A lot was published yesterday on News 24 regarding Malema's reactions to his 5 year suspension by his his own party. Claims were brought in by himself and his cadres i.e. Floyd Shivambu, Pule Mabe, Kenettswe Mosenogi, Ronald Lamola, Sindiso Magaga of misreading and misunderstanding their constitution,which to most taxpaying South Africans looks like the fools were trying to pervert the course of justice. Now I understands Malema even gets given a 14 day reprieve to argue his case for a lesser sentence.
The New York Times psychologist Dan Gilbert wrote:"When our bathroom scale delivers bad news, we hop off and then on again, just to make sure we didn’t misread the display or put too much pressure on one foot. When our scale delivers good news, we smile and head for the shower. By uncritically accepting evidence when it pleases us, and insisting on more when it doesn’t, we subtly tip the scales in our favour."
Any justice system is there to protect law-abiding citizens and to keep law breakers under control,yet it looks like South Africa's justice system is providing massive safeguards for Malema and his mates.
The inefficiency of our justice system where peaceable people and hard-line aggressive people like Malema are fast approaching that uneven balance where it has become no more dangerous than being a inciteful hate-speech criminal than it is being a peace loving law-abiding citizen.
Malema thinks he and his whomever can't be touched by the law. You'll find they'll get them either being dismiss or their sentencing being let off as minor insults. For this most South Africans must be uncomfortable with surely. We never get any reassurances from the courts in dealing with this Malema man do we?
It's a vicious cycle for the taxpayer is it not. If they can try to rehabilitate out of sorts people like Malema here and there,then why can't they(the ANC Government) rehabilitate the justice system in South Africa as well in favour of law-abiding taxpayers?
Sociologist Ernest van Den Haag once wrote in his book "Punishing Criminals":"Justice is not uniform. The guilty party may get one sentence in one court,and a different sentence in another court for the same offence."
South Africa's justice system with time has become more confusing,complicated and unsatisfactory.And honestly that's what fat boy Malema and his youth league cadres were trying to do!
Fat boy Malema is out to look for loopholes within this "ANC constitution" whatever you want to call it,and to slyly work his way back into political office via the backdoor,but it ain't working for the fool.
It's called the backfire effect. Journalist David McRanet wrote this on that subject:
"Contradictory evidence strengthens the position of the believer. It is seen as part of the conspiracy, and missing evidence is dismissed as part of the cover-up...the backfire effect can never win you an argument...its the peculiar tendency you have to let praise pass through you, but feel crushed when criticism does...the cognitive dissonance that locks up the gears of your mind until you deal with it."
The ANC soap opera continues and the "actors in this play" claims they've misread their lines and got horribly wrong. The self proclaimed & self-appointed spokesman for the poor distorted and outrages leftwing credentials can't save his fat **** right now.
All this time he,Malema,had only been interested in enriching himself using the poor and unemployed as cover for his underhanded,troubling & disruptive agenda in our country.
Get over it fat boy, "the Julius Malema horror show" has been taken off the air for the next 5 years at least and thank goodness for that. For someone who embodies and articulates the confusions and contradictions of most black Africans,he has become too loud for his own good and needs to be shut down completely.
As Francis Bacon(1561-1626) once wrote:"The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else-by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusion may remain inviolate."
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