Category: Law & Order

Good news from the Hill! The Tories, in keeping with both their election promises to get tough on crime and their typical don’t-give’me-bullshit style, have announced today that they will be introducing a bill this fall to enact a “three strikes and you’re out” policy against violent offenders.

From what I’ve heard so far, the bill would work hand in hand with the existing dangerous offender designation but with one difference: reverse onus. After three violent convictions, it would then be up to the scumbag to prove that he isn’t dangerous instead of up to the crown to prove that he is. Makes sense to me. If you have a habit of commiting violent crimes, you’ve pretty much done the crown’s job for them in the burden-of-proof department, haven’t you?

Now, if we could just get ol’ Vic Toews to consider revisiting one other good old idea whose time seems to have come back again…

I would like to begin today by saying, on behalf of all of us here, that our most heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to the family and friends of Anastasia DeSouza, whose life was ended so tragically yesterday in Montreal. We also maintain our highest hopes for those still struggling to live through the ordeal. May their families get good news, and get it soon.

Out of respect for the sensitivities of those so deeply affected by this event, it has been decided that there will be no posting of opinions about the social implications (or anything else) regarding this matter until after the families have had the chance to come to grips with their loss and say their final farewells to their loved ones, after whatever fashion they follow.

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Again, our best wishes to the families. If there is anything at all that we can do, please do not hesitate to contact any of us.

Well, it’s not like anybody can really say that they didn’t see this coming. In a brazen display over the weekend, a pack of thugs (no doubt emboldened by the impotent response to the anarchy at Caledonia) openly attacked police officers on Walpole Island.

The Walpole cops were tracking a stolen car at about 4am Saturday morning when the thieving arsehole behind the wheel decided to pull a U-turn and ram the cruiser. An OPP cruiser was called in to help and was driven into the ditch by a van (probably hauling ass to help their buddies) that tried to ram them.

The first cruiser was “extensively damaged” and the car that rammed it crashed later (big surprise there). The van took another run at the OPP cruiser before hauling ass to the scene of the first crash, where it repeatedly rammed the first cruiser before buggering off. Cops did eventually find the van, but not before the arsehole driving it set it on fire and screwed off. They still don’t know who was driving. Anyone who knows anything can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Fortunately, none of the cops were hurt. A 23-year-old Walpole Island man in the stolen car was “ejected from the vehicle” (funny how that phrase can have a nice ring to it sometimes, isn’t it?) in the first crash and is still in critical condition in a London hospital.

Boo hoo. Poor him.

Get used to hearing about stuff like this, folks. I said it before and I’ll say it again: the Provincial Government’s impotent response to lawlessness by natives is going to do nothing but encourage more of the same. But thanks to the Grits’ case of terminal political correctitude, we’re probably going to have to wait until some Grit politician’s kid gets hurt before anything real gets done to get tough on crime.

Proving yet again that they know where their priorities are, the McWimpy government is waging a desperate battle to get back to the business of doing nothing. Attorney General Michael Bryant is going to court to argue that endless chinwagging is better than actually doing something to resolve the situation in Caledonia. Being typically Grit, Bryant seems to think that the law just doesn’t apply to everybody.

On Tuesday, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Marshall knocked the wheels off this little bullshit bandwagon by ordering that there will be no talks between the protestors rioters and anyone until the law of the land is followed and a previous court order to vacate is obeyed. Let’s face a nasty truth here, boys and girls. No matter what some of the lefty-lovers try to say, everybody with a brain in their head knows damn well that if these were white people pulling a stunt like this, they’d have been dragged off to the pokey long ago, using any force necessary.

