… 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).
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??
… until you get it through your God damned heads that we aren’t screwing around about this stuff!!”
That was basically the message that Troy Justice Minister Rob Nicholson had for the Grits, Dippers and BlocHeads, if they think that they can get away with the kind of obstructionist crap that they’ve been pulling in the last Parliament when it comes to Tory crime legislation.
It pretty much boils down to something like this: “Hey, assholes; you think you’re having cash troubles now? Try fighting ANOTHER election as soon as we’re done this one! You wanna get in the way of our keeping our promise to the Canadian public that we’d get tough on crime and the scumbags that commit it? That’s the price you’re gonna pay. We can afford it; can you??”
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – A minority Conservative government would rather force another election than back down on its law and order agenda, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Sunday.
Nicholson told a rally in Mississauga, Ont., that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has already made clear he would not tolerate any more “obstruction” like the government faced last October when it introduced the Tackling Violent Crime Act omnibus bill.
“We’re making it very clear about how serious we are about getting that anti-crime agenda through Parliament,” he said.
“We will be taking a zero-tolerance approach. Our crime measures will be confidence measures, we are determined that our law and order agenda will be passed.”
The Conservatives have tried to make crime, with an emphasis on getting tough on criminals, a major issue in the election, in part because it appeals to core supporters.
[…]
Nicholson said the Conservatives aren’t interested in banning handguns since pistols are already effectively outlawed.
“I think the problem in this country is people who steal guns and people who use them for improper purposes,” he said. “It’s not sportsmen or antique collectors that I believe (are) the problem.”
Although he criticized all opposition parties for stalling Conservative bills in the last parliamentary session, Nicholson aimed his sharpest criticism at Dion, saying he had put “partisan gains ahead of public safety.”
Let’s face it, folks; the HypoGrits are hurtin’ for cash. Between paying off their leadership run debts, crappy fundraising results, and the fact that they’re going to lose a buttload of votes in this election (each worth about $1.75), another election could push these bozos to the brink of bankruptcy.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 😉
The Tories, on the other hand, have the biggest damned war chest on the Canadian political map right now. The restrictions against corporate donations have put a stranglehold on Liberal funds while the Conservatives are raking it in hand over fist, all from ordinary, everyday Canadians. I won’t bother going into the irony of the fact the so-called “natural governing party,” which supposedly represents the Real Values Of Real Canadians® can’t pay its bills without help from the big, bad, Big Business® (whom the Tories are supposedly beholden to). That would be a whole post right there.
The important thing is that, if the Grits want to pull any more bullshit stunts in the next Parliament, they better damned well be ready to back ’em up.
Of course they’re not. They’re just a bunch of good, all-Canadian Muslim kids out for a little camping trip. Nothing to see here; move along, folks.
For those of you that haven’t heard (which wouldn’t be much of a surprise, what with all the election noise and all going on lately), the Nine-Eleven Finding Answers Foundation has gotten their hands on a video of the “Toronto 18” at their little terrorist training exorcise er, camping trip up near Washago, Ontario and decided to put it up on the net a few days ago for all to see. As you can likely guess, their lawyers and other apologists/accomplices are shitting their pants, yowling about “inflammatory imagery”, how it’s going to bugger up their little wanna-be-jihadi-buddies’ chances of getting a fair trial and making dire mutterings about “timing.”
The video, posted on a U.S. website, also came as a surprise to the defence lawyers for the Toronto men, who question what impact it will have on their clients.
“Potential jurors may form an opinion about the case without the benefit of other evidence that would put the imagery of the video in its proper context,” said Raymond Motee, who represents one of the adults arrested in 2006.
Well, boo-friggin’-hoo, assholes. Maybe they shouldn’t have made the vid in the first place. Or how about this one? Don’t try bringing your West Bank bullshit into MY COUNTRY! How about that, assholes? If anybody’s been wondering if we’re doing the right thing by holding these scumbags under lock and key, see for yourselves:
Defence lawyer Michael Moon doubts it will hurt his client’s case, saying there’s nothing “sinister” in it. “They’re just horsing around, play-fighting in the snow,” he said.
Yup, just a bunch o’ kids out havin’ themselves a little good, clean fun. Well, if that’s so, then what’s with all the “allahu akbar” bullshit? (For those of you who don’t know: “allahu akbar” is an Arabic phrase which roughly translates to, “this is your last chance to shoot me in the head before I trigger the detonator.”)
