L13
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Oh, your argument is that it could have been worse but it wasn't, so everything is ok? His sentence was suspended, so it is ok that he was sentenced at all?well, I am not defending anybody - just stating that yes, failures occur in every justice system.
Individuals being free? Maybe I need to make you aware that as far as I know, if you're referring to Castillo, he was never actually detained or arrested, thankfully, unless it was for a few hours to provide his version of events maybe on the day and in the following months as indicated in the court sentence where he gave his version of events a few times.
Our legal process doesn't drop you in jail automatically! In the first judgement which later got overturned his sentence was for a "suspended" sentence, which meant he would have ended up in jail for 2 years only if he committed a crime within 4 years. That wasn't applied in view of the appeal process which later cancelled the first court's conviction. Of course the whole process is taxing on the individual in question but it seems you might have misunderstood the events.
But actually, I was referring to the freedom of divers to dive as they see fit.
But:I don't think the current law is shackling anyone ...
A horrible Idea that would shackle everyone over 60!That it could be improved - of course! I remember a few years back there was a proposal that any diver over 60 had to get a medical done which to be honest, when seeing our accidents' high level data, may not have been necessarily a bad idea!
And:
Even more shackling! You seem to think you aren't shackling enough, lol.We've had in the last few years much more stringent requirements imposed by the local hyperbaric chamber for diving medicals for instructors and now you need to meet the UK HSE standard to be given the yearly certificate for instructing / guiding.
I hope you realize you sound like a propaganda agent. Malta might be better served by being quiet and hoping we forget, than trying to convince us that what happened wasn't all that bad but actually just reminding us of the travesty that occurred there.
What actually would convince me to reconsider is Malta publicly stating that a
the travesty occurred, that it was an inexcusable travesty, and vowing to fix it. But trying to sweep it away just reminds us that it happened and that we can't trust the Maltese system, or it's proponents.