a ONE DOESN’T want to. be ‘maudlin about it, because he
would only laugh. But my late friend, Judge Les Bewley; fs is.

“never far from my mind. Only the other day I wondered :
what he would have said about the case of the killer | in.
‘Toronto who has the support ofa psychiatrist.

‘The shrink claimest that a man

: “who had wiped out 2 policeman 15°

: years ago and fired shots at a se-
‘cond one, could sateiy be Teleased

“. from jail because his anti-social -:

-- behavior is ‘tin remission.’’ But

‘ how does he know, considering |
that the killer in question (origin:
ly sentenced to death) has had no:

watching as the incubators of
crim

eae The invariable | ‘remedies’ were. .
a “more workshops, more seminars,‘ -
: more (ax money, more social pro- -
i. ” grams; more consultants; more
“social workers, more psychiatrists, =

and more probation and Parole of-.

ficers.":

Ba “The only thing they overlookéd “

— in fact, resolutely avoided or”:

«denied — was the possibility that:
“> some degree of original sin might,

be involved; and from that inno-

“gent point of view they invariably.

* fell into the trap of believing that
‘erime cannot be prevented by, and

«that it does not deserve, punish-

os “They were agreed that’ some.
form of social enginecring or ex-

-» periment — if not this one then the ~

‘next one — would readily over-"
- come all the nasty manifestations
“of human nature, given enough i

. terpersonal relationships and in-

: terdisciplinary studies.’’

argument |
was remin led how good he was |

vost and her Citizens United fo
Suey and Justice (CUSS). are

P
‘call assure you it has lost none of
its power. Les got down to :
siness right on the front pa;
‘The reformers, the rehabilit
‘tionists and the earnest dabblers in’
the serious business of crime have
ot ‘only. advanced psychology as”
he ‘cause and cure of crime; the
‘have held out everything from
humb-sucking, to poverty,
: italism, to dyslexia, to television’

The judge asked further: : “And

owhy" shouldn’t they?. The tenured °

academics in colleges, universities
‘and theological | schools succeede
many years ago ‘in laughing to:
scorn all the formerly-taught vir.
concepts of general re-
spon. y. :
The concepts of right and: :

wrong....were swept away in favor f
of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s and :,°

Margaret Mead’s concepts of man:
as a noble savage who needs on!
cuddling, not caning. '
ov They also enthroned in place
of the old-fashioned ethics some
‘thing called ‘situation ethics,’
hich means that if enough people
‘do things, and feel comfortable.
doing them, those things must be:
mal, acceptable or-excusable.
Clergymen and teachers stop-.:
ped making or insisting upon valu
judgments and went in for guita
playing and intellectual love-ins.
hat the judge said four year:
ago is even truer now,'as witne:
not only the above-mentioned
‘psychiatrist and whole regiments
of other: ‘professional gapers who
think the way he does, but also the
antics of the United Church of
‘Canada with’ ‘yegard to ‘sodomy

That is why the fabric of our:
society is rotting at the edges..:
The frontispiece of this
tion of ‘Breakdown’. contain:
Les’s picture, together witha
graceful tribute, and CUSJ pro-
duced the booklet at its own ex-

pense. It is being sold ‘to the public:

t cost, which i is $2.3

funeral service, so’ we couldn’t giv
him a send-off: But 1’m sure he :
wouldn’t mind if, in ordering thi
booklet,’ you send a donation to
CUSJ, which he supported.: Their
address is Box 87004, No:

‘ v7

ee ee 5 obit |

with : defrauding’ ‘a~ local -
‘fleboard league and: stealing over .

| eaten set

in fraud case

2A NOV. 23 ‘preliminary. hearing :
“has been scheduled in North Van- :
. couver

provincial «: court: ‘ for.
North: Vancouver woman charged :
shuf-

33, 000 in league funds. :

"Susan Fay “Amy: was “originally
charged : with obtaining money by...
false_ pretences in connection with =

*. "an April 16: incident. in which an,
» $1,800. cheque.was alleged to have

e “been drawn ‘on. the.account of. the

“~ North Shore: Shuffleboard’ League

at the Lonsdale branch of Canada .

: Trust. '

She ‘is also - charged. “with eft:

> Over $1,000 after..$3,600 in league:
funds destined for its bank account”
i, were alleged to have been stolen

o- Wednesday, October 5, 1988 - North Sho

“o Bert Wickham

atl Avis Lapham °°, :
* oo o PAWL, CL,

- ATLA. :
oR. FP.

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