Scumbag Judge gets 28 years, scumbag!!

later10 wrote: »

Judge Judy tbh

Wagon.

Judge.

Wanderly Wagon

I thought Prison over population was such a big problem that something like this would be really unlikely. It does appear there are "Private" prisons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison), which are such a bad idea it makes my head hurt. Apparently difficult prisoners are just shipped off to a Government prison anyway.

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

It's been said many, many times that the leegal system here is a closed loop. The law society of Ireland is basically an old boys club.

Understatement of this Forum. The Law Society (self-regulating professional body for solictors) is an awful relic of a bygone era, but the Bar Council (self-regulating body for barristers) is much, much worse when it comes to being an old boys network. The sycophancy, the dining cult, the wigs, the obsequiousness, the colonial titles. The barristers and judges of this Republic are a law unto themselves, still, almost 89 years since this part of Ireland started on the road to being a sovereign state.

The attempts of these people to link their ridiculously uncompetitive legal fees, their obscene wages and conditions and the closed self-regulating shop that is the legal business with the maintenance of justice is stomach turning. For centuries the legal industry has successfully got away with selling itself as the defender of "justice". Nothing could be farther from the truth, and it's time the political class in Ireland and the Irish people grabbed the bull by the horns with the self-serving, money hungry, egomaniac and exceedingly pompous/English elite which constitute the barristers and judges of this Irish republic.

Whether it's Judge Paul Carney's insistence that barristers wear wigs in "his" courtroom or the profoundly unjust demand from all the judges of this state that their salaries should not be reduced in line with every other public servant, the judges of this republic are patently about maintaining their position at the expense of justice.

Thanks for sharing this OP. Only saw MM's Capitalism film last night for the first time and was outraged by this and other things in the film. Glad to see that judge gets a taste of what it's like to be behind bars. The length of the sentence is even better! That's justice

SuperInfinity wrote: »

But I've come to realize you should NEVER let what you would like to believe get in the way of your objective analysis and true belief in a subject, no matter how vague it is.

Actually, my objective analysis of, and experience of working in and with systems, would in fact convince me that in even the poorest and unwieldy of systems there are people who genuinely struggle to make them work for the common good.

Admittedly, none of my experience is with the American legal / judicial system.