Oh, and before any boneheads out there start blathering about the Crown trying some kind of dirty tricks, bear this in mind: The Crown never had this footage! If they had, they would have used it. Don’t take my word for that. See what lawyer Mitchell Chernovsky says about it:
The video wasn’t submitted as evidence at the trial in Brampton, Ont., nor is there any reason to believe Canadian prosecutors had it in their possession, said Chernovsky, who added he saw the video online for the first time Thursday.
“This video was never in the hands of the Crown, as far as I know,” he said. “If they did, they would have shared it in court. It’s informative. They showed other videos that were far less helpful to them.”
That’s right: if the Crown had it, they would have used the damned thing, so STFU!
FILE LINK: In case it gets yanked from YouTube for some reason, here’s a direct link to the file in .FLV format on this server. Download it, share it, post it, do whatever you want with it. The more people see this and find out just what these bastards were up to, the better.
UPDATE: Like I thought, the YouTube I’d linked to seems to have vanished, so I just uploaded it myself. It should be available in a few minutes. Sorry for the delay.
Here I am, back again after a day of election-free behaviour.
For those of you wondering: it wasn’t entirely my idea. Some folks (you know who you are) were going so nuts will all my election obsessing that they were starting to seriously think about hog-tying me in a cave someplace and gagging me with a field mouse if I didn’t lay off for a day.
So I did.
But it’s back to the partisan grind today, so here goes…
12:22 – Abandon ship!
Over at AITGWN, Steve Janke has an interesting post about the possibility of Garth Vader deciding to concede the election to the Tories, throw Steffy under the bus and save his own political skin:
Liberal MP Garth Turner has always been a Stephane Dion loyalist.
Well, he has been for as long as the Liberals were useful to him. Now that Stephane Dion runs the risk of leading the Liberals to an election loss (no certain thing, in my mind, by the way), Garth Turner’s confidence seems to be crumbling:
Well now, that sure makes for some interesting reading…
13:08 – About that brand…
Jeffrey Simpson, over at the Mop & Pail, of all places, has some rather interesting observations about that “Liberal Brand®” that we all keep hearing about ad nauseum. Seems this little juggernaut isn’t quite what we’ve been getting told that it was. Seems it’s becoming something of an urban Ontario / Atlantic rump, or something:
In the last election, the Liberals hung on to 13 Quebec seats, mostly in and around Montreal. The majority of the seats had large concentrations of non-francophones. If an election were held tomorrow, half of the party’s 13 seats would be in jeopardy.
[…]
West of Ontario, the Liberal brand has been a tarnished one for decades. The Liberals haven’t captured the largest number of seats in Manitoba since 1953, in Saskatchewan since 1949. In 20 elections since 1945, the party has won just 29 seats in Alberta. The Liberals have taken the largest number of seats in British Columbia twice since the Second World War, in 1953 and 1968.
So, politically speaking, the Liberal brand west of Ontario has been lousy for decades. It’s no better now. Yes, there have been urban pockets of Liberal support in the four western provinces, but that’s been it.
Viewed from Greater Toronto, the Liberal brand remains infused with a proud history, values and people. But even in some other places in Ontario where the party used to be strong, the brand has faded.
Dang. Getting elected is easy when your opponents are split — as in PC/Reform, etc — but when there’s a single alternative, things can be a real bitch, eh? Read the whole thing, it’s good.
13:25 – It’s the dawn of a new (Rae) day
Those of us from Ontario remember quite well the buggering that our economy suffered at the hands of NDP-Premier-turned-UberGrit-wannabe Bob Rae (AKA Highway RobRae). If this clown is who Steffy Dion is trotting out as his economic shirpa, they’re even more desperate than I would have thought they were. For those of you who might need your memories jogged, here’s a little something (thanks to Red Tory, of all people; go figure):
18:45 – Update: Sandy over at COTM has a few things to say too, about the Grits’ little Rae of sunshine (I like that lady):
But, for those who are gullible, let me tell you about the Bob Rae government, the social chaos, the Social Contract and the infamous Rae Days that left children and the elderly without supervision.
(or maybe it’s just that my mind is on my son’s first game of the season today and he’s all bugged that they started him off as left guard in all the practices but have now shifted him further to the left all of a sudden so he’s trying to get his head into a completely new space with next to no notice and besides, being moved to the left in any fashion, especially when it’s not your idea, really sucks even more than a run-on sentence…)
… so I guess that I’ll get back to something that I’ve been neglecting a little bit lately: the dastardly, conniving, rights-ravaging HLCs and their Section 13 sycophants and the Stalinist show trials they love so much (a little thanks to Kathy for bringing this back into my melon). What really gnaws at my gnuts about that post is the complete and utter heap of seaming bovine byproducts that Iggy decided to hack up on the rug in response to an email:
…thanks for your message about Keith Martin’s proposal. It blindsided the party, so we’re still working past that problem to look at the merits. I don’t want a free speech chill, but I also don’t want open season on minorities. So Im still working on it.
