Reply to "A lucky break"

Congratulations on your close escape from the Safety Nazi-imposed restrictions on our freedom, David.

It has been said that those who are not prepared to fight for their freedom do not deserve it. In Canada, we don't even value it anymore, not to mention being willing to fight for it. The creeping, smothering encroachment of the nanny state will mean that our children will live in a world so regimented, always purportedly in the interest of our safety, that the only allowable joy will be through stifling conformity.

It is bizarre to me that we tolerate ever more Draconian laws when it comes to punishing contributing citizens and blaming victims (for a couple of examples, in BC you get charged if your car is stolen and you had not locked it, and in Canada you get charged if someone breaks into your house and steals your hunting rifle and you had not locked and stored it securely), and yet we are ever more lenient with murderers, rapists and their ilk.

Not too long ago in the town where I live, four hoodlums beat an old Indian to death just for kicks and threw his body over a bridge into the river; not one of them served a full year in jail. However, if I exceed the speed limit on a safe stretch of road where I endanger no one except perhaps myself, there seems to be no end to the willingness on the part of the politicians and our judicial system to throw the book at me. If only they would have saved half the self-righteous outrage they spew at safety law violators for those four murderous thugs, I could start to wrap my head around it. But they didn't and so I can't.

End of rant.