Perhaps something is wrong with me, but I feel bad for Dave Wilson, and faintly nauseous at the mob clammoring for his neck. Wilson f**ked up — spectacularly and inexcusably. In doing so, he violated a public trust and brought disgrace upon himself and upon democratic institutions already in public repute so low as to undermine civil society. Consider also what Wilson has lost: a dream  job that was probably his as long as he wanted it; his home; his family (or parts of it, to judge from his brother-in-law's published comments). He has suffered public humiliation that is hard to...

14 September, 2011

Contrarian reader M. Larusic thinks the Alice-in-Wonderland justice dispensed under the Safer Communities and Neighborhoods Act is but the tip of an iceberg that includes the Tory plan for youth curfews. Both are part of a worrisome trend to right wing politics at its worst. Two of the three candidates answered that they had enough confidence in the legal system and policing that they were not concerned with any possible abuses. One would expect such confidence to make such policies redundant. This trend is all about policing and little about law...

03 June, 2009