Crime and Punishment in Ireland
by planetparker
The sentence handed down to Frank Dunlop shows once again how blind and socially prejudiced the Irish courts are. He’d have got a heavier sentence for having multiple welfare claims. But this reiterates what every one knows: Irish jails are for poor people – knackers, people from the other side of the tracks who aren’t members of golf clubs.
There is another peculiarity of the Irish judicial system. Those who are prosecuted can get time taken off their sentence for the trauma of the prosecution itself. The fact that they have been outed as crooks and the resultant loss of social cachet is viewed as something deserving pity and the commiserations of the court. There is a glib saying in the ‘states; if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
But then there are the personnel of the judicial system: judges, barristers, solicitors. They wouldn’t know justice if it jumped up and bit them on their penises, though from what I have heard some of them are willing to pay a lot of money for the experience in the North Inner City.
Ireland does not have a justice system.
We have a judicial system, based on rules and laws that suit the rich elite and not the poor.
One has to wonder- why did our Government not bring back the Brehon Justice system, based on honour, where we had no prisons and lttle crime.
I loved the way the elite and clergy had to pay the price of their crimes- eric.
Oh the very thought of it- the rich having to pay 10 or 20 times more than the poor.
Now that was Justice, seen to be done, rather than the JUST US system of today based on British system of maritime law.
As Dr Wrennell says- keep the bastards honest.!!!