Crime
Stopping Crime Debt in its tracks….
For years, Canadian criminals have been robbing their fellow citizens blind.
This is no secret, and with the wave of bust and boom economies, home break-ins and vehicle theft have been a curse to our society. Yet, despite promises of greater funding by federal and provincial governments and increased scrutiny via security cameras and Citizens On Patrol there has been no great reduction in crime rates.
To the everyday citizen, not only is there frustration when someone is struck with theft-personal or business and IF the individual is caught, there is no punishment that seemingly impacts their poor personal choices.
After all, is not theft violating one of the 10 Commandments?
Not only that, but even IF an individual or crime ring IS caught in a sting AND charges are laid by RCMP, the odds are that most or all of the convictions will be thrown out and the perpetrator (s) will be free to commit crimes once again AND escape without penalty. Meanwhile, those whose goods have been stolen are left to pick up the pieces and face increased insurance costs and security issues.
Therein lies the crux of our dilemma.
We have a legal system that is supposed to punish law breakers.
The question is whether or not a thief, or ring of thieves are ever penalized accordingly.
Let me tell you about a real life case that occurred in Central Alberta where a house was repeatedly reported for disturbances at all hours of the night and over a period of a couple of years, police raided the house and took truck loads of stolen items out of the garage. During that time, this home also was used to sell drugs and was involved in a vehicular homicide case.
More than 50 charges were laid to 2 individuals.
Fewer than 5 charges were laid and during their crime spree, they were released and broke bail AND stole vehicles and led police on a chase through another community.
The final value of items stolen was upwards of $500,000 yet there was no financial penalty to the individuals and it can be assumed that after their minimal jail time, they went back to work stealing the fruits of others labors!
This is by no means a solo story, but rather a common tale that has frustrated hard working individuals around Canada.
How can society at large and the court systems put a real stop to criminal activities?
As young people, we are taught not to lie and steal, that human life is sacred and that we are to honour our mother and father. Yet we tolerate games like Grand Theft Auto, where players are supposed to steal vehicles and escape. We tolerate entertainment that glorifies gangsters, pedophiles, rapists, thieves, drug dealers and murderers. In fact, we often even give them Academy Awards for excellence of something.
There is a simple concept that was entrenched in old societies and some native tribes as well that dealt with debt and theft.
Jewish custom demanded that if you stole something, you returned it or recompensed the owner of the item. Tribal beliefs and customs often demanded the same of thieves.
In society today, we have abandoned the concept of personal financial responsibility of theft. Can you imagine the ‘fictional’ couple who stole more than $500,000 of items in a couple of years in addition to their other activities if they had to repay every one of their victims?
Insurance, as we know it, is designed to repay owners for lost goods but it really diverts responsibility for the actions of those who believe it is their right to loot and steal the goods and rewards of others labor.
If you have goods stolen today, you call the police, file a police report and call your insurance company.
No problem, right…wrong.
The problem is that those who forced you to claim a theft, have penalized you in a few ways while they go on their way and fence the items and buy drugs, and other illicit items and services. They may even build a deck or go on a vacation.
As the victim, you are penalized by your insurance company when your rates go up because you claimed the theft. As the victim, you have to accept the fact that the value of your goods is likely more than what you will be paid out, so you lose. If your company does not direct bill, then you pay first, then bill the company. Not only that, but the more theft occurs, the rates across a region or province rise faster and just when you think you have it under control, you may get broken into again and start over!
Not to mention, the loss of security and safety by the homeowners themselves.
There is no winner.
You lose as the victim because the cost of the crime escalates our protections.
The criminal loses because there is NO financial penalty to make them aware that their choices cost people large amounts of money! Morally, there is no lesson when they are caught as the laws will give them the least penalty possible! They learn to use the system and nothing else.
Crime scene
If criminals are never forced to recompense victims, then how will our justice system ever work. It is at best, a perpetual crime inducement factory!
Please listen law makers and government representatives.
Make criminals financially liable for their crimes! If they steal $10,000 worth, then they repay $10,000!
There should be no limit to the costs they have to repay. Theft is a selfish crime, and the consequences of their actions does not stop after they fence the items.
If we look down the line just one generation, and the children of the criminals have seen that their parents have stolen and ‘prospered,’ what will they do? Will they turn their back on the immoral teaching and lead an honest work life? We would hope that at some point that the children would, but if we look at our society the analogy of sexual or spousal abuse does not often stop in the 2nd generation and is viewed as normal and guides each and every decision as long as the victim lives.
What is the real responsibility of our court systems?
Is it to penalize offenders or teach offenders? Or is our justice system functioning as a complicated means to minimize the consequences of our actions?
In the case of household and business theft, I have ONE recommendation for the government of the day. ENACT a law that repays DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR victims of theft by the thieves!
I firmly believe that this will go a long way to stopping crime in our society.
Poor decisions lead to poor outcomes. Crime is Crime. Dishonesty is Dishonesty. There can be no sugar coating. If we use the language of Jewish laws, the transgression is not to be condoned!
It is up to the law makers to make a stand and the governments of our day to truly create a penalty that STOPS instead of DIVERTS and DELAYS.
From LifeSiteNews
By Bob Unruh
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley warned that preemptive pardons ‘would do precisely what Biden suggests that he is deterring: create a dangerous immunity for presidents and their allies in committing criminal abuses.’
