Category Archives: Criminals

Steyn on Not So Great Britain

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This is the logical dead end of the Nanny State. When William Beveridge laid out his blueprint for the British welfare regime in 1942, his goal was the “abolition of want” to be accomplished by “co-operation between the State and the individual.” In attempting to insulate the citizenry from life’s vicissitudes, Sir William succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. As I write in my book: “Want has been all but abolished. Today, fewer and fewer Britons want to work, want to marry, want to raise children, want to lead a life of any purpose or dignity.”

Replace “Britons” with “People” and you have 80% of the planet fitting that description.

Big Government means small citizens: It corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically. Within living memory, the city in flames on our TV screens every night governed a fifth of the earth’s surface and a quarter of its population. When you’re imperialists on that scale, there are bound to be a few mishaps along the way. But nothing the British Empire did to its subject peoples has been as total and catastrophic as what a post-great Britain did to its own.

There are lessons for all of us there.

Occupy that. I’m going to start reading Steyn’s columns to my kids at bedtime. Forget the stupid fairy books they make me read to them now.

Jason Kenny takes on Amnesty International

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I must confess that my first reaction upon reading your open letter to Minister Toews and myself was one of surprise and joy. For your organization to muster its formidable powers of suasion against the orderly and innoxious proceedings of the Canadian immigration system must mean that the world’s most truculent regimes have discharged their last political prisoners and advocates of democracy are free to march in the streets of Tehran and Pyongyang.

Read the full thing.

Holding Rioters Accountable

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The mayor and police were using tough words last night and this morning, promising to hold the “few” troublemakers and hoodlums responsible for the riots, accountable for their actions.

Talking in my carpool this morning, we could not come up with a form of punishment that would actually do so. I had thought about caning last night. It may work but this morning I thought of this method which may actually provide the public humiliation necessary to prevent things like this from happening in the future.

A week in this contraption BEFORE the jail time. Store & vehicle owners get the first crack at them.

Prisons and the USA

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One of the left’s distraction techniques when talking about the Conservative policy of stricter sentences is that the USA has run into problems of prison overcrowding and budget issues.

Ignoring the obvious cost savings when you don’t have to arrest the same guy 120 times a year, it seems that there is a bigger prison issue that the State of California deals with. This paragraph by Mark Krikorian in the Corner at the National Review states the real source of that problem.

“The GAO reported in March that in FY 2008, there were 27,000 illegal aliens in the state prison system for whom California was receiving partial (very partial) reimbursement from the feds. (See here, p. 30.) That’s close to the total number our black-robed rulers have ordered released. And that’s not counting the legal immigrants who’ve made themselves deportable by committing crimes.”

The Conservatives also have an immigration plan.

Anti-Policing

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Williamson picks apart the ATF.

Which is to say, we treat law-abiding citizens like criminals because they are law-abiding citizens, not criminals. It is hard to keep up with the Weekses and Floyds and sundry trash of this world, but it is really easy to get law-abiding citizens to abide by the law. They sort of do it all on their own. That is the kind of law enforcement that you can execute with a donut in one hand and a BlackBerry in the other, from a sedentary position, which is the preferred position of the publicly employed. And when you want to look like you’re doing something, you can always pass some more laws and watch with great satisfaction as law-abiding citizens abide them.

And this is why the anti-gun lobby is wasting their time with laws against purchasing the weapons.

We rarely prosecute actual straw purchasers. One reason is that it is a lot of work to find them, gather evidence, build a case, etc. It is kind of a hard crime to prove. The other reason is that straw buyers do not usually look like the right kind of villains — wrong profile. They are not usually shady guys in trenchcoats who go down to Joe-Bob’s Ammo-Mart and Nazi Memorabilia Emporium in East Hickinstick and load up one of those wobbly-wheeled grocery carts with bristling machine guns to be handed out like lollipops down at the Legion of Doom secret lair and clubhouse. More typically, the straw buyer is some gangster’s daffy girlfriend, low-IQ kid brother, or other acquaintance with a clean record.

The answer is obvious. Keep the criminals in jail and let the regular population defend themselves against the ones that aren’t in jail yet.

Man wins right to be an idiot

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In his lawsuit, Ekas said that in July 2007, he flipped off a Clackamas County deputy while driving, and the deputy gave him tickets for illegal lane change and improper display of license plates. Ekas was acquitted on the citations. A month later, he gave the finger to another deputy, who detained him but wrote no tickets.

Ekas alleged he was being harassed.

I’m thinking his 911 calls may get screened.

Law Enforcement vs Government Officials

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A U.S. law enforcement source said Monday the men may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles with electronic devices attached in checked baggage.

But two U.S. government officials Tuesday said an initial U.S. investigation into the men shows no evidence of terrorism and no indication the men even knew each other.

“This looks like nothing,” said one official, saying both men missed flights in Chicago due to a gate change and their airline rebooked them onto the same plane.

“We see no evidence of a dry run or a connection to terrorism,” said the source, who is not authorized to discuss the case with the media and asked not to be named.

I think I’m going to have to trust the US law enforcement source rather than a couple of US government officials who were potentially involved in this decision and disobey orders like not talking to the media. I sure hope this was a trap to catch the officials in the act so they can be fired.

If I convert, can I bring on my nail clippers?

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Morning in America

In addition, officials said, al Soofi was found to be carrying $7,000 in cash and a check of his luggage found a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three cell phones taped together, several watches taped together, a box cutter and three large knives. Officials said there was no indication of explosives and he and his luggage were cleared for the flight from Birmingham to Chicago O’Hare.

Jeepers, I have to take off my shoes and undo my belt but these crazies can bring a knife thrower’s luggage into the airport and not miss a flight.

This world is bass ackwards.