Thursday, June 1, 2006
Only in Quebec
With rulings like this, who wants Quebec in our country?
No violence in this sexual assault? Perhaps it would help if the left would start calling it RAPE, as was done in the bad old days. Maybe then even Quebec judges would see the extreme evil in this case.
A father raping his infant daughter is a crime one notch below murder.
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Price of a child
More proof that a life isn’t worth much to Canadian judges - and the life of a defenceless child even less.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Watch your mouth
Better have a big wallet if you dare speak euphemistically of homosexuals.
Quebec’s Human Rights Commission has ordered a used car salesman in Sorel to pay a gay man $1,000 for a derogatory comment made three years ago.
More sign of the growing Big Brother powers we’ve allowed the government to have.
via Trudeaupia
Friday, September 24, 2004
That faint hope again
Glad the Sun brings this up. It’s too bad the Conservatives have a mute for a leader. Why doesn’t he bring this up in the House?
NOT ONLY do we not put our worst murderers to death in Canada, we don’t even have a true life sentence for them.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
More sickering parole stories
The accomplice who pissed on a dying, begging cop wants to come back to Canada. That should tell you something about how attractive our incredible injustice system is to criminals.
Munro’s brother, Craig, 52, who fired the bullets that wounded Sweet and left him lying unattended during a 90-minute hostage drama, was convicted of first-degree murder with no parole for 25 years. He is eligible for full parole in February 2006.
Sweet, 30, was shot in the face and a lung after he tried unsuccessfully to surprise the Munro brothers in George’s Bourbon Street restaurant and tavern on Queen St. W.
I suppose his next step will be to go on welfare and maybe get a 10K training grant to learn a new job. Oh, for real punishment.
I’d love to know what the Sweet family thinks of this latest insult.
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Tales from the parole board
More sick stories from our injustice system.
Jeffrey Scott Breese, 40, who is serving a life sentence for the first-degree shotgun-blast murder of OPP Const. Rick Hopkin in Arthur in 1982, is at a Kitchener halfway house on day parole and visiting his ailing father’s bedside.
Monday, July 19, 2004
Mitigating factors
Blatchford writes about the other parts of the caged-boy story you may not have known. She still thinks that the sentence was too light.
The factors that mitigated the parents’ conduct are lost in the black-and-white picture that is left of the Blackstock boys’ case
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Justice 101
This is a good thing.
The new campaign dubbed “Justice 101” is trying to bring the boys a summer of fun and allow them to get past the controversial nine-month sentence the couple who tortured them received. The plan is to collect tickets and gift certificates to movies, sporting events, theatre and restaurants to give them memories to last a lifetime.
Thursday, July 8, 2004
More on the monster
A four pack of info for you on your Liberal government’s answer to psycho killers:
First, a letter (from a prolific and oft-quoted Mr. Knight)
I WISH the people of Ontario, and especially Toronto, would get off Martin Ferrier’s back ( “Psycho set free,” July 6).
He’s served his time, and despite being ruled a violent incurable psychopath, our justice system says he is entitled to walk down the same streets as our children whenever he wants.
You want it different? Too bad. You had your chance during the election when you could have voted for Stephen Harper, a tough-on-crime politician. Instead, you saw Harper as more dangerous than Ferrier.
So suck it up, and when Mr. Ferrier commits his next violent assault, as we all know he will, then, and only then, will we have the opportunity to finally declare him a dangerous offender and lock him up for good.
To whoever the future victims of Mr. Ferrier are (think of it as a Liberal roulette wheel for victims of crime), remember that the federal Liberals have appreciated the support they received in this election. Just as they no doubt appreciated the votes of criminals like Martin Ferrier himself.
Michael Knight
Orillia
(Ouch—sharp words, but someone had to say ‘em)
Finally, Wente weighs in, placing the blame squarely on the do-nothing Liberals.
But the worst problem, as you may already have suspected, is the Liberal government in Ottawa. Back in the dim and distant past, the federal Tory government did draft a sexual-predator bill. When the Liberals were elected, they killed it because, they said, it violated individual Charter rights.
LIB with a justice outrage of the day on this case.
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Bad judgment
Blatchford says that sure, judges sentence using precedence, but there is a great deal of latitude for sentencing.
But nonetheless, the report is dotted with informative little boxes that illustrate the fact that while Canadian judges are to some degree bound by legal precedent, they also have considerable latitude in sentencing under the Criminal Code.
Clearly, there are too many soft judges that are unresponsive to the public will.
On the weak sentences
Regarding the horrible caged kids abuse case: The Star is perplexed (?), and The Sun is outraged. Glad nothing much has changed in the world.
Which makes the sentences handed down Monday in this deeply troubling case by Mr. Justice Donald Halikowski all the more perplexing.
Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Good intentions?
More proof our justice system is out to lunch. Check these quotes out on the following unbelievable case of child abuse:
The boys were locked in cages fashioned from baby cribs and chicken wire, beaten and forced to wear diapers when not at school. They were often so dehydrated, they drank their own urine.
...ruled that punishments including keeping the boys locked in cages were the result of “general good intentions...In explaining the sentence, Judge Halikowski said the abuse was not “meted out in a cold and calculated fashion, in the aim of satisfying some perverse desire.
I read reports they boys were routinely subjected to rectal probing. If this isn’t perverse desire, I don’t know what the hell is.
But gasps erupted in court after Judge Halikowski suggested the abuse was meant to “train” the children.
“There was no joy had in any of these acts, only frustration,” he said..."There is no doubt [the boys] were difficult to raise,” he said. “No parents could have raised these children successfully without the aid of professionals.”
We need to elect judges. Now.
Update:Wente gives more details 
Monday, July 5, 2004
Slap slap
Another really light sentence, courtesy of your judicial system.
