May 3
2007
“The Jetsons” are not the future
Hugh McFayden and the PC Party of Manitoba have rather stupid planks on their platform. I mean who would vote for this?
Yes, it is a rhetorical question. Everybody knows that jails are for criminals, and everybody knows the only way to reduce crime is to rid the visible world of people who have, at least once, been known to have committed a crime. Once we have rounded up all the bad guys, the roughly 97 of us who are too smart to be caught will be living in Paradise.
Good Grief. This is not how things actually work.
Why, oh Dear God, Why do the Conservatives continually look to the same solutions every time a question arises? Rather than shovelling money out for more police (or “Crime Fighters”) and building fancier prisons why not spend some money looking for reasons why crime occurs and then battling that problem? Or looking for creative answers rather than using tired and re-used, regurgitated (and then re-ingested), do-nothing, solve-nothing, problem perpetuating so-called “solutions”?
Everytime I ask myself such questions, I pause, take a moment, and realize that Conservatives are, by definition, stuck in the past. Their [beta-max] tape is running on a constant loop and the future always looks the same. (Looks like the Jetsons.) Thing is, however, that the tape is going to wear out soon and they may have to learn to think for themselves.
On another front, the whole Canadian Hockey Team Captain shinanagins going on in the House of Commons is absolutely rediculous. What are we going to have next? An inquiry into steroid use in Baseball or, to culturally translate, Lacrosse?
