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Drug mules (women) to face more lenient sentences, Drug Gangs (men) to face stiffer punishments

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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?

No Woman Should Be Sent to Prison say’s ‘Women’s Justice Task Force’

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I find reading the latest misandry stories in the news, and in the men’s rights blogosphere, quite a depressing experience.  This is the thing I don’t like about having to maintain this blog – having to search for them and read them on a daily basis.  But rarely do they leave me in a state of complete apoplexy as today, when I saw the following story linked at Angry Harry :

Women should not be sent to prison and should instead serve community sentences, according to a new report by the Women’s Justice Taskforce.

The focus should be on health, housing and treatment for drug addiction to reduce reoffending, its report said.

It called for a director of women’s justice to be appointed to provide “clear leadership and accountability”.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) welcomed the report and said it was carefully considering the recommendations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13666066

And people still question the need for a men’s rights movement!!!  Very shortly, throughout Europe, any man ‘caught’ clicking on a sexy young cartoon character’s picture, will face a MANDATORY two years in prison, where we know that, unlike women inmates, he will likely be beaten, spat upon, and raped.  For a completely victimless crime, under a law lobbied for by women.  Yet women can rob, assault, falsely accuse men, abuse or kill their babies, and whatever else they want to do, and they shouldn’t go to prison simply because of the hole they have between their legs!

If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next

I’m still in a state of complete rage (typing this in the evening, 12 hours after reading that BBC story).  At times like this I find listening to the following song to be somewhat consoling.  I’m not a big Manic Street Preachers fan, but the lyrics of ’If You Tolerate This’ strike a chord with me, when I feel like this.  The song (which reached Number 1 in the British charts) tells of the singer’s shame and feeling of cowardice in comparison to the generation who volunteered to fight in the Spanish civil war – men like George Orwell, who were willing to risk their lives in another country fighting against fascism.  Something which he knows he, and probably virtually all of this spoilt complacent generation, could never do.  And sometimes, on days like this, when I remember how close I’ve come to closing this blog – an anonymous blog, for Christ’s sake - through pure cowardice, then it consoles, as well as shames me, to listen to this song :

Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today
But I’m a pacifist
I’ve walked La Ramblas
But not with real intent


The Manic Street Preachers are famously left-wing, so hardly a fitting band for an anti-feminist site, you might think (and maybe I will get a legal summons from their record company tommorrow).  But there is a couple of interesting aspects to them that say otherwise.

The original lyricist and rythm guitarist of the band – Richey Edwards, a wonderfully wierd and intense character who contributed greatly to the band’s initial success - went missing in 1995, and has not been seen or heard of since.  It is presumed that he killed himself.  I recall reading in a music mag, when I was at university, a story about how he used to plaster the band’s tour bus with images of ‘lolita’ type girls (here comes my second legal summons).

The other interesting story relating to the Manic Street Preachers concerns Patrick Jones, a poet and a men’s rights supporter who has written a play about male victims of domestic violence entitled ‘Revelation’.  Jones is the brother of band member Nicky Wire (lyricisit and bass guitar player) and the Manic Street Preachers have provided backing music to performances of the play.

Oddly, I’ve never before seen Patrick Jones mentioned in the men’s rights blogosphere.  Given that the current MRM sometimes gives the impression of being more American and right wing than Sarah Palin’s Stars and Stripes underwear, perhaps that’s not surprising.  But I think he would make a great interview subject for A Voice for Men Radio, or perhaps ManWomanMyth.