Gangs have death penalty

Our system of justice is soft in comparison

By JOE WARMINGTON

Last Updated: 20th September 2008, 10:34am

Our justice system does not have the death penalty.

Theirs does. In fact in the gang world, they have child executions. Our system is soft. Theirs is deadly, and conducted in our schoolyards or wherever they darn well choose.

Maybe Mayor David Miller could call for a ban on how they do business, on drugs, single parent homes and bad attitudes? A ban on teens being murdered!

The truth is our system has very little knowledge of their system. For example the shoes often seen strewn over hydro lines near shooting scenes. What's it mean? Cops tell me it's saying a dealer is "open for business." Others say this is an "urban myth" and "we really don't know what it means."

Well I'd like to see a national ban on shoes on hydro lines. And on child street executions, too.

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The craziest story of the week might have been that during this gang war, Canada is deporting peaceful community activist and father of two Daniel Johnson, forcing he and his Canadian kids to move to Israel. We have had terrorists hang around longer. And some illegal strippers. What I want to see in this country is a ban on stupidity. Make an exception and let this man stay with his kids.

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You hear about the bad incidents but you rarely hear about ones prevented.

Tuesday in 22 Division, cops took down suspects they allege were in possession of "a loaded .38 calibre revolver, a loaded .45 calibre semi-automatic pistol, a quantity of ammunition, a quantity of cocaine and cash."

One charged is Julian Telfer, who was arrested in an incident involving weapons in August of 2005. He was in our system and now faces charges of possession of a restricted firearm with ammunition, unauthorized possession of a firearm (X2), carrying a concealed weapon, careless storage of firearm (X2), careless storage of ammunition (X2), fail to comply with probation (X4), possession for the purpose of trafficking (cocaine) and possession of proceeds of crime.

Nothing has been proven in court but can we trade him for Daniel Johnson and call it even?

What about a gangster ban? I can tell people are tired of Miller's gun ban mantra. I saw this when my final four paragraphs of a column this week calling for a fully funded snitch line was picked up by media like John Downs on AM 640, Paul and Carol Mott on CFRB and with Jaime Pulfer on 680 News. The public is starving for leadership and ideas and quote No. 6 from the mayor's standard list of quotes on gun bans is just not cutting it anymore!