North American Law, the Death of Common Sense!

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Barry Artiste Op/Ed

You know what really, really amazes me?  The Death of Common Sense in this Country! Here we have two issues, Trans Fat and Gangland crime, guess which bill goes into Law at Batman Speed!. Doesn't it just friggin blow you away that our government both Provincial and Federal can pass laws almost immediately in the case of Banning Trans Fat in Restaurants, yet for some reason Banning Gangs and implementing Serious Time for Serious Crimes takes close to a decade.  One wonder if both the Provincial and Federal Governments have their priorities straight, when it is guaranteed any Restaurant caught with an ounce of Trans Fat in their food automatically gets a fine and a conviction, yet Gang Affiliation and Crime, gets a Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink!

Someone, somewhere must have an answer to this poser!  One authour wrote a Book titled a World without Lawyers~ a friggin must read, except if you're a sheep who loves the status quo.

Perhaps when we read in the media a fed up citizens who go all vigilante on those who snub their nose to the law and KILLS THEM, when his daughter is forced into prostitution by gangs, or a drug dealer sells drugs to children. Lets hope the Jury gives a standing ovation, cause Heaven Help Us if Lawyers get involved and hand out 3 nails and two 2x4s to the criminal as a martyr.

In ending, I guess the government want it’s citizens healthy and fit in order to outrun Gunfire when gangs shoot up our shopping malls or are walking down a city street! Cause when it comes to Citizens Health, apparently being gunned down in a Restaurant is okay, as media reports in the last year no less than 6 gangland gunfights in family restaurants in the lower mainland of British Columbia!

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Gang+violence+tightens+grip+Canada+cities/1292594/story.html

Gang violence tightens grip on Canada's cities Police fear more innocent victims will be caught in crossfire

By Richard Foot, Canwest News Service

February 15, 2009

Canada's cities are in the grip of a sharp, new cycle of gang violence fuelled by the country's growing appetite for illicit drugs and competition among the organized crime groups that supply them, say police and other experts.

While organized crime wars are not new to Canada, a recent wave of gangland shootings, from Halifax to Calgary to Vancouver, has occurred alarmingly in public places where citizens least expect bullets to be flying. The fear and outrage that settled on Toronto in 2005 when 15-year-old Jane Creba was killed in a shootout in a downtown shopping area has arrived in other cities, whose innocent citizens are being hit.

"We're going through a very significant cycle, where violence has been extremely high," says Sgt. Shinder Kirk, spokesman for British Columbia's Integrated Gang Task Force, a multi-agency police group.

"The public nature of this violence, the callous disregard for the safety of anyone and everyone who may be in a public spot when the shooting occurs, is a great concern to all of us." Why are so many gang hits taking place in public spaces?

"Public shootings are a matter of convenience," says Robert Gordon, a criminologist and gang specialist at Simon Fraser University.

"People aren't as easy targets as in the past, so gangs will follow someone around in public until they can make a hit. They're not concerned with collateral damage. All they care about is hitting the target."

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Gang+fight+calls+united+front/1367323/story.html

Gang fight calls for united front
Times Colonist
March 8, 2009 3:07 AM

Neither is there a co-ordinated strategy to take down the gangs. Two years ago Vancouver's retired chief of police, Bob Stewart, wrote a blistering critique entitled Police 2007: The Buck Stops Nowhere. While noting his family's tradition of police service, Stewart lambasted law enforcement agencies for their "lack of professionalism, sound management or even simple common sense." He pointed out that Vancouver is the only major city in Canada without a metropolitan police force.

Counting municipal detachments and RCMP units, there are 16 police jurisdictions in the Lower Mainland. Worse still, RCMP troops answer to national headquarters in Ottawa, while municipal officers report to local police boards. That means there is no unified command structure on the ground.

 We saw an example of that last month, when B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal met with his federal counterpart to sketch out a campaign. The meeting was a bust. Oppal wanted changes in the Criminal Code. He says the current legislation makes it unduly difficult to prosecute gangland crime.

