>>37717497cont'd
did you know that to become a magistrate in charge of doling out jail sentences lasting up to 6 months, all you need is a fucking bit of volunteering to your name and attendance at an 18 hour instruction course? no test, no legal background, literally fuck all, and you become part of a team of 3 retards with no training who decide on both the length of the sentencing and whether or not it is carried out. Based on the advice of people processing approximately 1 legal case every 2 hours. And that sentencing covers 99% of criminal trials, ranging from domestic abuse cases to burglaries to dipshit authoritarian twitter laws.
That's where the headlines are pulled from. Not some massive government orwellian conspiracy, just a bunch of dipshit do-gooders arresting people who vaguely offend them.
