A hardened crim can bow to His Honour while planning to order a jail visitor to murder someone . He wears a respectable black suit and tie with wig and the judge thinks "what a nice gentleman with handkerchief in his top pocket and polished shoes. He gets 4 years reduction in jail time."

'Muslim woman faces jail'. Phooey! She no more faces jail than I do for getting up this morning. The media is always blathering 'headlines' about people facing jail for all manner of things. 'Faces life in prison after killing' someone is a good one. The rest of us know that the courts are too weak to impose a decent, deterrent sentence.

Courts now go out of their way NOT to send people to jail, or punish them at all. Easy bail, allowing offenders to re-offend while waiting be tried sometime in the distant future; home detention; unrecorded offences, it's all there.

Australia has only just got around to removing the citizenship of terrorist for the first time ever.
This face-hiding woman will most likely get off scot-free, to do the same thing as often as she chooses. Does anyone know of a case where a Muslim was punished for showing contempt for our courts and customs?

She's not a true Muslim for facing jail . She should not face anyone except Allah.

Toni Lavis is right - the arrogance of the legal profession is disgusting.

No one should stand for anyone else unless they want to. Do you stand for your plumber when he comes to fix your sink? Legal professionals are just doing a job for society like we all are. Their job is no more due respect than anyone else. The pomposity with which they go about their job is intended to try and create a false impression that their job is more valuable then anyone else's. In a natural crisis their skills and education would be totally worthless.

If they want respect then they should behave with the dignity and integrity that all other professionals do and wear ordinary clothes which do not draw attention to themselves. It is what they say and do in the courtroom that matters and not the costumes and dramatics that they conjure for their own benefit.

I sat down when my plumber connected the sewer but he ordered me to dig to find the council pipe. My respect increased when I saw the size of his bill in a natural crisis and he had no police backing him up. And I kept my hair on and didn't swear and he didn't re-offend.

nicknamenick:

You should do stand-up comedy. You would get instant feed back about how incredibly funny you truly are. You are just wasting your talents on this forum. No applause, no rewards, no kudos or fame and fortune.

How you keep it up day after day without anything in return is just amazingly generous of you.

But then again you may find out that you are not funny at all. This way you can be funny in your imagination at least. You can convince yourself that you are a great talent if no one else. That is probably all that matters to you. You cannot contribute anything constructive but at least you can be destructive by abusing the forums to feed your imaginary world. At least if you are destructive then you are someone eh?

If you want to be funny though you should do it where it can be truly tested. This would be the true mark of your desire. You should either put up and test your talents where they can be tested or stop trying to childishly disrupt the forum.