The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum 60 Days for Four Years of Raping Vermont Child

When I first read the subject of this thread, I thought for sure it had to do with some "judge" in Canada. Such indescribably light sentences for heinous and serious crimes are commonplace in Canada. Rarely do Judges here give out lengthy prison terms for even the most serious crimes, e.g., murder. We have several Judges in the Vancouver courts who regularly order "house arrest" sentences for murder. Repeat offenders, e.g., DWI infractions most often get sentenced to 30, 60 or 90 days, even after being convicted more than a dozen times for the same offense.

IMHO, the basic problem can be found in the near total rejection of God in our societies. If there is no God then there is no object standard of law but rather that which men determine which they think is conducive to the betterment of mankind. One would be hard-pressed to find a Judge and/or Prosecutor who thinks a convicted individual should be sentenced commensurate with the seriousness of the crime committed. The accepted thinking today, thanks to bone-headed, godless psychiatrists/psychologists, is "rehabilitation" without regard to "punishment". . . shades of Waldon Two! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" />

In His grace,