Category: Crime & Punishment

Presented as is without comment because I’m too pissed off to say anything else right now…

Well, I guess my break’s over. It was kind of nice while it lasted but seriously folks, this isn’t what I wanted to come back to.

In yet another perfect example of the judiciary asshattery goodness that we’ve had kicking around ever since the Supreme Court’s Singh decision back in ’85, some child-molesting yankee bag of maggot shit has gotten himself bagged in Winnipeg and promptly gone and uttered the magic word: “REFUGEE!”

To make a long story short, Troy Greenbank tried to have a threesome with a woman and her ten year old daughter and got caught. So, naturally, he ran like hell for the Canadian border:

Greenback has no connection to Canada and told police he came north because it was the easiest direct route from Missouri in his attempt to seek asylum on charges he knew were coming. He also wanted a chance to “start over.”

Go to hell, asshole. You want to start over? Do it someplace else. And just what excuse is it that he’s using to try and stay here, you wonder?

Troy Greenbank, 29, faces up to 50 years behind bars if convicted in his home state of Missouri, but is now seeking to fight deportation and to obtain refugee status and protection from the Canadian government. He claims he will probably be killed in prison if returned to the United States to face justice.

Boo hoo. Can’t have that now, can we? Because everybody knows that what this world really needs is more diddlers walking around hogging up air that the rest of us could be breathing.

The girl’s father then learned of the arrangement and called police after discovering the sex toy Mr. Greenbank allegedly bought her.

Greenback is scheduled to return to court in Winnipeg on Friday for another detention review. He is being held in protective custody at the Winnipeg Remand Centre and is on 24-hour suicide watch, based on his statement that he has made previous attempts on his life.

Two final things to think about today: (more…)

Um, look again, dude.

As you all know by now, unless you’ve been loitering in a cave someplace, the federal Conservatives have cracked out their official package of promises to the public this week. I’m still trying to make up my mind as to whether this kind of timing is brilliant or daft. On the one hand, it comes out too late for the HypoGrits and others to twist it around with the usual fearmongering spin and pretty much guarantees the Tories will eat up most of the news in the last week of the campaign. On the other, it doesn’t give Bob Q. Canuck a whole lot of time to digest just what it is that the Tories have to offer. Time will tell, I suppose.

The whole platform can be found in .pdf form here (I put it on my own server because the original link was moving like a turtle on heroin; I guess it’s a popular download…) and is damned well worth a careful read. Just make sure you grab a coffee first; the darned thing’s over 40 pages long… 😯 So much for the “no platform” meme, eh?

For those of you looking for a quick once-over, here’s my take on what jumped out at me (but don’t forget to take the time to look it over for yourself later):

Reducing Taxes on Diesel Fuel
A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will reduce the federal
excise tax on diesel and aviation fuel by half – from four cents per litre to two cents per
litre – reducing the price of transportation by truck, train, plane and ship, and helping to
bring downward pressure on consumer prices.

This one’s pretty much a no-brainer. The rising price of diesel has jacked up the price of everything. From farmers needing it to run tractors to the fact that nothing teleports itself to the store where you buy it, this is going to pull the government’s hand a little further out of everybody’s pocket.

Restricting Unfair Text Messaging Charges
A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will prevent
telecommunications companies from charging fees to customers for receiving
unsolicited commercial text messages. We will amend the Telecommunications Act to
strengthen the power of the Commissioner of Complaints for Telecommunications
Services, including the creation of a code of conduct for wireless services. We will also
create a compliance and deterrent power that allows the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to block these and similar unfair charges in
the future.

[…and…]

Protecting Against Internet Spam
A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will introduce legislation
to prohibit the use of spam (unsolicited commercial email) to collect personal
information under false pretences and to engage in criminal conduct. The new law will
reduce dangerous, destructive and deceptive email and web site practices, and will
establish new fines for those who break the law.

