I said I would talk about politics, and I think they’re a pretty good topic to begin with today.
The more I read on how Spain’s government is working, the more I get the impression it’s not. The justice system is completely inefficient, immigration floods our borders, our foreign relations are pitiful and the whole unity of the country’s falling apart…when he observes all this, our president…smiles.
I’ll start out with the legal system: obsolete and useless. To begin with, the philosophy, in my opinion, is completely erroneous: other countries believe that the law is there to punish offences committed…our philosophy is that the law should “encourage that poor soul which has simply committed a mistake (kill 25 people for example) and re-insert him into society so he can learn from his mistakes.” I don’t know what your opinion is, but personally, I don’t want to be in a society with killers and rapists. When I say the legal system doesn’t work, I don’t just say it; let me list some facts so you get an idea…
- According to the Spanish penal code:
o No Citizen can spend more than 30 years in prison, irrelevant of what he has been sentenced to.
o The provisional liberty is applied when 1/3 OF 30 YEARS (10) has passed…not when 1/3 of the time of the original sentence has.
o People in prison get time off if they work while at prison. Why?
o People in prison are allowed to attend university (public, financed with our money) and graduate with a career.
I think the best definition of the legal system’s efficiency I’ve heard yet came from a lawyer I talked to…she said (and I quote): “If you really hate someone, and are willing to lose 3 years in the worse case…kill him. You probably won’t get caught, they most certainly won’t manage to prove it was you, and if you go to prison, since you don’t have a criminal record, you’ll be out of there in 20 months or so.” Needless to say, this is scary…someone condemned to a 40-year sentence (maximum time for murder) gets out after 20 months??? The justice system simply doesn’t work.
The more I read on how Spain’s government is working, the more I get the impression it’s not. The justice system is completely inefficient, immigration floods our borders, our foreign relations are pitiful and the whole unity of the country’s falling apart…when he observes all this, our president…smiles.
I’ll start out with the legal system: obsolete and useless. To begin with, the philosophy, in my opinion, is completely erroneous: other countries believe that the law is there to punish offences committed…our philosophy is that the law should “encourage that poor soul which has simply committed a mistake (kill 25 people for example) and re-insert him into society so he can learn from his mistakes.” I don’t know what your opinion is, but personally, I don’t want to be in a society with killers and rapists. When I say the legal system doesn’t work, I don’t just say it; let me list some facts so you get an idea…
- According to the Spanish penal code:
o No Citizen can spend more than 30 years in prison, irrelevant of what he has been sentenced to.
o The provisional liberty is applied when 1/3 OF 30 YEARS (10) has passed…not when 1/3 of the time of the original sentence has.
o People in prison get time off if they work while at prison. Why?
o People in prison are allowed to attend university (public, financed with our money) and graduate with a career.
I think the best definition of the legal system’s efficiency I’ve heard yet came from a lawyer I talked to…she said (and I quote): “If you really hate someone, and are willing to lose 3 years in the worse case…kill him. You probably won’t get caught, they most certainly won’t manage to prove it was you, and if you go to prison, since you don’t have a criminal record, you’ll be out of there in 20 months or so.” Needless to say, this is scary…someone condemned to a 40-year sentence (maximum time for murder) gets out after 20 months??? The justice system simply doesn’t work.
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