A8 - Sunday, January 20, 1985 - North Shore News

ES BEWLEY IS ONE of my favorite people.
Not only does he write nice things about me,
he is also one of the most incisive writers in

the column game.

He's so good, in fact, that
the Sun has cut him down
from two columns a week to
one.

For most of his colorful
life he was a lawyer and
judge, and in his court you
could always count on three
things:

The bad guys would get the
book thrown at them; the
plainly unfortunate would
get a break, and there would
be lots of laughs. For Bewley
has a great sense of humor.
He even made my Quotes of
the Year for 1984 with his
lunch-table comment that
Jack Davis wus the only
Rhodes Scholar he have ever
known who has any brains.

Sometimes, of course, his
humor is too hot for some
people, as when he announc-
ed from the bench that
women under 30 have no
brains. The howls of organiz-

ed harpydom led to his hav- .

ing to face a farcical inquiry.

. He has long been saying -
that the criminal justice.

system in this country has
become a hopeless mess, and
that has been brought about
by know-nothing
sociologists, anthropologists
and other academic half-wits
who have had no direct con-
tact with the crime world, but
have been able to persuade
legislators that rehabilitation,
not punishment, is the
answer to law-breaking.
- He has now presented his
arguments in a booklet entitl-
ed The Breakdown of the
Criminal Justice System in
Canada.

The concepts of right and
wrong, and even of sin, he

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39th
veur

By G. ANTHONY FERA
Fera Heating and
Air Conditioning

get this
straight

y
Doug Collins

writes, have been swept away
in favor of the baity idea that
man is a noble savage who
needs only cuddling, never
caning. And the politicians
and the media have been easi-
ly sucked in by it all.

Thus: ‘Imprisoned and
paroled crooks, drug
pushers, thugs, rapists and
murderers (are) frequently
and at length interviewed in
print and on television as to
their own essential humanity
and goodness, and it is their
invariable view that it was an
uncaring or disordered socie-
ty, not.théy, who was the real
offender. None of their vic-
tims, or hundreds of victims,
or their next of kin are given
equal time to put (the
criminals’) assertions into

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Hats off to the judge

perspective.’

(An amusing reflection of
Bewley’s claim was seen in
the recent prison riot on Van-
couver Island in which the
cons smashed the place up
because the food and wage
rates weren't good enough.
They were then permitted to
appear on TV to air their
complaints and talk about
the shortcomings of society
in general.)

Bewley reserves his most
caustic criticism for the
Parole Act and the National
Parole Board, which have
destroyed the courts’ effec-
tiveness, He cites the case of
a female swindler who stole
and squandered half a
million bucks from the bank
that employed her. The trial
judge gave her three years.
The court of appeal doubled
that, The parole board let her
out in just over a year. Such
horror stories abound.

Rehabilitation by parole
has been an enormously ex
pensive, wildly-romantic ex-
periment, he says. Seventy-
five per cent of released
jailbirds find their way back
into prison, and the plea of
academic ‘‘experts’’ that
criminals might as well be let
out, jail being so costly at
$45,000 per year per bird,
holds no water either.

it doesn’t cost that much
to keep a person in prison, he
says. That's what our
misguided authorities spend.

In fairness, states our wry
writer, ‘‘First-rate,
nourishing prison grub is
necessary So as to Sustain the
inmates’ energy for their
baseball, basketball, track
and field, weight-lifting and

" other sports ... and the activi-

ty required in watching in-
house strip-tease shows, porn
movies and outside visits to

GINO FERA

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Lions Club,

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