She's a piece of work, you have to wonder to what extent it was her influence that encouraged Bernardo ... and therein is an hard part to civilised due process of law, that without her testimony, secured by a get-off-cheap deal, maybe B couldn't have been locked up where he couldn't hurt anyone ... we're not going to throw out due process, because without it you get rule-by-whim, which experience has taught us doesn't work in our interests ... but, geeez, eh ... Homolka will bear close watching, for life
But there's nothing in all that that leads me to the idea of bringing back the noose .... just don't want the state to have such immense power, that it can take the life of its unarmed prisoners ... far cheaper and far less barbaric to lock up appropriate individuals in steel cages till they croak on their own [or are later demonstrated to be innocent, as a number of cases have turned out] ... if/when a mountie taking fire or facing a knife or other weapon shoots some idiot, then he should feel quite justified about it, as he is saving life more than taking it ... but once disarmed and in secure custody, a prisoner should not be deliberately killed, imho ... just like we don't abide trial by combat any more, or witch identification by fire
fm.to - your First Quantum is at twenty-five bucks, wooo ... my aur has barely made seven fifty ... looks like you win the contest, unless Africa slips under the ocean one day, or something ... don't know what it is about Aur, maybe they are regarded as too conservative, they've managed well their mines and have cash up the ying-yang, making good money out of the copper run ... just not perceived by Ms Market to have the same future, probably |
