No Speed Bumps;
It seems this USA country has acquired the name The Great Satan. On more than one occasion Satan could be heard saying, “What? That is ridiculous. Let me tell you about being a Great Satan.”
G&M;
The Canadian Auto Workers union has declared political independence after delegates to the union's constitutional convention voted to formally sever ties with the New Democratic Party.
Well, that frees them up to join Hezbollah!
The "diverse" Front Range Coalition for Justice and Peace in the Middle East held a rally in downtown Denver on the weekend.
Diversity? Yes, the crowd ran the gamut all the way from the genocidal to the merely anti-Semitic.
A very good little video roundup of photo fraud in Lebanon to pass along to your non-blog reading friends.
Add yours in the comments.
Anybody that really thinks or believes that the CAW has severed its ties with the NDP is naive. They are joined at the hip regardless of what has taken place over the past year or so. I don’t know what makes both of these parties so dumb but it really works. At any rate I'll try and control my excitement over this declaration.
Craig Murray, former U.K. Ambassador to the Central
Asian Republic of Uzbekistan on:
"The UK Terror plot: what's really going on?"
www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/08/the_uk_terror_p.html
"I have the advantage of having had the very highest security clearances myself, having done a huge amount of professional intelligence analysis, and having been inside the spin machine.
So this, I believe, is the true story.
None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time."
Speaking of the Great Satan, why doesn't the US just drop a little ol' tac-o-nuke on Ottawa and Mexico City while they're at it?
hmmm?
(1) Today's media reports were breathless with headlines like: "New planets added to solar system", and "there goes the neighbourhood".
For those of you keeping score at home, the mass of the solar system has not changed, so nothing has been added, moreover, I just checked, and the neighbourhood is still there. If you look out a window, you'll likely notice that.
(2) Apparently fighter jets escorted a diverted London to Washington, D.C., flight to Boston's Logan airport today, after a distraught passenger pulled out a screwdriver, matches, Vaseline and a note referencing al-Qaida.
Clearly that lady was crazy. Who in their right mind would take a Screwdriver aboard an aircraft? I mean, a Tom Collins or Singapore Sling would be understandable, but a Screwdriver is just nuts.
This underlines the real problem with people these days, they're drinking vodka instead of gin. It's the end of civilization as we know it, I tell ya.
But what good is even mentioning it? People will just accuse me of intolerance or lack of diversity. Nonsense. I'm perfectly willing to buy a man a Tanquery, even though Beefeaters is the only true gin.
(3) Reports indicate that web video sensation YouTube.com, which serves up more than 100 million videos online a day, suffered a six-hour breakdown on Tuesday -- its first-ever unplanned outage, a company spokeswoman confirmed. "We are experiencing a temporary site outage due to a database-related issue," YouTube spokeswoman Julie Supan said in an e-mail to Reuters five hours after the outage began. "To clarify and ensure accuracy, the site is not down for maintenance."
Fair and square. My respect for Julie just went up.
(4) According to the Guardian (absquatulate!) "More than half the world's biggest forests will be lost if global temperatures rise by an average of 3 degrees or more, by the end of the century. [...] It could also present a yet more dangerous scenario where the temperatures induce plants to become net producers of carbon dioxide."
What is it with the Guardian and their ceaseless attempts to win the eurovision snake-oil award? The last time the planet was three degrees warmer, forests flourished. Moreover, should their backup fear-mongering be considered, note that it is not possible for destroyed forests to become net producers of anything.
(5) Apparently researchers have found strong evidence that coffee reduces the risk of several serious ailments, including diabetes, heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver.
What can I say, other than, "I love coffee, I love tea, I love the java jive and it loves me."
It's no surprise that the CAW is more leftist than the NDP. It's all about the leadership of a large organization stomping on the democratic choice of the individual. There's no room for individuals or democracy on the assembly line. This latest CAW blather must give union member participants an ambitiously liberal Buzz.
At least the NDP seems to possess enough dignity lately not to prostitute their constituent support in favor of misfit alliances with questionable value.
So Buzz and CAW are severing their ties with the NDP? I'm not very optimistic about what this likely means.
