Hate The Sin, Love The Sinner
“The hate criminal probably needs rigorous deprogramming like the extreme measures taken by parents to counter the brainwashing of children by lunatic cults. It is bizarre that criminal justice officials try to do more to change the belief and behaviour of johns charged with prostitution than they do with the Ernst Zündels and Jim Keegstras of the world. We send the consumers of prostitution to “john school.” We send the bigot to jail to sit and stew, and the suffering is just used by the bigot to reinforce the righteousness of delusional views.”
“Just as some cancers require invasive surgery, the hate crime needs intrusive measures. The usual out-of-sight, out-of-mind approach to modern punishment just won’t work in this case. For crimes of supreme stupidity we need Clockwork Orange justice — strapping the hate criminal into a chair for an interminable period, and keeping his eyes wide-open with metal clamps so he cannot escape from an onslaught of cinematic imagery carefully designed to break his neurotic attachment to self-induced intellectual impairment.”
“In the context of hate crime, I do have some regrets that we have a constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. I don’t think coercive persuasion or deprogramming is necessarily cruel, but as a state sanction it is unusual. However, if the crime is unique the sanction should be also. Simply dishing out more prison time or a larger fine is a dead-end. We need a punishment that can kick-start a brain.”
“Regrettably when it comes to punishment, our system rarely exhibits ingenuity, audacity and courage.”
Dr. Alan Young
Toronto Star 28 March 2004
“I thought you brought the stake…”
“No, you were supposed to.”
“My knife broke, and I was too drunk after the party, and the woodcutter was out.”
*shrugs*:
“Aww, well: nobody will notice.”
“Da: it’ll all be the same in a hundred years…”
“I’m thirsty.”
