Interests and irritations to a guy on a red horse.
Quotes
"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"
"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain
Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill
"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero
As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”
"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan
"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler
"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day
"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown
"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"
Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift
""Migrant rights trump women's rights" and "migrant rights trump
children's rights" and (in some of the most grisly cases) "migrant
rights trump disabled rights". It's not that there's only three or four -
or seven or twelve, or 29 or 97 or 236 or 1,768 - rapes. It's not the
"small" number of cases, but the fact that, in a fainthearted age
prostrate before the multicultural pieties, these "few" cases are
changing us. So that the most eminent jurists in Austria feel obliged to
assimilate with their invaders: hey, how was poor old Amir supposed to
know the cute l'il moppet wasn't consenting to anal rape?"
AN IRAQI asylum seeker who confessed to raping a
10-year-old boy in a swimming pool, claiming it was a "sexual
emergency", has had his conviction overturned.
This was a Viennese rape case that received quite a bit of coverage a
few months ago, mainly because of the accused's defense that he was
undergoing a "sexual emergency": Like almost 80 per cent of "refugees",
Amir is a fit young man. He'd scrammed out of the country leaving his
wife behind and therefore had not enjoyed conjugal relations for four
months. Hence the "sexual emergency":
When the youngster went to the showers, Amir A.
allegedly followed him, pushed him into a toilet cubicle, and violently
sexually assaulted him. Following the attack, the accused rapist returned to the pool and
was practising on the diving board when police arrived, after the
10-year-old raised the alarm with the lifeguard. The child suffered severe anal injuries which had to be treated at
a local children's hospital, and is still plagued by serious
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Amir was convicted of rape and serious sexual assault of a minor and
sentenced to six years. However, the Austrian Supreme Court has now
quashed the verdict. But hang on, didn't the guy confess? Ah, yes,
but...
The Supreme Court yesterday overturned the conviction,
accepting the defence lawyer's claim that the original court had not
done enough to ascertain whether or not the rapist realised the child
was saying no...
You might think the screams would have been a clue there, but apparently not:
The appeal court said the initial ruling should have
dealt with whether the offender thought that the victim had agreed with
the sexual act, or whether he had intended to act against his will.
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