Sunday, November 25, 2007

Victor Wades into the Harper Tough Jail Laws - with Both Guns Blazing


Canadians generally do the finger -wagging, lip sucking routine when they proclaim that one million Americans are in jail at any given time.


Let's bring this down to terms that even the stupid Canadian might (dare I hope) understand.
America has 300 million people.


Suppose you drove into a small American village with 300 people.


You hire a guide to take you through this little town and explain it to you.


Your guide tells you that in this town of 300, about 200 people own a gun. He adds that about 40 people have a serious drug or alcohol problem and that most of them own guns.


He also explains that 40 people in the town are black and that 60 percent of them are in families on welfare with only a mother. Nobody knows where the fathers are.


He tells you that 45 people are Hispanics, but about half of them are illegal immigrants so they work for starvation wages for the rich people in town..


Then he explains that about 10 people are recent immigrants from all over the world, and a few hate his little town for its freedom. He adds that 20 per cent of the people in town hate the immigrants.


At the end of the tour, you arrive at the town jail. So you ask him how many people are in jail.
He says "one".


You reply " But how can you possibly live in the dysfunctional town and only one out of 300 people are in jail?'


And there, dumbfuck Canadians, is what we don't understand.


One out of 300 Americans are in jail at any given time.


One out of 300 is a miracle. It is a wonder that 20 million Americans aren't in jail.


Of course, we are far ahead of them.


To get a better idea of our righteousness, visit Toronto's north east black ghetto, Regina on a Saturday night, Vancouver's downtown eastside. or an Aboriginal reservation near you.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, that is the most anachronistic, racist thing I've read in a long time.

Anonymous said...

David:

Your articles are interesting - however, your foul language surprises me. I wouldn't have thought you would stoop to that level....

David Berner said...

My foul language?

This is a guest piece written by a good friend. And ys I am responsiboe for anything that appears on my blog. So he used the f word once. Go have a fit.

At least he signed his name.

Do you have a name?

Do you ever stand behind it?

Anonymous said...

Sorry to use this space for personel use David, but I was wondering if Kim Capripants snorting that removing downtown garbage bins would save the World as we know it, might be grist for your mill? I am so pissed off about what spews out of her mouth, that I can't even respond to half of it! Thank god, I live on Hornby, work on our Ferry, and can "cull" who I let on!!!! Cheers

Anonymous said...

Well Victor, you bring up an interesting point statistics-wise, one well worth considering. But why are you blaming the "stupid", "dumbfuck" Canadian public? What makes you think that the average Joe doesn't want more criminals in jail -- I think we do. Isn't it the all-knowing powers that be who have made the decision that jailing criminals is a bad thing? Or am I missing your point completely?

Mo.

Robert W. said...

Let me take a stab at what I think Victor was trying to say. Clearly all of the other commenters missed the point.

Most every talking head in Canada and every poll of Canadians I've ever seen seem to believe that:
1. Americans put too many people in jail.
2. Putting people in jail doesn't accomplish anything.
3. Stephen Harper is evil and Bush-like for even considering to tighten up the laws, which will necessarily put more people in jail.

Victor was simply trying to point out the actual statistics don't support the fear that our left-leaning friends are trying to generate.

In truth, I think that a vast majority of Canadians, especially those who live in the urban areas, are completely fed up with the lax laws, weak-kneed politicians, and double-speaking academics.

David Berner said...

Yes, exactly, Robert. What was so difficult about all that?

Robert W. said...

Don't even get me started on what I think the Average IQ of many of your Anonymous posters are.

While we're on the topic of morons, did you see how Sean Orr misquoted and slandered you on his Morning Brew link to your posting? Talk about taking something out of context!!!

Anonymous said...

Thankfully pelalusa was able to duck out of his Mensa meeting long enough to set us straight about what Victor meant. I believe I understood what Victor was saying (my question to him was rhetorical), I just don't believe the polls.

The media punditocracy is addicted to using polls to tell us what "the we feel". While we have absolutely no way to evaluate the vast majority of polls for accuracy, most of us simply accept them as incontrovertible indicators of truth. Why? The answer probably is because we're told that polls are "scientific" since they use statistical-type analysis, and most of us tend to equate science with a search for objective truth.

Despite the scientific patina of a Margin of Error, how does one incontrovertibly prove a poll to be accurate? For nearly all polls, the answer is that it can't be done.

Mo.