I don't know how it works in the USA, I don't let the little bits of probably contaminated (by gossip) news from your justice department get to me, except for the big cases.
But I'll give you an example on how that law would be good if applied here in Portugal.
According to our legislation and the way justice is applied and enforced, we have no death sentence and no life emprisonment, our maximum sentence is 20 years. No one even stays for more than 10 since parole always comes in and perfectly good candidates to psychopats come out freely yet again.
For the last... 5 or 6 years we've had a tremendous judicial scandal here in Portugal, involving a pedophilia network that was dismanteled, and which had links to people high up in Political and Entertainment powers. To start with, only the one sicko who had no connections and back up got jailed, since all the others either denied it or have been absolved yet. Few were those that actually saw their freedom diminuished. Christ, PEDOPHILIA should be high up with murder. These people however, will be walking in the streets again soon, one of them has already seen his sentence diminuished.
This raises a question, as I see things:
Why sentence people to a certain time in jail, when the REAL time they spend there doesn't even make to half of what was planned?
I think this undermines judicial authority, who is already limp as it is, without having all the corruption (our biggest richess consumer) weaken it further. Again, I'm talking about Portugal, where our Prime Minister's former Ministry (The Environment, for ultimate irony), BURNED and DESTROYED all documents from the time when he was Minister, back in the 1990s. Then the #%"& comes out inbroad daylight smiling andsaying it's those "bad" journalists (he's been attacking the press as well with law suits, noticing any hints of where this is going?)
I'm sorry for the rant, but I needed to use the moment to tell foreign people what has been going on, to check whether it is me or the country that have gone mad as bats. |
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