Comments on: The UK justice system has gone mad http://stonysleep.com/blog/news/the-uk-justice-system-has-gone-mad/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:29:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: MHC http://stonysleep.com/blog/news/the-uk-justice-system-has-gone-mad/comment-page-1/#comment-112 MHC Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:06:32 +0000 http://stonysleep.com/blog/?p=23#comment-112 The sentence for the careless driver guy makes me think of some sentences handed off to drunk drivers here that have either maimed or killed others. You wonder what the hell the judges think when they hand these out especially when the offender is a repeat offender and when they get a slight slap on the wrist with suspended driver's licence. Then they get caught again driving <em>without</em> a license. Meh. As for the hair thing... I think there is a notion of complete domination and triumph when there is cutting of hair against the victim's will. Think back to the nazi camps where the shaving of hair was done. Sure they kept the hair to stuff pillows and matresses but this gesture was not only a financial one. There is a sense of domination and breaking of spirit in that gesture. Plus hair for women is very important, it is part of what the woman looks like, how she wants to look for the exterior world, her assets if you will. It is quite different when you go to the hairdresser's to get your hair done and when your boyfriend in a fit of rage gets out and puts the scissors to your hair. And you can bet that her hair must be pretty shitty looking right now and that it will take some time to grow back. So till it grows back and looks <em>normal</em> again, she is walking around with a <em>branded</em> head in a way. In this case, I see great sensitivity on the judge's part. The sentence for the careless driver guy makes me think of some sentences handed off to drunk drivers here that have either maimed or killed others. You wonder what the hell the judges think when they hand these out especially when the offender is a repeat offender and when they get a slight slap on the wrist with suspended driver’s licence. Then they get caught again driving without a license. Meh.

As for the hair thing… I think there is a notion of complete domination and triumph when there is cutting of hair against the victim’s will. Think back to the nazi camps where the shaving of hair was done. Sure they kept the hair to stuff pillows and matresses but this gesture was not only a financial one. There is a sense of domination and breaking of spirit in that gesture. Plus hair for women is very important, it is part of what the woman looks like, how she wants to look for the exterior world, her assets if you will. It is quite different when you go to the hairdresser’s to get your hair done and when your boyfriend in a fit of rage gets out and puts the scissors to your hair. And you can bet that her hair must be pretty shitty looking right now and that it will take some time to grow back. So till it grows back and looks normal again, she is walking around with a branded head in a way. In this case, I see great sensitivity on the judge’s part.

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