What's up with this?

Two males were convicted of bashing a transvestive to death and the younger one has had his sentence reduced.

'...They (the judges) said Galloway was highly intoxicated at the time, had no hate crime history, was sexually abused as a child and had acted properly around a transvestite in prison. ...' 

Oh, well, that's all right then. He was pissed. And says he was sexually abused. Heck, with my background, I'd be given a medal if I were to rampage! It beggars belief that they could take intoxication into account, but hey, this is NZ, the KING of piss. It's so protected, and the liquour lobby have the politicians in their pockets, so what chance reform? There's a general election this year and it's a brave politician indeed who would raise it.

They're happy to introduce and table welfare reforms, yet everyone's howling at the Capital Gains Tax that's been mooted by the opposition. I think it's worth a look - look at the level of white collar crime that gets home D, and how many companies actively avoid tax and rip the system. I'm not against people getting ahead. But how many fucken houses do you need? If you have more than two, I'd say you have more than enough. Try watching 'The Edukators'.

CGT hasn't made anywhere it's currently in, fall into the sea. It's the rich protecting the rich, to deny it coming in.