tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post5176284879468658882..comments2024-03-28T18:32:00.146+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Well, Of Course He Did!JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-76275632734299057092012-05-02T10:43:27.439+01:002012-05-02T10:43:27.439+01:00The Police may arrest someone for an offence but i...The Police may arrest someone for an offence but it is up to the Crown Proscution Service (CPS - also called the Criminal Protection Society or Couldn't Prosecute Satan, amongst others) to decide if a charge will be made and what the charge will be. Like all Government funded organisations, the CPS has targets to meet - number of successful prosecutions - and budgetary restraints. What happens is that the offender is charged with the original offence, but the (usually legal aid paid) defence solicitor will say that their client will plead not guilty to the original offence - thus causing a costly trial - but will plead guilty to a lesser offence. CPS agrees with this. The result is that the CPS is happy because the box for successful prosecution is ticked, alongside the one for keeping within budget; the defence brief is happy because their client received a lesser punishment; the offender is happy because they committed a serious crime and more or less got away with it; the Bench is happy because Justice was dispensed on the facts put before them. The only ones who are not happy are the victims, but they don't really count. They never do!<br />PenseivatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-17256732007240066372012-05-02T05:40:26.671+01:002012-05-02T05:40:26.671+01:00"Yet another precedent is being set."
...<i>"Yet another precedent is being set."</i> <br /><br />And it relates to the Internet, which they've long wanted to control.<br /><br /><i>"I'd be well hacked off if it was my car."</i> <br /><br />Me too!<br /><br /><i>"I'm assuming that at a time when famine was a constantly looming threat, burning granaries was considered to be more serious than anything else."</i> <br /><br />Quite so - a significant factor in the Egyptian worship of cats, as important vermin control.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-20015633590828070052012-05-01T19:52:41.283+01:002012-05-01T19:52:41.283+01:00For some reason this reminded me of something I re...For some reason this reminded me of something I read in a book once about the penalties for arson a few hundred years ago in Scotland. Basically arsonists were burned alive, those who set fire to granaries were also burned, but not burned quick.<br /><br />I'm assuming that at a time when famine was a constantly looming threat, burning granaries was considered to be more serious than anything else.Stonygroundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16564192847660157500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-59990108224276719562012-05-01T18:48:29.370+01:002012-05-01T18:48:29.370+01:00Ooooh...first ever spat with a spam filter ! Ta f...Ooooh...first ever spat with a spam filter ! Ta for saving me hahaTattynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-45233727516690353622012-05-01T17:22:31.860+01:002012-05-01T17:22:31.860+01:00Found it! It got marked as spam - god knows why! M...Found it! It got marked as spam - god knows why! Maybe the combination of a link plus block caps?<br /><br />*shrugs*<br /><br />Released from spam queue now.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-61451069993297470282012-05-01T16:20:15.439+01:002012-05-01T16:20:15.439+01:00I've not deleted any comments. Am just having ...I've not deleted any comments. Am just having a quick read of them all now on the train home!<br /><br />*mystified*JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-21990793835053704072012-05-01T15:28:06.089+01:002012-05-01T15:28:06.089+01:00I'd be well hacked off if it was my car.I'd be well hacked off if it was my car.Mark In Mayennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14987723233401368368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-67243903969124363612012-05-01T14:40:52.991+01:002012-05-01T14:40:52.991+01:00My comment's disappeared...possibly deleted be...My comment's disappeared...possibly deleted because O/T ? If I broke a blog rule or offended in some way Julia I apologise. I wasn't thinking past expressing a bit of outrage at the subject :STattynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-79590678906252015272012-05-01T13:25:29.242+01:002012-05-01T13:25:29.242+01:00"Does no-one get the book thrown at them any ..."Does no-one get the book thrown at them any more, no matter what they do? "<br /><br />It depends who they are, how much money is in it and how many people can be knocked out with one book.<br /><br />See here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9236667/Pirate-Bay-must-be-blocked-High-Court-tells-ISPs.html<br /><br />You are to be physically prevented from LOOKING at this website. Not ..downloading stuff from it which is illegal...just LOOKING at it which is legal.<br /><br />Yet another precedent is being set. The death knell sounds yet again for UK Civil Liberty.Tattynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-43422180208353620172012-05-01T12:42:21.312+01:002012-05-01T12:42:21.312+01:00I'm sadly shaking my head in disbelief at this...I'm sadly shaking my head in disbelief at this one.Barnacle Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257546424880537005noreply@blogger.com