He was a pretty bad egg in his youth; there’s no point denying it. However, people can repay their debt to society and come out the other side as better human beings—think of the rehabilitated prisoner who fought off a pair of terrorists with an elephant tusk a couple of years ago.
Musk has now given Robinson that opportunity. Many other people in similar circumstances do not get such a chance.
He was a pretty bad egg in his youth; there’s no point denying it. However, people can repay their debt to society and come out the other side as better human beings—think of the rehabilitated prisoner who fought off a pair of terrorists with an elephant tusk a couple of years ago.
Musk has now given Robinson that opportunity. Many other people in similar circumstances do not get such a chance.
“The grooming gangs scandal, by contrast, now has Tommy Robinson as tribunus plebis, and that is indeed very discomforting precisely because he isn’t a good man, and isn’t one of the victims.”
Not sure exactly what his earlier transgressions were, but it seems that his attempt to bring up the child rape scandal could serve as some form of redemption. And I think being locked up for reporting on it counts as being a victim of the state, if not of the rape gangs.
I will confess, I am not terribly well-versed on him or on the rape gangs, but I have the distinct impression that (1) a great many rapists were never punished and (2) those who were received sentences less than they deserved (life without parole, if not, in my revanchist opinion, death).
Doesn't redemption require the person to have left behind their iniquituus behaviour? Which is not the case with Yaxley-Lennon. He's in prison for continuing to libel an individual who was a child at the time of said libel... https://www.mountfordchambers.com/nobody-is-above-the-law/
He was a pretty bad egg in his youth; there’s no point denying it. However, people can repay their debt to society and come out the other side as better human beings—think of the rehabilitated prisoner who fought off a pair of terrorists with an elephant tusk a couple of years ago.
Musk has now given Robinson that opportunity. Many other people in similar circumstances do not get such a chance.
Yes. And in a sense, the newer BS accusations have cleared his slate, at least to a superficial observer.
“The grooming gangs scandal, by contrast, now has Tommy Robinson as tribunus plebis, and that is indeed very discomforting precisely because he isn’t a good man, and isn’t one of the victims.”
Not sure exactly what his earlier transgressions were, but it seems that his attempt to bring up the child rape scandal could serve as some form of redemption. And I think being locked up for reporting on it counts as being a victim of the state, if not of the rape gangs.
I will confess, I am not terribly well-versed on him or on the rape gangs, but I have the distinct impression that (1) a great many rapists were never punished and (2) those who were received sentences less than they deserved (life without parole, if not, in my revanchist opinion, death).
Doesn't redemption require the person to have left behind their iniquituus behaviour? Which is not the case with Yaxley-Lennon. He's in prison for continuing to libel an individual who was a child at the time of said libel... https://www.mountfordchambers.com/nobody-is-above-the-law/