Please, please, please, flag all foreign-owned media, especially foreign-owned “Canadian” media, which is part of the strategic-machine they’re running…
( no, I don’t mean as national-operations, I mean as operations intended to highjack the whole damn world, for sake of oligarchy’s dictatorship, which now I know to be an actual strategic-operation, … and I didn’t need any more depression-inducing “medication”, just now, thanks, world. Bah. Humbug, too. )
There’s an incorrect-assumtion in there, I think…
IF one sees a graph of crimes committed,
say one depicts numbers-of-crimes as the Y-axis, & severity-of-crimes as the X-axis,
THEN one’s going to see that the most crimes are minor, right?
there’s going to be a powerlaw ruling the relationship between numbers-of-crimes & severity-of-crime: the greater the severity, the fewer-instances of it…
Now … mix-in the problem that living-wage isn’t a legal-right in any jurisdiction in North America…
AND mix-in the problem that white-collar-crime isn’t prosecuted the way that blue-collar-crime is ( theft which causes the disemployment of multiple people will not likely result in prison-time, but multiple retail-thefts will be more likely to do so )
What the economic-system itself becomes, then, is a “conveyer belt producing criminals”, in some sense…
& the single greatest indicator of whether a person’s going to be charged with crime is whether they’ve already been charged with a crime…
Remember the now-discontinued “scared straight” program, or whatever it was called?
Apparently it backfired: when you aquaint youth with jail, you normalize it, so you’ve moved the frame-of-reference, & now criminality is much more normal than it had-been, in their minds, so … they’re more likely to be going 'round criminaling on ye, see?
I think that the real tough-cases are the ones you’re seeing, the ones who don’t rehabilitate, & the actual most-cases isn’t them.
( I also wish there was some systematic get-lives-out-from-criminality’s-churn mechanism like “Doing Time Doing Vipassana” the documentary showed really works, for some people )
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Bright lines, & hard walls.
Sometimes hard/actual consequences are the ONLY correction which produces any result.
Female-cultures tend to assume that social-pressure’s entirely-sufficient ( Scandinavian cultures are this ).
There’s a Scandinavian country where a serial-murderer keeps being let out, because he keeps saying he won’t do it again, so the authorities let him out, & he murders yet-another innocent life…
I’d force those damn incompetent authorities to be the lives that serial-murderer got to take-out next: teach them some ACCOUNTABILITY, & their future-incarnations would have respect for actuality, one hopes…
They are accessories to that murderer’s murders, & they themselves just get off without any accountability??
We have to have a system which can identify where the system is most failing, & correct that.
Those … idiots … who hold that social-pressure’s sufficient, & evidence “can’t” falsify social-consensus … need to be deemed criminally incompetent, at least.
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People who cannot be rehabilitated need to be segregated from the population/community.
Period.
The whole calendar-and-prophecy-by-judge method of sentencing is bananas…
It’s supposed to be when this person is no-longer a threat for this category of problem, then they are rehabilitated/corrected, & can return into the community.
That is event-driven, not calendar-driven.
Nothing in our current method works that way.
It requires that we be able to test, objectively, the current-unconscious-mind of the people in “corrections”.
Brain-imaging, polygraph by true professionals, whatever works.
It’s a totally-different sentencing-paradigm, though.
It’d have to also apply to witnesses, though, including official-witnesses, like police, for it to be trustworthy…
( there is a book on journalism which identifies that in a death-sentence case, the police had the confession of the actual-killer, but ignored it, as they wanted this other guy getting executed, so they got this other guy on death-row…
That isn’t police-services officers, that is officers who are enforcing evil.
A class of journalism-students got that particular wrong-conviction fixed.
“Elements of Journalism”, I’ve no idea if the current edition has the same story, but the edition I read, years ago, did. )
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I’d say that the problems in the system are sooo all-pervading, that the entire system needs reform, not just any single-aspect of it…
Bias in sentencing? ( seriously, some guy murders & dismembers an Indigenous woman, so he gets 60 DAYS for it, out west? )
Replace judges with some impersonal decision-tree for sentencing, with some kind of metamoderating equivalent for ongoing recalibration…
How make certain that the more-violent-offenders get kept segregated until something changes in their unconscious-mind, if it can?
that requires a systematic triage judging of ALL cases, & prioritizing of the more-violent-offenders.
How about the whole thing where jail ( less-than-2y ttbomk ) & prison ( 2y+ ttbomk ) are NOT manufacturing high-criminality inmates?
That requires a complete paradigm change, as the entire “corrections” system ( with the falsifying-quotes on it ) is oriented to manufacturing inmates, which then helps justifying more enforcement, in the future, through their manufactured/amplified criminality.
( read Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership”, distilling their research into the 5 culture-levels from inmates/gangmembers in the lowest-level, to LIVING IS SELF-INHERENTLY-AWESOME!! at the top, & see that they have serious qualms about manufacturing mass-shooter grade people as an industry, which is what “corrections” does.