Now they can throw their support behind Bob Rae and the Librano$, that party that so exemplifies union values: get to be the leader (sic), live high off the hog, use membership dues/taxes to ram your own agenda through, and harrass anyone who doesn't agree with you.
No union should be giving funds from membership dues to political parties or special interest groups without a specific vote by each union member on where the $$$'s going. But watch Buzz. He'll have no qualms about commandeering CAW's $$$$ to hand over to the Liberals.
Buzz wants to back a winner this time, and maybe become a Senator...
The union organizers from the '20s are rolling over in their graves.
It seems to me that unions are just about as undemocratic an organization as you can find in the western hemisphere.Sure,you get to vote from time to time,just be sure to follow'party'lines and I'm confident your car won't get vandalized in the parking lot outside the hall.
Also,I never hear of members complaining about their mandatory,extorted dues being used by union leaders for their own political agendas....guess that means either the majority of CAW members are sheep-minded,sycophantic socialists at heart,or,are simply intimidated into falling into step 'less they be harrassed and threatened.
I am sure,somewhere in this organization,there are conservative-minded members who feel they are being FORCED to support a political ideology they detest,yet fear to speak out...they have my sympathies.
Teachers have to belong to a union and many of their union dues go to left-leaning, fembo clap-trap. If you voice any objections, you're intimidated and snubbed.
I know a a very articulate teacher who a few years ago wrote a dissenting article to one that she had read in the teachers' union rag. She submitted it for publication and was told by the editors that her article wouldn't be published. When she asked why, their response was, "It's badly written."
What a crock. The article was better researched and written than the original article. But how do you fight such blind and ignorant arrogance?
Unions, sadly, have become a huge part of the problem, and less and less any kind of solution. Union members are lackeys and serfs to do the bidding of their union overlords...you know, "leaders" like Buzz Hargrove?
AOL Prepares to Dig for Gold _ Literally
Breitbart (AP) ^ | 8/15/2006 | TED BRIDIS
AOL is preparing to dig for buried gold and platinum on property in Massachusetts owned by the parents of a man it sued for sending millions of unwanted spam e-mails to its customers.
AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company believes are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke's parents on two acres in Medfield, Mass. The family said it will fight in court to oppose AOL's plans.
AOL won a $12.8 million judgment last year in U.S. District Court in Virginia against Hawke but has been unable to contact Hawke to collect any of the money he was ordered to pay. AOL accused Hawke of violating federal and state anti-spam laws by sending unwanted e-mails to its subscribers and won its case in a default judgment against Hawke, who didn't show up in court.
"I don't care if they dig up the entire yard. They're just going to make fools of themselves," said Peggy Greenbaum, Hawke's mother. "There's absolutely no reason for them to think that Davis Hawke would be stupid enough to bury gold on our property. My son is long gone."
At the height of Hawke's Internet activities, experts believe, Hawke and his business partners earned more than $600,000 each month _ much of it cash _ by sending unwanted sales pitches over the Internet for loans, pornography, jewelry and prescription drugs. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685023/posts
Hans is a tiny, kidney-shaped rock a few feet above sea-level. Why did Willy Graham land there? Looking/searching for buried treasure, eh Willy?
Wait/watch for the left liberal/socialists to blow a gasket. The feathers will be flying... sqwack. ...-
EDMONTON (CP) - Paying $57 for the right to explore a disputed island in the Arctic - long the subject of a minor territorial tug-of-war between Canada and Denmark - appealed to geologist John Robins' sense of humour.
It was February when his Vancouver exploration company, Hunter Exploration Group, was granted an exploration permit for Hans Island - a tiny speck of windswept limestone midway between Canada and Greenland. ...-
cnews
the problem with hargroves 'strategic' voting, with the hard core support ndp have and little else, they would have to do this 'strategic' voting pretty much all the time to 'make sure' of given outcomes, you know the insurance factor. and then the hard core folks start to see support from their camp jumping ship and whoa,never bin dat bad since the founding of the party, etc etc
...so there i was at 35,000 feet, and I say to the stewardess...
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"Extra! Extra! Extra! Satan makes appearance in Toronto!
Deal ends trial for man who killed girlfriend
CTV.ca News Staff
A Toronto man who killed his girlfriend in 2005 received a lighter sentence Wednesday after a plea deal was accepted by the court.
