Tuesday, December 11, 2007

This and That About Crime:

I listened to the usual political and self righteous drivel about Bell's recent incident which landed him in hospital after being attacked by an inmate in the torture chamber of Paremoremo known as D Block. Bell is a triple murderer of staff at the Panmure RSA who received 33 years maximum, the longest sentence in NZ history apparently, even longer than some Nuremburg inmates from Nazi Germany after WW 2. There was all sorts of crappy speculation about this latest Bell incident apparently fed to the "Sentencing Trust" by inmates for whom fiction is greater than truth. They sent it to the right place full of the same sort of people. These ridiculous speculations were:
- Bell was getting favourable treatment by guards in a sumptuous suite of rooms in Hotel Parry. Prejudiced minds turned D Block which is 23 hours in a cell smaller than a double bed into something only the dummest commentator could think of as paradise. I heard that on TV 3's "Sunrise" programme.
- The whole incident was staged so that he could escape presumably from the hospital. Honestly some people watch too much TV.
The truth will out in the end but it looks rather like another inmate taking the opportunity to attack Bell for whatever reason of his own. A lot of people especially from 'that' Trust were hoping that Bell would have died. Obviously not all the savages are in D Block. Utu looms large in a society that purports to be more civilized than most. Like the atrocities of history of which there are so many including those today in Iraq where even US Security firms are allowed to murder locals indiscriminantly and get away with it. Bell's atrocity palls alongside those mongrels.

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