HUH???
First of all, it’s in the name of these so-called “vulnerable minorities” that Stalag Section 13 is being abused in the first place. Being white seems to put a bullseye on your ass when this bunch is around. Open season, my lily-white ass…
Second, as Kathy pointed out, Section 13 has turned into a one-man band in the last few years. Little Dickie Warman has turned the whole damned CHRC into his own personal cash cow. Being the most thin-skinned sonofabitch in Canada pays pretty good, from what I hear.
So why is it that so few people seem to know about this? Hell, even the last few calls I’ve gotten from the Conservative Party were (except for the first guy) by people who, while they were nice enough, hadn’t a friggin’ clue what it was that I was so steamed up about! I try to give them the Reader’s Digest version, because I understand that they have a job to do and need to get on with it, but I still get the feeling that most of them are left scratching their heads.
The main reason for this was, no doubt, the utter silence that emanated from the national media on the subject. After all, who really gives a rat’s ass if some neo-nazi kook gets himself battered from pillar to post through the legal system? Is that really news? Is it going to sell any papers? Not likely.
Well, all that changed when McLean’s — the much-beloved “Canada’s National News Magazine®” — found themselves in the gunsights of not one, not two, but three of these little Thought Police commissions. Ah, okay… now there’s something wrong. Had themselves a little Martin Niemöller / road to Damascus kind of moment there, I guess. Yeah, well; whatever it takes to get ’em finally talking.
But does anybody think that this will stop at McLean’s? I mean, really? Barbara Kulaszka — one of Marc Lemire’s lawyers — doesn’t think so, and has a no-bullshit warning for anyone who thinks that It Can’t Happen To Themâ„¢:
Barbara Kulaszka, a lawyer for Mr. Lemire, told the tribunal that the mainstream media paid no attention to unfairness of Section 13 complaints until Macleans magazine columnist Mark Steyn was targeted by a Muslim group earlier this year.
“Every religion is going to start using it,†she warned. “Just look at the first Muslim complaint in 30 years. Everyone went nuts. The media woke up, and said: ‘It isn’t just Ernst Zundel and his creepy right-wingers being attacked. They are going to come after us.’
“You’re going to be caught in the cross-hairs,†she cautioned.
Translation: They might not be bothering you — YET — but they WILL come for you; and who will be left to speak up?
And you — yes YOU, sitting there in front of your computer, all nice and comfy — pay attention:
Your turn is coming. Sooner or later, they will get around to you. Totalitarianism is a hungry animal, it needs to be fed regularly, and when it runs out of its usual food, it turns elsewhere. Mark my words: sooner or later, YOU WILL BE NEXT.
It’s just a matter of time.
PS-
In case you need some sort of recap about why we need to get rid of these Stalinist show trials, here it is:
They only support Leftist causes (sound familiar?).
The complainer gets all costs paid while the accused is forced to pay out of pocket (again: familiar?).
The very process itself IS a punishment.
The conviction rate is 100%!! (No, I’m not making that up) I don’t think even the Gestapo managed to pull that one off.
I know it’s probably a reckless thing to do at a time like this, but I’m going to try to update the software that powers this site. Yes, I know we’re in the middle of a busy blogging season and things have gone sideways when I’ve done this in the past, but it does need to be done.
So, if you can’t access the site for an hour or so today, don’t worry (too much). If all goes well, everything should be back where I left it in a couple of hours, if not less.
… are finally going to start getting what’s coming to them.
Of course they’re not. They’re just a bunch of good, all-Canadian Muslim kids out for a little camping trip. Nothing to see here; move along, folks.
Jeffrey Simpson, over at the Mop & Pail, of all places, has some rather 
Well, it seems like a slow election day today…
The main reason for this was, no doubt, the utter silence that emanated from the national media on the subject. After all, who really gives a rat’s ass if some neo-nazi kook gets himself battered from pillar to post through the legal system? Is that really news? Is it going to sell any papers? Not likely.
I know it’s probably a reckless thing to do at a time like this, but I’m going to try to update the software that powers this site. Yes, I know we’re in the middle of a busy blogging season and things have gone sideways when I’ve done this in the past, but it does need to be done.
