What is law?

A man was jailed for fourteen years-fourteen! by a Nyahururu court for stealing a chicken and one or two plastic items (sorry can't get the reference but it happened).

Now page four of the Daily Nation; A man was jailed for eight years after he was found in possession of ...wait let me get the facts right....yes.. five anti-tank missiles and a hand grenade. Missiles. Related to Al-Qaeda.
Whaddhafak?

Did I miss something?

I want to propose a new predicate:

It is higly likely that:
If A=person and A.profession=>magistrate
then (A.brain=none or A.brain.capacity=moron)