Welcome to the Animal Farm

Well if newcomers to this blog haven’t noticed there is enough documentation here that proves Ontario is the Animal Farm – when it comes to justice that is.

Bloggers have been using their blogs to participate in their right to freedom of speech to protest against our justice system that proves, time after time, that there are those that are more equal and more human than others. Even Reader's Digest has weighed into the protest with their recent article on two tier justice.

Here is yet another example from The Windsor Star where a doctor commits a crime and does not get a criminal record like the rest of us would expect. There is an unwritten rule in Ontario that doctors, lawyers and police officers, or any one that works for the government, have special privileges that allow them to get away with less punishment than say other members of our society for committing the same crime - or worse.

Like Kimberly Rogers, a woman with a mental illness that committed a similar fraud to the good doctor for example that’s explained in this post.

Or the attempt by the Hamilton Spectator editors expecting their readers to accommodate their apologist viewpoint after patting this poor Mayor - Larry Di Ianni – on the head with the proverbial ‘there there now’ for not complying with the Municipal Act and the Municipal Elections Act.

We are expected by these editors, the pillars of everything good and right in our community to dumb down our values, our concept of integrity and honesty which as far as I'm concerned respect for the law.

We are expected to believe that the Mayor is more human than the rest of us, more equal than the rest of us and just because he is going to court for failing to comply with an Act that he had a legal duty as an elected official to comply with, he is still the epitome of integrity in this City even though he felt he had no duty to educate himself as to what those duties are.

I didn't realize news paper editors were the judge and jury in our legal system. The Spec has opened my eyes. What was I thinking?

But the rest of us are expected to know more than our leaders. We have high expectations put on us. We get charged a harsher punishment for the same crimes that some in our society would ever bear to consider. It makes it the perfect crime knowing you won’t get charged the same way as others because you know you have special privileges above others in society.

Even there is a 1970 Supreme Court decision documented as Drybones v. R. confirming that natives can’t be punished more severely than other non-natives, there seems to be an ignorance of the language and spirit of this decision by our Crown attorneys and legal system.

Even though section 15 of the Charter states that everyone in Canada has equal treatment and equal protection under the law; it doesn’t seem to wash with Ontario’s justice system.

Yes, justice is not perfect and the reasons we have Constitutional law to remedy any problems. But when special privileges in our society become broad and rooted in more than just random errors of judicial discretion, then one has to start questioning or in this blogger’s case, continue to question, why there are those that are more equal than others?