This puts the provincial Grits in one hell of a bind. No longer able to hide behind the “but we’re doing all we can; we’re talking to them” BS, they are still going to be expected to do something about the problem. Grits hate having to solve problems. Problems keep people distracted from Liberal incompetence and malfeasance so, obviously, it is in the Liberals’ best interest to drag every “crisis” out for as long as possible. Without any looming politically correct disaster to dazzle the masses, they start asking hard questions that Grits, with their wishy-washy, mealy-mouthed absence of guiding principles, are utterly unable to deal with. Conservatives (both big and little C), on the other hand, seek out such challenges and meet them head on; hence all the lib-left media fearmongering about us.

Got that? For Liberals, the logic is: problems good, solutions bad. Come to think about it, it’s kind of like a scaled down version of the way that Mideastern despots rail against Israel lest their people realise that it is their own leadership that is the author of most of their miseries. Hmm.

The natives, meanwhile, have been taking every opportunity to drop not-so-subtle insinuations that, without talks ongoing, the only alternative is mayhem. More proof of their thuggery.

Hazel Hill, a spokeswoman for the group, calls the ruling “an act of aggression.” What bullshit. Attacking an elderly couple in their car and trying to run over a cop are acts of aggression.

Rioter mouthpiece Janie Jamieson even has the nerve to imply that it’s up to the townspeople to keep cool heads. “There is a constant push from some (residents) to see bloodshed and they’re going to keep on creating situations until it happens,” she barfed.

When will this hypocrisy end?

Well, that didn’t take forever, did it? Only about six months, right? And hey, what’s six months of crass lawlessness compared to the warm, fuzzy feeling that we all get from being nice and politically correct? After all, it’s not as if the “non-native” residents of Caledonia can actually expect the same rights and security as everyone else now, is it?

In case you haven’t heard, Superior Court Justice David Marshall has pulled the plug on the appeasement tactics of the McWimpy government and ordered that ALL talks with the rioters protesters be called off until they get the hell out of Caledonia. Saying that “It is common knowledge that the people of Caledonia, after five months of occupation, have seen security in their town replaced by lawlessness, protesters in battle fatigues, police officers in riot gear,” Marshall displayed a rare convulsion of judicial common sense and made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that ignoring the law of the land is not going to get you what you want. It also shows the Ontario Grits that they’re not going to get away with jerking off a bunch of home grown Robert Mugabe wannabes, pretending that they’re actually doing something. The Grits, however, don’t seem to be getting the message.

Many, including a lot of Caledonia residents, are worried that this is just going to throw gas on an already smoldering woodpile. Guess what, kids? The fire is already lit. These thugs have clearly gotten in into their heads that bullying is the way to get what you want. If this isn’t stopped dead in its tracks, you can all bet your arses that we will be seeing one hell of a lot more of this in the future.

No one wants another Ipperwash or another Oka. We may not want it, but it may be what’s needed.

Well, it may have taken a little longer than I expected, but the inevitable seems to have begun in Caledonia. After nearly six month of Grit dithering and bafflegab, residents of the small Ontario town are finding themselves with little or no patience left. Things started getting ugly a little after midnight last night and if you think it’s just going to get worse, you’re probably right.

Gutless waffling by the McSquinty government has emboldened the natives to believe that the law just doesn’t apply to them. From arson to swarming an old couple in their car, to attempted murder of a law officer, to letting the suspects get away with hiding on the reserve, the provincial Grits have done nothing but sit on their hands. Apparently they’re scared shitless that they’ll end up with another Ipperwash on their hands.

Well guess what, Dolt? If you don’t knock off the Pontius Pilate act and get the hell off your sorry arse, and right quick, most of us with two brain cells to rub togeather think that you’re going to find yourself in one hell of a bigger mess quicker then you can say “Dudley George.” You demand restraint and civil order from one side while letting the other run roughshod over our laws as they see fit. Haven’t you ever picked up a history book in your life? This is a recipe for an explosion of violence.

When that happens (and don’t fool yourself, numbskull, it will happen. You can only push decent folk so far before they decide to push back . . . hard), it will be all your fault. And everyone will know it. There will be no excuses that you can make because everyone is going to know goddamned well that you could have stopped this, but didn’t.