An expert who not only has testified before Congress on the U.S. Constitution but has represented members in court cases is warning about Joe Biden’s speculated agenda to deliver to his friend and supporters preemptive pardons.
It is Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage, who wrote, “After years of lying to the American people about the influence-peddling scandal and promising not to consider a pardon for his son, Biden would end his legacy with the ultimate dishonesty: converting pardons into virtual party favors.”
There has been much speculation about those preemptive pardons from Biden, who lied about allowing juries and courts to determine the outcomes of son Hunter’s criminal gun and tax cases, flip-flopped and pardoned him.
Hunter Biden could have been ordered to jail for years for his felony gun convictions and his guilty pleas to felony tax charges.
However, Joe Biden handed him a get-out-of-jail free card, then followed up with hundreds and hundreds more commutations and pardons to a long list of those with criminal convictions.
The activity triggered a rash of speculation about those preemptive pardons, and Turley explains what’s going on.
“Democrats are worried about the collapsing narrative that President-elect Donald Trump will destroy democracy, end future elections, and conduct sweeping arrests of everyone from journalists to homosexuals. That narrative, of course, ignores that we have a constitutional system of overlapping protections that has blocked such abuses for over two centuries.”
Thus, the talk of preemptive pardons, but Turley said it wouldn’t work out.
“Ironically, preemptive pardons would do precisely what Biden suggests that he is deterring: create a dangerous immunity for presidents and their allies in committing criminal abuses,” he said.
He noted if Biden delivers those pardons, “he would fundamentally change the use of presidential pardons by granting ‘prospective’ or ‘preemptive’ pardons to political allies. Despite repeated denials of President-elect Donald Trump that he is seeking retaliation against opponents and his statements that he wants ‘success [to be] my revenge,’ Democratic politicians and pundits have called for up to thousands of such pardons.”
He explained there’s politics all over the scheme.
“After many liberals predicted the imminent collapse of democracy and that opponents would be rounded up in mass by the Trump Administration, they are now contemplating the nightmare that democracy might survive and that there will be no mass arrests,” he wrote. “The next best thing to a convenient collapse of democracy is a claim that Biden’s series of preemptive pardons averted it. It is enough to preserve the narrative in the face of a stable constitutional system.”
But there will be a cost to such a “political stunt,” he said.
“Preemptive pardons could become the norm as presidents pardon whole categories of allies and even themselves to foreclose federal prosecutions. … It will give presidents cover to wipe away any threat of prosecution for friends, donors, and associates. This can include self-pardons issued as implied condemnations of their political opponents. It could easily become the final act of every president to pardon himself and all of the members of his Administration.
“We would then have an effective immunity rule for outgoing parties in American politics.”
He noted that in the past, Bill Clinton pardoned both family members and political donors.
“Yet, despite that history, no president has seen fit to go as far as where Biden appears to be heading,” he said. Promoters of the plan, he said, “would prefer to fundamentally change the use of the pardon power to maintain an apocalyptic narrative that was clearly rejected by the public in this election. If you cannot prove the existence of the widely touted Trump enemies list, a Biden pardon list is the next best thing.”
Reprinted with permission from the WND News Center.
From the Alberta RCMP
B.C. traveller arrested for drug exportation during Calgary layover
Calgary – On Nov. 17, 2024, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers at the Calgary International Airport were conducting outbound exams when they intercepted luggage from a commercial flight destined for the United Kingdom. During the exam, officers found and seized 12 kg of pressed cocaine and a tracking device. The owner of the bag was subsequently arrested by CBSA prior to boarding a flight to Heathrow Airport.
The Integrated Border Enforcement Team in Alberta, a joint force operation between the RCMP Federal Policing Northwest Region, CBSA and Calgary Police Service, was notified and a criminal investigation was initiated into the traveller and the seized drugs.
Justin Harry Carl Beck, 29, a resident of Port Coquitlam, B.C., was arrested and charged with:
- Exportation of a controlled substance contrary to section 6(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;
- Possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking contrary to section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
Beck is scheduled to appear at the Alberta Court of Justice in Calgary on May 6, 2025.
“This seizure is a testament to the exemplary work and investigative expertise shown by CBSA Border Services Officers at Calgary International Airport. Through our key partnerships with the RCMP and the Calgary Police Service, the CBSA works to disrupt those attempting to smuggle illegal drugs across our borders and hold them accountable.”
- Janalee Bell-Boychuk, Regional Director General, Prairie Region, Canada Border Services Agency
“The RCMP Federal Policing Northwest Region’s top priority has always been, and will continue to be, public safety. This investigation serves as an important reminder that this extends beyond any border. By working together, we prevented this individual from importing an illicit substance into a foreign country where it had the potential to cause significant harm to others, all for the sake of turning a profit.”
- Supt. Sean Boser, Officer in Charge of Federal Serious Organized Crime and Border Integrity – Alberta, RCMP Federal Policing Northwest Region
“This investigation underscores the importance of collaboration in drug trafficking investigations. Our partnerships with law enforcement agencies across the country, and internationally, are vital to addressing crimes that cross multiple borders. By intercepting these drugs before they could reach their destination, we have ensured a safer community, both locally and abroad.”
- Supt. Jeff Bell, Criminal Operations & Intelligence Division, Calgary Police Service
IBET’s mandate is to enhance border integrity and security along the shared border, between designated ports of entry, by identifying, investigating and interdicting persons, organizations and goods that are involved in criminal activities.
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