Both of these sound good on the surface (who the hell likes the idea of having to pay for SPAM???) but, as anyone who knows anything about IT will tell you, it’s itchy stuff whenever a government tries to legislate technology. I’ll wait until I see the actual legislation on this one…

Increasing Trade with Emerging Markets
A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will continue to pursue
trade agreements, such as those successfully reached with the European Free Trade
Association, Colombia, Peru and Jordan. We are committed to seeing these deals passed
by Parliament. In light of the recent setback at the World Trade Organization
negotiations, a re-elected Conservative Government will move aggressively to improve
Canada’s network of bilateral and regional free trade and economic agreements.
To improve Canada’s position as a global trader, a re-elected Conservative Government
will proceed with plans to open new trade offices in China, Mongolia, Mexico, Brazil
and India (in Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad).

This will be a good idea, IF it means that we also get access to these markets ourselves. Contrary to the Liereral mythology, trade with China has long been a one-way street… 🙄

Reforming or Abolishing the Senate
The Conservatives and Stephen Harper believe that the current Senate must be either
reformed or abolished. An unelected Senate should not be able to block the will of the
elected House in the 21st century.
As a minimum, a re-elected Conservative Government will reintroduce legislation to
allow for nominees to the Senate to be selected by voters, to provide for Senators to serve
fixed terms of not longer than eight years, and for the Senate to be covered by the same
ethics rules as the House of Commons.

HALLELUJA!! It’s about God damned time! This alone should get the Tories a majority. The unelected, unaccountable Senate has, for too long, been a hung stumbling block to the will of the Canadian people. Hell, I’ve been ranting about this for years now and, let’s face it, everybody knows that this has been coming for some time now…

Limiting the Federal Spending Power
A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will ensure that any new
shared-cost program in an area of provincial or territorial responsibility has the consent
of the majority of provinces to proceed, and that provinces should be given the right to
opt out of the federal program with compensation, so long as the province offers a similar
program with similar accountability structures.

Now sit back and watch da Librano$ absolutely shriek about anything that might get in the way of them being able to bribe you with your own money. Seriously, just watch. I give it until the end of the week… maybe.

Ensuring Responsibility and Rehabilitation for Young Offenders
A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will replace Canada’s young
offenders’ law with new, balanced legislation that focuses on deterrence and responsibility.
The new law will make the primary goal of the legislation to protect society and the
primary goal of sentencing to discourage others from committing crimes. The law will
ensure that young offenders who are convicted of very serious and violent crimes will face
appropriate sentences and that upon conviction they will be named. As under the old law,
the age at which the sentencing provision applies (14, 15 or 16) will be determined in each
province.

[…and…]

Replacing Automatic Release with Earned Parole
A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will replace the automatic
release of prisoners after serving two-thirds of their sentence with earned parole for
behaviour and rehabilitation in prison.

More no-brainers here. Don’t look for the Leftbots to see it that way, though. After all, thugs just need hugs, right? There’s a whole bunch of good stuff along this line starting on page 36; make sure to check it out.

Ending the Ineffective Long-Gun Registry and Reduce Guns in our Streets
A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will ensure that all
firearms belong to licensed gun owners, and that all restricted firearms, including
handguns, are registered. But we will end the wasteful, ineffective long-gun
registry.
Instead, the Conservative Government will direct resources to measures that will
actually reduce the number of guns on Canadian streets, including investment in
better enforcement at our borders.
As a first step, a re-elected Conservative Government will launch a Joint Force
Land and Marine Border Patrol Pilot Project with the Customs and Border
Services Agency and the RCMP to patrol unguarded U.S. road and marine
crossings to Canada in Quebec.

Where’s a bigass happy-dance graphic when you need one? That asshat white elephant should have been taken out behind the barn and shot years ago.

Well, that’s all I have time for right now. Like I said, make sure you read the whole thing here and pick out what you like about it. Unlike the other parties, this one really does have something for everyone, and without any pie-in-the-sky bullshit.

Enjoy. 🙂

… are finally going to start getting what’s coming to them.

About God damned time, isn’t it?

Canada.com is reporting how PM Harper has finally trotted out the first plank in the Tories’ tough-on-crime portion of the election campaign. I don’t know about you, but I was starting to wonder when the hell they were going to get around to this angle (law and order is, after all, a Tory strong suit; you’d figure they’d start hammering on it earlier).