Shawn Persaud, 22, was on trial for second-degree murder in the death of Lydia Gayle. The 24-year-old single mother of a young girl was stabbed to death during an argument with Persaud, who was drunk at the time.
At the time of her death, Persaud - who had a history of violence - was under a court order not to own any weapons.
In a sudden move Wednesday, Persaud was offered and accepted a deal. He pleaded not guilty to murder and instead entered a guilty plea to the charge of manslaughter.
The Crown reduced the charge, taking into consideration Persaud's level of intoxication when he plunged a knife into Gayle's heart and left her to bleed to death outside her home.
Justice David Watt ordered Persaud to serve two years, less one day, for Gayle's death. Persaud was given double credit for 18 months he spent in custody awaiting trial.
Watt said that, in his view, the sentence fit the crime.
Gayle's family members disagree. CTV's John Lancaster reported that they say the sentence will not act as a deterrent to others.
I just finished reading CS Lewis's "the humanitarian theory of punishment"...it goes far to explaining the mindset of "Justice" Watt's sentence for Persaud (poor dear, alcoholism is an illness). And not only his, but that expressed by the victim's family (deterrent, deterrent!).
Clearly, the idea that criminals should be punished (as in retributively) in proportion to the crime has vanished from our legal system.
Would that it were otherwise.
"We simply blew it,"
"You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power," wrote Ari Shavit, a columnist for Haaretz, which published his call for the replacement of Olmert on its front page.
www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/08/17/bush/index_np.html
Hmm. Which union was represented by the workers who showed up in support of the Indians at Caledonia?
Whatever the sane world is doing, just look over the fence and the leftists will be busy beavers trying to tear it down.
They of course are not looking for equality with all. They are actively trying to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense.
Pearl of wisdom from Buzz Hargrove - "Canadians aren't overtaxed, they're underpaid."
You know, as disgusting as the other Greg's news item about "How to murder your girlfriend for two years less a day", it doesn't surprise me anymore. That fact alone scares me. Society and Canadians are so used to these so called judges giving out wrist slaps that nary an eye is batted. Remember that two years less a day means that this poor misguided soul will not spend time in Club Fed and will have an easier time keeping his sphincter intact. Meanwhile, Lydia Gayle is still dead and her daughter has no mom. Canadian justice, eh.
Canadian "justice," indeed, Texas Canuck.
Many's the time I've turned to my husband and said, "It's time to head for the hills, hon."
It's just that there don't seem to be any hills to head for anymore.
La Gloire de la France: Le Force Frappe ( meant for dissuasion) is dead; it never flew.
Wrong: Le Force sank an vessel somewhere? Where/when was that? No. It was:
"Only days later French Prime Minister Fabius admitted that their Secret service agents had bombed the Rainbow Warrior under “orders from above”.
France: caught in an act of state-based terrorism.
Le Force Chirac in Lebanon: Surrendering before fighting. Bart Simpson is right: France: cheese-eating surrender monkeys. ...-
France considers only symbolic force for UN
Reuters UK ^ | Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:45 PM BST | Crispian Balmer
PARIS (Reuters) - France is considering providing only a symbolic force for the United Nations contingent in Lebanon, and not the thousands of troops UN officials had hoped, Le Monde newspaper said on Thursday. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685169/posts
Finally something that makes sense coming out of the AIDS Conference in Toronto:
Tom Blackwell, National Post
Published: Thursday, August 17, 2006
TORONTO -
"Leading activists took an angry jab yesterday at major AIDS organizations and the International AIDS Conference, complaining that Bill Clinton and Bill Gates were treated like royalty at the "Hollywood" meeting, while patients and front-line workers have received little profile.
"One American HIV campaigner took the stage at a major session and lambasted what he called an unaccountable international bureaucracy that has built up around the disease.
"'This conference has been more of a Hollywood conference for philanthropists and stars than for people who are living with AIDS,'" said Sipho Mthathi, head of the South African group Treatment Action Campaign.
"'We would like this to be registered by the International AIDS Society that we are quite aggrieved. Does money and does being a former president buy you a voice in today's times?'"
Well spoken, Sipho.
Take note, Stephen Lewis, sycophant schmoozer.
