Sunday, October 25, 2009

Tough On Crime! About Time!


What's wrong with supporting victims instead of criminals? If a judge puts you away for 10 years, in should mean 10 years, not 5 years because of the 2 for 1 rule. Then you get an early sentencing hearing that means you might get out in 2 years. Our justice system is a mess. Why? Let me tell you why.

A person I know is a die hard Liberal, you can't even say hello without him yapping about how lame the Conservatives are. His wife was promoted to being a judge just before the Conservatives won the election. All you hear from him now is how the Conservatives are out of ideas. Talk about Liberals supporting Liberals. She is part of the problem, she carries her "Liberal values" into her work. Like this judge....

When a young kid is beaten to death, you would think the judge would slam the book on them, but even in Alberta the Liberal judges rule our lives. Here is a case that should make you so mad you want to smack a lefty. (We know we won't do it but it would feel good if we did)

Please read this story about a 17 year old boy killed by budding criminals, who because of their age get off with community service. The harshest sentence was 4 years, yes you heard that right, 4 years for a life. Poor Shane was brutally murdered by some kids who were upset because they were thrown out of the party earlier, and the judge felt sorry for them, not the victim.

For those of you too lazy to read the article, here it is:

A teenager who struck the fatal blow in a group beating of another boy at a house party near Edmonton in 2005 was sentenced to four years in jail on Thursday.

Christopher Griffiths, now 19, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter after hitting 17-year-old Shane Rolston with a metal baseball bat at the party in Sherwood Park, just east of Edmonton.

Shane Rolston was beaten to death after he opened the door of a friend's home during a party and was attacked by a group of teens who had earlier been thrown out.

Provincial court Judge John Maher, who handed down the sentence, said he took into consideration the fact that Griffiths and three other teens charged in the beating have shown remorse and none had been in trouble before.

But the sentence upset the victim's family members and friends who were in the courtroom.

"It definitely shook my belief in what this system is about," said Kelly Rolston, Shane's father.

"Because what I believed in was a just Canada, where the human life meant a lot more than the dollar. If you took a human life, you were responsible for it and you should be paying a price."

Rolston said it was beyond him how the legal system could be improved.

"They have to start making it so people are safe. The teen violence out there is becoming a real nightmare."

Conditional sentences for 3 others

Rolston happened to open the door of a friend's home when a group of youths who had already been thrown out of a house party there returned with weapons — including the baseball bat, hockey stick, metal pipe and pool cue.

Griffiths will serve four years, in addition to time already served.

On Thursday, three other men who pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon in the beating were handed two-year conditional sentences to be served in the community.

Justin Bridges, Josiah Lawson and Jonathan Giourmetakis, all 19, will also serve six months probation after the 24 months are up.

A fifth accused has yet to be tried as a youth.


I ask you, how sick is that? House arrest for murder. Our Liberal judges need a swift kick in the pants. John Maher needs to get real, he needs to feel the victims pain, not the criminals. He needs to open up his house to those babies who didn't really mean to kill someone. He needs to encourage the offenders to live with him. Let's see how quickly "house arrest" disappears from Liberal judges vocabulary.

They took a baseball bat, hockey stick, metal pipe and pool cue and killed a 17 year old boy, they killed him because they couldn't get into a party. They got house arrest. A life. He's gone, they only care about themselves.

17 comments:

Southern Quebec said...

"A person I know is a die hard Liberal, you can't even say hello without him yapping about how lame the Conservatives are."

Your neighbours probably say the same thing about you....Stone, meet glass house...

Anonymous said...

"Here is a case that should make you so mad you want to smack a lefty. (We know we won't do it but it would feel good if we did)"

Huntsy, you are mad enough to smack a lefty all the time 24/7. Do you write these posts out of genuine concern or just because in your mind they incite anger toward your idea of "the left"?

Anonymous said...

Huntsy today:

"What's wrong with supporting victims instead of criminals?"

