Pardoning Criminals

February 18, 2007

Pardon me for being astonished
An army of scumbags has been unleashed upon unsuspecting Canadians
By IAN ROBINSON

OK, I'll bite.

What in the name of all that's holy does somebody have to do to be well and truly punished by the judicial system?

A Sun Media investigation discovered last week that 100,000 convicted criminals have received pardons over the last six years.

That means this army of scumbags -- and an army it truly is; the Canadian Forces couldn't field that many combat troops if the life of the nation depended on it -- can get passports, work for any federal agency, including the Armed Forces (New slogan: The few. The proud. The perverted.), or any business under federal authority.

And they can tell prospective employers that they don't have a criminal record.

Fabulous.

I guess to be truly punished, you've got to videotape yourself raping high school girls that you kill later and then get caught and have your wife testify against you.

That would make you Paul Bernardo.

Of course, if you're Paul's partner-in-crime, Karla Homolka, you get a taxpayer-funded university degree in a prison so lax that you get to enter into loving, lesbian relationships -- and model lingerie.

And, when you get out, find a fella and have a baby.

On that note, can you imagine this poor kid's life?

How'dja like to have Karla volunteering as a concerned mom in your kid's kindergarten class?

And what about the poor teacher who has to grade little essays like: "I luv my mum. I am very proud of her becuz she doznt kill peeple aneemore. The end.

" P.S. If you don't give me a gold star on my papeer I will kill you."

In the U.S., they don't even let convicted criminals vote.

Here, the courts have decided it's their constitutional right.

Wonder who old Paul votes for?

Hint: It's probably not for Stephen Harper and the Tories.

If I had to guess, I'd say it would be for the party that has ruled this nation for most of the last century.

These people may be criminal scumbags, but they're not completely without brains.

(I'm talking about the criminals, not the Liberals.)

They must know who their political friends are -- the ones who created a system that goes easy on them, and installed judges to make sure nobody could do anything about it.

Thank you Liberal Party of Canada! Way to go!

Since 2000, one first-degree and one second-degree murderer got pardons.

More than 150 for manslaughter.

Not to mention the 28 people who had the slate wiped clean for sex assaults causing bodily harm. Other criminals saw their convictions virtually erased for killing babies and having sex with family members.

Let's get this straight.

You kill your baby or have sex with your son or daughter. And a few years later, Canadian society tells you it's OK by giving you a pardon.

Plus the ones who went away for: Armed robbery, arson, bestiality, bigamy, buggery, taking hostages, importing and distributing child pornography, producing child pornography and having sex with the feeble minded.

Look, I get redemption and forgiveness and all that stuff they jammed into my head back in Sunday school.

However. It's one thing to offer a pardon to some guy who got caught with a pound of grass in the trunk of his car on the border when he was 20 and is now 40 and has kept his nose clean.

I get that.

But killers and rapists?

And hostage-takers?

I don't know about you, but I've never put myself in a situation in which it seemed sensible to take hostages.

If you live anything even resembling a normal, decent life, the decision to take hostages pretty much never comes up.

Each pardon given to these individuals -- I find it hard to call them "people" -- denigrates the suffering of the victims.

There are simply some crimes that leave an indelible stain upon the victims and the criminal and society.

Producing child pornography is one of them.

So is distributing it.

So too making a withdrawal from a bank with a shotgun instead of an ATM card.

And people who have sex with animals?

Do we really want to make it easier for them to get passports and send them off to other countries as goodwill ambassadors for the nation?

Dear Lord, what have we become if we allow all of this?