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May. 24th, 2007 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hellisonIs there something up with lj, or is it just me? Everything has gone wonky.
Anyway. 'nother interview today, same as last one only for a grade up (in civil service terms) so it was tougher and a lot more on policy and management. Bleh. Hopefully managed not to disgrace self, and I think achieved the main purpose of going which was to hammer home to our useless director (who was on the panel) the relevance of what I actually do now, since my current manager helpfully informed a while back that he doesn't have a clue and didn't think it was anything relevant (barely restrained myself at the time from pointing out Very Strongly and Loudly that surely it was HER JOB to make him aware... but meh).
Anyway tis done now, thank god and the Central Library Book sale is on so YAY.
In news of less yay and more Complete Fucking Outrage -
Rapist jailed for 8 years
Surely this is a good thing? Well no, it's fucking not.
He and a friend caught a young girl with a group of male friends, robbed them and forced them to watch while he raped her twice, then phoned her mother to tell her how much he "enjoyed raping your girl".
He initially denied it but switched his plea to guilty at the last minute (given he was found still with her phone when arrested, not to mention DNA and the eye witnesses...).
Eight years. For rape, theft, false imprisonment...
Except it's NOT. We still have 50% remittence. So it's FOUR years.
Time on remand counts as double and gets taken off. So he could be out of jail before she's out of her teens.
If that's all he gets with that amount of proof - evidence described by the judge as "overwhelming "- AND admitting he did it, is it any wonder so many rapes and attacks go unreported?
The 'friend' who helped, held off *her* friends & robbed them and watched?
Out on probation.
What's the fucking *point*?
Anyway. 'nother interview today, same as last one only for a grade up (in civil service terms) so it was tougher and a lot more on policy and management. Bleh. Hopefully managed not to disgrace self, and I think achieved the main purpose of going which was to hammer home to our useless director (who was on the panel) the relevance of what I actually do now, since my current manager helpfully informed a while back that he doesn't have a clue and didn't think it was anything relevant (barely restrained myself at the time from pointing out Very Strongly and Loudly that surely it was HER JOB to make him aware... but meh).
Anyway tis done now, thank god and the Central Library Book sale is on so YAY.
In news of less yay and more Complete Fucking Outrage -
Rapist jailed for 8 years
Surely this is a good thing? Well no, it's fucking not.
He and a friend caught a young girl with a group of male friends, robbed them and forced them to watch while he raped her twice, then phoned her mother to tell her how much he "enjoyed raping your girl".
He initially denied it but switched his plea to guilty at the last minute (given he was found still with her phone when arrested, not to mention DNA and the eye witnesses...).
Eight years. For rape, theft, false imprisonment...
Except it's NOT. We still have 50% remittence. So it's FOUR years.
Time on remand counts as double and gets taken off. So he could be out of jail before she's out of her teens.
If that's all he gets with that amount of proof - evidence described by the judge as "overwhelming "- AND admitting he did it, is it any wonder so many rapes and attacks go unreported?
The 'friend' who helped, held off *her* friends & robbed them and watched?
Out on probation.
What's the fucking *point*?
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Date: 2007-05-24 03:18 pm (UTC)There's a strong message to send out...
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Date: 2007-05-24 05:17 pm (UTC)What's needed is for women, everywhere, to rise up as one and *kill rapists*. Fuck the offensive weapons laws. Fuck all the "omg, don't hurt him, he might hurt you" bullshit. If you rape, you die.
What are they going to do, jail us all? Perhaps we can go in the free cells they aren't putting rapists in.
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Date: 2007-05-25 08:51 am (UTC)I hate them, I hate what they do, I want them to pay, but pay by facing the full horror of their actions and by incarceration. I hate the out-dated legal system, the complete lack of accountability on the part of the judiciary (*waves at evil uncle*) and the utter lack of support and protection for victims of rape.
But I don't want to kill anyone.