Blue Like You
Conservative musings - formerly Joanne’s Journey
A message for Flicking Liberal Voters
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
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This link to Licia Corbella’s column, Kudos for Crown will self-destruct when the piece is archived, so here are the salient points:
…Saskatchewan’s Crown prosecutors deserve kudos, not criticism, for getting Whitmore to plead guilty to 15 charges including kidnapping, abduction and rape against two young boys and accepting a life sentence with no eligibility for parole for seven years rather than grinding through a trial and then applying for dangerous offender designation prior to sentencing…
…So, do we blame the judges for giving him such short sentences for past child abductions and sexual assaults on children as young as five? Some of the blame undoubtedly can go there, but certainly not all of it.Those judges, appointed by mostly Liberal politicians, simply apply the laws written by the same mostly Liberal politicians.
Currently, the federal Conservative government has numerous bills before Parliament that would toughen laws to better protect our children and all law-abiding people. One such bill proposes to raise the age of consent in Canada from 14 to 16.
That reasonable change to the law — that would prevent grown adult pedophiles from preying on young children — is being held up by the Liberal-dominated Senate.
One Conservative MP tells me he has been accused of being a “sexually repressed Neanderthal” for advocating such a reasonable and common-sense change to this law, one that most Canadians undoubtedly agree with.
What’s more, had the age of consent been 16, rather than 14, it’s believed that the Crown may have proceeded to trial and sought a dangerous offender designation for Whitmore. Why? Because the father of the 10-year-old boy Whitmore abducted, bound, threatened with death and raped last July refused to allow his traumatized son to be grilled on the witness stand.
That left testimony to the traumatized 14-year-old. See where I’m going? The defence would have berated the 14-year-old into admitting that he “consented” to sex with this 36-year-old pervert, even though he was threatened with death if he didn’t.
So, want to know who to blame besides Whitmore for what has happened to his most recent victims and some of the eight ones before? If you have consistently voted Liberal, look in the friggin’ mirror.
Kudos to you, Licia.
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Update: Licia strikes again! Liberal is a chopper blockhead.
Kudos for the Record
Saturday, July 28th, 2007What’s going on with these liberal papers lately? Have they all seen the light?
Today’s editorial is scathing - Mismanagement, McGuinty Style:
Ontario taxpayers have a right to feel cheated by such grotesque mismanagement of their money. And to be angry. For years, the Liberals couldn’t find the means to expand Cambridge Memorial Hospital, and even now Cambridge taxpayers have to sink more than $6 million of their own money into the venture. When the University of Waterloo agreed to build a pharmacy school in Kitchener, city taxpayers were stuck with the $30-million construction cost — the province paid zero for that part of the project.
But the day after the Canadian Cricket Association asked for $150,000 in 2006, it was awarded a $1-million grant. That money was supposed to pay only for capital work. However, the Ontario Cricket Association, which ultimately got the $1 million, didn’t need it all and invested $500,000 in a guaranteed investment certificate. Where were the government’s priorities? Perhaps the citizens and politicians of Waterloo Region should wave cricket bats the next time they want help from McGuinty.
Beautiful!
On anther note, congrats to the Record for the great new look on their website.
Oh, and their links work now too! Bravo!!!
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Update: Our resident detective isn’t going to let this one go - Steve Janke.
And Jack on Cricketgate.
A warning for ’sock puppets’ and anonymous loose cannons
Saturday, July 28th, 2007If you think that you can remain anonymous on the internet and say what you want with impunity, better think again.
Vancouver businessman Wayne Crookes, a former Green Party of Canada campaign manager, filed a suit last April in the British Columbia Supreme Court against Wikipedia for what he believes were disparaging and damaging comments made by a writer last year with the handle “indyperson.” The sock puppet was repeating comments made by anonymous authors on Blogspot’s The Compost Heap. Google, which hosts the Web site, and the bloggers, were named in a separate suit. Mr. Crookes would like Google to identify the authors and remove the contentious words that exposed him “to ridicule and contempt.”
There is a certain cynical blogger out there that might give this some serious reflection.
More at Time.
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