Kill All Judges!
written by Adam Yoshida
July 21st 2003

http://www.freedominstitute.ca/articles/detailArticle.php?id=148

The other day I was listening to Peter Warren’s radio show in my car. A caller related some recent judicial stupidity (a person who worked at home being sentenced to a short period of house arrest for a hit-and-run in which the victim lost a leg) and I thought to myself, “Why can’t we get rid of these people?” But then I paused and really asked myself, why can’t we? The answer is simple: we can. It’s just that our leaders lack the courage necessary to act.

Our justice system is broken, horribly so, everyone knows and realizes this. The problem is that too many people are willing to accept the present degraded state of our society rather then take the measures necessary because they view the cure (harsher punishments for criminals, stronger police forces, and judges who are accountable to the people) as worse than the disease. This, in large measure, is because Canadians have a peculiar aversion to the use of force, even when that force is to be used in defense of the home and hearth. (Punish criminals? How cruel).

The Judges are the worst of our problems. Not only are they letting criminals go free in ever-increasing numbers, giving people a year of house arrest for murder, and giving others a few years for three hundred and three murders, but they are also increasingly intruding into areas of public policy which are (or, rather, should be) beyond their control.

Sadly, we cannot dump those Supreme Court judges who have, in recent years, issued decisions which have partially legalized child pornography, destroyed the sacrament of marriage, and essentially made drugs in this country legal. The only body which can consign the present Supreme Court into the hell in which it deserves to reside is Parliament which, I suspect, won’t be doing anything to the Supreme Court (except, perhaps, working to pass a law which makes sure that 100% of the members of the Supreme Court are from Quebec, rectifying the terrible injustice that, today, only six of the nine Supreme Court Justices hail that province). But we do have another road open to us, by which we can teach at least a few judges to respect the people.

Provincial court judges (the ones who conduct most criminal trials in Canada) are governed by Provincial legislation. Just as judges are appointed by the Province, they can be removed by the Province as well- and they should be. People need to remind their MLA’s (or MPP’s, or whatever else they might be called) that they have the power to prevent future Judicial abominations- by killing the careers of leftist fools whose primary duty in life seems to be setting criminals free to prey upon the people. It is fully within the power of any legislature in the land to, even if its present laws only allow Judges to be removed by some sort of panel or board, remove any Judge from the bench for whatever reason it pleases to do so. All they have to do is pass a law doing so (after, in some cases, modifying existing laws to make it clear that they can do so) removing that individual from office.

Now, of course, this is bound to be controversial amongst politicians. We must never forget that politicians are, for the most part, timid by nature and social climbers (or already members of the elite). Certainly pushing the idea of firing judges (many of whom are members of the social elite of this country themselves) for having radically liberal views on crime will not get one invited to many dinner parties in Toronto and Vancouver. However, it must be done, regardless of what the Globe and Mail says.

British Columbia is the ideal testing ground for this theory. The Liberal government has seventy-six of seventy-nine seats in the Legislature; they can do whatever they wish to. A new law could be passed, making Judges subject to recall and removing some who have made the most ridiculous decisions. While the government is at it, they can even make the Justices of the highest Provincial court elected and make those one who continued to be appointed subject to an extremely through vetting process.

Here in British Columbia we have another tool which we can use if the Province fails to act: the Recall and Initiative Act. While, at present, Judges are not subject to recall, voters could use an initiative to force before the Provincial legislature a bill which would make them so and, perhaps, which would order the removal of a number of individuals presently sitting on the bench. While any bill forced before the Provincial legislature as a result of an initiative is open to amendment and can be voted down, once sufficient momentum was accumulated behind the cause of Judicial reform, I suspect that most of our legislators will be carried along with the tide and, those who resist the creation of a new justice system which protects our citizens (in the name of Criminal’s Rights or whatever other lame and worthless excuse they can invent) will be swept aside.

Canadians need real justice, not an imaginary fairy-land imitation of justice as we have today- and throwing out the bums who run our courts today is as good a place as any to start.