UK society's strange priorities
UK society's strange priorities
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ellroy

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7,550 posts

242 months

Sunday 1st November 2009
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Just noticed this, parking in the wrong place or speeding getting a harsher sentence than hard drug possession? WTF?

Can someone please get a grip off this place.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/64756...

grumbledoak

32,196 posts

250 months

Sunday 1st November 2009
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Monetary penalties are absurd. Worse, they allow this wasteful bunch of planks to distort the already imperfect justice system to pay their own pensions.

The degree of outright stupidity displayed by this bunch has been staggering.

AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

234 months

Sunday 1st November 2009
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It does say an awful lot about how society in the UK, has got to where it has, when class A possession is deemed worthy of lesser fines than stopping on double yellows for a couple of minutes.

Think a root and branch review of laws and the legal system is in order after 12 years of socialist subversion

Schmeeky

4,236 posts

234 months

Sunday 1st November 2009
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The lunatics have taken over the asylum....

glazbagun

14,933 posts

214 months

Sunday 1st November 2009
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I was thinking about this the other day, and I believe it's simply a covert method of taxation. Fines for speeding, parking in a place for too long, littering... it's not about deterrent- it's about taxing human nature

NismoGT

1,634 posts

207 months

Sunday 1st November 2009
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Drug dealers = Hard to arrest

Motorists = Easy to sting


carreauchompeur

18,214 posts

221 months

Sunday 1st November 2009
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Drug addicts possessing drugs: On the whole, pointless to fine as drug addiction is, in the main, funded by the commission of crime.


rypt

2,548 posts

207 months

Sunday 1st November 2009
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carreauchompeur said:
Drug addicts possessing drugs: On the whole, pointless to fine as drug addiction is, in the main, funded by the commission of crime.
And surely illegal, profiteering on the back of criminal proceeds and so on biggrin

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

251 months

Sunday 1st November 2009
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Great, fine your average crackhead £200 for possession.

And then watch as they fund payment of the fine through criminal activities. Or not at all.

nonegreen

7,803 posts

287 months

Monday 2nd November 2009
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Cars are bad and drugs are good. Its the mantra of the green

jeff m

4,066 posts

275 months

Tuesday 3rd November 2009
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Parrot of Doom said:
Great, fine your average crackhead £200 for possession.

And then watch as they fund payment of the fine through criminal activities. Or not at all.
Go for assetts on the basis they were accrued by illegal activity.
Car, house, or in the case of a chav you would confiscate his hoody and his sneakers. He would be so piffed offbiggrin
Arrest again, repeat as neccessary.

thinfourth2

32,414 posts

221 months

Tuesday 3rd November 2009
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jeff m said:
Parrot of Doom said:
Great, fine your average crackhead £200 for possession.

And then watch as they fund payment of the fine through criminal activities. Or not at all.
Go for assetts on the basis they were accrued by illegal activity.
Car, house, or in the case of a chav you would confiscate his hoody and his sneakers. He would be so piffed offbiggrin
Arrest again, repeat as neccessary.
But what happens when he runs out of hoodies

I have an answer

We start removing body parts so the fines can be literally an arm and a leg