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12 May 2005, 18:36
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4541377.stm
Let me paraphrase his latest comment on the governments ability:
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Please GOD will the Government stop passing stupid laws in order to gain votes from facists which have so far done nothing more than bugger up the Criminal Justice System
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More than life itself.
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12 May 2005, 18:38
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odd paraprasing there, wasn't the same as what i read...
but heh, anyone called Lord Woolf has to be ace.
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12 May 2005, 18:43
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with Harry you have to read between the lines
the wonderful thing about harry is that its not very difficult to read between his lines.
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12 May 2005, 18:44
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Actually, that is what he's saying. I can understand that it's harder for non-native speakers to be able to spot it though. It's hidden in what he's saying - it's basically this:
'Facists' are more interested in punitive sentencing than rehabilitiationist sentencing. However, he believes that unless you can re-integrate offenders back into society, they will only offend again once they are released.
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Originally Posted by Lord Woolf
"If an offender is returned to society at the end of his sentence with increased skills, a job to go to and accommodation, the risk of that offender reoffending is significantly reduced," he added.
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Like so.
EDIT: ok, Yahwe got there first
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12 May 2005, 18:46
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Lord Woolf is Polly Toynbee in disguise.
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12 May 2005, 18:55
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Originally Posted by Yahwe
with Harry you have to read between the lines
the wonderful thing about harry is that its not very difficult to read between his lines.
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Here's another British judge for who the same applied
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Originally Posted by Lord Denning MR
"In summertime village cricket is a delight to everyone. Nearly every village has its own cricket field where the young men play and the old men watch. In the village of Lintz in the County of Durham they have their own ground, where they have played these last 70 years. They tend it well. The wicket area is well rolled and mown. The outfield is kept short. It has a good clubhouse for the players and seats for the onlookers. The village team plays there on Saturdays and Sundays. They belong to a league, competing with the neighbouring villages. On other evenings they practice while the light lasts.
Yet now after these 70 years a judge of the High Court has ordered that they must not play anymore. He has issued an injunction to stop them. He has done it at the instance of a newcomer who is no lover of cricket. This newcomer has built, or has had built for him, a house on the edge of the cricket ground which four years ago was a field where cattle grazed. The animals did not mind the cricket, but now this adjoining field has been turned into a housing estate. The newcomer bought one of the houses on the edge of the cricket field. No doubt the open space was a selling point. Now he complains that when a batsman hits a six the ball has been known to land in his garden or on or near his house. His wife has got so upset about it that they always go out at weekends. They do not go into the garden when cricket is being played. They say that this is intolerable. So they asked the judge to stop the cricket being played. And the judge, much against his will, has felt that he must order the cricket to be stopped: with the consequence, I suppose, that the Lintz Cricket Club will disappear. The cricket ground will be turned to some other use. I expect for houses or a factory. The young men will turn to other things instead of cricket. The whole village will be much poorer. And all this because of a newcomer who has just bought a house there next to the cricket ground."
Miller v. Jackson (1977) Q.B. 966, 976.
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Can anyone guess who he found in favour of?
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12 May 2005, 18:56
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Nonentity, i am a native speaker. Yahwe's paraphrase was just taking it too far, your paraphrase is much more suitable. I just found it odd because Yahwe tries to be pedantic about accuracy.
Its not really fascist, its authoritarian.
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12 May 2005, 18:58
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Is he the one that wants to reduce the prison population by freeing the thieves instead of the innocent people (drug users/dealers/etc).
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12 May 2005, 18:59
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Village cricket isn't a delight to the people who have large red balls hitting their windows.
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12 May 2005, 19:07
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Originally Posted by zakoff
Nonentity, i am a native speaker. Yahwe's paraphrase was just taking it too far, your paraphrase is much more suitable. I just found it odd because Yahwe tries to be pedantic about accuracy.
Its not really fascist, its authoritarian.
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the only failing in my paraphrase, or 'translation'
is that harry normally uses more swear words
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12 May 2005, 19:07
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Originally Posted by Nonentity
Here's another British judge for who the same applied
Can anyone guess who he found in favour of?
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tom denning is over rated
thanks to brilliant vanity and self publicity
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12 May 2005, 19:11
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I build houses next to factories and complain about the pollution.
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12 May 2005, 19:15
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tom denning is over rated
thanks to brilliant vanity and self publicity
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I was merely commenting that his judgements were very readable, and often you could spot which way he was going to go simply by the tone of his opening few paragraphs. Not always. But often.
As for him being over-rated, I'm not going to offer an opinion since I can't really compare him to other judges (i.e. I don't know enough about them). But I do find him fascinating, no matter what his faults.
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12 May 2005, 19:16
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Why don't you build factories next to houses and then laugh at the pollution, safe in the knowledge that bourgeois justice will protect you from being hanged as an enemy of the proletariat, as you deserve to be?
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12 May 2005, 19:20
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I was merely commenting that his judgements were very readable, and often you could spot which way he was going to go simply by the tone of his opening few paragraphs. Not always. But often.
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there's no man more appreciated than he who goes off topic within a handful of posts.
and BIG SHOCKER you can usually tell the judge's decision from his judgement. its kind of what they try and do.
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12 May 2005, 19:27
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Maybe (im just thinking aloud) all those people who go on to reooffend just go on to reoffend because they're ****s and not because of any reformation system placed on them.
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12 May 2005, 19:30
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I'm pretty sure if you gave them all a billion dollars they wouldn't reoffend as much. This lends some credence to the idea that if they have a stable life to enter into when they leave the prison system they're less likely to commit more crimes.
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12 May 2005, 19:30
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Maybe (im just thinking aloud) all those people who go on to reooffend just go on to reoffend because they're ****s and not because of any reformation system placed on them.
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well some of us, like Ld Woolf accept that they weren't born shits
and try to work from that.
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12 May 2005, 20:10
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I'm pretty sure if you gave them all a billion dollars they wouldn't reoffend as much.
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No thanks; but feel free to give them all a billion dollars of your money.
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12 May 2005, 20:13
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I'm not proposing anything of the sort. I'm pointing out a fact.
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12 May 2005, 20:32
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This thread is now officially about horse shit and clownshoes.
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13 May 2005, 23:58
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How cool would it be to be called Lord Woolf.
Sweet Lord above that would rock.
Good thread.
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