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It’s a win/win for Australian drug fiends:
Paavilainen’s defence counsel told the court his client had been a drug addict for 20 years, his problem so bad he qualified for a disability support pension.
Read on. Paavilainen is quite the deserving recipient.
“Morally speaking, no sentence is long enough,” Judge Nase said before ordering Paavilainen serve at least two years of a five year jail term.
However, morally speaking, I guess some sentences, though not long enough, need not be particularly short. Why didn’t the guy get the full five? Or is that routine sentencing procedure?
“The defendant’s behaviour towards his 74-year-old mother in her own home is despicable,” Ms Currie said.
How about his behavior to people in general????
“Morally speaking, no sentence is long enough,” Judge Nase said before ordering Paavilainen serve at least two years of a five year jail term.
No sentence is long enough, then only gives him 2 years?? WOW. We get knocked in the US for having too many prisons, and it’s because people like this would be put away for a hell of a lot longer and deservedly so…
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 04 15 at 10:46 AM • permalinkI think we’ve found the next lead vocalist for Midnight Oil.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2008 04 15 at 10:49 AM • permalinkMaybe Our Tom should considedr switching from opiates to, oh, potassium chloride?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 15 at 11:35 AM • permalinkMate, drug addicts have been able to get welfare benefits such as sickness and disability benefits here in New Zealand for ages. I cannot confirm it but they can probably get their benefit direct credited into their dealer’s account straight from social welfare.
Posted by brian_smaller on 2008 04 15 at 03:06 PM • permalinkI don’t get money because I take drugs, I have to take drugs as part of getting my money.
(They aint gonna trust me with currency unless I’m medicated.)
Posted by mythusmage on 2008 04 15 at 04:07 PM • permalink“Morally speaking, no sentence is long enough,” Judge Nase said before ordering Paavilainen serve at least two years of a five year jail term.
So, he’ll get out when his mother is 76 or 77, and even more helpless, and go back to abusing her for drug money. And when she’s dead, the judge will blame society.
The guy is a drug-addled moron criminal, he’s proved it time and again, and he’s not going to change! LOCK HIM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY!
#2 Paco
The police catch ‘em, the judges slap their wrists and send them on their way.#3 Old Tanker
How about his behavior to people in general????
This is his Mum, a woman over 70 years of age. If he’s going to do this to her the mind boggles at what he may do to a stranger he has no emotional connection with.
However you look at what he did (what he may be capable of doing), it’s unacceptable and two years isn’t nearly enough.
I’m with RebeccaH, lock him up, and throw away the key.Or a hot shot.
What happened to hanging judges? I mean hanging the judges.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 15 at 07:27 PM • permalink#3 Old Tanker. Gidday. One of our issues in Australia is that we have way too many Social Workers. Universities term this qualification as a ‘social science’ degree. Get the drift.
Since the 70s, their numbers have grown disproportionately to the demand for their services, although legal constraints that limited this Judge’s sentencing powers keep many of them occupied.
They remain unaccountable and produce very little that a nurse, psychologist or a religious couldn’t achieve.
Their main source of work is in the public domain and they feed off our inane mountain of laws that allow people like this guy to be forgiven and molly coddled back into society.
This guy should be fronting a Taliban like court and dealt with in public.
Ok, as a JP (lowest form of justice) here in west Oz our basic guideline or rule of thumb for fines is 10% of the maximum it could be.
So an offence which on the books would be looking at $10,000 can, by the time we deal with it, be looking at $1000.
We can, and do, step over that occasionaly but if we made a habit of it wed be slapped down.
To be fair we tend to get the silly and misguided rather than the mad and bad.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 04 15 at 08:20 PM • permalinkHey, Canadians just like, er .. forget to, er… pay you know.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 15 at 10:10 PM • permalinkRegarding Medical Mary Jane -
Users typically smoke marijuana to combat nausea and pain associated with chronic ailments, resulting from such infections as HIV and hepatitis C, after standard medicines fail.
Mark Schollenberg, 42, of Stoney Creek, Ont., uses marijuana to control chronic pain from a series of workplace injuries. Unable to work and on disability, he initially used street marijuana but changed his mind.
“I thought instead of causing myself any problems, I should get a licence and do it legally,” he said in an interview.
With a doctor’s approval, Schollenberg got a licence and ordered his first batch of Health Canada dope last summer assuming Ottawa would cover the costs.
He was cut off in October, now owes $3,962.34 including interest, and is back on the street to purchase his medicine.
“I can’t even afford the black market,” he says of his five-gram-a-day requirement
You see, it’s a nice little earner.
(John Wilcox) ... says he became angry on learning that Health Canada charges users 1,500 per cent more than it pays Prairie Plant Systems for the dope.
“At that point, I refused to pay,” he said in an interview. “Also, not to mention that their product is crap.”
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