Exactly, everybody hopes he gets better , do most people really, truly care ? In my opinion, no.
My initial reaction when I saw the picture of Scott Parker at last night's game in the Metro this morning with the "thank you for your support for muamba" t shirt , was FOR FUCKS SAKE GIVE IT A REST .
He's not criticising people for being too compassionate , he's aiming his criticism at false, over the top compassion , which is what has happened with Muamba in my opinion.
My question as to your seriousness was aimed at the line " Maybe seeing the sentencing for these racist twitter comments will push up the sentencing for other crimes like child porn, burglary up.. "
I'm quite sure the law allows for a prison sentence in the offences I mentioned, in fact I know it does, so why then are these sentences not being applied ? I direct you to the line in my previous post "its an attempt to appease a vociferous minority, whilst we sweep various other ills and...
Obviously nowhere near as serious as the offences i mentioned , as I posted on this thread previously, why is this treated so seriously , when other acts, such as burning poppies and causing a breach of the peace by abusing homecoming soldiers are treated with what a majority of people would...
I'm all for judges having some latitude in sentencing, but this is basically sending out the message that racism , albeit electronically , is a more serious crime than burglary, or in some cases posession of child porn, or carrying a knife.........it's not, its an attempt to appease a vociferous...
Yes, burgle houses and in some cases, download childporn, with f***ing impunity, you wont get any time, we'd rather waste resources on locking up a fool who didnt physically harm anyone but made a prick of himself by posting racist comments on a social media site .
Nor can I when domestic burglars dont get jailed until they've done it umpteen times, i dont defend what he's done , but far worse crimes are committed without attracting time in prison.
How come that when someone does something moronic like this, all of the "left leaning" posters on here are mortally offended , and are breaking their necks to get the bloke arrested, but whenever people are burning poppies, or abusing returning troops as murderers etc , something which just as...