Unhappy Post
May. 25th, 2010 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Firstly, I'm in shock after hearing about Paul Gray's death - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10151406.stm
I hope the riffs are particularly heavy where you are, 2, the maggots miss you already.
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Then you've got the Murdoch press complaining about the 2 boys who've just been found guilty of attempted rape at the Old Bailey. While I agree with their general point that children shouldn't be tried at Crown Courts, no matter how heinous the matter, I could do with the tone being less 'those poor boys'. In defence of a couple of the articles in the Times, it's only the leader and the editorials taking that line, both the legal expert and one of the opinion pieces are at 'the poor victim'.
Let's be honest here, those boys deserve punishment, but they also need a small army of psychologists, because what have we (as a society) done when pre-pubescents think 'let's go rape a girl'.
I hope the riffs are particularly heavy where you are, 2, the maggots miss you already.
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Then you've got the Murdoch press complaining about the 2 boys who've just been found guilty of attempted rape at the Old Bailey. While I agree with their general point that children shouldn't be tried at Crown Courts, no matter how heinous the matter, I could do with the tone being less 'those poor boys'. In defence of a couple of the articles in the Times, it's only the leader and the editorials taking that line, both the legal expert and one of the opinion pieces are at 'the poor victim'.
Let's be honest here, those boys deserve punishment, but they also need a small army of psychologists, because what have we (as a society) done when pre-pubescents think 'let's go rape a girl'.
