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I think one of the key things that the Justice department should be responsible for is ensuring they do not release prisoners mistakenly into the public. And, increasing user fees when the economy is this bad. Who is running the show in our provincial government?
—Disgruntled with the government
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2009.
23 Comments
The people who run the government are spent their lives in tiny, isolated communities. The worse thing they’ve ever seen is public drunkenness.
Some heads are rolling in the Justice Dept. as I type – damage control has already begun.
Those Tory fleabrains are preparing for an election – they’ve changed the Financial Act to rework their so-called fucking surplus and gave a shitload of money to the universities. So if the Opposition bring down the House, the morons from the Cape Breton mafia will start pointing fingers and yelling: ‘See? See? They want to take money from the students!’
Did you see the name of one of the guys names that were mistakenly released “Chancelor Faulkner” Who wants to bet that some overpaid idiot thought that this assholes first name was actually a title and let him out?
“Who is running the show in our provincial government?”
Some numbnuts who sells hamburgers to fat kids.
Bahawhawhaw, Gustuv, good one. Maybe he’s the Lt. Gov’s cuz.
TTFN- “cuz” is right, I wish the people/media of this city would wake up and realize who the people are(on average) that are commiting the violent crimes, and robbery’s really are and where they come from. But in Canada they dont take statistics like the US justice department.
Not sure what that means, Gustav, but in my opinion, racial profiling is another form of bigotry. FYI, the latest accidental release was white…
Really? They mistakenly released 3 convicted criminals on 3 different occasions? Can you imagine the laugh they are having? It can only be an inside job, right? I hope they saved their receipt- card laid is a card played?
so all these years I’ve spent catching and locking up colonel mustard… and they just keep letting him free?
no wonder he’s always the killer.
candlestick wielding bastard.
Broc- I was talking about men, why would you bring race into this conversation, I wasnt talking about race profiling, I was merely refering to gender profiling, thats not as bad is it, or do women commit as much crime as men?
Broc- Even if I was refering to racial profiling, let me ask you a question with a hypothetical situation.
Your family member is murdered along with many other innocent people in recent months, all the murders have the tell tale signs and simalarities of a serial killer.
Now serial killers are infamously middle aged white males. To avoid “biggotry” would you recomend the police interview people of all races? as not to offend whites. Or would you think that police (that know who commit these types of crimes on average) should narrow their search quickly to avoid more deaths?
Liberalism and politicaly correct cunts like you arehalf the reason potentially preventable crime goes unchecked in this city.
Life used to be a lot easier before political correctness arrived on the scene.
Perhaps they should re-name it The Injustice Department.
Gustav, that’s kinda harsh don’t you think? Before you start talking about stats maybe you should stop working off the assumption that the justice system is perfect and that everyone everywhere is equal and certain groups of people just somehow fuck up all the time. Blacks commit crime in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society, but they are also wrongfully convicted at rates disproportionately higher than their representation.
PS your example sucks, who the frig cares about serial killers, except people who watch a lot of horror movies? Did you know you have more chance of contracting leprosy than of being killed by a serial killer?
Senile – Easier for who?
Mole rat- Its the same old song and dance with people like you. Blame everyone else and never let them take responsibility for there actions.
And if you dont like my example of serial killers, just take the word serial killer out of my previous post out and replace it with pedophile, do kids have a better chance of catching leprosy then getting molested, I think not. And by the way, the RACIAL profile for pedophiles is white male, im not bitching about it, I am actually glad that the police use racial profiling as a tool and target white males, for the sake of our children.
zZz, your comment made my day. Oh, and I have your rope, it’s in the billiards room.
I do think people should take responsibility for their actions. However, their actions don’t happen in a vacuum.
When I see the cops tailing just any white guy who’s walking down the street, because they’re looking for a child molester, then maybe your little switcheroo would make some sense.
Mole rat- so what you are saying is that for someone to be racially profiled the police need to “tail” them. So i guess that goes for every race then. If the police follow you then its because of your race, and not the fact that you might have been observed dealing drugs, breaking traffic laws while operating the vehicle.
“Its not our fault , its because were black/white/asian” right mole rat. Just no accountability in certain communities, no pride, just blame and forcing guilt down the majorities throat.
Oh and when children go missing or reports are made by children being approached by pedophiles, police do “tail” and watch for suspects around schools. More often then not the suspects are white males, so I guess my “switcheroo” is valid. Unless of course its a black cop following a white pedophile, then it would be racial profiling right mole rat? Or is it only racial profiling when its the other way around?
