Keeping abreast of the news you really do have to ask yourself from time to time whether the world has gone mad. At least, our corner of the world which, in comparison to other geographic regions embroiled in deadly conflicts. is not completely without a peaceful social contract. Certainly whether those we place in positions of authority have the best interests in mind of justice being served, of acting on behalf of victims, and not in support of those within society whose psychopathy victimizes others.

That an unrepentant woman convicted of a truly base murder of a young girl who wanted nothing other than to emulate the social peer success of her murderer was given the privilege of conjugal meetings with another convicted criminal she had met within the prison they both shared, so a pregnancy ensued and this sinister woman was enabled to manipulate the parole board calling on her human rights as a 'mother' of a newborn to exact further privileges leading to freedom, is mind-boggling.

That in the last little while it has been brought to the public attention that one judge scolded the victim of a rape for not "keeping her knees together" and providing avuncular advice to both the young woman who was raped and her rapist, while choosing to exonerate him and set him free, as another instance of someone sitting on the bench of justice whose moral sense is clearly misaligned.

And another following soon afterward of a judge declaring that a young woman who had hailed a taxi to take her home, so inebriated that she fell into unconsciousness might have agreed to sex. When a police officer discovered her still unconscious, half-naked in the back seat of the cab, the driver in a compromised position trousers unhitched, this judge still felt justified in stating that she might have given consent, so that no rape occurred, leading him to free the rapist from responsibility.

Then more latterly, another week, another revelation, of a judge deciding that a police officer had taken too long -- ten minutes to be precise -- to give a breathalyzer test to a driver whom he suspected of being drunk who was involved in a crash, and rejecting the results of the test double the legal limit, allowing the charge to be dismissed, would lead anyone with a modicum of common sense to feel outrage at yet another miscarriage of justice.