By Peter Gillis

-Itissaidthatcrimedoes wife, until her face is unrecog- not pay. I think it pays; but it nizable to her own mother. depends on what crime one Chances are, you'll be able to commits. FollowtheGuardian do this twenty or twenty-one fora weekarid you willquickly _ times before someone puts you see what mean. | ‘away for more than a week-

It.does not pay'to mess end or two. Failing that, you with our government’ staxrev- should prey upon the innocent, enue, as two mén in Cornwall and thetrusting children of our found outacouple ofsummers province.» Damage the mind ago. Tltey each received ofa little girl or boy and you $16,000 fines forattemptingto will not even see the inside of smuggle cigarettes into PEI. aprison. Yourneighbours will Itisatough sentence that most, rush to your defence so that likely saved thotsand upon you cap walk free, a shining thousands of lives from the example to all. True freedom harmful:-effects of cheap. isreserved for the guilty. It is smokes.:«It certainly did not the victims who suffer fear pay for-one ‘young man who - and captivity. refused..to submit to a - ©. What the hell is wrong breathalyzer last July. He got .with society today? Have we nailed $1,350 for failingtoblow.- sacrificed justice to mercy so Losthis hicensetoo. Finesand often that our senses have more fines.’ become numb? This would

It was not so bad fora _ not happen ina perfect world. Charlottetown native recently. ;In a perfect world, we would convicted of beating his friend have stockades set up in front and his female lover, whoalso of the cenotaph at the end of happens to be the mother of University Avenue. Wife beat- his child. He won.a year at ers would be forced to spenda “Hotel Sleepy Hollow”, notin- daylocked inside, freezing their cluding time for good behav- babylons off, witha sign hang- iour, forhistwenty-secondact ing around their necks saying of violence. ‘Considering his “I am rat-dung”. Each and other convictions were for as- every woman who has suf- sault and: sexual assault, tt is fered at the hands of her lover only fitting he receive about would be allowed to walk up two weeks foreachcrimehe’s and spit inhis face, just to give been caught for. them a taste of the humiliation i Our real winner goesto and hopelessness they so love one King’s County man who, _ to inflict. The rest of us would fourteen months ago, was just stare and boo. found guilty of sexually as- In a perfect world, con-

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victed child-molesters would be sent to a zoo. There they would spend a week, locked naked in a cell and fed with a slingshot, forced to sit under banners that say “Warning: Convicted Pedophile. Do Not Put Hands Through Bars.” Teachers could take their classes on tours, letting chil- dren take a good, long look at their worst nightmares and see them for the animals that they really are. Have I mentioned electric shock treatment yet?

Oh no! I’m so inhu- mane! Criminals have rights. They are people too. Many of - them were victims when they were young; and our penal system is dedicated to reha- bilitation, not punishment. Really? Well, here’s the opin- ion of one Peter Gillis, profes- sional human. Take itor leave it as you will. Wife-abusers. are dogs who have no sense of control. They are powerless and empty people who need to dominate women through vio- lence in order to find the re- spect they can never have for themselves. Pedophiles are worthless manipulators of the young who have abandoned any claim to humanity the day they touched a child. I’m sure there is a special level of hell reserved for them when they die; but that is not enough for me. I want to see them pay for their crimes now -- payments that show human life and dig- nity are more important than obedience and profit. Then maybe, just maybe, I will not get so sick to my stomach the next time I read the Guardian. Maybe.

saulting three young girls. He

was released from prison af- This is the afore-mentioned cartoon. What do you, the reader ter a petition, signed by the think of it. I personally find it offensive. Not to mention--it is

community;, attested that he just not funny. was “areally nice pedophile”. He obviously enjoyed his free- dom because police have just laid another charge for mo- lesting yet another little girl. As of today, there is no word on whether charges will be laid against the 300 bone-heads who let Mr. Scumlips loose. So, what have we learned, class? If you really want to commit a crime, it is strongly recommended that you beat your girlfriend, or your

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