Canada’s system of ‘injustice’

Editor: Re: Many examples show how bad our justice system is (Okanagan Weekend, Sept. 2). Well said, Mr. Isherwood. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

I agree with Tom Isherwood’s idea that the judge who ruled Allan Schoenborn, who killed his three children in Merritt, does not pose a threat to the public despite his continuing uncontrollable anger issues, should offer her spare bedroom in her house so Schoenborn can rehabilitate himself under her watchful, caring legal eye.

What planet did this judge, Martha Devlin, fly in from? I can’t imagine how the stricken family of the kids can be dealing with her sickening reasoning.

How could this woman hold any sense of dignity in herself after looking the family in the eye and rendering her unbelievable decision? Shame on you judge.

And while on the subject of judicial love affairs with the criminal element, what about the gutless legal crowd in Penticton?

How many times did the so-called legal beavers bend over backwards for Ronald Arthur Teneycke?

This man has terrorized Oliver and Okanagan Falls for years. He finally ends on the run from the police, shooting an innocent man in the back who simply stopped to give him a lift, but because they couldn’t prove intent to kill, he gets another slap on the wrist. The injured man, now missing his spleen doesn’t count in our injustice system.

And finally the injustice system frowns upon the Surrey Creep Catchers. Of course they do. Their vigilante type of justice that successfully catches the sicko pedophiles is not considered fair play. One of them caught was even a cop. Bah!

Sometimes, I wish we had a Paul Kersey, the man played by Charles Bronson in the Death Wish films who sought to get his own brand of justice by personally eliminating the lowlifes who murdered his family.

I truly feel sorely let down by this injustice system that we have.

Don Smithyman,

Oliver