Our injustice court system

Dear Editor: I am in complete agreement with Mark Billesberger’s letter of June 16th regarding inconsistent sentencing.

Our “injustice” system is so far out of whack that it makes one wonder what those sitting on the bench are smoking or ingesting when determining who gets “time for the crime.” If our current system isn’t doing the job it was intended for, then why in hell can’t it be changed?

It seems government can introduce any law it wants when it wants if it benefits those in power but is not able or is unwilling to do anything about situations that could have life threatening results to the average citizen.

Examples can be seen every day in any media and it begs the question why our concerns seem to fall on deaf ears. I can point to articles of the same date in the Herald such as the raids in Ontario resulting in 120 arrests of gang members who are an evil threat to everyone, and then the wild chase in Southern Alberta where again arrests were made of subjects already with long criminal records who were set free to spread their poison and possible death amongst the rest of us!

In my opinion, (and I’m sure there will be some backlash), we should be reading of their funerals and not their arrests, or sure as hell, we’ll be reading about funerals for those they have killed directly or indirectly through their distribution of drugs and other criminal activity. We simply don’t need these sub-humans walking around in society! Harry DeRosier

Summerland