I had so much fun taking apart that article from the Toronto Sun the other day I thought I might start a new regular feature here, wherein I take a look at the days events and give my take on the stories. This might work best for everyone if they read the linked articles, but feel free to just to read my comments if your time is at a premium, I'm probabbly more right than some of these hack journalists anyway.
Jury: Moussaoui is eligible for deathI believe in the death penalty. One of the great things about being an atheist is not having some book tell me what is and what isn't morally correct. As long as there hungry people in the world, evil sick bastards shouldn't be allowed to waste our precious resources. My wife argues with me that the death penalty is not a deterrent to commit heinous crimes because no one believes that they will be caught when committing a crime. My argument is that we should be less worried about deterring people from committing crimes and more worried about punishing the sick fucks of society when they do screw up. Serial killers: kill them. Mass murderers: kill them. Terrorists: Kill them. Repeat sexual offenders: kill them, any psychologist will tell you they can not be rehabilitated and will always be a danger to society. Pedophiles: Kill them, resuscitate them and kill them again for good measure.
"Carie Lemack, whose mother, Judy Larocque, was aboard the first plane that crashed into the trade center, watched the verdict on a closed-circuit broadcast to families in Boston, where both trade center flights originated."We don't want to make him a martyr," she told CNN. "The last thing that a lot of us want to see happen is to allow him to die with the name martyr by his side.""Great so the other terrorists think of him as a martyr if you execute him, that's probably better than allowing him to live out the rest of his life as a prisoner, writing volume upon volume about how evil the western world is until he dies at a ripe old age at which point they'll still regard him as a martyr.
Sharon to undergo skull surgeryHooray for modern medicine. We are at the point where we can keep someone "alive" months after they have actually died. Why do we do this and should we do it? We wouldn't allow an animal to suffer when it had no chance of recovery but we insist on keeping grandma or grandpa hooked up to a machine long past the point where it is obvious that they will never wake up.
"He has had several surgeries since he entered the hospital. On February 11, doctors had to remove nearly 50 centimeters (20 inches) of his large intestine after it was found to have become gangrenous because of a lack of blood flow."That's the body trying to shut itself off. Let it. Ariel Sharon was a statesman and leader who served his country in many roles for half a century. Give the man some dignity and don't keep him on a ventilator, drugged and unconscious, delaying the inevitable. Let his people bury him in a way he deserves while they still remember who he is and what he did.
Pot decriminalization bill goes up in smoke in CanadaAhhhh yes those evil hippies, always out smoking the ganja and destroying society by depleting our precious supplies of microwave burritos and Hostess snack cakes.
One of Harper's five priorities is to clamp down on crime. "We will not be reintroducing the Liberal government's marijuana decriminalization legislation," he told a meeting of the Canadian Professional Police Association.Uhhhhh...so it's your belief sir that some teenager who gets picked up with a couple of joints on him is a "criminal"? All studies on the subject indicate that between a quarter and half of the Canadian population have at one time or another used marijuana. Do you really think it's a good idea to brand up to half of your electorate as criminals Stephen? That just doesn't seem to make good political sense.
"Under the Liberal bill, people found with small amounts of marijuana would have been fined but would not have received a criminal record.Canadian police complain that judges often hand down lenient sentences on people found guilty of running operations to grow marijuana illegally."Uhhhh...correct me if I'm wrong here but aren't these 3 entirely different issues?
A) People caught by the police with a little pot on them.
B) People who run an elaborate criminal enterprise.
C) Judges who don't actually use the high end of the statutes that they already have to punish B)
The liberal legislation was only specifically dealing with A) which should clearly be the least of anyone's concern.
"Estimates for the value of Canada's booming pot business trade vary widely, and some experts say it is worth $8.5 billion a year. "Wait, hold on a sec here. I think I might have just come up with an idea. How about instead of scrapping the Liberal's bill you rewrite it as a complete legalization bill. Sell the shit in government run and regulated stores or Amsterdam style coffee shops and tax the shit out of it like tobacco and alcohol. Spend this tax money on the following areas:
A) Hiring more law enforcement, and paying the officers we have now a better wage.
B) Hiring more border security to stem the flow of hard drugs and weapons into the country
C) Increased spending on chemical dependency rehabilitation facilities, especially in major centers like Toronto or Vancouver.
Coupled with the savings from no longer prosecuting and incarcerating people for simple possession we should have enough resources to drop the crime rate throughout the entire country by a significant amount.
Well that's probably enough of my bizarre views for one day.
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