Here’s one for my campaign to make soft-touch, tilty-headed, lefty judges face serious consequences for their virtue-signalling idiocy. And, believe me, this one is a shocker.
A video which occasionally resurfaces on social media shows the chaos which erupted in a Dutch courtroom when an infuriated father threw a chair at the judge. What sparked his outrage? The judge had just sentenced the man who killed his toddler and her grandparents… two 120 hours of community service.
You read that right: community service for killing a three people.
What’s even more shocking than the verdict is the reaction of the judge to the father’s fury: smirking indifference. As bailiffs hustle the furious father out of the courtroom, she just sits there with a simpering smile plastered on her face.
Because she knows she absolutely immune to accountability for her decision.
If a bartender serves an obviously inebriated patron who goes on to commit a crime while drunk, the bartender can be held responsible. If a boss, even unknowingly, runs an unsafe worksite that kills a worker, they can go to jail. But judges are airily immune from consequences.
Here’s the background to the shocking case.
A driver from Poland was driving in Meijel, Netherlands when he struck two cyclists and a two-year-old child on May 19th, 2013.
The court ruled that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that the driver was driving recklessly, despite driving 120 km/h on an 80 km/h road.
However, the driver was found in violation of Article 5 of the Dutch Road and Traffic Law and was sentenced to 120 hours of community service, a suspension of his license for one year, and two years probation afterward.
The judge decided that driving 40km/h over the limit in a residential area wasn’t ‘reckless’. Merely a ‘road hazard’. Ignore the bodies he piled up behind him. Not even the fact that he fled the scene was held against him.
Notably, too, not one media outlet names the ‘Polish national’ who killed the little girl and her grandparents as they rode their bikes on a path. It’s almost like they’re trying to hide something.
But the Dutch legal system was far from done spitting on the graves of the innocent slain.
On appeal, the unnamed ‘Polish national’ was sentenced to a whopping… 15 months. He wouldn’t even have to go to jail for as long as the short life he ended.
Even that, though, was apparently too much. The hit-run killer fled again, this time to the UK to try to escape justice, but was eventually arrested and extradited, whereupon he was almost immediately set free again.
A Polish driver convicted of killing a toddler and her grandparents in a hit-and-run accident in Meije, Limburg four years ago, was given early release so he could return to Poland to be there when his girlfriend gives birth. PVV, SP, CDA and VVD parliamentarians are outraged by the man’s release. They call for the system for early release to be changed, NOS reports.
So, all told, he spent barely nine months in prison for killing three people, because, get this, he was ‘banned from re-entering the Netherlands’.
Besides, the courts decided he was the ‘real’ victim.
The council also ruled that the man was doubly punished due to the commotion in the media and society. According to the council, the commotion and social unrest can’t be blamed on the Polish man – it mainly arose because the Polish man was first given community service and one of the victims’ relatives threw a chair at the judge.
Meanwhile, judges and bureaucrats just keep thumbing their noses at not just the victims of crime but even the politicians who appoint them.
Junior justice minister Klaas Dijkhoff turned down the initial request for prison leave, but an appeals panel overruled him, saying that the personal circumstances of the offender outweighed the interests of the victims’ relatives.
Everyone involved in these decisions ought to be jailed alongside the judge and the killer.
A killer who must be named by the media instead of protecting him.