Huntsy the other day:

"The 'PINK BOOK' screams victim!"

KURSK said...

What a surprise.Three posts from the left that don't address the issue but instead attack the author.

Canada's new Marxists have never met a problem they couldn't lay at the feet of society in general.

With no sense of their own personal responsibility, how can they support the punishment of others with the same affliction?

Thank God none of you will ever have positions of judicial responsibility.I would fear for my life and limb.

Southern Quebec said...

"I would fear for my life and limb."

You shouldn't. Lefties tend to take care of the "special" people in society...

Anonymous said...

My son is also 17 years old. If anything happened to him like what happened to the young fellow in Hunter's story, I can guarantee you that I would be serving far more time than the 4 years 'awarded' to this thug. We need elected and accountable judges, REAL sentences and a halt to the shift away from the punishment portion of corrections.

wilson said...

I remember that night very well Hunter. We lived a few blocks from the house party, and our older son's also had trouble with Edmonton kids crashing parties.

SQ and mysery are in that 25% of Canadians that still support the criminal/terrorist luvin Libs.

I still remember inmates hanging signs 'vote Liberal' in one election campaign...

Harper majority!

Southern Quebec said...

I just noticed that this story is three years old! Why bring it up now?

Maybe we can discuss the Kennedy assassination?

wilson said...

Or SQ, maybe a more current event,
like the on going Adscam investigations into Liberal theft of taxpayers money.
Or the alleged corruption in Quebec municiple governments, that may reach the provincial Liberals.

What's with Liberals, Quebec, and corruption????

Wanna go there SQ?

Southern Quebec said...

Adscam is old...the people went to jail. Move on, or maybe ya wanna talk Karl Heinz Schreiber?

There's no whore like an old whore, eh?

liberal supporter said...

SQ and mysery are in that 25% of Canadians that still support the criminal/terrorist luvin Libs.
You are a liar, "wilson".

I rather lose some money than rights.

I'd rather have underlings of people in power stealing some money than the far right revolutionaries seizing all of our rights. They'll bring in a police state, and even then the people stealing money won't stop. They'll just be different people, and their jack boots will provide more places to stash stolen cash.

Giving the CPC a majority because of some accounting scandal is like putting Mussolini in power because he'll make the trains run on time. The corruption doesn't stop. Under the Harper regime's so-called "accountability act", the rules are changed, and had those rules been in place, Adscam would never have been discovered.

Changing the rules so CPC accounting scandals are not discovered doesn't mean they don't exist. We're still wondering where all the stimulus money (100 times the amounts involved in adscam) went.

Mr. Lorne said...

"Adscam is old...the people went to jail. Move on..."

Adscam may be old, but the rot is still there.

"I'd rather have underlings of people in power stealing some money than the far right revolutionaries seizing all of our rights."

Far right revolutionaries? Exaggerate much?

You may want to lay off the caffeine for a few days.

maryT said...

OT, but something happened in 'QP' today, a protest or something. Lots of shouting, but you couldn't understand it. Some clerks or whatever left the table to investigate.

maryT said...

cbc reporting about 200 Youth protesters in the gallery, several arrested, there will be pictures coming. They were yelling stuff about bill 311, just as Layton got up to talk on his bill.
When Linda Duncan got up, someone mentioned the publicity stunt by the ndp. The visitors gallery was cleared.
One man started to yell, when he was taken out another started, then another. It was a planned protest by some Youth Org for the environment.
I don't think they made many friends. Apparently there was a mass protest on Saturday in Ottawa, and to me, it seems some just stayed to cause more trouble.

Southern Quebec said...

Thank you for that report, maryT...

hunter said...

Thanks MaryT, always interested in what the econuts are up to.

Bec said...

Poll up but I'm almost afraid to post it.
What a flippin' disaster 'The Gun on the Streets' gang made of this emotional and memory laden post, heh? Pathetic!

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/26/how-do-you-feel-about-the-federal-conservatives-tough-on-crime-agenda/