Blue Like You
Conservative musings - formerly Joanne’s Journey
L. Ian Macdonald on CBC-Gate
Thursday, December 20th, 2007I know we’re all busy getting ready for Christmas, but please take a minute to read L. Ian Macdonald’s piece in the Post today - Look Who’s Talking (En Anglais).
Great update on CBC-Gate and a bonus Pablo Rodriguez smackdown!
Oh, and he gets a shot in at Paul Szabo too.
Nice way to relax after a long night of wrapping.
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Steve Janke - CBC Reporters, Liberals, and Double-Standards.
Interesting how the CBC is quick to divulge names in some circumstances, but not others…
John Oakley: Who do you find less unsavoury? Brian Mulroney or the CBC?
The Black Rod - Bloggers out Krista Erickson as CBC-Liberal collusion suspect.
A view from the other side of the fence - So much Szabo, so little space - X Marks the Spot.
"I don’t think I’ll call him daddy anymore"
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Just a four year sentence - for this????
Friday Update: Post - Father who abused daughter, live on the Internet, gets four years.
This one is very revealing - ‘Disgusting’ sentence for abusive father.
Paul Gillespie, the chief executive of Kids Internet Safety Alliance, said the sentence should have been closer to 10 to 20 years, not four.
“I think this sentence is absolutely disgusting,” he said. “The fact that in the real time he will probably be out of custody in less than 12 months is something that even by Canadian standards is absolutely disgraceful.”
CBC - 4-year sentence for online sexual abuser a ’slap on the wrist’: Tory.
TABaker - Not enough.
Unambig - 34 Months In Jail For Raping His Daughter Live On Internet?
Christie Blatchford - Child Porn. Why don’t the punishments fit the crime? Via Dr. Roy.
Did our health and legal system kill Hunter Brown?
Thursday, December 20th, 2007The Record gives some insight into the mental state of Trevor LaPierre, who has been charged in the murder of Kitchener senior Hunter Brown - He heard ‘voices of demons’. I was ready to blame the parents, but it seems they were aware of how unstable LaPierre was. The system appears to be the real culprit here.
“I knew he was off the wall,” a shaken Paul La Pierre said outside court yesterday before his 22-old-son made his first appearance.
“I realized the severity of the situation. He’d been using insane language and acting like he was a victim of everything.”
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In the past year and half, he’s been hospitalized four times, he said. Three of those times were at the Grand River Hospital psychiatric ward. He was released just five or six weeks ago.
“We fought,” his father said. “He was always released.“We said, ‘Look, we don’t think he’s ready.’ But he was self-admitted. They couldn’t hold him. This is totally unnecessary. It could have been prevented.”
‘On Tuesday morning, he had made his son visit his psychiatrist.
“They released him with a different prescription.”
He was so worried about his son’s recent erratic behaviour, he called a cab to take him to the hospital later that day…
Stephen Gehl, a local mental-health lawyer, explains that for someone to be kept in the hospital “there needs to be a mental disorder that results in a present apprehension of harm to self or others, or inability to care for oneself.”
Yet the signs seemed to be there. The rest of the article contains interviews with his friends who explain how troubled LaPierre was - especially recently. There is even an online diary where he describes himself as “emotionally unstable“, and discusses his interests in Marxism, Buddhism, drugs and sexual fetishes.
On a rave website, he stated:
“Now I crave the unspeakable.”
How many other Trevor LaPierre’s are roaming around out there like a powder keg - ready to explode?
This tragedy begs for a thorough review of the whole system.
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