Notice that the 3 categories of “game” anchor their 5 culture-levels:
win-win game, positive-sum, alliance, anchors CultureLevel5 ( they aren’t “stages” as they call them: caterpillar->moth are stages, irreversible. These are levels or modes, reversible, except perhaps the very-top 2 )
zero-sum game, narcissism, anchors CultureLevel3
negative-sum game, nihilism, anchors CultureLevel1
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I think finding-of-fact & judging-of-context need to be separated, to clear-out much of the court’s backlog…
I think that as much systematic correction of the court’s process, & mechanisms, as possible ought be got in, like a thing which replaces Wikipedia, but has ONLY vetted facts in it, so that no more “reinventing hot water” as the Yugoslavs call it, or “reinventing the wheel” as others call it, is wasting our work.
I know from experience that the new system of “Duty Counsel” where there are full-time Duty Counsel lawyers … DOESN’T work, as they won’t do what they ought do, to clear-out cases.
( I had to hire a real lawyer to get all charges dropped against me: it took a carefully-phrased agreement between prosecution & me about what I was declaring wasn’t any of my stuff/responsibility. Duty Counsel should have got that done, in the previous 11 or so months. It took awhile to pay-off the $500 that that cost )
I also know from experience that … I’m not certain I’d trust ANYbody in court, with very-few exceptions ( 1 defense-lawyer I’d trust to automaticallyb understand my meaning & represent me plainly & forthrightly, 1 judge named Peter Wright, I think he retired for health reasons, brilliant loyalty to Justice, in him ) etc…
The unbelievable amount of miscommunication due to different-values, different-intentions, etc, & many of the people cluttering-up the courts system are bragging to all around how they’re getting-away-with crime, but in-court they’re crying victim, victim, victim… many lawyers I wouldn’t trust as far as I could throw ( I can’t throw even a miniaturized lawyer far: the human-scale ones I couldn’t even lift )…
The reliance on in-person-ritual is absurd: much of court stuff ought be done electronically…
Self-representation is … pretty-much impossible, in Ontario, as you aren’t permitted to see any related-court-case evidence or decisions, to be able to formulate your case ( Nolo has books on law, for the US, & self-representation is possible there, apparently )
It’s simply that there are sooo many different angles requiring drastic-improvement that for anybody to pretend “if you fix this, it’ll make the whole thing work much better” is … absolutely bogus.
EVERYTHING needs fixing in it, from what I saw.
( I’d also legislate that police HAVE TO do due-dilligence when somebody accuses someone of something, to them, instead of just joyously charging whomever the accused is… with crimes that the accuser themself committed!!
The OPP turned themself into the asswipe of a known criminal, in charging me with that criminal’s crimes, AND they wouldn’t allow anybody to charge them with any crimes that they committed from then on…
This was a guy who, ttbomk, had robbed a pharmacy with an AK-47, previously.
I was NOT impressed with that “police work”. )
Hell, the high suicide-rate among the good cops is because of rot at the top, of the OPP, ttbomk…
Would clearing-out that wrong-values brass help fix things in the courts??
It probably would help…!
Same with the good people who apparently kept quitting the RCMP ( I’ve no recent information on this, it was a couple decades ago ), also due to rot at the top, because there simply is no point in trying to make things work, when the top-brass won’t tolerate anything to be done with real living integrity…
There have to be indicators of whether a police-services organization, at any scale, precinct to national, NEEDS to have their people-in-authority forced into accountability, NOW…
I know that it should be possible to track witness-suicide rate, as a means of identifying where the police themselves are the criminals, intimidating witnesses to silence them… the signal may be subtle, but it MUST be detectable, somehow…
Sorry that this isn’t either “pretty” or “nice” or “politically acceptable” or even “low-cost actionable” stuff, but I want civilization to work right, & this stuff matters!
Finally, we have to orient to harm-reduction, primarily, as mass-shooters prove we cannot enforce Justice: when they off themselves to hide-from consequences, I hold that they’re railroading their future-incarnations, enforcing hell-lives on them, out of their narcissism…
but the one who committed the mass-shooting escapes…
So, in those cases, we are helpless to enforce Justice, in any way, whatsoever.
Which is humbling, & needed-calibration.
Once we accept that we can’t make our system enforce Justice, then we have to contemplate that all we can do is harm-reduction…
Which is true, to me.
Rule of Just Law … XOR … Rule of Legalism?
I hold that Rule of Just Law HAS to outrank Rule of Legalism.
But … while a guy named Pontius Pilate tried to make that be true, in the Christian bible, he was badmouthed both in the Christian bible AND in the Nicene Creed, for his honest efforts…
Rule of Just Law is also called Natural Law.
Legalism is also called Posit-ive Law ( what is posited is law, what isn’t posited isn’t, kinda ).
So, Pontius Pilate, the Nuremburg Trials, & … NOTHING else … seems to exemplify the West’s actually holding to Rule of Just Law, aka Natural ( Moral ) Law.
Legalism, however, defeated Pontius Pilate, convicting the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, & legalism still rules now, among the “Christian” legal paradigm of today.
https://www.amazon.ca/How-Think-Like-Lawyer-Why-ebook/dp/B08SMGMX3C/
I got far enough in that book to understand that legalism is ALL law, nowadays.
