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NothingButNet's avatar

These are the kinds of things that make people take justice into their own hands when the government proves unwilling to punish criminal activity.

longletters's avatar

Is this "lay judges" system really "government" or is it some weird hybrid which only goes to prove that even "regular citizen" drawn "direct from the masses" becomes hierarchical and a system ripe for favor-trading and exploitation, especially when it operates outside of mass representation?

NothingButNet's avatar

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Who knows? Whatever it is, it’s a stupid system. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

longletters's avatar

It's incredibly bad and stupid.

I wonder if there's a time when it worked well and if so, what was the societal and political situation at that time?

Surely lots of water has flown under bridges since then and lots of bad ideas have been socialized, at all points of the spectrum. I mean, what was called "conservative" in the 40s and 50s is nothing like what it is today. Stuff found in progressivism today was I think more the domain of rabid cultists a hundred years ago. Etc.

Joe Travis's avatar

They already abused females for bloody votes. What more do you expect from animals.

longletters's avatar

I have no idea how that relates to what I was saying to someone else. I think you are thinking so ferociously of a very narrow "they" that you assume everyone else would understand what you mean.

Noel Reid's avatar

Is it perhaps instead of the English Jury system?

Terrible result though - worse than outrageous!

longletters's avatar

I didn't even think of that. Makes sense, but what a botched attempt it is. Not very comfortable with the commoners having even that much authority, perhaps?

It is completely outrageous!

ILoveLiberty's avatar

It is the way it is because they will not recognize the Law of Nature and Nature's God, as real Law. They do not recognize that our laws came originally from scripture, designated as such in Blackstone's Law early editions and in early documents. All 50 State Preambles acnowledge God and ask for His protection. All of them.

The U of TX years ago found 7000 references to scripture in our founding era. Front pages of newspapers were sermons. The New England Primer from 1st grade on taught Jesus with the Sermon on the Mount taught in 4th grade. Black-Robed Regiment Pastors kept their short guns under their robes, then threw off the robes and went and fought the Brits.

Then scripture was replaced in Blackstone's Law with ellipses,...... and then removed the ellipses in the next edition. But, that law is still documented in the Declaration, which the James Wilson Institute, and in particular, that institute's founder, Hadley Arkes, in which their Manifesto on Natural Rights, states clearly, that "We never have the right to do wrong,' which is oh so similar to Common Law, "Your rights end at my face." and vice versa.

Our black-robed fools think life equates to a fence, and jurisdiction equates to a suitcase and the word 'sex,' somehow just evaporated and ran from an opinion given by satan himself. Words they cannot define: Marriage. Life. Honor. Evil. History. Law vs legaleze. Sex. Man. Woman. Mother. Father. and more.

longletters's avatar

No, all 50 states do not. New Hampshire had their head on straight, and Vermont's preamble is not at all definitive as anything you with your "teaching Jesus" mean as "god", to give two examples. Many of the others just copy pasted, and there is no proof in that beyond that the Constitutional framers of the states which were copying, had in the examples being copied, something they could point to and say, to the disputatious representatives gathered, "all these other states were able to agree to use this, now do you stop this pointless bickering and move on to the Articles".

Please do not use space under my comments for preaching. It is exceedingly unwelcome and will earn a fast block.

Joe Travis's avatar

Pathetic excuse for law.

ILoveLiberty's avatar

It's going to have to come to that.

Mark Lancaster's avatar

Just when you think you’ve heard it all…

flatpress's avatar

You explained a little on how the Swedish courts work, but.. actually, they don't work do they. It's the same in the UK and all western nations. It's up to us now. The system has not only failed but has been turned against us. There's no one coming to save us. We are the ones who save us. Action is required and well overdue.

Vanessa's avatar

Wonder where all the liberal women are?

freelearner's avatar

Where are the women, and will there be a protest outside that courtroom this week?

Kathy Lopez's avatar

This is downright sick. The professional legal judge was neutered by a political appointee?!?

This is inexcusable!

Stefan Soback's avatar

This is extreme even for Sweden!! Touching a 14 year old girl is rape. Period.

Gary Stuart's avatar

Similar in UK... a young girl reported Rapists with manchette or other crimes stalking young girls.. she was arrested for Islamophobia...

John David Truly's avatar

I looked up manchette? A “shirt cuff”. Can you clarify?

Anna's avatar

It was a typo. He meant machete.

Debbie Lawrence's avatar

A machete is a large, heavy, broad-bladed knife. It is primarily used as an agricultural tool for clearing dense vegetation, cutting sugarcane, and hacking through brush, but it can also serve as an improvised or traditional weapon.

John David Truly's avatar

Yes I own two - not a mannchette

DE's avatar

Are you gratified now, JDT?

Kathleen Kate Hagan's avatar

Disgusting & I think the government want these people free to rape & destroy society & these lay judges are being paid by the higher up bodies to let the criminals off free of serving time. Another way of controlling the system.

Mike Schnell's avatar

Absolutely unbelievable!

San Sebastián's avatar

Sadly we have seen the left in Britain cover up the gang rape of children by Muslim Gangs for diversity reasons. This has been going on in towns with left wing councils for over 30 years. Left wing politicians voted NOT to have an Inquiry.

Danielle Joyce's avatar

So sad! How can anyone feel safe knowing that this monster roams the streets?

Sandra Goad's avatar

Don't you just despair?

White Fang's avatar

There is really no comment !!! 🤬🤬🤬

Stephen Korn, MD's avatar

How about sentencing this judge to life and banned from Sweden, too