Re: Bad reporting Hazards to Homeless article

On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:14:21 -0700
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:10:48 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

You may not be, but I am. If you're violently mentally ill, walking
around threatening people and attacking them, you need to be removed
from society. If your illness is such that treatment is ineffective,
then you stay there forever. But there's no reason the rest of us
should have to run the risk of being attacked, stabbed, set on fire,
whatever your delusions are telling you to do just going about our
daily lives. 

 
Agreed - and to me that VERY much includes the guy vaping on the
outdoor patio at McDonalds in downtown Vancouver who was asked by the
dad at the next table to stop blowing his marijuana (which he was
taking by 'vape') into the guy's two year old's face. The response was
to whip out a 12" knife and fatally plunged it into Dad's neck.
 
I was outraged when the newspaper reporter said all that could be done
was a 5 year sentence (which generally means release after 2 1/2) - I
would have gone for indefinite sentence until the guy had demonstrated
he was clean of all drugs and only then begun his sentence for 2nd
degree murder.
 
Does any sane person believe this individual is safe to have on the
streets?!?

I hadn't heard about that case. It is truly awful. I agree that THAT
individual needs a very lengthy prison sentence and needs to get off
the drugs. Was this guy aboriginal? I wonder if he got a Gladue
recommendation for a reduced sentence....

I posted the other day about a drunk driver who killed a teenager here
in Ontario in a hit-and-run. He hid the car very effectively for 15
years and eluded 140 investigators before an anonymous tip finally
brought him down. When he started through the judicial process last
fall, the prosecutor and defense came to an agreement for a plea deal
and had him sent to prison for just 2.5 years! The most appalling thing
is that the police had a recording of him telling his daughter about
the accident after he was arrested: he told her that he had never once
considered turning himself in. This put the family and friends of the
victim into a horrible place for 15 years but the lawyers in their
infinite wisdom didn't seem to count that AT ALL.



--
Rhino