5 November 2007

Amber Rams Again

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Amber Jane Westin has rammed another elderly woman and been sentenced again, this time for assault with a shopping trolley (no license for that either) according to this ABC story. Shes been sentenced to 2 months gaol to be served at the same time as her current sentence.

The story says that she was serving 7 months for her last killing, but I thought it was eighteen, possibly she has seven months to go or have they reduced her sentence for good behaviour?

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1. Rumours of sexual abuse are almost certainly nonsense; dad has not been resident for 15 years (interstate).
2. Abortions, well, who’ll cast the first stone?
3. Yes mum was quite abusive, but elder sister thrived notwithstanding. And brother is not disturbed, nor is AJ; just criminal (jordan serving 2 years armed rob)
4. Pot’s a minor habit. She’s been a junkie every day for about 5 years. Then, at the scene, at every hearing, now. Comprehendo? Everything that has occurred has never had anything to do with pot. It has always been about smack and benzo’s.

Deadmandrinking2:47 pm 08 Nov 07

Maelinar, the fact that I somehow (at least partially) agree with you is frightening, but it’s true. Prisons rarely rehabilitate nowadays, being violent holes where alot of prisoners tend to rely on primal ‘take or have taken from you’ psyches that carry on outside prison. Although, complete isolation can have it’s downsides as well. Prisoners can get very lonely and very depressed, which can lead to suicide.
And special G, you seem to have no idea about what I said. I don’t agree with you. Prisons aren’t rehabs, especially with the amount of drugs that do get smuggled in there and the lack of offering alternatives to use. Same with chain gangs. That’s mainly simple labor (which isn’t that bad, considering skills that might be learned). What I meant is that the offenders work (presumably after spending time in rehab) in areas relative to the nature of their crime, i.e. working with victims of crime (not their own victims, though, of course). Big difference, Special G. The world isn’t plain and simple, I’m afraid.

Lord Mælinar6:57 am 08 Nov 07

Halve, even quarter prison terms, but spend them on your own in isolation.

Cross pollination of criminal skills is subsequently reduced to 0, and effect of rehab etc is multiplied as the transfer of illicit substances within the prison is also reduced to 0.

Crims actually come out of prison clean.

Somehow, you all know this makes a lot of sense.

Ok lets analyse your suggestion.

Forcing rehab – this is what prison is supposed to be doing. Getting them off drugs and rehabilitated with skills etc to reenter society.
Community service – chain gangs whilst doing te forced rehab.

Long terms of hard labour with chain gangs doing community service.

maybe I do agree with you DMD

Deadmandrinking12:34 am 08 Nov 07

What? By putting her down?
I did offer an alternative: “(i.e. forcing offenders to stay in rehab, perhaps even community service in areas that deal with the effects of crimes like those the offender committed)” and whilst it’s not viable at this time, neither is capital punishment.

DMD, she doesn’t deserve a second chance. She had it and then some before she was sentenced.

But here’s a spin on your good vs. bad upbringing.

My sister – the druggie – was favoured, given whatever she wanted and became a thief and a druggie.

I was treated most harshly by my step-dad (her father), the extent of which I will not discuss here, and still I managed to become a teacher, get married, have children (one at 18yo), finish 3 degrees and function as a good member of society.

It’s called making people accountable for their actions REGARDLESS of their upbringing. By the age of 18, we all know right from wrong. We all know that being a dickhead will piss people off.

Most of all we should know that our actions have consequences.

DMD, I don’t see any alternatives being offered up by yourself. Yay laets fix the problem. How? At least others are offering up their opinions on how to fix the issues at hand.

Deadmandrinking2:50 pm 07 Nov 07

sorry to double post, but I need to correct something.
“But one glance at the sheer amount of criminals, heroin addicts and hell, even alcoholics that are second, even third” should have had ‘generation’ at the end of it.

Deadmandrinking2:48 pm 07 Nov 07

Big Dave, you really are a big D-. I was being very very hypothetical, as it clearly should have shown. I would never have Amber at my house, because as I clearly said, I don’t know her, and she also doesn’t seem to be the kind of person I’d hang out with. But that doesn’t mean I don’t sympathize with her AS WELL AS the victims.
Her actions seem to me to be more self-estructive than anything. Obviously with her running from the cops. The shopping centre incedent seems to have come about as a result of her associations with certain types of people.
That’s not to say that her actions are justified. She has problems, problems, Nysaa, yes I’m looking at you, that hav, by all accounts been seeded within her upbringing. Yes, some people do elevate from bad upbringings and become successful and model members of society. But one glance at the sheer amount of criminals, heroin addicts and hell, even alcoholics that are second, even third, clearly shows that such people are the exception rather than the rule (I’ve a feeling that’s been said before here).
So what should we do about these people when their problems start to affect the suburban fantasy-lands of the middle-class? Lock them away and forget about them? That seems to me to be a fairly soft-ass approach to running society.
I’m not saying that such actions should go without consequences – I’m saying that these consequences should have a more pro-active approach. Unfortunately, the current alternatives to prison are almost voluntary on the offenders part and in so forth, mostly ineffective, especially in cases of long term drug-addicts. Those alternatives need more work, both in availability and the legislation that makes them effective (i.e. forcing offenders to stay in rehab, perhaps even community service in areas that deal with the effects of crimes like those the offender committed).
The longer people like you, Nyssa and Big Jerk, sweep problems like these under the carpet and forget about them, the longer they fester. Maybe you should be doing something instead of complaining about your warm little bubbles floating too close to people who live in the real world.

