Gotta Fill ‘em New Big Assed Prisons; Not Prison Farms, but Big Assed Private Prisons

Wow! I mean, just…wow! I go away from the blogosphere, thinking it would be same ol’; same ol’ since I left it early last week. Much of the same is going on but with even more stupidity and desperation and insanity on the part of the Harpercons. The more time goes on these days, the more I’m convinced that the rule of thumb for Stevie spiteful’s Canada is what’s for Canada; scrap it! Pave it! Junk it! Don’t care, but just be rid of it! Human rights, universal health care, veterans programs (Jean-Pierre Blackburn says they’re downsizing the program because elderly vets are croaking each month, thus less of a need for services; ah, the hits just keep on coming), the census and prison farms to name but a few.

Yes, Steve is still holding fast to closing down the prison farms; programs that rehabilitate prisoners; teaching them skills, rehabilitating them.  A novel idea just crazy enough to turn many lives around while at the same time, providing a safe and sustainable food supply for all Canadians. Wow! Win-win; a no brainer, I would say. But, we’re in Stevie land. A land where I guess, even our food shouldn’t even come from here.

A land where Canadians are his Fisher-Price toys and Canada is his Fisher-Price land and the military are his Gi-Joes to do as he sees fit at his whims and his alone, enforced of course by puppets like Tony Clement, Vic Toews and of course, Mr Stock “Unreported Crime is Up” Day; rabid pit-bulls like John Baird. I wonder if Steve would bring back slavery if he thought he could get away with it? Probably would.

Anyhow, the fight still goes on to keep those prison farms which the Harpercons no longer find “useful”. Of course they’re not useful to him.  In his mind, I’m sure they’re an evul soshalist plot. Yanno, that whole sense of community thing?  It apparently, didn’t generate a profit, stating that it cost around 4.1 million dollars more to operate than it generated.  See where this is going? It just doesn’t quite fit into Steve’s whole free market utopia he is feverishly trying to build with his flunkies and the help of his cheerleaders.

So, Steve, how does building these big-assed super prisons generate profit?  Sure, for the private enterprises and such. But how about the tax payers who will no doubt be footing the bill when certain judges go rogue and start taking kick backs and will eventually be prosecuted for ‘em? The precedent in the U.S. already exists as I’ve already pointed out in a previous post, complete with links.  Now, there’s an irony for ya; judges convicted of taking kick backs and other related judges being sent to those same big assed prisons they took kick backs for sending others to.

How does having all these prisoners languishing in these prisons help with their treatment and rehabilitation or get at the root problem that got them there in the first place?

Oh, and to further punch holes in that whole jail for invasion of privacy gobbledegook  lamebrained excuse for getting rid of the mandatory long form census. What was one of them, again? Oh yeah, we shouldn’t be going into the homes and bedrooms while they’re ‘reading’. I believe that winner came from Steve’s lapdog, Dimitri Soudas. Well, feast your eyes on this beauty.  Since crime rates have been steadily going down (Or, as Stock says, unreported crime has gone up? Still shaking my head at that one), Steve’s puppet, Justice minister, Rob Nicholson is hard at work crafting new insipid laws now, finding new ways to prohibit Canadians. Such things to make it easier to stuff those prisons like a Thanksgiving turkey. Here are but a few (bold text is my two cents):

The crimes now designated as serious offences include:

• Keeping a common gaming or betting house–I guess no more friendly nickel and dime poker games with the boys
• Betting, pool-selling and bookmaking–No more hockey pools or group lottery purchases, I guess,  among friends and co-workers.
• Committing offences in relation to lotteries and games of chance.–Such as? Strip poker? Don’t they have such laws ont the books with regards to lotteries?
• Cheating while playing a game or in holding the stakes for a game or in betting.–Does that mean that casinos have to stop fixing games? Does that mean young Johnny has to stop cheating while playing Sunday night monopoly on family night?
• Keeping a common bawdy-house.–Many escorts/prostitutes do receive clients in their own homes and/or clients receive the escort/prostitute in their little ‘love nests’ (secondary apartments if they’re married)
• Various offences in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act relating to the trafficking, importing, exporting or production of certain drugs.–Grow ops; probably also means no more pot permits for medicinal use; explains the clamp down on compassion clubs. They’re already attempting to close down Vancouver’s safe injection Insite program

These new laws strike me as invading the privacy of Canadians in order to enforce them. They would seem to make many activities we do within the confines of our own home against the law.

I bet another law would be added to this. In honour of ol’ Stock Day; I bet that ol’ Nicholson will make not reporting a crime against the law to; subject to charges of aiding and abetting and obstruction of justice. I can just see ‘em now.  They go around lurking; “any crime happen around the neighbourhood?” “You have to report it you know!” “Not reporting it will get you a charge of aiding and abetting and /or obstruction of justice; subject to prison time in our new super prison; all part of our new tough on crime agenda”.

Best of all, let’s scare those seniors who are fighting the Harpercons to keep the long form census mandatory. Let’s remind them who can keep them safe from all those ruffians doing such delinquent things inside their own homes and not reporting them.

They have no money to rehabilitate these prisoners; to teach them skills that help build their character and skills; that help provide home produced food to the community, but they have 9 billion dollars to build private big assed prisons for prisoners…to do what, exactly? How is this to help them?

Perhaps someone should let the Harpercons know that drug dealers not only continue selling drugs to inmates and to those on the outside but also often make more money from the inside than from the outside.  They learn creative new ways of committing crimes without getting caught. Smooth move ex-lax, Steve!