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Harry Roberts has been freed


So the coppers and the media and the criminal justice system all came down on him harder than they did his contemporaries who did similar crimes. Why? Because he killed members of the apparatus of state, rather than Joe Public.
 
"Is supposed to be"?

Conpletely subjective.

No, it isn't. Constitutionally-speaking, what the UK holds justice to be is set out in statute. It's supposed to administered "without fear or favour" with regard to the criminal justice system. That's not subjective, it's a statement mandating neutrality - a neutrality that is all too often arrogated, and which you probably find offensive.
 
Yet you'd allow Roberts out and make a mockery of the scales?

Scales imply a balance between the laws of the state and the need for punishment. What you don't seem to be getting, is that within the laws of the state (nothing to do with me, or with mockery), Roberts has served his punishment.
Now, I know that the lack of his continued incarceration has deprived you of some wank bank material, but that's just tough luck.
 
I'm ninjaboy. I made this a week ago to see how that thing went, just drank a bottle of wine because I got the afternoon off and read this load of shit about harry roberts and thought i'd chime in

What "thing" would that be then?
 
Scales imply a balance between the laws of the state and the need for punishment.

The scales represent a balance of the weight of evidence for and against an accused and a just outcome of a trial.

What you don't seem to be getting, is that within the laws of the state (nothing to do with me, or with mockery), Roberts has served his punishment.

Within the laws of the state he has served his minimum punishment.
 
Thanks for clearing that up.

I think we can put you in the box labelled "rabid lock-them-up-until-they-cark-it nutter" for the duration of this thread, and disregard any further contributions you may make :p
Tbf he's been consistent about this for years. He just gets to have fun again when the topic crops up with a new round of newbies.
 
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