Tuesday, June 01, 2004
This kind of sums up the events accurately, even tho said by the victims mother. both she and her husband, were pictures of dignity and composure throughout the whole of the gruesome murder and consequent following events, which led to the Metropolitian Police in an official govt enquiry being branded as institutionally racist
'My son was stereotyped by the police: he was black, then he must be a criminal�[his] crime was that he was walking down the road looking for a bus to take him home. Our crime is living in a country where the justice system supports racist murders against innocent people.' (Doreen Lawrence) Full Story
And at the other exteme:
And yet two boys... both just about ten years old, (and both white) murder the toddler Jaime Bulger torturing him first, and they are treated with kid gloves. They don't' serve a day of real time. They are sentence to ten years in a young offenders institution after which at 18 years old, with their whole lives ahead of them, they are given new identies, to avoid being recognized and to avoid there crime following them around. They are even given money in the bank as part of their new start. Because they were both "tried as adults" tho still receieved kid gloves sentence, there whole trial was bought into question. Yet there sentence, as the N.Y. Times quite rightly said, was "bloody insanity" When it was decided these two murdering boys, still both teens were to be released, it was seen as an act of "compassion" What about Denise Bulger, (Jaime's mom) whose marriage broke under the strain of what happened. What about the life lost of that little one? Whose going to fight for Jaime's right to live in a world without at two years old being unmercifully tortured and killed?
An eye for an eye, says the O.T. Whose going to give back the innocence, and joy of Jaimes Bulger and many others who may survive and live into old age. The law of this land no longer believes in Divine retribution in following what God teaches about punishing crime. Vengeance is mine, says the Lord, and don't doubt that in due time, it will be exacted. But in the meantime, it sickens many people to the core, that teens like Stephen Lawerence can happily become a statistic because of the colour of his skin. And the white nazi supremes who murdered him, can mock the law with the laws help. And it sickens too that little guys like Jaime Bulger are another statistic, and his memory is mocked too. And his murderes allowed to be Scott free in the name of compassion.
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