Further to posting above, Mr. Mthathi said (neale news):
"...the hundreds of conference sessions featured too many celebrities and 'professionals' -- scientists and government and agency officials largely from the Western countries least affected by the pandemic."
Don't you know, these "professionals" are AIDS parasites, making the big bucks off this already opportunistic disease. What would they do if there ever was a cure for AIDS? They'd be out of a job...
Do they smile and even chuckle as they quietly glide by as you stand at the pumps filling up to the tune of $40 or fifty dollars?
Those people who run all over the place and commute to work while never stopping for gas at all.. ever.
The scooter looks like a vespa, yet there is no muffler or exhaust and no noise.
Here in courtenay you buy them at..get this; the local computer store.
ht tp/tinyurl.com/q7gqz
And the latest:
ht tp/.ww.envBike.com/
= TG
The Soul of Battle
An eloquent reminder that democracies under great captains, facing enemies challenging the essence of their cultures, cam make war at levels beyond the worst nightmares of their warrior opponents.
Victor Davis Hanson.
Commenter at The Belmont Club agrees:
Maj_Gen_Stanley said...
People point to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the culmination of WW2 in the Pacific. The nuclear bombing of those two cities did pave the way for the Japanese to get out of the war. But that is not the real measure of the US attitude in the war. For that you must look at the aerial campaign of the XXth Air Force.
Starting in March of 1945 the XXth Air Force waged a systematic campaign of destruction and isolation on Japan. Railroad bridges and tunnels were hit repeatedly. Waterways were mined. Cities were fire bombed repeatedly. Planes would land on Guam, Tinian and Saipan, would be rearmed and refueled, and sent out again as fast as possible. Some cities had in excess of 80% of their urgan area destroyed. This was US will for destruction made manifest.
Afterwards the people who killed 80,000 people in one night with a firebomb raid went home and slept comfortably in their beds. They had no qualms about what they had done. Japan had brought this war on themselves, and this was how it was going to be finished.
The winter of 1945/46 saw near-starvation in Japanese cities; there was food in the countryside, but no way to get it to the cities.
If the war with Iran results in massive destruction in Iran, do not expect those who inflicted it to be tossing and turning in bed consumed with angst. The view will be that we gave them every opportunity to back off, and that they brought the destruction upon themselves.
My point is that the US (and the West) is capable of doing these things without a troublesome heart. The only thing that slows us down is ourselves. And we won't feel sorry afterwards.
It may be that we reach Stalin's solution: "Man is the problem? No man, no problem."
Lord Stanley ...-
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12136206&postID=115579741377661729
Cawing Bob Rae...cawing Boob Rea...cawing Buzz Rea... Jack's head will explode again.
Put it this way: Surrender, or die, mohammed. ...-
Cdns involved in talks with Taliban leaders
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Canadians are in the middle of high-stakes talks in southern Afghanistan that could see insurgents put down their weapons in a key Taliban stronghold ...-
c news
TG, Somehow I cannot envision Kate on one of those EBikes, rolling down the highway on a blustery Saskatchewan February morning, with a sidecar full of canines off to the dog show. Same thing trying to bring home the groceries for that family of four.
Caption Bush (Born to Be Wild?)(vanity)
MSNBC ^ | vanity
President Bush, in York, Penn., gets on a motorcycle during a tour of the Harley-Davidson vehicle operations plant. At right is roll test operator Joel Toner. (Check out the leathers) ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685456/posts
Satellite Blackout in Tehran
Blog of the Week Vital Perspective notes that the government of Iran is going from building to building in Tehran, smashing satellite dishes. This can only be construed as an effort to cut Iranians off, as much as possible, from news originating in the outside world. Which strikes me as ominous, especially with August 22 only five days away. ...-
powerline
Taxas Canuk, Point well taken. She at least has a gas miser alternate to the pick-up truck. A motorcycle.
If gas is ever cut-off, and that is a possibility, the electric bike still works where the motorcycle becomes a boat anchor.
Who said you couldn*t use a trailer or a side-car with for groceries with the electric bike?
You ought to see what you get for about $600. What a bargain. = TG
Some of you have seen this. Please refrain from the temptation to scold as *old news*.
