DISGUSTING DOESN'T BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THE PUNISHMENT

                    

Balanced In Favor Of The Criminal       

Texas-style justice in Harper’s Canada? No! 0

 By Charles Adler ,QMI Agency            

                                    

It was just after midnight on a fall day in 2010 in a park which is just a five-minute walk from Winnipeg’s largest hospital when a 34-year-old woman made the tragic error of trusting her surroundings.

A group of punks ambushed her. They gouged and kicked and beat her to within an inch of death. She was left unconscious. Happy with themselves, they celebrated by drinking beer right beside their prey and when they left, one young man who had not participated in the beating — only watched with sadistic delight — decided to punish her even further.

He disrobed enough to commit a sex act and disrobed her enough to commit a sex crime, took her limp, unconscious body and raped her.

I can’t give you the name of the rape victim in this story, her name is protected by the rape shield law. We can’t name the punks either — their reputations are protected by that vulgar little thing known as the Youth Criminal Justice Act. But we can give you the name of the thug who raped her because he turned 18 just before he turned medieval on this woman. His name is Gilbert Johnny Moise.

 

The wheels of injustice grind slowly in this country.

Now, finally, more than two and a half years after that night, Provincial Court Judge Catherine Carlson convicted him, saying, “It’s hard to imagine any more awful offence. Any right-thinking member of society would find it horrific.”

Here’s something even more horrific.

 

The man who did this crime, based on the sentence, will be out of jail by September 2015.

 

Between the time of his arrest and his release, that will be five years and by the standards of what a court in Canada generally gives, that’s considered a tough sentence — although she could have given him 10 years.

Based on assessments she received, she knows there is no reason to believe that in the next two years he will cease to be a threat to people in our society, especially women. But hold the phones!

Isn’t this the same Judge Carlson who handed Graham James a slap on the wrist for having raped Theo Fleury and Todd Holt repeatedly?

The Appeal Court was horrified by her decision and so they extended the serial pedophile’s sentence.

Let’s now offer a heads-up to those of you listening to the serial spinners running for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.

The next time you hear one of them trying to tell you that Canada, with Conservatives in charge, is on the road to Texas, with super-long sentences, super-sized prisons, and super-sized volume of executions, please think about this column.

Comparing Harper’s “tough on crime” package to Texas is like comparing a dwarf hamster to a pack of hyenas.

The next time Justin the Charisma Boy and his pack of Liberal hyenas descend on your consciousness to tell you about how harsh Harper’s Canada has become, please think about the mother with her facial bones broken and eyes swollen shut, and ask whether she sees things the way Justin’s crew does.

I guess it’s hard to see charisma in someone when you have difficulty seeing your hand.