6 months??? Pathetic.

[Zhivago]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 70226.html

I do hate injustice

[Sandydragon]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 70226.html

I do hate injustice

That does seem ludicrous. Some judges seem to be more concerned with the welfare of the offender than the victim.

[jared_7]

His swimming times were mentioned in most articles talking about the assault. Sounds as though that poor young lady was actually lucky to have such a well-to-do, wealthy, white male - with a promising swimming career ahead of him no less - violently penetrate her while she lay unconscious.

Who here seriously thinks the verdict would have been the same if the name "Brock" was replaced with "Jamal"?

[rowan]

How about walking free after you burned an entire family to death - including their baby: http://newcenturytimes.com/2016/06/06/i ... rge-video/

[UGagain]

How about walking free after you burned an entire family to death - including their baby: http://newcenturytimes.com/2016/06/06/i ... rge-video/

And people on this very board support these cunts. People who purport to stand for law and democracy no less.

Zionism is a western sickness.

[rowan]

Yep, and there are many thousands of Palestinian minors indefinitely interned for such heinous crimes as throwing stones, joining a long line of disenfranchised native peoples with alarmingly high incarceration rates. The Aborigines are imprisoned today at a higher rate than non-white South Africans were during the Apartheid era, Native Americans have higher incarceration rates even than African Americans, and Maori comprise more than half New Zealand's prison population despite being only 14% of the national population: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 50239.html

[Zhivago]

Fuck off guys, not every thread should be about Zionism.

[Sandydragon]

Fuck off guys, not every thread should be about Zionism.

Agreed. Don't hijack every damn thread, there are plenty which already cover Zionism.

[rowan]

Well, this is connected, since we are actually talking about ludicrous prison sentences. This female sex offender got off completely by escaping to guess where... http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-eas ... -in-Israel

[Sandydragon]

Well, this is connected, since we are actually talking about ludicrous prison sentences. This female sex offender got off completely by escaping to guess where... http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-eas ... -in-Israel

Connected examples is fine. But don't divert the thread completely off topic. this is not a thread about Zionism.

[Lizard]

Can Hammy set up a specific Zionism board perhaps so we all know which threads we can derail into that subject area?

[rowan]

Already been done - Zhivago's 'Anti-Zionism' thread.

[cashead]

Already been done - Zhivago's 'Anti-Zionism' thread.

Then don't derail other threads with that shit, for fuck's sake.

[rowan]

By commenting on the ridiculous severity and lenience of other prison sentences elsewhere, you mean? It's a thread about a ridiculously lenient prison sentence. So what are the confines within which we are required to operate here?

[cashead]

By commenting on the ridiculous severity and lenience of other prison sentences elsewhere, you mean? It's a thread about a ridiculously lenient prison sentence. So what are the confines within which we are required to operate here?

So what's the ongoing situation between Israel and Palestine got to do with the wider issues surrounding the Stanford rape trial? Besides fuck all, I mean.

[rowan]

Cashead, calm down & stop preaching. The situation between Israel and Palestine hasn't actually been discussed on this thread. My reference was to the excessive imprisonment of native peoples in Palestine, the US, Australia and New Zealand, compared to ridiculously lenient sentences for others. That's very different. The point almost everybody seems to be making about this ridiculously lenient rape sentence is that it woiuldn't have been possible were the perpetrator not white. Hence the contrasting examples. Oh, and the other case I mentioned was about an Australian female sex offender who escapes to Israel, where she has yet to be charged, I believe. Nothing to do with the Palestinian conflict at all.

[cashead]

Go on, pull the other one.

[Lizard]

In what sense are Arab Palestinians "native"? I'm pretty sure that their Arab tribes would have displaced whoever was there before, Canaanites or Phoenicians or Hittites or whatever.

[rowan]

Arabs originated in the Arabian peninsula, as did the Jews, who were ethnically akin to Arabs (separated only by religion). Hittites were native to Turkey, Phoenicians to what is today Lebanon. Palestinians, with good reason, claim descendency from the Canaanites; and certainly this hasn't been disproved. & even if that were not the case; it would be like saying the English are not native to the British Isles because the Celts were there before the Anglos and Saxons (and somebody else was there before the Celts too, by the way) or that the Spanish are not native to the Iberian pensinsula because they are mostly the descendents of Roman, Germanic and Moorish occupations. What is for certain is that the region has been populated by Arabs as far back as recorded history takes us, and that the overwhelming majority have been Muslim since the advent of Islam.
- Just to answer the question, of course.

[rowan]

A little bit of good news anyway:

The California judge who issued what critics called a lenient sentence to a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual assault has been removed from hearing an unrelated sexual assault case.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... ium=social

[Sandydragon]

A little bit of good news anyway:

The California judge who issued what critics called a lenient sentence to a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual assault has been removed from hearing an unrelated sexual assault case.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... ium=social

Good.

I had heard somewhere that the swimmer was appealing. One can only hope his sentence is increase (assuming US courts can do that).