Australia

I read this yesterday and just can't shake it. It's so fucked up.

I try remind myself of a study where members of the Australian public were asked if sentences were too lenient. The same question was asked of jurors from the actual court case. The results were that the public was far more likely to have the opinion that a sentence was too lenient where as the jury was more likely to believe it was appropriate. Normally considering this helps me take a step back from being outraged; Those who are closer to the case have considerations that aren't making the paper.

This case has to be an exception though. I just can't fathom how the judge arrived at such an abhorrently lenient sentence. This can only prove to indigenous people, and the family of the victims they don't matter. I really hope there is some review on this sentencing to prevent this in the future.

He only showed 'remorse' when he realised he was facing gaol time. At that point, he's only showing remorse for himself. The correct time to show remorse is immediately after it happened by stopping and rendering aid/calling emergency services. He might have even not been penalised at all if the pedestrians had actually stepped out in front of him without warning or time for him to avoid them. This whole judgement is completely fucked up.

Australia still treats its native population horribly. Nazi style horribly. Every single piece of news about the aborigines has been bad for decades, with little or no social assistance in any way.

When you accuse a human being of being an 'oxygen theif' at their trial, nazis are prevalent in society.

Fuck you, Australia.

Lucky he didn’t run Charke Kirk down

I was just thinking in another thread, how easy it would have been to kill Kirk with a car and just get away with it. Because I don't agree with your comment here. Using a car is the best way to get away with murder. You have to be extremely unlucky to get any significant penalty when you kill someone with your car. Just ask the killers of Michael Hall, Carolyn Lister, Philip Pawsey, Richard Pollett, Richard Burden, and countless others around the country. Most of those were never charged. The one that was charged was never convicted. And our government spends more effort removing memorials than it does on actually addressing the problem.

How grateful we must all feel knowing this man is able to continue on and be remorseful and contribute positively to our society. I don’t look forward to the next time he does something else fuelled by his racism and no longer has the isolated incident - I went to church one time (I’m sorry what?? How is this worth anything in a court of law?) - defence.

That cunt should be thrown in jail for his remarks alone