Daily Mail -A Quango of Lord Chief Justices and a back door route to drug decriminali

[edgarshade]

A Quango of Lord Chief Justices and a back door route to drug decriminalisation? The new drugs sentencing guidelines

By KATHY GYNGELL
Last updated at 11:15 AM on 25th January 2012

With reader comments

Our leading liberal lawyers on the Sentencing Guidelines Council have got it wrong. That is of course if today’s new guidelines are not disingenuous.
The Lord Chief Justices who lead it have decided, in their wisdom, for the first time, to set comprehensive guidelines on how the role of the offender and the quantity of drugs should influence sentencing. Is this necessary? No. Does is address what is really problematic about drugs sentencing? No.

You can forget the hype about prisons being full of drug offenders. They aren’t. Or if they are that is not what they are in for, or have been caught for. In fact we have the lowest and laxest rate of custodial sentences for drug offences in Europe. The supposedly liberal Netherlands has a custodial rate twenty times higher than ours. We focus on cautions and warnings – not even on fines and asset seizures which the Netherlands also exacts far more of.

As a former offender and prison drug worker told me, 'their Nigerian and Jamaican 'mule drivers' convince their prospective beasts of burden that the 'risk is worth it' due to light sentences if they get caught.

But the Nigerian and Jamaican tactic (of heroin and cocaine smuggled inside the body) is to have several 'mules' on the same flight and to tip the Customs off regarding a couple of them on each flight, to distract Customs by those identified carrying less volume and quality - allowing the others carrying the quantity and quality to sail straight through the Green channel successfully.'

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[nowdubnvr6]

Pity our children in these low level dealers’ hands as they left free to dominate the streets and push their 20 ecstasy tablets without compunction – some of them little more than children themselves

This is the kind of retarded shit that makes me not even read the rest of this shit. Mother fuckers dont get put in someones hands. They chose to use the drugs. Im almost 100% sure the dealer isnt sitting there with a gun to their head saying you either buy this or die. WTF.

And dominating the streets with 20 x tabs yea Kingpin there. Better go drop some tax money to get that menace off the fucking streets. God damn reading this is like watching the Republican debates here in the U.S.

So full of retarded ideals and statements it makes me want to put a gun in my own mouth.

 

[mattnotrik]

Its the Daily Mail, after all. They seem to be waging there own driven war on drugs, for some reason.