The Crime Blotter

One needs a separate blog just to cover the criminal cases.

1. Michael Levy is a quadriplegic. He became a quadriplegic because 3 horrible out-of-control pig-people attacked him at a party. They were given slight sentences, even though they were tried as adults.

Shame on the judge once again.

2. Conrad Black has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years. He will appeal. Whatever the outcome, one can only marvel at this story. The most arrogant, successful, wealthy fellow imaginable stumbling to this place in life. No doubt the books and screen play are being written as we speak. Oh, I forgot, the writers are on strike.

3. Bagri, charged and acquitted in the Air India murders, made a speech calling for the murders of 50,000 Hindus. For this act of inciting hatred at the very worst and most obvious level he was and will never be charged. I suppose we just wait about like good friendly Canadians for the next bomb.

4. Larry O'Brien is the mayor of Ottawa. He has been charged with 2 criminal counts. He and his city council are so clueless, they are not sure what to do now. After all, innocent until proven guilty, right? Wrong. He is a public servant, the mayor of Canada's capital city. He must step aside until this dark cloud is lifted or resolved. Who, besides the mayor and his council, didn't know that?

5. A Newfoundland doctor, found guilty of drug and sex charges involving his patients, has lowered the bar even on scum like himself. Not only was he blackmailing his patients into providing sexual favors in exchange for perscriptions and sharing in the scripts himself, but hitting a new low for creep behavior, he would - hold onto your seat, now - pick patients up after their Narcotics Anonymous meetings so he could give them more narcotics.

6. Four pm at 41st and Knight and a guy is trading gunfire with the police. Welcome to Kansas.