Long story made short: the next parliament is going to be scrapping the useless YCJA and replacing it with something that actually has some teeth. Couldn’t happen to a nicer piece of legislation…

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to scrap Canada’s young offenders law and replace it with a tougher version under which youth who commit serious violent crimes will no longer be able to keep their names out of the news.

The new law would impose automatic, stiffer sentences for people 14 years of age or over who are convicted of serious violent crimes, such as murder or manslaughter.

Upon conviction, the names of these individuals would be made public.

‘We need to, and will, restore balance to the young offenders law,’ Harper said in a speech outlining the first major plank of his Conservative party’s tough-on-crime platform.

Under the new law, judges would also have the discretion of publishing the names of young offenders who commit repeated minor offences, a senior party source said.

The new law would also make it easier for prosecutors to apply for pretrial detention of youth charged with violent crimes.

“We need to, and will, restore balance to the young offenders law,” Harper said in a prepared text of a speech outlining the first major plank of his Conservative party’s tough-on-crime platform.

Harper said the new law would balance the rights of victims against the need to rehabilitate young people. “Of course offenders have rights,” Harper said. “Victims have rights too.“

“Victims have rights too.” Why the hell is it that the Tories seems to be the only ones who actually get that??

… or are crime and criminals just getting outright Goddamned weird these days?

Let’s face it, I always thought criminals (like their liberal excusemongers) were kooks to begin with, but this is getting bizarre, even by my standards.

First, there’s the guy in Calgary, who’s likely to end up responsible for the rest of us being saddled with a National Pooper-lid Registry®:

Cops say a man attacked early yesterday with the lid of a toilet tank suffered critical head injuries.

Last night he was clinging to life while police were trying to figure out why the attack at Cowboys Niteclub happened about 2 a.m., leaving with the man in his mid-20s unconscious on the floor.

[…]

Although the choice of weapon is unusual, Robitaille said he is not surprised by what a desperate criminal will do when motivated to unleash violence.

“It’s an improvised weapon, a weapon of opportunity,” Robitaille said.

“But it’s not a shock, people committed to perpetrating violence will amaze you at what they will (use) to injure another person.”

Charges are pending, he said.

Uh-huh. Okay, whatever.

Then there’s the question, what the hell do you do with a situation like this??…

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors are trying to decide how to jail and bring to court a nearly half-ton, bedridden woman accused of killing her 2-year-old nephew.

A grand jury on Thursday indicted Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, on one count of first-degree murder and on one count of injury to a child in the death of Eliseo Gonzalez Jr. She previously had been charged with capital murder.

Rosales weighs nearly 1,000 pounds and cannot fit through a door to leave her home, leaving prosecutors wondering how to bring her to court.

I need a friggin’ drink….

So, does anyone want to tell me just how many decades it will take us to deport this pervert?

Logman Pera didn’t know London police had followed him to the London park or that they knew he went there to meet a 12-year-old girl for sex.

He also didn’t know the girl he chatted with through Yahoo Messenger was an undercover London cyber cop.

This week, the 36-year-old Kurdish immigrant, in custody since his arrest in January after he was picked up when he was re-entering Canada from Iraq, was in court to be sentenced on luring and breaching his release conditions.

The officer, Const. Dale Howe took the nickname “Londongirrrl” and entered the chatroom, describing himself as a 12-year-old girl.

Howe had an unsolicited request from Logman2001can — Pera — for a private chat.

Fourteen minutes into the conversation, Pera asked Howe about having sex, meeting him and not telling.

Pera also invited Howe to view his Web camera. Howe saw a man nude from the waist down — not his face — and he was masturbating.

They agreed to meet the next day at a Burger King at Argyle Mall.

He told the officers it was “all the girl’s fault” because she called police and “I didn’t have sex with her.”

Pera was released a few days later — on May * — and didn’t show up for his next court appearance. [nice to see that revolving door working, isn’t it? -D] He was picked up on Jan. 11.

Ah, hell, waitaminit…. what the HELL am I thinking???? We don’t kick scumbags out of this country! We bust our backsides to BRING THEM IN…

Silly-ass me.