Typical Liberal Progressive Euroweenie mantra.
He’s remorseful, he drank too much
He went “off the tracks” on a coctail of prescriptionn drugs and alcohol.
Bull shit. Excuses are like assholes. Everybody has one.
Now the MAJOR driving factor, in Ireland especially, is that government under the guise of being benevolent hands out “non-custodial” sentences for ONE reason and ONE reason only: It cost money to put someone in jail. Money that could be better spent on political junkets and publicity garnering photo ops.
to paraphrase my favorite author ...
“Mercy your honour! Leniency!”, cried the perp, “It all started in great mugs of alcohol!”
“Then end it in hemp”, said the judge, “but just one drop.”
New Jersey Yankee & Drew: Nicely put, you two.
Peiper: They’d never let me be a judge. I’d fill the prisons with attorneys on contempt charges.
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