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Also please don't start talking about "vigilantes and street justice." When I hear those words all I can see is tortured and burnt negroes hanging from trees with lots of smiling people around them. And it has happened in our life time.
The boy told his father he had raped the child because he was "horny", it was revealed at the trial.
Wasn't there something on the news the other night about a guy who's son was molested, so the guy bashed the offender and now will probably spend more time in jail than the offender.
From memory the molester was released with little penalty due to being bashed.
Its all a bit of a joke imo.
.Back to His Honour Judge Dearden. Judge Dearden was appointed by the Queensland Labor Government to the District Court on 28 February, 2005. In his speech at his swearing in ceremony he spoke about his life experience. He was involved in student union politics and he worked with the Legal Aid Office as a solicitor.
He moved to Terry O’Gorman’s law firm. For 20 years he was an Executive Member of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties – he was its President for 11 years. In his speech he said his work at the Council was “to protect the rights and liberties of individuals in a world where such rights are under constant challenge. I personally see a commitment to the protection of civil liberties as a positive attribute for a judge of this or any other court.”
His Honour gave a speech at the 30th anniversary dinner for the Caxton Legal Centre. He spoke about the Centre’s early days – it started with a desk and a filing cabinet at the Baroona branch of the Labor Party. He spoke about Peter Beattie and Di Fingleton working at the Caxton Legal Centre.
His said “we have increasing prison populations and civil liberties under threat.”
But perhaps the most prescient remark he made at the speech is this – it explains a lot about where we are as a state. “A key measure (sic) of the changing world in which we live are the ever increasing numbers of ex-Caxton employees and volunteers now in positions of authority in legal, political and judicial life.”
Originally Posted by basilio View Post
Also please don't start talking about "vigilantes and street justice." When I hear those words all I can see is tortured and burnt negroes hanging from trees with lots of smiling people around them. And it has happened in our life time.
Dont know how you can make that connection at all, where was the justice in killing innocent people because of their race ? we mean dispensing justice where our pathetic justice system fails regularly.
Dont know how you can make that connection at all, where was the justice in killing innocent people because of their race ? we mean dispensing justice where our pathetic justice system fails regularly.
It's no joke when you consider the Civil Liberties background of the Judge.
From 4BC talk
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pretty weak sentence - 7days jail for bashing a dog.
I was thinking 1 year ATLEAST, when i was reading the description.
The connection is the concept of street justice and vigilantism being an acceptable way to run our society.
I can appreciate how people feel, but letting people run amok to dispense "justice" as they see fit is just anarchy.
. At the moment for example there is this person running an inflammatory web site in Melton, Victoria that encourages people to abuse people they don't like and then allow them to post phone and address details to encourage others to continue the abuse ! Is this reasonable? Is it justice ? Can we see the obvious consequences ? (Mind you I suspect the website site owner is in line for a Darwin award if he keeps this up...)
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