed to walk free from court by another judge. He was given
community rehabilitation (whatever that is), placed on the sex
offender’s register and had to pay £55 costs. Although retiring
on ‘ill health’ just prior to the case, he will still be allowed
to call himself ‘His Honour’ as well as receiving his full
pension of £33K per year, plus a lump sum of almost £75K.
Although claiming to have no interest in children of either sex,
he admitted: "There may have been subconscious forces at play."
Don’t tell me he pleaded guilty to save the public money - he
pleaded guilty because that’s exactly what he was.
The Law Is An Ass (2)
Call me a cynic, doom and gloom merchant
or even a Victor Meldrew-in-waiting, but I still cannot believe
that judges are of this or any other planet. Remember the case
of the Afghan hijackers at Stansted? Initially, the Home
Secretary of the time, Jack (man of) Straw, said that they would
be sent home at the earliest possible time. It seems that the
men of the judiciary still don’t think that the time has come
because Afghanistan "is still not stable enough."
So why did we bomb the hell out of the country and get rid of the
Taliban? Just when will it be safe for these people to go home?
So far they have cost we taxpayers millions in housing benefits,
not to mention the legal aid they have quickly learned to use.
They are not allowed to work, so contribute nothing to the
economy and are just another drop in the drain on our reserves.
In the meantime, care homes for the elderly are closing daily
because of the lack of government funding… |
Chas Kissin
Monumental Folly
First came the Dome, a vision of the
future that nobody came to see. Next was the ‘wobbly bridge’,
another slice of one man’s vanity as a memorial to himself. Now
we have the Diana paddling pool, closed almost as soon as it
opened because children were paddling in it and slipping over -
not to mention dogs using it for you-know-whats! Did the
designer not think that on a hot day in the park, a water
fountain-come-paddling pool would not be used for that purpose?
Fancy building it close to trees where leaves would obviously
fall into it, clogging up the drains and falling onto the grass
verge making it slippery under foot - possibly causing little
ones to fall over and hurt themselves. It’s opening again as I
write, but bet on it that it will be ringed off so that the
public can no longer use it, but just stare in amazement at yet
another designers monument to themselves. Even now, how long
before it is filled with disused tin cans and supermarket
trolleys…?
Chas Kissin (P99J) |
