Re: Has Operation Ore left a scar on British justice?

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:42:18 +0100, Cynic <cynic_999@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:46:53 GMT, Svenne <tvaerskaegg@xxxxxxx> wrote:

But you are completley innocent and have been violated by malicious
bastards who you know are perfectly aware that you are probably
innocent but who don't give a *** and even lie and misrepresent in
order to get a conviction, then I'm sure that it would generate a
degree of hate and bitterness that would not exist if you had been
guilty and charged and prosecuted by people doing their job honestly
and fairly.

I'm not sure about that. People can get just as hateful and bitter
toward a person who "grassed them up" as they do toward a person who
framed them. Possibly even more so, because in the latter case there
is always the hope that your innocence may one day be proven and the
lying *** dealt with by the justice system.

A guilty person can also become very bitter against what s/he
considers to be people who are vindictively enforcing an unjust law.
Think of people who were convicted and imprisoned for homosexuality a
few decades ago. I expect many of them were very resentful of the
people who wanted them convicted when they were doing nobody any harm.

The test of a bad law is if it criminalises private behavior that does
no harm to innocent third parties.

But demonstrating that innocuous behaviour causes harm to others is
easy if the people you are trying to fool aren't too bright, just look
at that fuckwit Aidy and the tripe he has been spouting about how good
prohibiting drugs is.

I remember the days when homosexuality was illegal and the right wing
tabloids often had articles denouncing homosexuality and describing
the damage and destruction it would wreak on society if it were ever
legalised. Some of the stuff they wrote would get them prosecuted if
they printed it today.

Svenne
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