Why does he think that? What will be done while they are in prison to disabuse them of their jihadist and Islamic supremacist sentiments? Nothing, of course. To do anything of that kind would be “Islamophobic.”
“Melbourne men sentenced over ‘poorly planned’ plot to overthrow government in the Philippines,” by Karen Percy, ABC.net.au, February 22, 2019 (thanks to JC):
Four Melbourne men have been jailed for plotting to sail to the Philippines to encourage Muslim militants to overthrow the government and introduce sharia law.
The men bought a boat in May 2016 and planned to sail from Cape York, in far north Queensland, to the southern Philippines, in order to work with Muslim militants to overthrow the government.
Paul Dacre, Antonino Granata and Kadir Kaya have each been sentenced to four years in prison, with a non-parole period of three years.
Murat Kaya was sentenced to a jail sentence of three years and eight months, with a non-parole period of two years and nine months.
“The accused [men] agreed to acquire a boat to leave Australia in a covert manner to facilitate entry to The Philippines,” Justice Michael Croucher said.
In sentencing the four men, Justice Croucher told the court he had considered how they had behaved in prison, and that they had good prospects for rehabilitation.
“It seems they accept they have done wrong and they accept the authority of this court.”
Co-offenders Shayden Thorne and Robert Cerantonio, who have also pleaded guilty, are yet to be sentenced….
Henry Mansfield says
The Australians once had a tight immigration policy, someone had to go to great lengths to show they would be net contributors.
Muslims may have been able to prove that they could support themselves, but over the long term a cost benefit analysis just might show admitting Muslims is NEVER a good idea.
After viewing a few videos on the APEX gang on Youtube, they often show up in the ‘recommended’ pane. APEX would consist of Sudanese refugees who have shown their gratitude to Australia by forming mobs and tearing though neighborhoods assaulting people for fun.
Leo O Zakharoff says
Sounds like BS to me that they accept what they did is wrong. LAME BRAIN JUDGE IF HE ACTUALLY BELIEVED THIS CROCK….leo
CRUSADER says
Remember:
Justice is Blind !
keith Oades says
And in this case stupid as well!
carpediadem says
It is not only Islamic jihadis who get this type of leniency, most criminals in Victoria do, thanks to the ideological appointments and attitudes in this state.
mortimer says
Is the judge DELERIOUS? His wishful thinking is based on what speculation exactly?
Does he think that all mass killers are likely to repent of their ways or does an IDEOLOGUE remain devoted to an IDEOLOGY … as did a large number of Hitlerites including Adolf Eichmann?
Motto: It’s the IDEOLOGY, stupid.
Sobieski says
“It seems … they accept the authority of this court”
Wow. Kind of setting a low bar, huh?
Trish says
We all know that they become MORE RADICALIZED in prison!
dan christensen says
Justice Croucher said: Muslims…“good prospects for rehabilitation”…
As good as the devil’s grandmother for converting to Christianity!
Justice Croucher is just postioning himself for a fat promotion with his stupid observation.
Glorious Silver Eddies Magnificent says
As I read more and more about Muslims doing incredibly antisocial behaviors such as beheadings, stabbings, blowing stuff up, the more irritated I get that there are no forces actively working against the jihadists…and why not you say…I say because because the Muslims have scared people, politicians and police into a form of dhimmitude in most western countries. . And why is that? I think it is a gesture to suicide. They are commiting suicide and as they do it, their governments do it, and then their countries do it. I think at the rate we are kowtowing to this abuse, we will have a world -wide caliphate by 2050. I wonder what all the girl friends, wives, daughters, nieces of the men who agreed to the caliphate will say when the Muslim rulers of Sharia begin having females line up for their own special FGMs. Oh, boy.
Michael Copeland says
Judges are qualified in law, not in rehabilitation.
simpleton1 says
The judiciary as many have drank the “kool-aid”.
The principles have been allowed to blur and actually become lapsed.
It is like parents allowing their children to sleep over at a rectory, in a bedroom with a priest, or a scout master, who sleeps in the same tent with the boys, they trusted.
Like the parents and juries that listened to Michael Jackson’s beliefs and thought he was above temptations.
It is a simple principle, that one does not leave things out that may tempt a thief!
Men do not enter a house where a woman on her own lives.
It used to be the old fashion way that men were brought up with principles, and so to minimize the risk of temptations. Nor did woman invite men on their own into their home when they are on their own.
Caesar’s wife has to above suspicion.
Yet doors could be left unlocked, windows open, and people could just call in, but it was done with a respect of each other.
I am not saying to be like islamic practices, but that all parties must take some responsibility and a little care.
Probably back in the day we had an understanding of temptations, what could go wrong, and it was wrapped around, not with a religiosity, but a commonsense.
That should also be applied by our judiciary of responsibility, instead of just a hope for the best, and wipe their hands of any damage.
At the same time the judiciary holds all power over a citizen, yet withholds any power to a citizen, supposedly for their own good.
The judiciary needs to step up, not only on the law, but also information, data, knowledge with wisdom so that it can apply the law responsibly for all. Not only the offender, the victim, not just lip-service, but so that justice can be seen to be done, by the citizens at large.
David M says
It was s small boat, they wouldn’t have gotten far in the open ocean before the boat capsized. I say let them try again, this time don’t interfere with their plans at all.
gravenimage says
Australian judge: Muslims who plotted to overthrow Philippine government have “good prospects for rehabilitation”
…………………..
Dangerous naïveté.
Cynch says
No, everyone missed the point. The judge got paid. Again, whipped with Muslim Arab money! Lol! Everything else is null and void..
Larry says
Oh, no, the Victorian Judges don’t need to get paid to come up with these farcical sentences, they do it all on their lonesome.
The Victorian judiciary got perverted badly by the Attorney General in the Bracks/Brumby Govts of the noughties who appointed a whole slew of unqualified judges to the various levels of the judiciary from the ranks of the extremely left wing Liberty Victoria association of legal types.
And we Victorians are seeing daily how perverted the system is by the farcically low sentences handed out on a routine basis to anybody who could possibly claim to be some sort of victimized minority, with violent repeat offenders being given suspended sentences, allowed bail again after breaching bail to commit yet another violent crime, getting short sentence after short sentence after short sentence and then going out and raping and killing some poor woman while they should have been less than a third of the way through their previous sentence.
The list goes on and on, and the police farce aren’t much better. We just had a block sentenced to 48 years for six murders and several hundred attempted murders by driving at pedestrians in one of the densest pedestrian precincts in the country. This happened even though the police had been tracking him for hours and had 3 prior chances to pull him over or stop him and arrest him for a prior crime committed that day. Each time the officers on the spot were told not to by their supervisors.
So he gets 8 years per death, and a bus driver who drove into a low bridge and had some injured passengers, but none dead or even critically injured, got 6 years.