The lunatics really are running the asylum
Posted: 22 Aug 2018, 11:58
A year or so ago I, semi sarcastically, suggested that if we were going to be totally "diverse" in our legal/policing system; that we should include the criminals. As they are totally underrepresented and, for the sake of "diversity" we should be including them.
So, when I read the article claiming that People with criminal records urged to become magistrates, I did not, quite, put my head in my hands and groan.
I don't care if the conviction is "Old" or that it is "minor". The moment you start down that path the absolute nature of NO convictions becomes the subjective nature of "not bad enough to bar". After all, at what time does a spent conviction for murder become "spent" enough to allow the murderer to become a magistrate??
To hear this from within the profession itself just shows how totally barking mad they have all become.
Forget the sensible common man. let's all be insane then we won't notice....
So, when I read the article claiming that People with criminal records urged to become magistrates, I did not, quite, put my head in my hands and groan.
I don't care if the conviction is "Old" or that it is "minor". The moment you start down that path the absolute nature of NO convictions becomes the subjective nature of "not bad enough to bar". After all, at what time does a spent conviction for murder become "spent" enough to allow the murderer to become a magistrate??
To hear this from within the profession itself just shows how totally barking mad they have all become.
Forget the sensible common man. let's all be insane then we won't notice....