WHAT IS HAPPENING TO BRITAIN? – AT 8:32 A.M. ET:  We report periodically on the descent of the British legal system into a kind of leftist never-never land, and warn that this could easily happen here.  Indeed, with Eric Holder's misguided lawsuit against Arizona, and his refusal to prosecute the New Black Panther/voter intimidation case, maybe it already is happening here.  From Britain's Telegraph:

Murders and other serious crimes committed by prisoners released early from jail may have to be “accepted” by the public as part of attempts to keep down the cost of the criminal justice system, the probation watchdog suggested.

Andrew Bridges questioned whether it was worth keeping thousands of violent and dangerous offenders locked up for longer than the minimum jail term set by a court just to stop a few of them committing new crimes.

Some reoffending — even if it involved “serious” new crimes — could be the price that society had to pay for trying to cut down on the huge cost of the country’s rising prison population, said Mr Bridges, the chief inspector of probation. While acknowledging that prison reduced crime, he described it as a “rather drastic form of crime prevention” and said it was time to consider dealing with more offenders in the community.

He claimed that the public could never be perfectly protected and that the cost of a “small amount” of reoffending could be outweighed by the “benefit” of financial savings to the public purse made from having less prisoners locked up.

COMMENT:  Can you believe that?  I wonder which part of his family Mr. Bridges is willing to sacrifice to be victims of "reoffending."

Of course, subtle threats like this are common on the left.  What Bridges is saying is this: " Cut our budget, lose your life."  It's said, however, more elegantly.  In this country they usually start with, "Don't hurt the children."

If you were an illegal immigrant coming over the Mexican border with the intention of committing crimes for profit, how fearful would you be of the Obama crowd?  Not very.

We seem to be going back to the sixties.  Didn't work out too well. 

July 12, 2010