Bad law
Not only is Harper's drug rhetoric empty fear-mongering, he's proposing mandatory minimums, aka one of the worst things to happen to America's justice system. If mandatory minimums made sense, we wouldn't need human judges and juries, we could use have a machine adjudicate. An essential component of our court system is that humans review each crime and adjust our response as appropriate. Mandatory minimums are a huge over-compensation (especially for drugs) that are being cynically introduced by Harper's Conservatives in an effort into scare the suburbs into voting for him.
I was born and raised a Conservative. I have voted Conservative in every election since my 18th birthday. I agree with almost everything in the Conservative election platform....
But this kind of illiberal bullshit is exactly why I cannot and will not vote Conservative in this election. I'm probably just going to have to spoil my ballot, since federal electoral law does not even allow the option to decline it. Grrr.
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:30 PM
I'm one of the 10 people in Alberta who doesn't vote conservative.
I still won't. I'd rather have the liberals waste a billion dollars on gun control, and 0.25% of that amount on keeping Quebec rich, than see the conservatives lead us into a "War on everything" like the Americans do.
War on Drugs
War on Porn
War on Freedom.
Posted by
Gordon |
12:07 PM