A magistrate in Australia has been rebuked for trying to talk some sense into a defendant.
Before passing sentence, Mr Frederick told the defendant: “You’re a druggie and you’ll die in the gutter . . . I don’t believe in that social worker crap . . . You can go to work.
“Seven million of us do it while 14 million like you sit at home watching Days of Our Lives, smoking your crack pipe and using needles, and I’m sick of you sucking us dry.
“Little Johnnie taxes us with all sorts, and now with salt tax and maybe war tax.
“We dicks pay for your life. It’s your choice to be a junkie and die in the gutter. No one gives a shit, but you’re going to kill that woman who is your mother, damn you to death.”
Personally I don’t so what’s so offensive about what he said. That he is rebuked for saying it is a sign of how much society or at least elite society prefers ‘sensitivity’ to the harsh truth. Being judgemental is now a worse sin than wasting your life. While I don’t agree with drug laws or prostitution laws, he of course had to administer those laws and what he was saying was more moral suasion to get her to change her ways. He was clearly emotional when he let it rip and the reaction was one of one human being who thinks that another human being could do better with her life. If only more judges were as concerned with the people they sentenced.
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