THE NEWS pulsates with
crime-related horror stories.
And people now realize that
our brainless method of
dealing with violent crimi-
nals has been yet another
dismal failure. Hence the
national rage.

Small wonder that patience is
* exhausted. Take the case of the two
un-named youths in Burnaby
accused of attacking a postman —
‘un-named because fools have stipu-
~ fated it wouldn’t be nice to identify
them,

A witness testified that one of
them kept on kicking the man in the
_ face while ‘the other wrestled with
him. It was as if he was kicking a
football, she said. He would take
two full strides with each kick and -
“it was sickening.” In giving this
evidence she burst into tears at the
thought of it. _

_ Thevictim of this alleged atroci-
ty had’seen these teenagers and oth-
‘ers vandalizing a house and had
tried to catch one.
~He.was left with a severed j jaw,

mashed nose, nerve damage to his
face and severe bruising.

' He spent nine days in hospital,

“ tequired plastic surgery, had steel
- plates implanted in his jaw and was
off work for five months, |

“What do you do with monsters

. — of any age — who do things like
“that?

Today’s wisdom has it that if.
they are juveniles they are givena
‘good talking to, or are sent toa:
group home where they can go out

“ and steal. cars at night.

they are adult, they can end up
in minimum security prisons from
which they ire able to walk out and
rape and kill. Or they get early
parle

That's the conventional
approach, But | propose the uncan-
ventional sort. Let's call it the
on ss

HONEA SGG. ue YOU Must have
hei, thes don’t go for that kind of
nonsense, As Michael Fay discov-
ered, they believe in a judicious
number of whacks on the backside
administered by a martial arts
expert. And Fay wasn't even a vio-
lent offender,

What a sighin’ and a sobbin’
there was over his sad fate! The
hippy president of the U.S.
deplored it, Lady columnists of
both sexes wept in print.

But we may be sure of one
thing: young Mr. Fay won't vandal-
ize any more cars. Not in
Singapore, anyway.

{tis interesting to compare the
crime statistics of Lost Angeles
with those of Singapore. Both cities
have populations of about 3.5 mil-
lion, but according to the South
China Morning Post that’s where
the comparisons end.

In 1993, Lost Angeles had 1,100
murders, Singapore 58; Lost
Angeles had 1,855 rapes, Singapore
80; Lost Angeles 39,227 rabberies,
Singapore 1,008. And so on.

Most of the mystics who pass
themselves off as criminologists
pay no attention to such details.

Having imbibed the dogmas of
neo-Marxism, they believe that
crime is a consequence of the envi-
ronment, not the will of the individ-
ual,

We must therefore be kind to
criminals, who all had bad daddies
or something.

Enter Link Byfield, columnist
for B.C. Report magazine.

Link says he is a moderate con-
servative and that we should
approach crime with a more open,
liberal mind. Well, having read his
column on the subject, Isecond the
motion.

The truly liberal mind is of
course not to be confused with the
iruly stupid mind. Having an open
mind, he believes in bringing back
the lash andthe cane. -.

For what has their absence
brought us? Nothing but more trou-
ble. Old ladies being mugged and
raped, Violent criminals laughing at
the law. Victims not being given

Fee tag,

the.satisfaction of knowing that jus--

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tive has been done,

Link has a cousin in New York,
which is even more crime-ridden
than Lost Angeles. But the cousin
doesn’ tagree with flogging.

He says that upon conviction,
the authorities should take violent
criminals out on the street, break
their legs, and let them crawl away
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Flogging wouldn't lay them up
for several months, you see, Leg-
breaking, on the other hand, would
render them immobile for a long
time at minimal cast to the tixpay-
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it would also give them time to
contemplate their alternatives,

Repeat offences would fead to
(heir being put out of action perma-
nesitly.

In other words, they would be
“topped” — as the British used lo
say before they too went fi-fi and

66 Flogging
wouldn't lay them up
for several months,

you see. Leg-breaking,
on the other hand,
would render them
immobile for a lor

time .... 99

abolished capital punishment.

Link came to the conclusion that
both methods should be tried out.

“We need a pilot program ... We
would lush one group of convicts,
leg-break a comparable group, and
then examine their recidivism
against that of the general prison
population.

“Ef leg-breaking or lashing
works better, let’s shift our rehabili-
lative strategy accordingly. If they
both failed, well at least we tried.”

Of one thing we may be sure.
Either method would lead to fewer
savages, young or old, using peo-
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