 Vital means of surveillance, like wiretapping, are hindered by the code, and bail conditions are far too easy. But when Oppal asked for assistance, his request fell on deaf ears. The Criminal Code is Ottawa's responsibility, and the federal government has its own priorities. Working with the provinces doesn't appear to be one of them.


Below is an excerpt on a new concept called Life without Lawyers and the Death of Common Sense.
A must read for those just F**king Fed Up with Legal Stupidity in North America!  Since the majority of Politicans in both our countries are lawyers, perhaps its time we elected Politicians based on Common Sense instead! Meanwhile we can then pack up these self serving billable by the hour milking the judical system, lock em all in a bus and let Vincent Li, our newest mentally insane criminal Beheader have his way with them.

 http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1874370,00.html
 Life Without Lawyers
By Alex Altman Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009

 Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans From Too Much Law
By Philip K. Howard

The Gist: Bernie Madoff and Co. have, for the moment, dislodged attorneys from the doghouse of public opinion. But a world without tort claims and padded billing would still be many people's idea of heaven. Howard, an attorney and author of the best-selling book

The Death of Common Sense, chronicles a society in which rules have run amok and litigation looms as a constant threat. Among his egregious examples: a Florida teacher wary of restraining a hysterical child gets the cops to slap handcuffs on the kid instead; a New York City high school prohibits nurses from calling ambulances without the principal's permission; a town slide in Oklahoma is dismantled for liability concerns. "To restore our freedom, we have to purge law from most daily activities," writes Howard. But this seething polemic is less about a society buried in paperwork than one that clings to procedure like a crutch — and has lost its capacity for independent thought in the process.

Below is a media story that made national headlines in which a Father fearing for his 15 year old daughters safety from a Drug Dealer took the law into his own hands and went all Vigilante, killing a multi convicted Drug Dealer, doing what our Criminal Justice System failed to do in the first place to keep this scum off the streets. 

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/01/19/walker-convicted.html

Father who killed daughter's boyfriend convicted of murder

Last Updated: Friday, January 19, 2007 | 5:57 PM

CT CBC News

A man from Yorkton, Sask., who shot his daughter's boyfriend to death has been sentenced to spend at least 10 years behind bars after being convicted of second-degree murder on Friday. Kim Joseph Walker, 50, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of James Hayward, but Justice Jennifer Pritchard had told jurors second-degree murder and manslaughter were also options. Several people in the courtroom burst into tears when the verdict was announced by the jury of eight women and four men. Walker himself showed little reaction, but his daughter, Jadah, broke down and wept.

At the time of James Hayward's death in 2003, Jadah, then 16, was addicted to morphine and living with the 24-year-old, the trial heard. Court heard Walker was worried his daughter's addiction was killing her and, according to a witness, he blamed Hayward. On March 17, 2003, he went to Hayward's house. There was a confrontation and Walker shot Hayward five times with a .22-calibre handgun, court heard.

The defence argued Walker was only trying to get his daughter out of a known drug house and wasn't intending to kill. The Crown argued the crime was planned and intentional and a murder conviction was the appropriate verdict.

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2F20090304%2Fbus_verdict_090305

Vince Li not criminally responsible for beheading

Vince Li has been found not criminally responsible for the gruesome murder and beheading of Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus last summer because he is mentally ill. These grotesque acts are appalling," Justice John Scurfield said in Thursday's ruling. "However, the acts themselves and the context in which they were committed are strongly suggestive of a mental disorder. "He did not appreciate the act he committed was morally wrong.

He believed he was acting in self defence and that he had been commanded by God to do so." Both the Crown and the defence agreed that Li is a schizophrenic who was suffering a psychotic episode when he killed the 22-year-old McLean. Li, 40, will now be remanded to a secure psychiatric facility where he will receive treatment. A review panel will decide in the next six weeks which facility he will be transferred to, depending on whether he is considered a risk to others or to himself.

His case must also be reviewed on an annual basis by a mental health review board.