Consider the difference between objective & subjective perspectives:
Say person-A is being gradually murdered by Huntington’s disease…
& they want mercy-killing…
Say somebody comes along & wants to murder somebody who can’t fight-back, & they murder the Huntington’s disease patient who wanted mercy-killing…
Was it murder?
From whose perspective??
From the one who wanted release from being gradually-murdered by Huntington’s disease? No, it was mercy-killing ( I’m presuming it was a low-suffering method of death, in this example ).
But from the perspective of the one who intentionally murdered… yes, it was!
So, it wasn’t AND it was, murder.
See?
Subjective-perspective & objective-perspective can contradict!
Western law apparently ignores such depth, consistently…
Yet another obstacle to clearing-out the courts, isn’t it?
Whatever: there are many many points to consider, when anything so horribly complex as a legal-system needs reform, that it’d take LOTS of people’s perspectives, & LOTS of work, to identify the actual obstacles, let-alone resolve any prioritized set-of-fixes to be acting on…
It does need doing, though…
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“Once the easy-to-extract oil is consumed, then only costly-to-extract oil exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify.”
“Once the easy-to-extract water is consumed, then only costly-to-extract water exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify.”
It’s the same problem.
Oil isn’t self-renewing, water used to be, but with ClimatePunctuation, that’s changing.
Humankind may have to abandon the praries, later this century, exactly as most of California, most of Texas, most of the Middle East, & most of India are going to be unusable.
Too-many over-40C days per year & NO water for us, both prevent a region from being inhabitable.
The 600+ mass-shootings in the US in 2023 are nothing, compared with the rampaging pogromming that’s going to be going-on in the coming years, as The Great Filter continues unfolding…
There’s a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you’re right, on that point.
Pretending that such things won’t ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing
as the next few years will demonstrate,
is naive/incompetent.
Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now “use”/abuse law.
That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.
Limiting dementia’s harmful intentions is exhausting.
We NEED to get software, or robots, or something doing it for people.
If not, then we’re essentially sentencing a growing percentage of our population to being the full-time-keepers of brainrotted people, doubly damaging our country’s viability.
The mental-health costs put on the carers needs to be a concern.
Software+carer or robot+carer is less burden to the carer, you know?
Lighten the load.
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Modi/India is committed to blindfolded-and-earplugged “strategy”.
Russia is now financially-functioning ONLY because of its debt to China: China is using that to gain unofficial owning of Russia.
Russia is going to be China’s vassal-state, shortly, with its oligarchs/dictator ( if he survives ) doing only what China allows them to do.
India is betting the entire survival of India on Russia provisioning it with weapons in any war against China, which is inevitable…
India is going to be gutted in the inevitable war with China, and China is going to do to India what it did to Tibet, only worse.
Churchill: “Never argue with drunks or fanatics.”
Modi’s only-Yes-men government, including the pseudo-journalism he allows ( or considering the actual-journalism he doesn’t tolerate ), has strategic consequences, that are going to cost hundreds of millions of Indian lives, in the coming decade.
WHEN a junkie won’t “get off the tracks”, and you can feel the rumbling, through the rails, of the oncoming freight-train, accept that you cannot make them know other-than what they want to know … and get away from the impending violent-destruction, so only-the-deranged get obliterated.
I’m part east Indian, and seeing the home of the Dharmic religions about to be butchered isn’t good, but … karma is karma: you earn viability, or you don’t retain viability.
Krshna was right, in the Gita: uprightness is REQUIRED.
Politicians generally reject that, but ones who only allow yes-men inferiors & “journalism” … can take entire-countries, if not regions, down with their won’t-knowing devotion.
India is nearly finished as a real country.
I don’t expect it to be independent-of-china in 2033.
it shows one hell of alot more than just failure of police-services/enforcement:
it shows failure of parenting, of education, of community, of journalism, of acceptance-within-Canada, and much more…
How do you manufacture violent-crime in a community/city?
Increase the young-male unemployment, and the young males will assault whomever they can take it out on.
That automatic function has been known for decades, ttbomk.
What’s apparently happening is the same: males taking some internally-felt-harm & multiplying it, enforcing it onto others, who are unable to defend themselves.
I wish male-culture valued integrity anywhere near as much as it values bulling successfully, not just in this, or that, race/culture, but across all of 'em.
Thank you for highlighting the point you did, Hoomin…
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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WHEN a project-cost increases TO A FACTOR-OF-5-TIMES the budgeted cost,
THEN criminal-convictions should be happening.
Just as normal commercial-contracts have a “kill this contract” point, for noncompliance, so too must public-taxpayer-payed projects, at 1.4x or 2x hard-max.
Extortion isn’t acceptable, “just because it is government”.
Take that extra-billion out of elected-authorities’ pensions & pay!
Make the ones who mismanage pay.
Accountability, right?
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They just recently changed ownership, ditching most of their journalists, apparently.
Much more profit-oriented, now, apparently, even if it isn’t their prime-directive…
Here’s a link: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/guardian-slammed-more-70-journalists-174822542.html