People who won’t get vaxxed. People who parade through the “sacred” halls of the US Congress. But that’s for another post. This one is about ordinary criminals.
In these two posts – Do The Crime. Do The Time 1 and Part 2) I looked at the failure of “Progressive” crime policies in the USA, where things like bail reform and reduced charging thresholds, among other changes, have led to surge in violent crime across the nation, especially in Blue cities.
But the incredible thing is that they are pursuing criminals with harsh measures – just not the criminals that normal, sane, based people would recognise:
It was a little more than a year ago—right before Thanksgiving, as COVID-19 raged—that Jessica committed her crime: She let her 7-year-old son and his friend, age 5, play at the park while she went to buy a turkey.
For this, she faced criminal charges, as well as being listed for 25 years on Arizona’s Central Registry, a secret blacklist that functions similarly to the sex offender registry but is less publicly accessible.
Parenting kids is tough enough without dealing with this sort of shit.
Then there’s the treatment of the kids themselves as sex offenders:
“the fourth-grade students were playing a game of tag that escalated when a boy began making inappropriate comments and movements toward the girls. One of the boys also wrapped his arms around one of the girls.”
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The boy has been charged with a fourth-degree sexual offense. Even if he avoids prison time, under Maryland law someone convicted with a fourth-degree sexual offense will be put on a sexual offender registry for fifteen years. This casts serious doubt on whether he will ever go to college or find gainful employment.
The incident arose during a classroom discussion at Westridge Middle School on Sept. 18, 2019, when a young girl was asked, theoretically, if she could kill any five people in the room, whom she would pick. The 13-year-old girl then pointed to four fellow students and herself, using her hand to mimic a “finger gun.” She was subsequently sent to the principal’s office, where the school resource officer recommended that she be arrested. With the principal’s approval, the school resource officer then took the girl outside, handcuffed and arrested her, transported her to a juvenile detention center, and charged her with a felony.
Parents are relentlessly criticized for having 27-year-old basement dwellers, but has anyone considered that it has something to do with the fact that they’ve all been raised in a fear state with no autonomy or freedom?
Then there are things like this from Sweden, where a young man was attending the trial of the men who had raped and tortured him:
When the alleged rapists erupted into laughter as video footage of the abuse was being played for the court, Friberg stood up and made the Nazi salute. In response, the defendants became irate and had to be detained. The trial was subsequently adjourned.
Adjourned so that more weighty matters could be attended to, namely his “offending” them:
When asked by Kvállposten why he resorted to the use of this particular gesture, Kenny replied: “I did it because it was the quickest thing I could come up with to offend them, in the heat of the moment.”
Well we can’t have that. The wheels of Justice grind slowly but finely….
Later that day, Friberg was charged with incitement against an ethnic group, which he was later found guilty of.
Because of course he was. He’s in good company though:
On Monday, Denmark’s high-power court convicted Inger Stoejberg, who served as the country’s immigration minister between 2015-19, for ordering the separation of refugees couples if the woman was under 18.
Stoejberg’s 2016 order, as she argues, was aimed at stamping out the practice of child brides who were being imported into the country in the wake of the migrant wave. “A total of 23 couples were separated, with the wives ranging in age from 15 to 17 years,” Germany’s DW News reported.
The so-called Impeachment Court, specially set up for Stoejberg’s trial, “agreed that the order had violated Danish law and the European Convention on Human Rights,” the TV network Euronews reported.
The court’s judgment cannot be challenged and the former minister is expected to serve the 60-day sentence. “The verdict cannot be appealed and the jail sentence is unconditional, meaning that it must be served,” the BBC reported.
Sixty days is a pretty light sentence though so I’m sure she was fine (I mean, come on, Danish woman’s prisons). It’s also nice that they merely labeled her as a member of the “centre-right Venstre Party”, rather than Extreme Far Right. I guess that means the “centre-right” still serves a purpose, at least for being locked up.
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