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4 years for a posting on facebook for calling for a riot that did not happen ! ( maybe the police should go through all the postings here and see all the stupid things people have written, drunk, without thinking, ....)
6 months jail time for stealing a bottle of water.
Of course they broke the law and should face the consequences. But the total lack of proportionality shows how the punishment is the only solution the government has to the criminalization of a whole section of our society.
Creating mass unemployment, a million young people without jobs, police harassment, and petty crime. This is a problem that is being built not solved.
The thousands now charged and given criminal records will now be permanently on benefits and into more crime.
By MIPS who were fiddling expenses worth more than all the goods stolen.
By Police who took money of tabloid newspapers and sold rape victims info.
BY newspapers who were caught hacking murdered children's' phones.
By bankers who created fake financial products and stole billions.
For the above the punishment is less than the stealing of a bottle of water.
Meanwhile the gov has the right to rubber bullet and water cannon us, and to police the INTERNET.
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