Challenging Times Call For Complex Solutions

Ruminate upon this story, if you will, where a Canadian tribunal is being asked to declare Sado-Masochism a sexual preference. But don't stop there. See the second item out of Vermont.

VANCOUVER, January 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The BC Human Rights Tribunal is being asked to discover a new “sexual orientation.” The Vancouver Sun reported December 30, that a self-described “pagan” is accusing the Vancouver police of discrimination for refusing him a license to drive a limousine because of his involvement in the “bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism and masochism” (BDSM) underworld.

Boggles the mind, yes? A child rapist sentenced to just sixty days?? So, I'm thinking ... if the first item comes to pass, a person could travel to Vermont and whip the living chit out of the pathetic child rapist. Then after they were arrested they could contend that they can't be prosecuted for their sexual orientation, and besides, they were, you know, really only flirting with him. Where's the harm in that!

Claiming he no longer believes in punishment, a Vermont judge issued a 60-day sentence to a man who confessed to repeatedly raping a girl over a four-year period, beginning when she was 7 years old. Cashman said he's more concerned now about rehabilitation.

"The one message I want to get through is that anger doesn't solve anything. It just corrodes your soul," Cashman told a packed Burlington courtroom made up mostly of people related to the victim.

You can't make this stuff up, folks. No, you can't make this stuff up. Apparently only courts and tribunals get to do that.

Comments

[coastal]

Yes there is a British Columbia Human Rights tribunal. Guess what? They didn't create the claim, the complainant did.

[TheAlamo]

Boggles the mind, yes? A child rapist sentenced to just sixty days?? So, I'm thinking ... if the first item comes to pass, a person could travel to Vermont and whip the living chit out of the pathetic child rapist. Then after they were arrested they could contend that they can't be prosecuted for their sexual orientation, and besides, they were, you know, really only flirting with him. Where's the harm in that!

Claiming he no longer believes in punishment, a Vermont judge issued a 60-day sentence to a man who confessed to repeatedly raping a girl over a four-year period, beginning when she was 7 years old. Cashman said he's more concerned now about rehabilitation.

"The one message I want to get through is that anger doesn't solve anything. It just corrodes your soul," Cashman told a packed Burlington courtroom made up mostly of people related to the victim.

You can't make this stuff up, folks. No, you can't make this stuff up. Apparently only courts and tribunals get to do that.

Posted by Dan in News | Permalink

I think you have the right idea in the top paragraph here.
However it might be a good idea to practice some on the judge as well, especially since "anger" doesn't solve anything. He couldn't even sentnece you for it, since he cannot get angry, and, after all, it wouldn't solve anything.

However, I WOULD want this judge to be the judge if it was my little girl, because this guy would be dead, and I would be on trial. THEN I might like his "judgements." But it is my guess that he would have a sudden "awakening" and even get a little angry since we eliminated a like minded soul.

It is just a matter of time until vigilanteeism does return. The courts have been all to obvious that they will do nothing to support basic moral values, and are in some cases even willing to reward perpetrators at the expense of the victims.

Hang 'em high!

[sigmund, carl and alfred]

I used to have to pay to get buzzed, to hear stuff like that.

I can see the keyboards being pounded as we speak- "Heathers Mommy has Two Whips and a Cattle Prod".

[K]

Same thing I said on another site. If the judge doesn't believe in punishment then why not just release him.

[tester]

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060106/NEWS01/601060310/1009/NEWS05
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4325804

There's no explanation for it. Fire the Judge.

Can the prosecutor appeal the punishment?

This speaks words regarding

1) minimum sentences

2) lifetime appointments

[PoorPaulaNN]

Maybe the Dishonorable Judge Edward Cashman could get that scumbag to babysit for his kids/grandkids instead of a 60-day sentence.

[Outraged]

Can judges be sued for malpractice or negligence or something over and beyond idiocy and incompetence?

[Phoenix]

"The BC Human Rights Tribunal is being asked to discover a new “sexual orientation.”

They can't do this. Caligula discovered it.

Oh. Wait. I bet the copyright got burnt for warmth and soup during the Middle Ages.