The punishment must fit the crime

Dear Editor: Somebody please tell me I’m wrong. I believe there is no chance in hell the politics of our Canada and the rest of the world will display unity or ever dance to the same drumbeat.

Senator Mike Duffy and corrupt colleagues have faded but are not forgotten.

Now Canada has disgraced Senator Don Meredith, a choice of former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, who formally resigned after it leaked out he had sexual relations with a teenage girl.

This poor excuse for a man is eligible for a pension of $24,420 after a meager seven years on the job at the public trough. No jail time, no nothing, at least not yet. In the same May 11 edition of The Herald, a man was alleged to have dangled his penis in front of a mother with three children. If convicted, the man faces a maximum sentence of six months in jail. Six months? I suggest a better way to end the lust for sexual predators — nail the two nuts driving the hot rod to a stump and then shove all three over back wards. No joy, no toy and no cost to the taxpayer along with freeing time for the slow-moving justice system.

As far as any form of cruelty to animals period, I agree with letter writer M. Swig (“Time to get tough on animal cruelty,” Herald, May 11).

My sentence would be simple — cage the cruel bastards, starve them to death and provide the abusers with an instrument or drug to end the misery good pet owners placed upon them. Tom Isherwood Olalla