A couple who kept their two adoptive sons caged and chained like animals over a 13-year period was sentenced today to nine months in jail.
So, they’ll be out in 3 months if they behave. Their kids are sentenced to a lifetime.
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Our lax system
This letter writer, like most of us, are sick of the Liberal justice system. Remember when you vote.
In what kind of civilized society is a man with more than 20 criminal convictions, seven involving violence, set free on bail while facing an attempted murder charge? How is it possible he is then jailed for 60 days for a violent assault against his small child, and that bail is not revoked? Supposedly under near house arrest, he is free to roam Toronto’s nightclubs. Predictably, another act of violence ensues and he kills our son in a violent, unprovoked attack.
Next a jury is presented only with a sanitized version of this man’s criminal record that does not include any of his violent crime convictions. Tyson Talbot is then acquitted of both second degree murder and manslaughter charges acting as the only defence witness and delivering the flimsiest of explanations surely ever heard within courtroom walls. Why is there no discussion about this? When will we see changes to the criminal justice system?
David Shelton, Toronto
Release the bad ones
Our justice system hard at work.
AN ALLEGED serial rapist who was freed on $4,000 bail by a justice of the peace in May after being arrested for a vicious sexual assault, struck again three weeks after being released, Toronto Police allege.
Saturday, June 5, 2004
Justice system gone awry again?
Looks like our injustice system is acting up again.
“I blame the justice system for this. I don’t know how they (jury members) could acquit someone who stomped on the head of an unconscious man laying on the sidewalk. But the jury never knew about Tyson’s violent criminal past because his rights must be protected,” Shelton said.
Once more, charter rights trump victims’ rights.
Friday, May 14, 2004
Flea hammering
More incredible overkill, sponsored via the RIAA.
A US federal judge has ordered a Bristol man to pay more than $US4,000 ($5,817) for downloading five songs from the internet.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Pyscho will walk
UPDATE: I’m glad to be wrong
Subject: Breaking News: Farah Khan Verdict
Kaneez Fatima has been found guilty of second-degree murder and Muhammad Khan has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the Farah Khan case.
Sent 3:05pm- April 22, 2004
For live coverage watch CP24.
Mark my words, the “defenceless” step-mother of little Farah Khan will walk, while the father will rightly go down for 1st degree murder. This story states that the jury, wrongly, did not get the whole story. They got some sympathetic information on the step mother, but were not told about her violent past.
But if Fatima really was that innocent, then why didn’t she do more to stop Muhammad Arsal Khan from killing his only child, a girl she claimed to love as her own?
This case has shades of the Homolka battered wife syndrome. Fact is, Mrs. Khan probably was a battered woman, in at least one of her marriages. Why can’t the jury get the whole story, instead of just the sympathetic portion of her life? It appears the judge didn’t trust the jury’s ability to sort out the information—which will most like lead to her aquittal.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Faint hope denied again
This is a good thing.
Colin Thatcher had his bid for early release denied Wednesday after again refusing to admit to killing his wife.
It’s too bad so many of his victim’s relatives have to waste their time annually to participate in this charade.
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Upside down
You know Canada’s sentences are too short when even the bad guys think they deserve more time.
:neale:A 19-year-old Kitchener man yelled obscenities at a Kitchener judge after she refused yesterday to grant the man’s request to send him to penitentiary for a string of crimes including armed robbery.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
1 year? Try 3 months
Another violent crime, another light sentence.
Seventy-two-year-old Douglas Robinson was just waiting for a bus when he was attacked by a hot-tempered, tow-truck driver overcome with “road rage” at another motorist. The assault left Robinson a “shell of a man” and sparked a two-year spiral that ended with his death, court heard.
Yesterday, the truck driver, Guy Phinney, 34, was jailed for one year...Robinson landed in the hospital for six months on a ventilator, his heart stopped twice, he got pneumonia and when he was released wasn’t able to do much more than sit in a chair.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Take care!
Further to the previous post…
Warning: Do not read this if you have small children and high blood pressure
Blatchford on the insane sentence handed down to a baby killer.
The end game should come as a relief, but Det.-Constable Gibson was both near-apoplectic and near tears when he said, “I feel like there’s no justice for this five-week-old baby. This is the last day of 21/2 years. No one will remember her now.”
Why bother
Why bother going through a trial at all, when all you get for murdering your baby is a suspended sentence. It seems the younger and more helpless you are in society, the less value is placed on your life.
...sparing Cao jail and sentencing her to two years less a day to be served in the community. “At the same time, it seems to me, a reasonable and informed person would understand that no useful purpose would be served by a sentence of actual incarceration.”
A reasonable and informed person may believe, learned judge, that jail time might actually serve as punishment, and additionally, a deterrant. Remember those sentencing concepts? Didn’t think so.
UPDATE: LIB has a comment on this (scroll to the middle)
Thursday, February 19, 2004
YCJA revealed
A column on the new YOA, which really isn’t much better than the old one.
Kill the YCJAThere’s also, lest we forget, the Grits’ shameful handling of crime victims and young offenders. Specifically, their long-researched and frighteningly flawed Youth Criminal Justice Act, which took effect nearly a year ago, on April Fool’s Day.
Monday, January 19, 2004
Release him
One of the worst cases of injustice in our criminal system is the Latimer case.
Yesterday, Jan. 18, marks three years that Robert Latimer has been in prison for causing the death of his pain-wracked daughter, Tracy.
Meanwhile, let’s contrast it against Karla’s sentence, and you’ll know why Canadians are outraged.
Homolka’s 12-year manslaughter term ends July 5, 2005. She’s been refused early release by the National Parole Board three times.
In its most recent review of her case, less than a month ago, the board concluded Homolka could still commit a crime involving “the death or serious harm” to another person.