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.