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    Sunday, January 21, 2007

    PC Judgement: A British judge gave a defendant in a race charge an unusual piece of advice:

    A man who called a police surgeon a “f***ing Paki” was advised yesterday by a judge: “Next time call him a fat bastard and don’t say anything about his colour.”

    The judge has a point. These days fat people (and smokers) are more offensive than racists, or at least more criminal. Offenders against the public health. He has a better point, too:

    Stiddart had opted for the case to be heard at Crown court, where he admitted a charge of racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress.

    Judge Paul Darlow told the court that the case should never have been brought and suggested that Dr Jhetam should have let the insults “roll off his back”.

    The judge said: “I wonder what this is doing in the Crown Court. This was a single sentence to a man who should not have taken it so seriously. He is a man of some considerable standing in society and I cannot see that it caused him any distress or hurt.

    “It should not have caused a problem in this case.


    Doctors have feelings, too, of course, but he is in a superior standing to the prisoner. The correct response would have been to tell him that as a prisoner he doesn't have the latitude to pick and choose his doctors.
     

    posted by Sydney on 1/21/2007 10:23:00 AM 1 comments

    1 Comments:

    And if the Doctor had called the Judge "a fascist prick" I suppose the Judge would have let that "roll off his back" too?

    By Blogger Benedict 16th, at 9:01 AM  

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