I’m not saying that all racial profiling is bad, just that as a policing tactic, it can be abused. When a cop’s observed someone breaking the law such as dealing drugs or a traffic infraction, as you mentioned, it’s not racial profiling. It’s “I’ve observed you committing a crime and now I’m going to arrest you.” When someone gets stopped for “driving while black,” even though the cops aren’t look for someone specific, they just figure well it’s a black person driving a fancy car they must be a criminal, that IS racial profiling, and it’s wrong. You can’t just say well, I’m justified in stopping you because other people who look like you have committed crimes. Why is it that people of colour overwhelmingly complain of negative effects of racial profiling, being followed in stores etc., compared to whites. Is it just because they are whiners. Tell me where are the white people complaining about being racially profiled?
Is Gustav kay in disguise?
Something else I would like to add, Gustav, while you’re spouting your stereotypes about the liberal commie PC police or whatever – you’re just like many conservative types – interested in eradicating crime, but not in the least interested in what may have motivated a crime in the first place (except whatever you decide to assume). Which is the key to…you guessed it…eradicating it. Do doctors prescribe drugs without bothering to find out what’s causing the symptoms?
Mole rat- I am definately interested in eradicating crime like everyone else liberal, conservative or whatever. But you are wrong in saying that im not the least bit interested in finding out what motivated it. I just dont agree with the stance that Liberal main stream media/government tend to take, that most crime caused by non whites is all the white mans fault because we were so terrible over a hundred years ago. I just think it gives people free reign to act however they want and blame it on someone else. When will it end? how long must we feel white guilt over something we had no part in?
I feel the root cause of these crimes is based on a few things, and one of them is not what happened to ancestors a century ago. I think the #1 motivation/cause of alot of crime is lack of good parenting/role models those are things that come naturaly to a community it cannot be forced. #2 Responsibility for ones actions #3 making sure the punishment handed out fits the crime to discourage repeating the same mistake. No one can make a group of people do these things, the fore mentioned are things that a community needs to accomplish from the inside out, not the other way around.
As far as racial profiling goes, I think it is a great tool for police/ and investigators to use as long as it is not being abused. But just like anything there are people who do abuse power and they should be dealt with accordingly. I feel that if police make routine stops and actually find something then it wa as succesfull stop.
As far as certain races complaing about racial profiling because they are being pulled over for no reason, well it is easy because most cops are white men, do you think all the white folks they pull over scream racism? no because they cannot so we dont here about it.
The two statements I hate most, “The customer is always right” and “The buck stops here.”
First of all folks, no minister, in any party, sits down and looks at release procedures. This is done at various bureaucratic (ie public service) levels and in many cases involves the union. Either there is a complete moron at the point where prisoners are released or someone is playing politics. Procedures do not change from government to government. A minister of any department or any party cannot know every little thing going on or every person working for him or her (and that goes for companies too).
Before everyone gets up in arms, I’d like to wait and see what exactly is going on. If it is procedure, then those responsible for creating it should be disciplined. If it is an employee or union playing games then they should be disciplined.
Gustav – my opinion, based not so much on my own observations (as a white, I don’t experience racism, at least none that matters) but on the words of others who actually experience it, is that racism is very much alive and well today, every day. It’s not necessarily all about slavery, and Jim Crow laws. If you don’t think modern day racism matters, well, there’s not much I can do about that but I would urge you to educate yourself by getting out there and reading/hearing the words of people who experience it every day. Yes, some whites are very progressive and some blacks are quite successful. But racism is still out there and still quite pervasive.
I don’t believe that white guilt is a useful emotion. People tend to wallow in it and focus on how “bad” they are, rather than educating themselves, or, they start to take it personally and become resentful.
I read an analogy once, which is that if you take one athlete and give them more or less the best of everything for 100s of years, and then another athlete and starve them and work them to death for a couple hundred years, and then sloowwwly give them some more rights (at least on paper) and then plunk them down on the race track, say Go and expect them to finish the race side by side, it’s not going to happen.
I do agree that people need to take responsibility for their own actions. However, I think that criminals need to be understood in a framework of “yes, it was 100% their choice to act in this way” but also “here is how their experience was different and why they might have felt it was the best choice.” Part of that different experience is bad parenting and lack of role models, as you mentioned. However, I think the bad parenting is part of this bigger picture I mentioned, and sometimes parents do their best but their kids get fucked up anyway. This happens with parents of any race. As for the role models, when the overriding image you see in the media is of the young black male as thug, well there’s the role model. And it’s not blacks who control the media.
Some whites do complain about racism towards them. Many are white supremacists who believe that minorities are getting special rights. You do hear about them, I suppose, but they are marginalized, making room for more subtle racism which is felt nonetheless. If I was pulled over in a traffic stop due to the colour of my skin, I wouldn’t think much of it, because discrimination based on the colour of my skin is not something I experience on a daily basis.