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04-09-2009, 10:32 AM
Arresting 185,925 Canadians?
By Pierre Lemieux
A major component of the rule of law is that laws apply equally to everybody and are equally enforced. With such laws, it was thought, we are protected against discriminatory laws that would criminalize large numbers of people, even if they are minorities. The ideal of the rule of law was to protect us from the state. But what happens when the state hijacks the law for its own purposes and when hundreds of thousands of peaceful individuals are criminalized by a stroke of the Governor General's pen? Bill S-5, the Long-Gun Registry Repeal Act, introduced by the government in the Senate, would change nothing to the "laws" that now require the arrest of at least
185,925 peaceful Canadians.
http://www.libertyincanada.ca/
By Pierre Lemieux
A major component of the rule of law is that laws apply equally to everybody and are equally enforced. With such laws, it was thought, we are protected against discriminatory laws that would criminalize large numbers of people, even if they are minorities. The ideal of the rule of law was to protect us from the state. But what happens when the state hijacks the law for its own purposes and when hundreds of thousands of peaceful individuals are criminalized by a stroke of the Governor General's pen? Bill S-5, the Long-Gun Registry Repeal Act, introduced by the government in the Senate, would change nothing to the "laws" that now require the arrest of at least
185,925 peaceful Canadians.
http://www.libertyincanada.ca/