Measure for measure!

The Daily Mail reports on the case in which a man, his wife, daughter and two sons returned home to find three intruders, one armed with a knife, inside their house.  They were threatened, forced to lie on the floor and be tied up.  Fortunately one of the sons made his escape and roused his uncle from a nearby house.  The intruders fled but one was chased and caught by the victim and his brother who then, to quote a phrase I remember vividly from an Indian friend of mine, "Gave the scallawag a jolly good walloping!"  This 'walloping' was aided by the use of a cricket bat and resulted in the 'scallawag' suffering brain damage.  He had a record of 54 previous convictions.  The victim and his brother were jailed for 30 and 39 months yesterday by Judge John Reddihough who thereby wins the coveted 'Cocklecarrot of the Year' award.  The judge's main point was that whilst the victim was entitled to use force to defend his family and home and force the intruders out, he was not entitled to chase them up the road and inflict punishment on them.  The judge said all this because he is useless, stupid, complacent, ignorant and intellectually corrupt. 

Let me begin by mentioning one of his previous cases.  On November 30th he sentenced a career burglar to 3 years in jail.  This villain had already received a previous jail term of 6 years but, as part of the criminal 'justice' racket of which Judge Reddihough is part, he had been released early and, as everyone in the real world (so that lets out Judge Reddihough) would have fully expected, he instantly returned to breaking and entering.  Within months he committed several offences.  Now, I don't know about you people, but if this recreant had come before me having already been sentenced to 6 years (albeit shortened by early release) I would have given him 12 years for the next series of offences - with no remission.  Judge Reddihough gave the man 3 years in the full and certain knowledge that he would be out in probably less than 18 months and back to his old 'trade'.  And I would remind you that the all-too-real result of this scum returning to his 'trade' is fear, mental trauma, loss of precious possessions, insecurity amongst dozens, perhaps hundreds, of totally innocent and law-abiding people.

Yesterday, His dis-Honour, the Judge, handed down an even longer sentence on one of the two law-abiding men and his justification was that he was duty bound to stop people taking the law into their own hands.  And this is where his intellectual corruption shows itself.  There is an unwritten contract between the state and the subject that it is the state alone which will take into its hands the power of punishment.  My question is quite simple, is the state defaulting on the contract? I, and I suspect (for I cannot know for sure) most law-abiding people in the land, are certain that the state, through its police and judicial system, has indeed reneged on the deal.  They are not inflicting punishment and when they do it is derisory - ask any of the scum who stroll out of courts with a caution or out of prisons having served less than half their sentences.  Put simply they are not protecting and defending us.  Consequently, I think people have the right in certain circumstances to inflict their own punishment, and whilst they should answer in a court for their actions, a defence of fear and anger at the implicit threat to yourself or your family as a result of armed intruders in your home should be a sufficient.

Of course, there is another aspect to this which shows the moral degeneration of the likes of Judge Reddihough, and that is their closed shop, trade union mentality.  Remember, all this system of so-called justice is the way they earn their living.  Their fat fees as barristers, their social advancement as judges, their eventual hope of enoblement, all depend on them running and controlling the courts.  Hence their fear and loathing of the great unwashed having any part of so called 'law and order'. 

I wish I knew where Judge Reddihough lived, I'd publish his home address in an instant and hope that some drugged-up, sub-human mouth-breather broke into his house and threatened his wife and children.

Comments

[Rob]

The same corrupt judge a few months ago handed out a ridiculously lenient sentence to 3 teenagers who tortured, burned, sexually abused and robbed another teenager. Here :

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2055660_teenagers_jailed_for_sadistic_attack

[David Duff]

Rob, thank you (I think!) for the link which was so appalling I could hardly read it to the end. And Reddihough's sentence of 16 and 10 months for two of the torturers simply defies belief.

However, to ensure m' learned friends do not take an excessive interest in this thread I am sure that when you typed your comment and referred to the judge as "corrupt" it was your understandable fury that made you forget to put the word 'intellectually' before it!

[JK]

There is a very disagreeable means by which the "system" can be induced to carry on it's side of the bargain er, contract. But "disagreeable" doesn't come close to 'splaining the sheer messiness necessitated - (mostly because it takes a true cock-up by a member of either the judicial or the legislative branches) - before "the branches" realize the mistake(s).

http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2009/12/mike_huckabee_selling_and_spla.aspx

I have to think your former PM doesn't hold a candle to our former Gub'ner.

[Umbongo]

DD

I don't agree that Reddihough is either actually or morally corrupt: he's just a common or garden idiot who has been promoted far beyond his competence. I'm sure he was a bundle of laughs at (I assume, with no proof at all) meetings of his local Labour Party. As to moral corruption in our justice system this http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Grimsby-Crown-Court-bids-fond-farewell-Judge-Reddihough/article-940343-detail/article.html illustration of human mendacity takes a lot of beating.

[JK]

DD,

Aware that your emphasis is guidedd primarily by Conservative Ideals (and in the knowledge that this blog's commentors are primarily the Liberal ilk) I know I need to balance it out. Don't wish to have you off your nut Sir.

http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2009/12/the_clemmons_clemency.aspx

[David Duff]

Oh, we get all sorts here, 'JK', 'Right', 'Left', 'Centre', 'Don't Know' and 'Couldn't Care Less'! However, speaking for myself, I do know about Huckerbee and that is the certainty that he's a pill!

'Bongers', yes, I read that oozing load of tripe from Grimsby - yuk!

[JuliaM]

I think what Mr Hussein did wrong was to not immediately claim that he and his brother were trying to put Salem out of his misery upon realising he had a broken leg.

Or alternatively admit the offence on the grounds that they 'thought it woyld be fun'...

[David Duff]

Oh, Julia, you're a tonic!

[Malcolm Pollack]

Well said, David. Some jobs just need doing. Somebody has to provide a deterrent.

[David Duff]

Indeed, Malcolm, and I always recall Mark Steyn's description of life in rural England where people would go out leaving their doors unlocked and their windows open and burglary was minimal. Of course he was referring toNew England where householders are allowed to keep guns and if you blew away a burglar you got a letter of commendation from the local sheriff!

[Al Strickland]

I thought the USA had gotten ridiculous, but this is unbelievable. I wish I lived near this judge. He would be in Hell tomorrow.

[David Duff]

Welcome to D&N, Al. By coincidence I am hearing today via Fox News about some multiple child killer in the USA who was known to the authorities as dangerous but was somehow released into the community. It seems we share a common pool of utter stupidity verging on criminal negligence on the part of our respective systems of law and order.