If you’re a criminal you certainly are.

Shipton, I hope that the good people of Tauranga ,or wherever you settle, show you as much compassion as you have shown to your victims.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4751167a6479.html

” A visibly upset judge today told a Masterton teenager convicted of sexual violation: “If I had my way I would release you today, but I can’t.” ”

This judge feels sorry for the sex offender? What about the victim?

And, at the end of the story…

“… he had inexplicably come to the attention of the authorities at the age of 17, amassing 18 convictions over five months, including the two today.”

This is not a nice person.

There’s a man drought in New Zealand so the lady folk that remain in the country have to lower there standards if they want to secure access to a man. I think the minimum expectation these days is that women have to take it up the dinner dumper on a regular basis.

Clint Rickard isn’t a rapist. There has to be question marks over Brad Shipton’s conviction. It basically boils down to adults being involved in a gangbang and then twenty years later one of the participants making a complaint about it. The only unusual aspect is that some of the individuals involved were cops. Maybe there is police corruption in New Zealand and maybe there isn’t. It always seemed strange that Queensland cops were on the take yet New Zealand cops were whiter than white. I think we’ve all observed the lowering of the New Zealand police forces reputation over the last nine years of Hels Labour government.

Believe me, sentencing in NZ is a joke. As is the jury system, which I have a 100 % winning record as a defence lawyer.

I try to explain it in my classes in China, trying to explain soft punishment, no hard labour and no capital punishment.

Eventually, one pretty young Chinese girl will say,

“But Mr Robert, in China, we kill our terrible criminals. I mean, who pays for the lawyers of those gang rapists and murderers? And who pays for their jail? Isn’t it very expensive to the country? Seems very inefficient to me.”

“Oh the tax-payers do. You see in Western countries our legal systems originate from Christianity. Christians. You know, Jesus Christ?”

The all look blank. So I draw a cross on the blackboard and pretend to pray.

“Oh, I see! So religion helps your criminals and keeps them alive as your Christian tax-payer majority pay for it,” she says. “Hmmm, interesting system. Based solely upon religion.”

“Well, not everyone is a Christian. I am not. The majority are not.”

“I don’t understand. Why does your majority accept it then and bear the cost? Aren’t you a democracy? I am confused. This would never happen in China.” she says.

“Well, we call it democracy. In New Zealand we have this thing called MMP. The people voted for it. The only way I could possibly explain it is by the idiom I taught you last week, TWO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH.”

“Teacher, I don’t understand!”

“Oh look at that! 4pm! Doesn’t time fly when you are having fun! See you all next week and I will try and explain MMP to you!”

What more can I say?

“Purposes of sentencing or otherwise dealing with offenders

(1)The purposes for which a court may sentence or otherwise deal with an offender are—

(a)to hold the offender accountable for harm done to the victim and the community by the offending; or

(b)to promote in the offender a sense of responsibility for, and an acknowledgment of, that harm; or

(c)to provide for the interests of the victim of the offence; or

(d)to provide reparation for harm done by the offending; or

(e)to denounce the conduct in which the offender was involved; or

(f)to deter the offender or other persons from committing the same or a similar offence; or

(g)to protect the community from the offender; or

(h)to assist in the offender’s rehabilitation and reintegration; or

(i)a combination of 2 or more of the purposes in paragraphs (a) to (h).

(2)To avoid doubt, nothing about the order in which the purposes appear in this section implies that any purpose referred to must be given greater weight than any other purpose referred to.”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10366008

A bit of a side note is anybody aware of what happen about Rickards application to the Auckland Law Society?

I always favoured shooting as I am a gun-toting maniac but one cannot go around polluting the environment with heavy metals so that is out.

Hanging seems ecologicly sound but very messy if one gets the rope too long and not very nice watching the condemned choking to death if too short, so that is out.

Burning at the stake is out for obvious problems regarding CO2 emissions and destruction of rainforest.

The best one I have come up with is burial alive as it is very good for the worms. It does seem rather tough on the poor prisoner though specially if carried out in the face-up posture. It does have the advantage that later on a native tree could be planted so the deceased crim could recompense the world for being such a naughty little boy.

Perhaps you could advise.

But there will always be people like Shipton who will not get the restorative justive process started by acknowledging that their actions were criminal. They should serve full term.

And there are a small minority, like William Bell and Graeme Burton, who are sociopathic killers and should never see the outside of a prison.

I don’t think you’ll find any Greens who would support either of those two guys ever being paroled. Sorry to dispel the myth about the Greens being soft on crime.

The Green Party wants to see rehabilitation, and if successful early release, for the criminals who can be rehabilitated, but the minority who cannot should serve their full sentences.

When dealing with rapists students just remember they are people too. Respect their feelings and remember that when they were carrying out their horrific acts, to them it was an act of love.
Show love to them and they will all turn out to be good little boys.
Make sure they have had a good meal, the remote for their LCD TV is handy and that their underfloor heating is turned up before you tuck them in at night.
If they decide to rape you as well just grin and bear it as it is all good therapy for them.
Etc etc————–

There is nothing worse than a crooked copper, especially one who is a rapist.

I would probably agree with him being given parole if he had admitted his crime, show genuine remorse, and if assessments indicated there was minimal likelihood of reoffending.

But this guy still denies he has done anything wrong, and will likely do it again within months of getting out. He doesn’t accept there is such a thing as rape, as far as he is concerned as a possible perpetrator, because his ego tells him that all women want him sexually.

Desperate situation requires desperate actions. Every vote counts.