CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN CANADA
Capital punishment is as old as mankind. It was practically the only form of punishment for most of history. Except back then it was quick, fast and efficient.
Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not kill."
Leviticus 24:17 "And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death."

Unfortunately here in Canada, murder is a federal offense. It comes under Ottawa jurisdiction. In 1962 Canada abolished executions, temporarily. Then the killers went on a rampage. In 10 years the number of homicides in Canada rose from 150 per year to 650 per year. In 1975 there were 701 homicides in Canada. Our government abolished the death penalty completely in 1976 (Bill C-84) and the homicides have remained at an average of 650 per year.
Our party-disciplined politicians in Ottawa came up with an alternative to capital punishment. They called it life imprisonment without parole for 25 years. It was of course a lie because years later, surprise, surprise, after the murders had served a few years in jail, it became known that the Act had a little known, faint hope, clause that allowed murderers parole in 15 years (Liknaitzky, 1985, p. 72). The majority of murderers in Canada now only serve 15 years. The special-interest groups not only got capital punishment banned in Canada but got a loop hole in the law that allowed murderers out in 15 years while the ordinary Canadian wondered what was going on up in Ottawa.

Capital punishment in the U.S. is different in each state because of the political division of powers within their constitution. Each state has relatively much more power than a Canadian province in this regard. Each state decide if they are going to have the death penalty. From 1930 to 1967 3,859 US executions were carried out -- an annual average of more than 100. At the present time 38 states have the death penalty on the books and 17 states imposed the ultimate punishment recently. The U.S. has 3,200 death-row inmates. Texas leads the way this year with 37 executions, followed by Virginia 9; Montana 6; Arkansas 4; Alabama 3; Arizona 2; Illinois 2; South Carolina 2; Colorado 1 Florida 1; Indiana 1; Kentucky 1; Louisiana 1; Maryland 1; Nebraska1; Oklahoma 1; Oregon 1. This is more executions than in the past 42 years, and the pace of executions is expected to rise. Executions were virtually halted in Texas in 1996 by a court challenge over a new state law aimed at speeding up appeals. The law for speedy executions was eventually upheld and Texas continued with executions. Livingston Prison, Texas, has 443 on death row.

California judges have the option of sentencing convicted capital murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole. (Unlike Canada where the majority get out in 15 years.) There are currently over 1,700 people in California who have received this alternative sentence, which includes no appeals process. According to the Governor's Office, no one sentenced to life without parole has been released since the state provided for this option in 1977. It costs more to execute a person than to keep him or her in prison for life.

Capital punishment was once a public event and should again, at the Skydome with complete TV coverage. One guarantee. They would have more viewers than the Olympic Games.

Prime Minister Chretien is relatively isolated from the real Canadian public. He does not have to depend on them to be elected prime minister. He is chosen to be leader among his friends in the Liberal Party and they in turn only have 40% of the popular vote. This phenomenon has always been a part of the Canadian political experience. Canadians have never voted for a prime minister nor had input into the major constitutional affairs of this country.

Canada initially came into being as a British imperial rear-guard action to stop the spread of the American Revolution. This left a large British army in what was then British North America. The British then wrote the British North America Act of 1867. Canadians, who were considered British at the time, had no alternatives but to accept it. The learning process started early.

The Trudeau/ Chretien Charter of 1982 was the next. Canadians as a whole had no input. They had no referendum. The learning process continued. Quebec was the only province with enough balls not to accept this Charter. Canadians lost equality and rights to property although, everyone, in the world got rights in Canada. Indians got unequal special rights Sec 25 and Sec 35. No one complained. International socialists loved it.
"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens." --Thomas Jefferson.
Why is the idea of equality, that is accepted by the Americans, not accepted by Canadians? Because Canadians were never given an opportunity to accept it.

The government of Canada will not allow Canadians to have binding referendums because it would interfere with government socialist policies.

