The BBC reports that a key government body has advised that drug mules (women) are to be treated more leniently in the courts to drug ‘gangs and criminals’ (men).
People who smuggle drugs will face more lenient sentences if they have been exploited, under new guidelines.
The change in approach on “drug mules” forms part of new comprehensive rules on drugs offences from the Sentencing Council for England and Wales.
The council said judges should distinguish between those who have been exploited by gangs and criminals heavily involved in the drugs trade.
But it said large-scale drugs producers should expect longer jail terms.
The council’s role is to provide judges and magistrates with a set of broad guidelines so that sentencing is more consistent across England and Wales.
Last year the council carried out research into 12 women convicted of drug mule offences, all of whom received sentences of between 15 months and 15 years.
The majority of the women said they did not know that they had been carrying drugs when they arrived in the UK, although some admitted being suspicious. In most cases they had carried the drugs for someone they trusted or feared what would happen if they did not do so.
This fits in with the infamous advice that another advisory body, the Woman’s Task Force, gave to the government last year – that no woman should go to prison.
Meanwhile, Sir Richard Branson told a parliamentary commission that he thinks that no drug user should go to prison.
Like any libertarian, I agree entirely with Sir Richard, as I’m sure most of you do. I can honestly say that, for a variety of reasons, I have no interest in drugs myself, and have never taken illegal drugs. But isn’t it striking that it is perfectly acceptable to express opinions on the unfairness of existing drug laws, and little or no suspicion is cast on your personal likelihood of taking illegal drugs, and yet it is assumed that if a man calls into question laws on, for example, child porn, or the age of consent, then he must have a personal vested interest in doing so – even though such ludicrously defined feminist child porn laws criminalise far more people than do drug laws?
To dear American readers – in Europe and in most countries feminists have legally defined a man as a paedophile and a child porn downloader for merely once clicking on a YouTube video of a 17 year old dancing ‘sexily’ in her room. It is no excuse even if you did so because you were simply watching a video of Lady Gaga, and you happened to click on the thumbnail of a 17 year old imitating the dance that appeared in the sidebar (related videos), not knowing that she was under 18. In fact, the thumbnail itself might be enough for you to be thrown in jail. And the girl doesn’t even have to be 17 – she simply has to look under 18 (to a middle-aged jealous feminist hag judge). And simply viewing that one video (or thumbnail) will soon be enough to get you a minimum 1 year sentence under recently passed EUSSR legislation. How can anyone who calls themselves libertarian – wait a moment, scratch that. How can anyone who isn’t a f****g Nazi, NOT object to the state having that power over its citizens (men) especially a men’s rights activist?