Arrest fees, jail fees, sentencing fees ....

[FluffyMcDeath]

Paying for your own conviction before you pay your debt to society?... Apparently it's a done thing. It seems all a little ... did anyone here ever see the movie "Brazil"?

 

[Glaucus]

That and privatized jails are to me what make the US as unlivable as China or Iran. Thank god I don't live there, but I fear that idiot Harper would love to screw up Canada just the same.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

That and privatized jails are to me what make the US as unlivable as China or Iran. Thank god I don't live there, but I fear that idiot Harper would love to screw up Canada just the same.

In 1997, Stephen Harper said

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

during a speech he gave at a meeting of the Council for National Policy, a secretive right-wing / religious group of rich conservatives that also happen to be the group behind the picking of Palin (and if you don't like that source than maybe something more "trusted" like the Herald Tribune though it's a little more buried in that story).

Unfortunately, Harper is not (unlike Bush) and idiot. He is quite sharp and he is a dedicated but shrewd ideologue. Bush is so dumb Cheney didn't trust him to give testimony alone. Stephen is not like that.

 

[faethor]

That and privatized jails are to me what make the US as unlivable as China or Iran. Thank god I don't live there, but I fear that idiot Harper would love to screw up Canada just the same.

Land of the Free means we lock up more people than any other nation. Land of the Free means we lock up a larger % of society than any other nation.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Speaking of fees, how about charging rape victims for examinations?