I have been influenced by injustice lately. In fact, angered by it... There have been two high profile news stories in BC this week about people who have committed crimes and have either gotten off scott free or had their original trials overturned by the courts.
The first was regarding two idiots who were driving way too fast for their abilities who ran down an elderly woman last year. People are all in a tizzy over the fact that "street racing" is on the increase, but in my mind, here were people who, with little regard for anyone but themselves driving irresponsibly and they killed someone! Their sentence, by the courts is a five-year suspension of their licenses and two years under house arrest, where they can go to work but all other times they have to be supervised. Street racing is the least of our problems. There are a great deal of people who think that their car is their domain and that everyone else who is on the road don't know how to drive. These people will drive too fast, too erratically and just generally do not pay attention to what their ability to be behind the wheel. Take for example all of those people who, during a huge downpour in our city last week, failed to slow down and drive with due caution. They say "Well, I was driving the posted speed limit"... Wake up people! Do you not remember from your written drivers' test that those limits are posted for ideal conditions? Like dry, well-lighted roads?
The second case is that of the teenage girl who was tried and found guilty of beating another teenage girl, breaking her limbs and then leaving her in a local waterway to drown. Her case was overturned this week because the prosecution asked her some questions "deemed inappropriately by the court". This infuriates me. Did the defense not catch this at the time of the trial and object to it? What kind of crap is this? Surely, a trained lawyer would have noticed inappropriate questioning when it happened! Why did they wait so long to bring this up? This girl also in on bail after serving only part of her sentence.
In both of these cases, people are free even though they committed a crime. Can someone tell me when society starting allowing people to shun their responsibilities? Since when has accountability been made redundant. These people killed someone. The first may have been unintentional but who out there doesn't know that a ton of metal that travels at high speeds is a dangerous weapon! And the second, well, a girl is dead because of a malicious human being who has no regard for life. She was so self-absorbed in her own pettiness and now she thinks that she deserves a break... some compassion as it might be. Where was her compassion when she held her victims' head under the water and drained the life out of her! And let's not forget our accountability in all of this. If we did not sit back and let the system make our decisions for us, we probably wouldn't be having discussions about this. Hopefully, it wouldn't have been happening.
Any thoughts on this? Please share them.
News Flash! My blog guru informed me that my comments thingy was replicating all of my comments so, in an attempt to fix it, it appears that I have rubbed them all out. Please, if you commented, take a few minutes to reenter your comments. I will be entering the domicile of my guru hopefully tomorrow and she will advise me. Until then, I am not entirely sure that this will hold. Thank you for your patience!
The first was regarding two idiots who were driving way too fast for their abilities who ran down an elderly woman last year. People are all in a tizzy over the fact that "street racing" is on the increase, but in my mind, here were people who, with little regard for anyone but themselves driving irresponsibly and they killed someone! Their sentence, by the courts is a five-year suspension of their licenses and two years under house arrest, where they can go to work but all other times they have to be supervised. Street racing is the least of our problems. There are a great deal of people who think that their car is their domain and that everyone else who is on the road don't know how to drive. These people will drive too fast, too erratically and just generally do not pay attention to what their ability to be behind the wheel. Take for example all of those people who, during a huge downpour in our city last week, failed to slow down and drive with due caution. They say "Well, I was driving the posted speed limit"... Wake up people! Do you not remember from your written drivers' test that those limits are posted for ideal conditions? Like dry, well-lighted roads?
The second case is that of the teenage girl who was tried and found guilty of beating another teenage girl, breaking her limbs and then leaving her in a local waterway to drown. Her case was overturned this week because the prosecution asked her some questions "deemed inappropriately by the court". This infuriates me. Did the defense not catch this at the time of the trial and object to it? What kind of crap is this? Surely, a trained lawyer would have noticed inappropriate questioning when it happened! Why did they wait so long to bring this up? This girl also in on bail after serving only part of her sentence.
In both of these cases, people are free even though they committed a crime. Can someone tell me when society starting allowing people to shun their responsibilities? Since when has accountability been made redundant. These people killed someone. The first may have been unintentional but who out there doesn't know that a ton of metal that travels at high speeds is a dangerous weapon! And the second, well, a girl is dead because of a malicious human being who has no regard for life. She was so self-absorbed in her own pettiness and now she thinks that she deserves a break... some compassion as it might be. Where was her compassion when she held her victims' head under the water and drained the life out of her! And let's not forget our accountability in all of this. If we did not sit back and let the system make our decisions for us, we probably wouldn't be having discussions about this. Hopefully, it wouldn't have been happening.
Any thoughts on this? Please share them.
News Flash! My blog guru informed me that my comments thingy was replicating all of my comments so, in an attempt to fix it, it appears that I have rubbed them all out. Please, if you commented, take a few minutes to reenter your comments. I will be entering the domicile of my guru hopefully tomorrow and she will advise me. Until then, I am not entirely sure that this will hold. Thank you for your patience!
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home