Don't Panic Chaps...

You'll probably be out in a couple of months on "compassionate" grounds, and in the meantime you'll get a nice comfy cell with all the creature comforts, free satellite TV, you'll be able to smoke, and you'll get better healthcare than our soldiers are afforded when returning home injured from Labour's dirty little wars.

And there's the added bonus that HMG will probably bung you a few hundred thousand quid on your release by way of compensation for having the temerity of locking you all up.

Personally I'd like to see you all swing for treason, but I think I might be out of luck on that one.

*Cross-posted

Don't Panic Chaps...

The value of human life

The following angry articles at Juliette's and the humble devil's oblige me to rant about our western government courts and the 'justice' that they mete out.

They're discussing a big American thief and some typically British everyday down-home child rapists, torturers and child-murderers.

Aren't we Tories and the libertarians supposed to be money-grubbing parasites who know the price of everything and the value of nothing?

Don't get me started on how exactly wrong that cliche is.

And yet America's liberal courts sentence a thief to almost twice the biblical age of a man for stealing a lot of money while ours make some mass rapists and child murderers will miss the opportunity of attending fewer than three Olympic opening ceremonies.

You'd almost think it's the State that had problems working out the value of human life, and not us capitalist exploiters.

The value of human life