Oxymoronically-named Systems

A man and a woman were sentenced today in Winnipeg for the kidnapping, imprisonment and rape of two young girls, aged 12 and 13. And we're not talking about some quick ordeal here. Far from it. One of these girls, the 12-year-old, was held for two months as a sex slave and continuously drugged, raped, tormented and tortured. The other girl was also raped numerous times, and she eventually became pregnant. The couple showed absolutely no remorse and asked for no forgiveness. So what kind of sentence do you think they received?

Imagine a law designed and used specifically to protect rapists and to punish those who are raped. A law - a whole legal system in fact (the Sharia Islamic law system) - that says rape doesn't actually happen, it's really just women fornicating. In this legal system with this form of "justice" 99% of rapists go free while many raped women are sent to prison to serve long sentences. Sounds ridiculous? Sounds impossible? Well, it exists alright, in a very real country called Pakistan, and thousands of very real women are wasting away in prison right at this moment simply because they were raped.

Now here's something that even the Taliban might find extreme, unjust, ridiculous and barbaric. The government of Scotland has proposed a law to jail the parents of juvenile offenders/criminals. The kid steals a car - throw the mom in jail! The kid gets into a fight and stabs someone - send dad to prison! Make the bastard pay! If mom has died or run off, well then throw grandma in jail! What the hell? Someone's got to pay for junior's bad behavior.