Harper Governments Omnibus Crime Bill C-10 Rejected by USA

Conservatives in the United States' toughest crime-fighting jurisdiction - Texas - say the Harper government's crime strategy won't work.

"You will spend billions and billions and billions on locking people up," says Judge John Creuzot of the Dallas County Court. "And there will come a point in time where the public says, 'Enough!' And you'll wind up letting them out."

Adds Representative Jerry Madden, a conservative Republican who heads the Texas House Committee on Corrections, "It's a very expensive thing to build new prisons and, if you build 'em, I guarantee you they will come. They'll be filled, OK? Because people will send them there.

"But, if you don't build 'em, they will come up with very creative things to do that keep the community safe and yet still do the incarceration necessary."

These comments are in line with a coalition of experts in Washington, D.C., who attacked the Harper government's omnibus crime package, Bill C-10, in a statement Monday.

"Republican governors and state legislators in such states of Texas, South Carolina, and Ohio are repealing mandatory minimum sentences, increasing opportunities for effective community supervision, and funding drug treatment because they know it will improve public safety and reduce taxpayer costs," said Tracy Velázquez, executive director of the Washington-based Justice Policy Institute.

"If passed, C-10 will take Canadian justice policies 180 degrees in the wrong direction, and Canadian citizens will bear the costs."

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[russprake]

Pathetic. makes me want to puke. I say lock em up and never throw away the key. Start young if they screw up and that’s it! Never let em out. I’ll pay my share of taxes. Effen bleeding heart liberals.

Kudos for Prime Minister Harper who has finally stood up to the crying liberals and now Canada will be safer.

[freedomination2]

@russprake Statistics Canada has shown crime rates in Canada have continually been decreasing over the last 30 years. So why do we need tougher laws NOW after all these years??? The Government is the greatest threat for liberty. We need less law and more freedoms. You sound like a very hateful unloved power freak. End prohibition now!

[freedomination2]

Harper is a Bilderburg. NWO Communist

[thapolksta]

obviously some of harpers friends are going to make some money off this

[KronK0321]

My guess is incoming prison privatization.

[mrdanny5]

NWO 

[VaultCult]

@russprake I'm pretty sure these Texans saying it won't work and it's a bad idea aren't "bleeding heart liberals". At all. Texan Republicans say this fails because they tried, it failed and it made it worse while costing them a future. Why are you supporting this again? Some imaginary enemies you think you can slap with it?

[Telc0n]

@russprake Your Canada is one of true ignorance and uneducation, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!!

[WeAskThePeople]

don't look to government to LEAD.. they are typically cowardly FOLLOWERS.. you must demand the change & RESIST bad law enforcement... FREE yourself from controls..

[Mrschantie0]

can some one please shoot this mutyha ffffer...? really

[peterpotpie]

We have to remember to thank the people who voted for Stephen Harper, because now we're all paying the price.

[bankruptonselling1]

someone explain to me how a conservative mind works? conceit mixed with a blind/deaf numbness to the world surrounding them?

[abovetheinfluence555]

ok what the fuck canada. why the fuck did you let this smug cock become our leader? Didn't any of you see what he looks like? if he was in an action movie, in the last 10 minutes the main character would say something along the lines of "YOUR FIRED" then blow him up in a fiery explosion