TRUTH is eternal, Forty-five. Great post!
One of the pillars of philosophy of my favorite Frenchmen, Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) is that of mans perception is contradictory to the truth. Counter intuitive is the current name of this human, and tragic, ability to see things not as they are.
And so the British Fabian Socialists see criminals as victims and victims, if they refuse to act the part, criminals.
FMCDH.