THREE QUICK HITS ON A RUSHED MORNING
1. Quote of the Day: "Family want to be able to see their loved ones." This is the lawyer for Kimberley Noyes, who has been charged with murdering a young boy in Grand Forks. Noyes is being held in Surrey and her lawyer is kvetching. And what about the family of John Fulton, who has been killed, allegedly by Ms. Noyes. No doubt they too would like to see their loved ones. You see, once you kill someone and get caught a whole bunch of really inconvenient things happen.
2. The Globe editorial writers felt it necessary today to tell us how wonderful the free heroin trials were. We spoke yesterday at length and in disgust about this topic in the post immediately below this. The truth about this pernicious evil is that there was nothing remotely scientific about this so-called study. The samples were uselessly small, the subjects were a mish-mash of wholly unrelated types and conclusions were drawn from the skimpiest of "evidence." But that's democracy for you: You pay your $12.50, you buy your popcorn, and get an opinion. The Globe editorialists are often bang-on. But on this subject they are flat ignorant. They don't know the territory, period.
3. The man who was convicted of killing 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 has been released by Scottish authorities and sent home to Libya because he has prostate cancer. So he dies in prison of prostate cancer? There's something wrong with that? People die in prison every day, some from prostate cancer. What has this got to do with Justice? You explode bombs on planes that kill 270 people, you can pretty much expect the occasional inconvenience, like dying in prison of prostate cancer. Compassion? Try, idiocy.
6 comments:
Yes! yes! a noble accredited doctor says that giving addicts heroin will lead them to rehab. The media jumps in and makes this news. How about giving booze to alcoholics or free poker chips to addicted gamblers....yes! yes! this is sure to lead them to rehab. Credit cards with 50K limits to shopaholics! Yes! Lets have more accredited doctors jump in on this. Media do your stuff!
David , can you remember where or when our country and many others decided that we need to rehabilitate every criminal? When did it become unthinkable to fail students? Maybe I am at an age where tolerance is stretched to the limit every day but I think we need to execute mass murderers. Fail underachievers. Hire people based on qualifications. Insist on people wearing helmets not religious headgear. No religious knives. Jail people that break our drug laws. Kick immigrants out of the country when the commit serious crimes. Elect judges. Eliminate parole boards.
I could go on but sooner or later I will offend someone
Re: Lockerbie
Something strange, something weird; in the USA they are howling their heads off for the release of Al-Megrahi, yet in the UK, many victims families say he was innocent.
From Britain's Independent -
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/christine-grahame-almegrahi-is-home-and-he-is-innocent-1776188.html
And closer to home, Gwynne Dyer in the Straight had this to say -
http://www.straight.com/article-248956/gwynne-dyer-almegrahi-free-because-case-was-so-weak
As always, we enter the weird world of US and Arab politics.
the question of the year (or maybe the century) is, what's the real reason this guy was released ? There MUST be something behind this decision that we "non-Gov't" types don't know or would even understand ??
the question of the year (or maybe the century) is, what's the real reason this guy was released ? There MUST be something behind this decision that we "non-Gov't" types don't know or would even understand ??
"....what's the real reason this guy was released ?"
Answer, probably because he was innocent. The Brit press indicates that the evidence against this man was fabricated by the US and that an appeal would show this. Now would not that open a whole new can of worms!
Me thinks the Americans protest too much.
Also, let's hearken back to the time when an American naval vessel shot down an Iranian passenger airliner with a great loss of life; now maybe that points a finger to who was really guilty.
Oh by the way, did any Americans go to jail for murdering Innocent people?
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