I've always thought that capital punishment was one of the things that prevented the United States from being a truly great country. Along with racism, religious bigotry, and the culture of guns and violence.
And this only prove my point.
Because no nation that executes people, in that manner or any other, can truly call itself civilized. Or claim that its moral values are superior to those of other countries, where the state murders its citizens, like Iran or North Korea.
And this is only too clear when you examine where this diseased desire to execute people in the U.S. comes from. And understand that it's a question of history and geography.
Remember when Vic Toews claimed that even though Bill C-10 will swell our overcrowded jails to the bursting point, the Cons wouldn't have to build any new prisons?
Toews opened his speech to the Economic Club of Canada in Ottawa by saying he wanted to dispel "egregious myths" and "blatant untruths" that are told to the public by his political opponents and that he wanted to set the record straight.
One of those myths, according to Toews, is that the government is going to be forced to build new prisons to house a higher inmate population because of new justice legislation. Toews said the predicted increase in prisoners hasn't materialized in the last two years and that in fact, the government is closing prisons.
And I suggested that the Con regime's sinister Minister of Prisons was just playing with his marbles or his words.
He has violated our Canadian values from the very moment he came to office. He is turning us into a crazed prison state. He says he doesn't want to re-open the death penalty debate. But he WOULD like to hang some Canadians.
Because he is a vengeful nerd. And he does like to see fear in the eyes of others.
So why should anyone be surprised that Stephen Harper would appoint a Senator like this one?
“Each assassin should have the right to a rope in his cell to make a decision about his or her life,” senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu told reporters ahead of a meeting of the Conservative caucus on Wednesday.
A "tough on crime" Senator who would break the law by encouraging suicide. In a country where suicide is a huge problem, not just in our jails, but also in our schools, and our native communities.
