Injustices that Particularly Irk You

Tarzana2

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Cases of innocent people being sentenced to death, Timothy Evans most famously who was convicted on flimsy grounds for the murder of his baby daughter. In a follow up investigation 15 years later his house tenant finally admitted to the murder.

The one good thing that arose from the whole affair was that the case sowed the seeds for the abolition of the death penalty in Britain.

People being wrongly put to death never fails to make me feel angry. You hear that someone was "posthumously pardoned". My first thought is "Well, I'm sure their skeleton is only delighted of that fact!" :mad:

Esho

Whoops - hopefully not some kind of Freudian slip with the news today

- yes the Cleary's workers

Fox_In_Socks

The whole system. The way things are set up globally, the poverty cycle, the third world, multinationals, the way you can fire people in Ireland and hire them back a few months later as "job bridge", the way people and their lives are disposable to the Big Few.

Marketing, branding, PR, meedja telling us what's hot or not in terms of global tragedies until something more novel comes along.

Let whoever you want in, shure t'is grand, good ole Paddy loves a working holiday, shure he's been having working holidays since way before the Famine, begob, shure take Paddy's place and settle down.

captbarnacles

That rudy guede served less than 8 years in jail for what he did is beyond disgusting.

Dolbert

Missing persons cases where the victim was likely murdered, but the killer is walking around and the family don't even have a body to bury. Worse still are the cases where it's known by family/Gardaí who did it but it can't be proven, ie Fiona Pender, Mary Boyle.

Funnyonion79

The Stardust disaster. Butterly has never apologised to the families of the victims, he was never held accountable for his negligence and was actually in fact awarded compensation by the Irish Government!

Eugene Norman

There are lots of injustices. Vincent Browne making an easy retirement from a dysfunctional property market.

As for the OP the case against Knox was a fantasy.

zztop

Just watched a trailer of a documentary about Mary Boyle.Its a
frightening excerpt with a politician and garda collusion mentioned
and everybody up there knows who the killer is.

Samaris

The Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping. 276 children kidnapped from school and sold into god knows what sort of slavery and sexual abuse. Not to mention all the others kidnapped and sold on like animals because they're deemed possessions to be taken and owned, but because they were in ones and twos, no-one outside immediate family knows their name or cares.

HensVassal

Bradley Manning leaks documents identifying US war crimes and get locked up for 30 years.

Colonel David Petraeus gives much more sensitive and classified information to his mistress and gets a stern reprimand.

edbrez

Funnyonion79 wrote: »

The Stardust disaster. Butterly has never apologised to the families of the victims, he was never held accountable for his negligence and was actually in fact awarded compensation by the Irish Government!

A few hundred of those kids were underage and shouldn't have been there that night. A lot of them refused to leave when the fire started. Some left and went back in again. A bouncer opened the curtain in the alcove and that's what fanned the fire. Police and fire men got attacked. The little-known Summerland fire on the Isle of Man was worse, people were throwing babies off balconies to save them.

UsedToWait

edbrez wrote: »

A few hundred of those kids were underage and shouldn't have been there that night. A lot of them refused to leave when the fire started. Some left and went back in again. A bouncer opened the curtain in the alcove and that's what fanned the fire. Police and fire men got attacked. The little-known Summerland fire on the Isle of Man was worse, people were throwing babies off balconies to save them.

I really hope you're not as heartless as this post comes across.
Horrendous - victim blaming, and making light of people's loss by comparing it to another tragedy..

ancapailldorcha

I'd have to mention the Iraq war. The Chilcot report has been in the pipelines for years now and shows no signs of surfacing.

osarusan

Conviction of only one member of the military over the My Lai massacre, and even then, the gradual sentence reduction, ending in a US presidential pardon, of convicted William Calley is as ugly as it gets.

Samaris

edbrez wrote: »

A few hundred of those kids were underage and shouldn't have been there that night. A lot of them refused to leave when the fire started. Some left and went back in again. A bouncer opened the curtain in the alcove and that's what fanned the fire. Police and fire men got attacked. The little-known Summerland fire on the Isle of Man was worse, people were throwing babies off balconies to save them.

Unsure where you got that info, I do remember pretty clearly that a major reason for the horrendous death toll was that sealed firedoor (and that the door opened inwards).

mr.anonymous

Poor treatment of LGBT people in many countries around the world.