Damn Judges, what do they know about laws?
I honestly have a hard time trying to figure out the point of this column. Marshall goes on a rant about how the judges need to heed "the message", but unfortunately fails to tell us exactly what that message is, only that the judges are a big part of the problem.
Legal architects deserve some blame. But so does the often unaccountable, plutocratic, and out of touch judiciary.
It is anything but immune from culpability in allowing the escalation of this intolerable state.
Today's judges, a supposed august body of the exceptional, are failing to act in the best interests of the community as they rule in the confines of a de facto lawyer state, rubber stamping fantastic tales of remorse and promise spun by insincere attorneys.
He goes to tell how bad the car thief situation in Winnipeg is, which is true, though he doesn't get around to telling us just why the judges bear such responsibility for any of the incidents in question. He then moves on to mob justice in Tanzania.
The mugging of his colleague and the beating of the perpetrators by locals are apparently somehow the result of a judiciary that refuses to protect its citizens, something Winnipeg is apparently in danger of becoming.
Now, I do think judges are necessary to defend Canadians, but more in the way of ensuring we get to keep our civil rights when law enforcement wants to impose upon them. Protecting us from violent muggers and car thieves falls to the police force. I mean, my sister was mugged in Winnipeg, and fought back, twice. (Don't piss her off when she's drunk, and don't be touching the iPod!)
In any case, she didn't go looking for a judge to deal with the problem. The police nabbed the perps and gave her her stuff back. What happened to them after that didn't really matter to her.
You don't like the laws the judges are applying, go to your elected officials to change them, and if they run into issues because of Constitutional freedoms, see if they can convince the rest of us to change the Constitution. But if you're so worried about lawless vigilantes, then stop bitching about judges following the law.
