Aresholes con a jury, part two

[spudchucka]

Which I guess sell more papers (and supplies loo paper for the above).

Just like how throughout the whole affair it has been referred to in the media as the "Police Rape Trial", not the Rickards, Shipton, Schollum trial

[Damon]

FYI I was NOT there! The case IS over and I, nor Louise and her family and friends(or the other women they preyed upon) will EVER get over it because it is a HUGE INJUSTICE!

I may have missed something here, and i'm not trolling but how are you connected to all this? your a bit too passionate to be an average joe with a bee in her bonnet?

[Goblin]

I may have missed something here, and i'm not trolling but how are you connected to all this? your a bit too passionate to be an average joe with a bee in her bonnet?

You havn't missed anything. It is about the injustice of it all. There is no justice. The lawyers get richer, rickards will get the golden handshake(at the taxpayers expence) and the real victims will keep fighting, in vain, for justice. Meanwhile David Bain sits in prison....but thats another thread.

[spudchucka]

Meanwhile David Bain sits in prison....but thats another thread.

Are you connected to that one too or have you just read the book and watched the informative documentaries?

[Scouse]

I think David Bain is guilty and Joe Karam has wasted a lot of his own personal fortune on this

[doc]

Are you connected to that one too or have you just read the book and watched the informative documentaries?

Unfortunately we only remember the bad press you get. Like that one on TV were some dude was being pepper sprayed while lying face down handcuffed. There has to be more to the eye that what the TV edited but, that gets lost as they move on to something more controversial. You need to sort out your public relations team. Your image is getting tarnised by the press. It's not about accuracy it's about selling stories.

[denill]

Unfortunately we only remember the bad press you get. Like that one on TV were some dude was being pepper sprayed while lying face down handcuffed. There has to be more to the eye that what the TV edited but, that gets lost as they move on to something more controversial. You need to sort out your public relations team. Your image is getting tarnised by the press. It's not about accuracy it's about selling stories.

And it's always goin to be like that. As long as some of your colleagues are going to misbehave. And they will.

They (cops) are just another segment of society.

Cops who are intent on presenting Rickards in a more santised version than he presents himself are pushing it uphill. Cops need to cut him loose (at our bloody expense) and move on.

[ManDownUnder]

... and move on.

Now there's a sentiment I agree with.

I'm not saying ignore this - I'm saying don't start WWIII.

[Guitana]

Now there's a sentiment I agree with.

I'm not saying ignore this - I'm saying don't start WWIII.

War is good for the economy just ask George Bush!!!

[Scouse]

Interesting Artical in todays Herald with two lawyers from different partnerships were doing this sort of one lawyer with a case for rickards to keep his job, and the other lawyer presented why rickards should lose his job, the most interesting part was the only real thing that the lawyer doing the case for rickards could put up was that in the early part of his Police career he was an under cover Cop inside the mongrel mob or black power and that his defence could be that in order to mantain his cover he was encouraged to partake in the sort of thing that gangs get up to, ie groupe sex so he became desensitised to the fact that this is not the sort of conduct becoming of a police officer.

[candor]

Are you saying he had to rape, inhale, keep his mouth shut about heinous crimes and do all the other sorts of things that may be required to earn a patch or mix with members?. All in the line of duty.

I don't know that "desensitised" is the word - its not like he was ever a very sensitive lad. Criminologists often claim that participating in all sorts of antisocial acts results in a line crossing to a place where those acts are enjoyed (given the right psychological make up is there in the first place).

This sounds more like a line to pitch to the type that think watching too much of the Simpsons makes for future serial killers.

[Scouse]

No not agreeing with this in any way Candor just relaying what was in the herald and it was put forward as consensual group sex not pack rape anyway the lawyer that put forward the reasons that he should not get his job back had much more convincing reasons anyway Candor my view of the world is that rickards should be fried

[imdying]

Wow... this still going on? She's a dirty skank who got what she deserved... that's becoming more and more apparent all the time. Hope she has learnt her lesson... just how did she intend to prove her made up crap 20 years later??

[Patrick]

Meanwhile David Bain sits in prison....but thats another thread.

SHIT... dont go there!!! Guilty!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just because Joe KARAM says he isn't guilty, doesn't mean he is not guilty... but yes, I guess that is another thread...

[spudchucka]

SHIT... dont go there!!! Guilty!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just because Joe KARAM says he isn't guilty, doesn't mean he is not guilty... but yes, I guess that is another thread...

Joe is off to the Privy Council this week apparently. It'll be interesting to see what comes of that.