[Viva] Opposition to Crime Bill C-10...It effects us all

Thu Dec 8 14:10:58 PST 2011

No accident that the psycho's in Ottawa, etc. want this.
Crime is down - and according to greedy capitalists, this cannot be. Every
major corporate entities must grow, so they need to grow the police and
incarceration industry and privatize it more.

Signed and passed on when it came out a month ago.
I suggest you do too.
ps....it is not just about criminalizing people who use/grow/distribute
weed.

Tami

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Shannon McKee Carlisle <mckee_law at msn.com>wrote:

>   This has to be one of the most shameful pieces of legislation. Canada’s
> crime rate has been steadily decreasing... now the Harper Government is
> going to build something like 14 new prison and have mandatory minimum
> sentences for those who grow 6 cannabis plants or more without a license. I
> have heard that the penalty will be 1 year per plant... Oh ya... and they
> are phasing out the licenses too.. This is definitely worthy of our
> attention in my opinion... This is legislation that creates criminal... We
> need great health care not more prisons...
>
> Shannon Carlisle
>
>  *From:* James and Ally Keating <keatingfamilycircus at telus.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 08, 2011 11:48 AM
> *To:* viva at lists.resist.ca
> *Subject:* [Viva] Opposition to Crime Bill C-10...It effects us all
>
>  *Hello ViVA Friends*
> *    Please read to following and consider taking a stande against this
> un-just law. We don't have alot of time so please click below and make
> yourself heard on this subject. This proposed new laws could potentially
> affect you and the ones you love...not to mention thousands and thousands
> of Canadians. Speak up and be heard, Canada is still a democracy so let
> remind them of that... Ally*
> **
> **
> **
> Dear friends,  **
> * <http://www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe>
>
> Our Senators are under massive pressure from Prime Minister Harper to
> rubber stamp the cruel Crime Bill fast, but their job is to give it the
> “sober second thought” we desperately need.* They have the power to act,
> but they need to hear from you.
>
> *Send an urgent message to your province’s Senators, asking them to rise
> above partisan politics, look at the evidence, and make Canada safer, not
> meaner.*
>
> [image: Send your message] <http://www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe>
>
> *On Monday, Prime Minister Harper’s Conservative MPs voted for the cruel
> Crime Bill. That night, the NDP, Liberal, Bloc and Green MPs stood together
> against the bill, and many of them were wearing “Safer, not meaner” buttons
> in solidarity with our campaign.*
>
> Now, the struggle for Canadian justice moves to the Senate. The Senate’s
> job is to provide a “sober second thought.” Senators are appointed for
> life, and free to make their own choices. They can review the evidence,
> change the bill, and force another vote.
>
> Every day, opposition grows as Canadians learn more about the Crime Bill,
> but *Prime Minister Harper is putting enormous pressure on Senators to
> rubber-stamp the bill quickly so it can pass before Christmas*. There is
> only one thing that can balance the scales: a massive public outcry from
> Canadians like you, right now.
>
> *Click here to send an urgent message to the Senators that represent your
> province, asking them to rise above partisan politics, look at the
> evidence, and make Canada safer, not meaner:*
>
> *http://www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe*
>
> *Together, you are taking on the strongest force in Canadian politics: a
> newly elected government with a majority of seats working to pass a core
> plank of its election platform on a hot-button issue.*
>
> And, thanks to your messages to your representatives, your letters to the
> editor, your local actions, and your phone calls, *we have helped shift
> the national conversation decisively against this bill in a way that no one
> thought possible just a few months ago.*
>
> Catherine Latimer, the Executive Director of the amazing John Howard
> Society of Canada, just wrote about this shift:
>
> *“Organizations like the John Howard Society, which have been lampooned
> for simply advocating for effective, just, and humane responses to the
> causes and consequences of crime, sense a change in the winds. More and
> more people have been persuaded by the evidence and are speaking up for a
> more effective, fairer, and less mean approach to achieving our shared
> objective of reducing crime than is proposed in Bill C-10.”* [1]
>
> *Don’t let anyone tell you that this is over.
>
> *On Tuesday, Newfoundland’s Justice Minister spoke out firmly against the
> Crime Bill, saying it has not been properly studied, and the actual costs
> will be “astronomical”. [2] On Wednesday, Grand Chief Derik Nepinak of
> Manitoba’s Assembly of Chiefs, called a national press conference to say
> that *the bill’s mandatory sentences would continue the legacy of
> residential schools, and must be opposed*. Nepinak said that “instead of
> investing in jails we need to invest in healing.” [3]
>
> *The Manitoba Chiefs are calling on our Senate to provide the sober
> second thought that our country so desperately needs. Let’s join them:*
> *
> http://www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe*
>
> This action is about checks and balances. Remember that every time you
> write, every time you speak out, you give people the courage to join you.
> You give people courage to speak truth to power. And we are so grateful to
> you, because to change the world, we must first change the conversation.
>
> *Click here to ask your province’s Senators to rise above partisan
> politics, look at the evidence, and make Canada safer, not meaner:*
>
> *http://www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe*
>
> Thank you for all you do.
>
> With hope and respect,
> Matthew, Jamie, Emma, Ryan, Jenn, Anna and Julia on behalf of the
> Leadnow.ca team
>
> p.s. We love this quote: “*Fighting bad policy is good for the soul.*” -
> Alex Himmelfarb, former Clerk of the Privy Council and current member of
> Leadnow’s board, talking about the need to contact our Senators. We agree -
> and it’s even better when you know that tens of thousands of other
> Canadians are joining you.
>
> *Sources:*
>
> [1] “A bad day: what now?” by Alex Himmelfarb
> http://afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/a-bad-day-what-now/<http://www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe>
>
> [2] Ottawa's omnibus crime bill criticized by Newfoundland justice minister
> http://www.globalnews.ca/Pages/Story.aspx?id=6442535974
>
> [3] Crime bill furthers legacy of residential schools: Nepinak
>
> http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/Crime-bill-furthers-legacy-of-residential-schools-Nepinak-135179528.html
>
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