What kind
of democracy is it when the government minsters influence the courts
sentencing policy along ideological lines? I thought that in a
democracy the judiciary was meant to be independent and sentencing
proportional. What we have in this country is the Prime Minister and
some of his millionaire chums in the cabinet calling for sentences
away out of all proportion to the actual crime committed, just so
they can appeal to their fascist backwoods support and brandish their
“tough-on-crime credentials. Four years prison for two young men who put a
page on Facebook, is the usual, we will make an example of these
young men and scare the shit out of all the other young people. In my
book, that has no resemblance to justice. Throwing families out of
their home because one member of that family has committed a crime,
hardly fair, hardly proportional, and certainly not justice. We can
be sure that our right-wing millionaire fascists will use the disturbances and whatever else they can, to further their agenda, more control over the ordinary
people, tougher policing in the poorer communities, whole areas to be
under curfew, and we will be told, it is all for our own good. No talk
of sharing the wealth of this very rich country more equally, no talk
of alleviating the poverty and deprivation in some of our
communities. No, it will be more control and a tighter grip on what
will become ghettos. In capitalism when there are no jobs and they are going through one of their frequent crisis, the people
become a bit of a nuisance, so have to be contained so as to allow
the better off to get on with their consumerism and the corporate
world to get on with its looting and plundering. If we wish to have
democracy, we have to get rid of the state and its bed partner, the
corporate world. In this modern capitalist world, the state and the
corporate world are one, they have merged into one body that has set
out to control the world for the gain of the shareholders and the
financial sector, it is called corporatism, Mussolini’s name for
fascism.
