Thursday, November 08, 2007

Who's left?

England's march towards total insanity goes on.

The Crown Prosecution Service has now declared that there's yet another subgroup which will be treated differently than the normal population when it comes to jailing people who victimize them:

"New guidelines say offences against old people should be dealt with in the same way as "hate" crimes that are motivated by racism or homophobia."

It seems to me that young white males are the only group left over there that won't get criminals extra prison time for targeting. How, then, can they still be "the normal population" when they're the only ones left?

Robbery = robbery, murder = murder, and fraud = fraud, no matter the color, gender, or age of the victim. The idea of the criminal justice system treating someone more harshly because their mark looks different than them is just ludicrous.

Or is "Equal justice under law" just another quaint anachronism?

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