rache: We have a Legal System but what we don't have is a Justice System.

A QC once told me that the Legal System isn't about Justice, it's about applying the Law. I asked him about why the high flyers get off so lightly for some very serious crimes. He said that it depends on how good your Barrister can argue & how much you can pay.

rache: The Aboriginal prison population also happens to be the most incarcerated indigenous community in the world, even outranking the US black population.

Well, I look at it like this. Why are they committing so much crime? I guess there would be twice as many in Prison if the Police could be persuaded to charge more instead of being told by their superiors to "let it go." & the Magistrates dealt out more realistic Sentencing instead of slapping wrists & being PC.

What a racist rant Opinionated2.

Op2,

Suggest that you read Cook's Journal entry relative to the visit to Botany Bay.
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/cook/17700429.html

Educate yourself a bit in the process.

Dear Jayb,

«Hell, why don't we make it that everyone gets tried under the Laws of the Country they came from. I could see that working. Not. Is that what you are advocating Yutsie?»

NO.

«I suppose that if you committed a Crime in Australia that you would want to be tried under Indian Law, or what ever is the lesser. Is that right.»

No - why would I want to be tried under Indian or under any other law which I never consented to live under?

I suppose, if a group of people genuinely wanted to subject themselves to a set of laws and to be tried accordingly by their peers if they failed to follow those laws, then it's OK, but that has never been the case in Australia (or in India for that matter) - what we have instead, is a group of people imposing their laws without consent on everyone who happens to live on the land, including by birth, then using their courts to accuse others, telling them that they are bad boys and girls and must be punished for not following their dictates. The only appropriate term for such a behaviour, is barbarism!

Issy...I am well educated TY.

The aborigines thought the ships were ghost ships and rightly that the people on board would harm them...The ships terrified them!

History proves the aborigines correct, we did harm them and you uneducated and unthinking.

I hope you don't approve of border protection for that is all the aborigines were doing! Or can only white people protect their borders?

So only white people are allowed to protect their homes from thieves?

Only white people are allowed to defend their women against rape?

Only white people are allowed to protect their families?

Your ignorance is astounding!

Oh look they didn't fall for the beads and trinkets trick... How dare they!

Oh they were too scared to take them... Shame on them!

Do you know how a musket works? Even a few pallets whilst not stopping the victim can get infected at a later time and cause death.

Why do you continually make yourself look like a moron?

Maybe you are just a moron!

Try educating yourself!

Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Why do you ignore all the horror & suffering we have inflicted on these people so easily?

Oh I know why... You are a bigot

If you don't like our laws Yuyutsu, move to somewhere where the laws suit you, I don't think anyone is forcing you to stay.

Opinionated2, have you ever tried to think something through? Of course not.

Just a few things the aboriginals have gained from white settlement.

A lot less die every year from tribal skirmishes.

Life expectancy is double for settlement, & triple for city aborigines.

Medical treatment is beyond their wildest imaginings.

They eat 3 times as well, & twice as often.

They have at least the same rights to defend their women & families. In fact white man law is helping dramatically in defending aboriginal families, women & children from aborigines.

Hell we even have exclusive use computer labs for them in our universities. Bet no white man could get that.

If anyone is a moron or a bigot, they expose this fact in their postings in places like this. Boy do you qualify.

Personally I don't know all that much about much of our law, I have managed to get way past my 3 score years & 10, without breaking any other than driving a little faster occasionally than some fool incompetent planner thinks is suitable.

The fact that we have such ridiculously low speed limits does not worry me enough to get upset about it, so I guess I'll stick around. Sorry Steely.

There are lots of motor sporting activities I could partake of, if I really had some need to drive fast. One Easter at Bathurst I did 180 MILES/Hour a couple of dozen times. Actually I did not find it exciting, or even fun. It was actually a bit scary, so I didn't do it again, I went sailing. Would you believe 18 Knots in a yacht is about as scary as 180 Miles/Hour in a Brabham.

Dear Hasbeen,

«If you don't like our laws Yuyutsu, move to somewhere where the laws suit you, I don't think anyone is forcing you to stay.»

What's that got to do with what I personally like or dislike or what personally suits me or otherwise: Wrong is just wrong!

Laws are presently being inflicted upon any human who is born on this planet, without being asked and from the moment they are born - that is plainly wrong. Period.