Saturday - April 06, 2013

an unexceptional crime

Remember Bizarro?  If not, you’re very young.

Well anyway, if Bizarro wasn’t a cartoon but news stories instead, I think it would have been reported in just this way.

What’s it take to get arrested you may ask again.  Well, I guess hurting someone’s feelings is still right up there with major criminal offenses. Especially if the hurtee belongs to a protected and newly popular group.

Hmmmm. OK. What’s it take to be deported for committing a crime here?
Does one have to kill someone?
Well .... maybe not. The crime would have to be ...  EXCEPTIONAL.

I only bring the subject up because btw, a court has over-ruled the Home Secretary (Atty.General in the USA) yet again, on deporting a terrorist. Been trying for YEARS and he’s still here. On benefits. With the whole family.

In this case, left unsaid in the article perhaps, is how much did she put up with before she snapped?  We don’t know. It’s just I was caught up in the phrasing of this and the idea that killing someone might not be ‘exceptional’ enough to deport.

Meanwhile, confronting real crime.  And I’ll get to the whole thing later on.
A police department here has added a few more things to the Hate Crime menu.  Along with abusing ppl based on race and religion and sexual lifestyle etc., they are now about to classify as Hate Crimes, attacks against goths, heavy metal ppl, ppl with weird dress and lifestyle. The punk thing for example.
It does not get funny.  It gets more stupid by the day.

Polish wife who killed husband by stamping repeatedly on his head, can’t be deported under EU rules

She admitted ‘gratuitous’ attack, but her crime isn’t ‘exceptional’ enough

By Daily Mail Reporter

A Polish woman who killed her husband by repeatedly stamping on his head cannot be deported from Britain because of EU rules, it emerged today.

A judge rejected the Home Office’s claim that Theresa Rafacz posed a danger to the public despite her admitting the ‘gratuitous’ attack.

Mr Justice Blake, the UK’s most senior immigration judge, ruled that she could stay because her crime did not cross a ‘seriousness threshold’ under European law.

EU citizens can only be ordered out of the country if they have committed crimes in ‘exceptional circumstances.’

Rafacz pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was jailed for two years after Belfast Crown Court was told how she ‘lost control’ when she came home from work to find her husband Piotr drunk while he was meant to be looking after their three-year-old son.

Tory MP Dominic Raab, who is campaigning to change the law on foreign criminals, told the Daily Telegraph:  ‘It beggars belief EU law bars the UK from deporting people convicted of homicide offences, unless the government can somehow prove they are still dangerous.

“Brussels has whittled away our national border controls, undermining public safety and democratic accountability.

‘If we can’t renegotiate this kind of issue with Brussels, public trust in the EU will continue to ebb and the clarion calls for Britain to leave will grow louder.’

On the day of the attack in May 2009, she discovered he had left their son alone, probably for several hours, while he went drinking.

Piotr died from blunt force trauma to the head, suffering considerable bruising and a broken nose. Rafacz’s shoes and jeans were splattered with his blood.

After she was assessed In March last year of posing a ‘medium risk’ of reoffending, the Home Office decided to deport her.

When the lower immigration tribunal ruled in Rafacz’s favour, Home Secretary Theresa May appealed the decision last November.

Mr Justice Blake said:’ There was no basis to conclude that her level of risk that she presented to the United Kingdom and its people was significant or could justify her deportation on the grounds of public policy.’

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of MigrationWatch UK,told the Daily Telegraph: ‘This underlines the difficulty which we face increasingly often in removing from Britain EU citizens whom we would much prefer not to have living in our community.

source

Posted by peiper     on 04/06/2013 at 09:59 AM   
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