Deadmandrinking, you are a complete idiot. It’s morons like you with your soft arsed attitudes that have got countries like ours in to the current state we find ourselves in. We can’t punish these little scumbags accordingly because of it. And you reckon you’d put her up in your house??? BULLS**T!! Stop talking out of your backside, and do something to alleviate the problem instead of fuelling it!

Dark and Mysterious11:09 am 07 Nov 07

I have to agree, Nyssa. My sympathies are with her victims, and I include any children she has the care of in that list. She’s all grown up now and has responsibility for her actions, but who is thinking about her children in all this mess? How are they meant to make sensible choices and avoid following in their mother’s footsteps?

I have to also note in passing that her friend, mentioned in the newspaper article, sounds like a real piece of work.

She’s an adult.

She made decisions that affected the lives of those around her and those who didn’t know her but had the misfortune to encounter her.

She has to take responsibility for her actions DMD. So far she’s proven to be a ‘bad’ (for lack of a better word) person.

She made those choices. I don’t want to hear the violins about how bad her life was/is. There are many more people out there with a far worse life than Amber and they aren’t breaking the law or being just arseholes.

Have her at your house DMD, she’ll probably clean you out overnight without a second thought for the impact it has on you or the misplaced trust you put in her.

Deadmandrinking3:33 pm 06 Nov 07

If I knew her, I probably would, V8. Sadly, I don’t. That’s up to her friends and the state if neccersary.

el ......VNBerlinaV812:26 pm 06 Nov 07

Perhaps you’d like to offer her a place to stay while she ‘works herself out’ DMD?

Deadmandrinking11:14 am 06 Nov 07

Maybe you do towie, you heartless stupid scumbag. Your metaphor doesn’t even make sense. A fair few pets are mongrels, you twit!

canberra towie11:04 am 06 Nov 07

She need to be put down

After all thats what you do with a mongrel animal !!

Deadmandrinking8:54 am 06 Nov 07

Oh, I misread, D&M. Still, she punched the woman only after contact was made with her child.
Look, I’m not apologizing for this woman. All I’m sick of is the people who say she should be sterilized etc. Amber Jane Westin is still a human being. She’s troubled, obviously. But she’s a druggie, and one with a kid at that. She needs rehabilitation alot more than prison.

She’ll be trying to go up against Chuck for the title soon and although Amber is a law unto herself, I’ve got my money on Chuck.

On topic – Concurrent sentences are a joke. Why bother.

Lord Mælinar6:08 pm 05 Nov 07

Amber is above the law. Amber is the law.

Well steering those shopping trolleys is quite hard so perhaps the judge awarded her time off for managing to connect with the old lady?

Joe Canberran3:24 pm 05 Nov 07

which is a polite way of saying that if our magistrates had denied her bail in the first place she would never been out on the road to kill that other lady.

this matter predates the driving charge btw

how do you get a sentence of only 7 months for reckless driving (runnning from the cops) occasioning death?

People jump up and down about at the police about that girl that got killed in civic during a chase and, yet when they catch someone actually responsible for the crime they get 7 months??!!

haha amber is such a hood rat… i hope she googles herself one day

It’s society’s fault that Amber punched the woman – and we should all feel ashamed of ourselves.

Dark and Mysterious1:05 pm 05 Nov 07

Really, Deadmandrinking? The way I read the article, Amber’s FRIEND accused the VICTIM of staring, and the woman accidentally made contact with a child that Amber was holding after she and the friend scuffled. Then Amber punched her.

The way the article describes it, hard to have anything but sympathy for the victim, who seems blameless according to this version of events.

oxygen theiving, knuckle dragging malcontempt, who probably ought be fired from this fine nation via catapult.

blingblingbears12:54 pm 05 Nov 07

sentenced to 2 months to be served at the same time as her current sentence??? what’s the friggin point then? it hasnt added any time to her sentence… she really is scum and should be locked up for a long time

Deadmandrinking12:45 pm 05 Nov 07

Well, the canberra times did say that apparently, the older woman accused her of staring and made contact with the child sometime during the ensuing scuffle, after which Amber punched her. That needs to be taken into account.
God I hope she works herself out.

She really is all class, this one.

Of course, it wouldn’t be Amber’s fault, would it!

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