These youths TRIED to incite violence - and although that in itself is a criminal offence and SHOULD be dealt with severely (haha! think i'm forgetting what country I'm in - we haven't dealt with anything "severely" for decades!!!!!) I think 4 years imprisonment isn inappropriate! Rapists don't even get that for goodness sake and they didn't ACTUALLY perpetrate any violence! I wonder if any of those caught actually rioting will get anything approaching that kind of sentence.
Indeed, there is no evidence that they were in any way succesful in inciting violence or even in causing a crowd to gather. The scene was Northwich, which has remained peaceful. Four years is a ridiculousy high sentence for such a crime - though it should not go unpunished. As you say, sometimes rapists don't get that length of sentence, and to give such a sentence to these people, while telling
**** victims that such sentences are inappropriate is a huge injustice.
What we are seing in action is a government (and their non-independent judiciary) saying to people that if you make trouble for the government you will be dealt with harshly, but if you hurt, injure, steal from or terrorise the ordinary, powerless person in the street, you will get away with very little or no punishment.
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