Then you need glasses!
Today has proven yet again that there are privileges for being rich, famous, white and male. If you have got these things going for you then you can not only get away with murder but you can get away with mass murder!
Today, Leonel Mesi will escape the punishment that would have been dealt out to any other mere mortal and will not serve a moments jail time despite having been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to 21 months in jail.
After a retrial, in which the initial sentence was seen as being too lenient, Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to another lenient sentence of 6 years of a possible 15 year sentence in which he could be eligible for parole after 3 years for murder. (Don't forget, he will not serve his sentence in regular prison but a more comfortable confinement in keeping with his station).
Tony Blair and the rest of his incompetent cronies have been found culpable by the Chilcot enquiry of being too hasty to go to war. A war in which thousands of people have lost their lives and the implications of which are still being felt to this day by which I mean the many revenge attacks that have been brought directly to Europe's door steps. How Tony Blair sleeps at night I don't know. There have been calls for him to be tried as a war criminal but his privilege of being a member of the elite will, I'm sure, protect him from any prosecution.
To conclude, you and I know that if an average bloke had been found guilty of any of the above offences they would be doing hard time right now. Having said that I am not naive enough to be surprised by any of these outcomes but it serves as further evidence (as if you need any) that it is one rule for them and one rule for us.
If you ever felt that justice was blind...
posted on 6/7/16
comment by 'Galvino Did Flow....' (U10415)
posted 8 minutes ago
The people were poor innocent victims...there is no denying Saddam was an evilbastard who needed removing...
But it's the way it was done and for what actual reason is the real question...when you look at the country we left behind.
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Bollux, we did the right thing, we stamped iraq out before it became an issue.
We then ignored doing the same with syria due to the iraq/Afghanistan backlashes and now as a result of reluctance to act / hesitation we now have ISIS.
posted on 6/7/16
"Bollux, we did the right thing, we stamped iraq out before it became an issue.
We then ignored doing the same with syria due to the iraq/Afghanistan backlashes and now as a result of reluctance to act / hesitation we now have ISIS."
Being ignorant is bad thing. Combining that with arrogance is just outrageous.
You're a fool.
posted on 6/7/16
No doubt at all that we couldn't go into syria thanks to our previous errors and the backlash from that.
posted on 6/7/16
comment by DubbedTheNewWenger90 (U19529)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
"Bollux, we did the right thing, we stamped iraq out before it became an issue.
We then ignored doing the same with syria due to the iraq/Afghanistan backlashes and now as a result of reluctance to act / hesitation we now have ISIS."
Being ignorant is bad thing. Combining that with arrogance is just outrageous.
You're a fool.
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The irony coming from the biggest nobhead on ja606
posted on 6/7/16
Messi should have moved to the Prem. In England even the Prime Minister benefits from offshore tax havens.
posted on 6/7/16
"The irony coming from the biggest nobhead on ja606 "
Nobhead? Bit rich coming from you of all people after you posted that evil tosh above.
Like I said. You're an ignorant fool who's talking about things way above your paygrade.
posted on 6/7/16
Anyone that genuinely believes the Iraq War was the right decision is a moron of epic proportions. There was no justification for intervening in the region the way we did and if we genuinely cared about liberating the Iraqi civilians, we would have intervened far earlier and done so with much more caution than risking the amount of innocent lives that were lost.
posted on 6/7/16
'Moron of epic proportions' is an apt description for that cretin.
posted on 7/7/16
comment by Samir (U2630)
posted 11 hours, 18 minutes ago
Anyone that genuinely believes the Iraq War was the right decision is a moron of epic proportions. There was no justification for intervening in the region the way we did and if we genuinely cared about liberating the Iraqi civilians, we would have intervened far earlier and done so with much more caution than risking the amount of innocent lives that were lost.
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Not only that, we'd be putting out similar fires all over the world - not least with our great friends in the ME, the Saudis.
posted on 8/7/16
A solid 1 article.