tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post3442765907099032777..comments2024-03-29T05:24:30.793-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Sold Mild Ale for Scotch AleRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-56727074549288829892012-12-23T06:33:04.917-08:002012-12-23T06:33:04.917-08:00Good point, I hadn't seen the 1942 date, and a...Good point, I hadn't seen the 1942 date, and assumed it was sometime in the 1920's. Still, I think we have come a long way from that time..<br /><br />GaryGary Gillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-10979575848699842372012-12-23T06:12:14.698-08:002012-12-23T06:12:14.698-08:00Gary, I suspect the punishment would have been muc...Gary, I suspect the punishment would have been much less in peacetime. Profiting unfairly in wartime was very much looked down on.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-78557589283424987192012-12-23T05:26:50.882-08:002012-12-23T05:26:50.882-08:00This was ridiculously harsh, and testifies a time ...This was ridiculously harsh, and testifies a time when society still had semi-primitive leanings despite the cultivated language of the judge and counsel. <br /><br />Perhaps we've gone too far the other way today, certainly in Canada that argument has been made, but a sentence like this for a few pounds profit, considering too his loyal war record and the fact that he had been injured in service, is to be highly regretted (to use mild words in an instance where more vigorous ones would not be inapposite).<br /><br />It should probably be looked at as a further stage in a process of long term change, e.g. it wasn't, comparatively, all that much later than the time hanging was finally abolished for property offences.<br /><br />A fine and perhaps a suspended short jail term would have been sufficient in a case like this and would have deterred the accused from doing it again.<br /><br />Some of the greatest contributions to Western civilization have come from British law and legal administration but sometimes the progress stalled and this little case - not so little to the accused and his family - was an instance, IMO again.<br /><br />GaryGary Gillmannoreply@blogger.com