Good to see that our justice system is looking out for the criminals and kicking the victims to the curb. At least you can say they are consistent.

definitely the courts took a wrong approach for penalties. instead of a slap on the wrist or jail time (which we taxpayers pay for) a better method would have been a monitary penalty. these rioters are in no way paying for the damages incurred. fines from $1000 to $10,000 should be assessed as per individual infraction.

Our legal system is a joke. The costs of investigating, arresting and "punishing" these offenders is becoming more than the cost of the damages they inflicted. They all should have been fined in the neighbourhood of $5000 and given conditional senrences that required they pay the fine or have a permanent criminal record. Of course what do I know.I didn't go to university to get in the good old boys club that is our judicial system that continually find ways to drag out the most simple cases. Wait until the Surrey Six get off because of the length of time to go to trial.

Actually, you know, I could train a 6 month old chimpanzee to hand out the sentences our Judiciary hands out. Why do we pay these guys/gals $250,000.00 a year for the lousy job they do ?