Friday 14 September 2007

Crime and Mispunishment

Here at Schloß Schnee, there has been discussion about certain news items.

Take the McCanns. There seems to be a feeding frenzy at the moment and the media are showing themselves to be like children. As the parents of the missing child have come to the realisation that they need to go home and try to get back to normality for their other children, so the Portuguese police have decided to interview them, and to do so, technically have to declare them to be suspects.

The consensus here is that they should be left alone until some conclusion is reached. If it turns out that they had anything to do with the disappearance of their child, the public will turn on them. But right now, they are being tried by the most ignorant parts of the press. And THAT, is out of order.

So, OJ Simpson, no stranger to the criminal world, has been named as a suspect in an armed robbery case. Well, well, who'd have thought. It sends a clear message to anyone that if you can get away with one capital offence, you can get away with another.

Actor Chris Langham has been gaoled for ten months for downloading child porn from the internet. Silly twat, what was he thinking? Even if he HAD been doing research for some TV role, and the court wasn't having any of that, by downloading the porn, he was helping to validate and create the market.
What a plonker.
Sad tosser.

1 comment:

Sleepy said...

What makes the Langham thing SO disappointing is that he is very funny. He has written some crackers and acted in others.
I won't be able to watch him again.
Oh, and claiming it was for research?... Bollocks.
Part of his defense was to claim he had been abused.
You'd think he would have enough 'research' if that was the case.