Scary SCOC Goddess Supreme

aka Chief Justice McLachlin

A truly scary person in Canadian politics CNEWS Forum, 12/05/2005

Put rights before Constitution -- Chief Justice: McLachlin tells judges to be bold 'even in the face of clearly enacted laws'

A truly scary person in Canadian politics casper34, (excerpts)

Our Chief Justice of the Supreme Court believes that she and her eight colleagues have a duty to ignore the written law passed by the people's legislators when a simple majority of them think that 25 million Canadians and their 300 representatives just aren't smart enough to get it.

This election needs to be about law and order as much as it is about government corruption, and how government sleaze and the lack of respect for the rule of law is poisoning our society.

Our government and our judiciary is used to ignoring hostile public opinion. Maybe we're just not being hostile enough.

Canadians are not protected by our justice system, but are treated with contempt by most of the people sitting on the bench and the government that put them there.

This should come as no surpise. When the Liberal government treats us and our money with contempt, does it come as any surprise that the people who are appointed as judges, in our system that lacks oversight for those appointments, share the government's attitudes? [. . . . ]

The big problem, as I see it, for the Liberal government(s) has been that any change in the system might not reward the "right" people -- and if you check who have power, you'll know who they are. The system reflects the top -- it starts with the gerrymandering, managing, re-writing, regulating, rewarding, sluicing and slushing, et cetera, using the tax $$$ that are OPM as pork $$$. The system's head ( guessing -- aided by the appointed members of the legal system and moneyed elites ) has been using that panoply of powers and abilities that allow a few to prosper, whether by position or otherwise ( make M/Billions on the backs of the citizenry). It is especially galling to those who have not developed the ability to huff and puff one thing while doing the opposite. . . or nothing.

The system's elite, headed by the increasingly desperate sounding PM, canvasses for what are IMHO, the most amenable to maintaining the system as it is and, lo and behold, that person becomes a justice and later a Supreme.

It seems obvious from past decisions made by the SCOC that the one who demonstrates the greatest contempt for the views of the majority of the citizenry and the long term good of the country would be the obvious candidate to be appointed Supreme Goddess. The same system ensures the continuance of the rottenness at the heart of the Canadian judicial system that treats criminals better in some cases than the victims.

Like the CBC, the appointed SCOC justices give the PM / PMO / government / political party what they need to maintain control though, with McLachlan's latest uttering, the SCOC may be planning on an even greater power kick . . . one that even those who do the appointing don't expect. Someone wrote that we might as well skip elections and Parliament and just let the courts run the whole shebang.

System change is needed; end the appointment process and the fiction that ordinary human beings, once they become justices, lose all quite human leanings toward one political philosophy or another. Admit that our SCOC and undoubtedly most of the courts are politicized, through human nature and by the nature of the appointment process -- and sheer luck favouring those with power already, there would be responsible, well-meaning individuals land on the bench. Nevertheless, the system is too tainted by politics.

End also the secretive funding of intervenor groups such as are funded under the Court Challenges Program. Is that not a covert avenue to subvert the will of the people? And then, there is the riding parachute system . . . and . . .

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