I present it here for those who may have missed it. It is rare and a very worthy example of bravery and doing the right thing under risky circumstances. We need more Muslims to speak out like this.
This is a brave woman.
Of course, her life is now in danger.
ht tp tinyurl.com/rj9vd
By Rana Fil, Globe Correspondent
August 14, 2006
BEIRUT -- When Mona Fayad saw Lebanon engulfed in violence, she couldn't keep silent. The psychology professor at Lebanese University did something almost no Shi'ite intellectual dares to do in Beirut , at least in public: criticize Hezbollah.
In a scathing essay titled ``To be a Shi'ite now,* Fayad attacked fellow Shi'ites who, she says, blindly follow the leadership of Hezbollah on a path she described as ``no different from suicide.*
Her bold and unusual stance has sparked debate in the daily newspaper An-Nahar , where it was published, and it has made Fayad something of a celebrity.
``What does it mean to be a Shi'ite for the majority of Shi'ites now, at this critical period?" Fayad wrote. ``It means entrusting your fate to the wise and infallible leadership without daring to ask any question.*
To be a Shi'ite now ``is to block your mind" and let Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, ``command you, drive you, decide for you what he wants from the weapons of Hezbollah, and force on you a victory that is no different from suicide," Fayad wrote. ``To be a Shi'ite and dare such writing and such thinking means that you are a collaborator and a traitor.*
Since then, Fayad has been inundated with calls and e-mails from friends and strangers . ``People thank me, encourage me, and ask me if I am scared," Fayad said. ``But I am not scared because I live in a country where a bomb can fall on my head at any time, so I want to express my opinion.*
A Boston Globe copyright story: = TG
The Making of a Moonbat.
Arrest follows years of outrage
Vermont woman on diverted flight long a critic of US
By Raja Mishra and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | August 18, 2006
It was March 2003, the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, and into the office of dumbfounded Pakistani newspaper editor Najam Sethi walked an articulate, fresh-faced Vermont woman, saying she wanted to vent her anger at America in his pages.
Violence-plagued Lahore teemed with anti-American sentiment, yet Catherine C. Mayo seemed to move about with ease, Sethi recalled. And writing for the Daily Times of Pakistan, Mayo told about her 1960s activism. About her love of Cat Stevens and Howard Dean. About the mountains and lakes of her native Vermont. And about her shame and anger at America.
In an open letter to her granddaughters published on June 24, 2003, Mayo wrote: ``Governments in the world right now have made terrible decisions and have caused a lot of fear and bloodshed. But remember, girls, the world is beautiful, and it is yours."
She wrote for the newspaper until July. ``Then she just disappeared," Sethi said.
Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vt., was arrested Wednesday aboard a Washington, D.C.-bound flight that was diverted to Logan International Airport after she made suspicious remarks, startled passengers and crew with her behavior, and resisted efforts to calm her. It was the first major air scare since British authorities broke up a terrorist plot last week, triggering a tightening of flight security worldwide. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685803/posts@
Journalists? What's new?
Lenin, Mussolini, Goebbels were journalists. ...-
Photojournalism in Crisis (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
Editor & Publisher ^ | August 18, 2006 | David D. Perlmutter
Amid the controversy over certain pictures from Lebanon, a longtime student of war photography asks, "I'm not sure if the craft I love is being murdered, committing suicide, or both."
By David D. Perlmutter
(August 18, 2006) -- The Israeli-Hezbollah war has left many dead bodies, ruined towns, and wobbling politicians in its wake, but the media historian of the future may also count as one more victim the profession of photojournalism. In twenty years of researching and teaching about the art and trade and doing photo-documentary work, I have never witnessed or heard of such a wave of attacks on the people who take news pictures and on the basic premise that nonfiction news photo- and videography is possible.
I'm not sure, however, if the craft I love is being murdered, committing suicide, or both.
Perhaps it would be more reassuring if the enemy at the gates was a familiar one—politicians, or maybe radio talk show hosts. But the photojournalist standing on the crumbling ramparts of her once proud citadel now sees the vandal army charging for the sack led by “zombietime,” “The Jawa Report,” “Powerline,” “Little Green Footballs,” “confederateyankee,” and many others.
