Liberal ONE of the puzzling things to emerge from the clection was the inability of the various parties to nail down the prime minister on law and order issues. [ find this interesting Large- * ly because the federal Liberals “are extremely vulnerable on these issues. Look fora moment at the riding of Justice Minister Anne MeLelian in Edmonton West. ) On the weekend, just days after the election when voters returned MeLellan to the ‘Commons, Edmonton police ot issued a pubtic advisory on a ~ sex offender who had just. een released back into the > community. The 63-year-old man had served two-thirds of his sentence when he was released a year ago on manda- tory supervision parole. ' Within 24 hours he was found in breach of his parole “by Edmonton police and returned to prison to serve the “rest of his sentence. No sur- prise there. , What does sirr- s thar:the man has raore victions ii his sto- . Yes, you read that right. Nine : So now he is out again and released into the minister's: own riding, and the police “have issued a public warning ‘about the man.. Edmonton - police say the chances the man will re- -offend are 100 per.” cent." “Twonder how the father a n your.“ Nov. Ole in my Swiss cheese.”, ‘My comment on the article is'as follows: he best part about Swiss cheese, so far a5:1. concerned, is the: holes. If only: ‘there were nore holes and they were bigger. - What causes the holes i in Swiss cheese? “are actually bubbles that ia within the cheese. As the 22.-column “News of the Weird,” you hada heading that read ) There's sa! , crime and gk. | punishment the girl whe will be the next sexual assault siclim of this man will teel sbout his MP then. The system is powerless to protect the public from a predator like this, Why? Because vour federal govern- ment will not address the issue. Bur it’s not just the adute system that is broken in cases like this. There is a 15-year- old boy in the Mount Seymour area of North Vancouver who is a virtual one-man crime wave. In the past wo years, he has been arrested numerous times and convicted nine times of criminal offences ranging from theit to possession of stolen property to break and enter. Each time he is convict- “ed he is put on yet another period of probation and more conditions set. In June of this year he was arrested for breaching his court-imposed conditions and - was then given more condi- tions, which he will breach again. His mother then sent him off out of province to live with his grandparents. Within aweek their residence Gad “holes, been broken inte. A short time fater he was arrested for possession tor the ratticking. The court released him on sone More conditions. The interesting, thing &. is thacin the time the bor Was away, the property crime stats in the Mount Sevimour area went way down while the numbers in the neighbour: hood his grandparents live in went way up. You don't sup - pose there is a connection, do you? For those of you who haven't had your car broken into or vour house ransacked in the past few months, | sup- pose Tshould tell you this kid is now back in his North Vancouver home. Still, T might add, being guided by those same court-imposed condi- tions. There may be those of you who think Tam being too harsh when I say this, but it is reality: Some people are beyond hope, There is noth- ing the system can do to change that, Nothing. Let's be realistic here. Don’t you think that at some point prior to the 90th convic- tion someone should say, “Hey, lock that sucker up and’ thraw aw ay the key.” And what about our litle friend in Seymour? He's already got nine convictions, many more arcests and Gad knows how many offences he never got. caught committing. At his cur- rent pace, he should reach the 90th conviction betore he's 25 The .dairy industry can » control the: ‘size and __ frequency of those holes by varying the level of « acidity in the cheese. In 1970, the average American consumed 10 pounds of: cheese per year. In 2000, the average American. will ‘consume 30 pounds: per. year. Perhaps next year,'31. As cheese consumption ‘increases, so do heart disease rates. ~ Given the choice of eating Swiss cheese satu- “rated with calories, fat, cholesterol, growth hor- “;mones, and casein (glue), ask the supermarket * deli counterperson for the holes. ’ Karl Losken. “North Vanconver oe Wednesday, December 6, 2600 - North Shore Newe — 7 e of jaw and order oy 25, A police officer said to me the other day, “PFhree sinkes wand you're out might be a bit hanh, bur what about 10 strikes and you're out. “That does't seem unreasonable does it” Not tome. But, judging 441 West 3rd Street. 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