If sometime you wonder what your Liberal politicians in Ottawa do with your tax money, you should check http://w3.acdi-cida.gc.ca/whatsnew.htm. The people at CIDA like the people at HRDC, really know how to give your money to their worthy causes. Either that or they are in a hurry to empty the treasury. Whereas HRDC gives money to every worthy Liberal supporter they can find, CIDA is concerned with insignificant events on the other side of the world and how many Canadian taxpayers dollars they can donate to left-wing causes. They find countries and places that are not even listed on the map. It appears that there is no limit to their generosity or madness. No one ever says enough enough. The head lady, Maria Minna, Canada's Minister for International Cooperation, is never questioned in parliament about her spendthrift ways. CIDA uses the excuse that they support sustainable development activities in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world. That should make you feel better the next time you pay your income tax. CIDA gives billions to more than 100 countries. The list reads like a large dictionary: 56 countries in Africa and the Middle East; 32 countries in Asia; 37 countries in the Americas and 27 countries and territories in Eastern Europe.


These isolated Liberals seem to be in a world of their own -- out of touch with Canadian reality. What they are doing is politically correct therefore it does not matter if they empty the treasury or how much they increase our national debt of billion.

And to make matters worse, the Liberals just got reelected to parliament for another 4 years. I wrote most of this prior to the election so it shows that very few Canadians read the internet or they just dont care. Canada has several big problems to solve and they are all in Ottawa.

Socialists, particularly Ottawa socialists, particularly now that their beloved Liberals have been reelected for another 4 years, are loath to allow private industry to take over their venerable institutions. In their socialist philosophy, the government should run everything.

They like to mollycoddle prisoners, release them early, give them the vote, refuse to take their DNA and even refuse to set up a Canada-wide registry for active ex-prisoner pedophiles. Corrections Canada has even built a nine-hole golf course for 300 convicts at its Ferndale prison near Abottsford, B.C. According to Solicitor General at the time, Andy Scott, the Ferndale Golf Course for inmates offers the right environment to rehabilitate these gentlemen.

In recent years Canadians have become disillusioned because federal statistics show 1,306 murderers have been released on parole in the last ten years. This has resulted in 448 killers on full parole and 858 on day parole. During the next two years another group of killers, including 42 first-degree murderers are due to be released on parole and 400 more during the subsequent 5 years. Government officials tell us there is no need for alarm. Do you believe them? Eventually we will read the statistics about what these released killers did while they were free -- now. This is the type socialist planning, do-gooder philosophies and bone-headed thinking that allows hundreds of violent offenders to automatically get out of prison after serving two-thirds of their sentences.

The socialists complain that the cost of keeping an offender in a federal penitentiary is nearly ,000 per year. This compares to about ,000 for a halfway house or ,000 to supervise an inmate on parole. They use these numbers to emphasize why more prisoners should be released into a supervision status by their fellow social workers. These same numbers could also tell us why all prisons should be shut down and they also tell us that the inmates are beginning to run the asylum. It is obvious to any normal person that the present system is out of control and that the time has come when prisons should be turned over to private industry.

The problem with Canadian prisons is not so much the number of prisoners but the number of social workers and their socialist philosophies. It started a long time ago when they changed the names of jails and prisons to correctional facilities.

In recent years private entrepreneurs have began to plan, staff and operate prisons in the U.S. Britain and New Zealand. And the results are compelling: private prisons exceed standards of conduct expected in publicly-run prisons; private prisons operate between seven and 30 percent less expensively than public prisons; private prisons have fewer problems with inmate populations; and private prisons invest more time in prisoner rehabilitation and education. International evidence suggests that private prisons provide at least as good a service as public prisons: they have fewer escapes, fewer disturbances, and both staff and prisoners appear to rate the services more highly than services in public facilities.

Prisons are not universities, hotels, resorts, play areas, or experimental facilities for goody-two-shoe social workers. Prisons are there to keep prisoners out of circulation for however long the courts see fit. Prison authorities should be mainly concerned with ensuring these prisoners stay in prison for the duration of their sentences – all of it.

Prison information should be public information. The names of prisoners should be available to the public. The names of those about to be released should be available to the public. Eighteen states maintain online databases of inmates and parolees, which allow Internet users to find current and former prisoners’ names, photographs, criminal records and sentences. http://www.corrections.com/links/inmate.html


The balance of public safety should be in favor of the public – not the human rights philosophies of the socialists. The victims’ rights should outweigh the prisoners’ rights.
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