In each case, these bloggers have engaged in the kind of probing, contextual, fact-based (if occasionally speculative) media criticism I have always asked of my students. And the results have been devastating: news photos and video shown to be miscaptioned, radically altered, or staged (and worse, re-staged) for the camera. Surely “green helmet guy,” “double smoke,” “the missiles that were actually flares,” “the wedding mannequin from nowhere,” the “magical burning Koran,” the “little girl who actually fell off a swing” and “keep filming!” will now enter the pantheon of shame of photojournalism.
A few photo-illusions are probably due to the lust for the most sensational or striking-looking image—that is, more aesthetic bias than political prejudice. Also, many photographers know that war victims are money shots and some will break the rules of the profession to cash in. But true as well is that local stringers and visiting anchors alike seem to have succumbed either to lens-enabled Stockholm syndrome or accepted being the uncredited Hezbollah staff photographer so as to be able to file stories and images in militia-controlled areas.
It does not help that certain news organizations have acted like government officials or corporate officers trying to squash a scandal. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685905/posts
Friend Angry is still being annoyed by the Deranged Dr. Deb:
http://www.stevejanke.com/archives/192928.php
"It must be Thursday -- Deb Frisch is at it again"
However, I like his attitude:
"I'm not sure how to respond. It's so obvious now that it almost has the quality of an ongoing prank, like the guys who steal your garden gnome, then drive it around the country sending you pictures of where the gnome has been. You don't want your gnome stolen, but then when it happens, you just shrug. At least the gnome gag is funny."
Luv the understatement: An Army spokesman said: “This was an intense engagement.” ...-
Bayonet Brits kill 35 rebels
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OUTNUMBERED British soldiers killed 35 Iraqi attackers in the Army’s first bayonet charge since the Falklands War 22 years ago.
The fearless Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders stormed rebel positions after being ambushed and pinned down.
Despite being outnumbered five to one, they suffered only three minor wounds in the hand-to-hand fighting near the city of Amara.
The battle erupted after Land Rovers carrying 20 Argylls came under attack on a highway.
After radioing for back-up, they fixed bayonets and charged at 100 rebels using tactics learned in drills.
When the fighting ended bodies lay all over the highway — and more were floating in a nearby river. Nine rebels were captured.
An Army spokesman said: “This was an intense engagement.”
The last bayonet charge was by the Scots Guards and the Paras against Argentinian positions.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004223179,00.html
Not in Canada? Think paedophiles Toft/Whitmore, gun registry, etc.
Conclusion: 40 years of hug-a-thug Liberal-socialist fake justice in Canada. ...-
Real Crime, Fake Justice
Theodore Dalrymple
For the last 40 years, government policy in Britain, de facto if not always de jure, has been to render the British population virtually defenseless against criminals and criminality. Almost alone of British government policies, this one has been supremely effective: no Briton nowadays goes many hours without wondering how to avoid being victimized by a criminal intent on theft, burglary, or violence.
An unholy alliance between politicians and bureaucrats who want to keep prison costs to a minimum, and liberal intellectuals who pretend to see in crime a natural and understandable response to social injustice, which it would be a further injustice to punish, has engendered a prolonged and so far unfinished experiment in leniency that has debased the quality of life of millions of people, especially the poor. Every day in our newspapers we read of the absurd and dangerous leniency of the criminal-justice system. On April 21, for example, even the Observer (one of the bastions of British liberalism responsible for the present situation) gave prominence to the official report into the case of Anthony Rice, who strangled and then stabbed Naomi Bryant to death.
Rice, it turned out, had been assaulting women since 1972. ...-
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_oh_to_be.html
Thanks, maz2, for the sterling thoughts of the inestimable Theodore Dalrymple: Real Crime, Fake Justice.
Given that he was a phsychiatrist in the England's prison system, he knows what he's talking about. Of course the politicians, bureaucrats, and liberal intellectuals don't pay any attention to his learned and on-the-spot observations. 'Couldn't do that. 'Must attend to what the crooks, thugs, and purveyors of violence are saying about the crisis of lawlessness in the land.
That would be "we're depraved on accounta we're deprived!"
The politicians', bureaucrats', and liberal intellectuals' response: "We'd better go easy on these boys. Life's been tough enough for them; leniency's the answer."
Kyrie Eleison.