Saturday, February 14, 2009

Justice or Not

I recently have been watching the news here in snow land and have been quite perturbed lately by our justice system.

I watched a 1 hour 5th Estate show on CBC the other day and it was all about The RCMP killings in Northern Alberta. So I thought. They interviewed Shawn Hennessey about his involvement in the murders of 4 R.C.M.P officers. It was an interesting story but I am sure it did nothing for the families of the four dead Officers. James Rosko killed four R.C.M.P officers on his farm near Mayerthorpe Alberta then killed himself. So their is no one to blame. Through the interview it was clear that Hennessey knew Rosko and had a business relationship with him buying selling marijuana that Rosco grew on his farm. Cheeseman was Hennessey's brother in-Law and was not interviewed but was also accused.

Cheeseman and Hennessey admitted they gave Roszko a rifle and drove him to his farm in the early hours of March 3, 2005, where RCMP were investigating a marijuana grow operation and auto parts "chop shop" in a Quonset hut on Roszko's property. The two were not aware that the r.c.m.p were on Rosco's farm they thought the sheriff was coming to seize Rosko's truck. (this is what Hennessey claims)

By driving him home in the case of (Hennessey) and riding along to take him home (cheeseman), Both men were found guilty of Manslaughter. Both men pleaded guilty from the advise of their lawyers. They must have got them from an ad in the back of a comic book.

I respect , honor and am greatful that we have the R.C.M.P as the fine men and women who give selfishly of themselves to become R.C.M.P officers is no small commitment. It is a tragedy that we lost four Officers that day but by convicting two men of manslaughter who were not even their is ridiculous.

I am very confused with our Laws on how two men who are not mind readers nor were present for the murders could be convicted of these crimes. I think maybe aiding and abedding a convicted phelon ? or is this just something from the movies.

So two weeks later a woman from Saskatoon is sentenced to 4 yrs 2 months for brutally killing her own infant daughter. She threw the infant onto a couch in which the infant cracked it's head on the wooden arms , then picked the infant up like it was a sack of sand and threw it into a crib. She left it their for hours before emergency was called we don't even know if it was her who called the ambulanc. Then she gets a two for one deal like she is ordering pizza and has her sentence reduced by 13 months because she spent 13 months in custody .

This is absolutely ludicrous. I am not a racist person but our court system sure seems to want me to be this happened to be a Indian baby. What Indian baby's aren't worth much ? I am pulling my hair out here Robert Latimer gets a life sentence for the mercy killing of his daughter oh and by the way he didn't beat her and cause severe brain damage to her just before she died. as well he didn't get the two for one deal cause he got LIFE in prison.

I am Outraged and have lost all faith in our justice system.

2 comments:

Wilma said...

The reason why Cheeseman & Hennesey got the verdict & the sentences they did was because they knew Roszko was planning to kill police officers. They gave him a gun, they drove him to his home, knowing that he was going to use them on police officers, and they did not try to stop him nor try to warn police that Roszko was on the premises & armed. That is why they are culpable & guilty of manslaughter, even though they were not present when the RCMP officers were killed.

According to news reports:
Undercover RCMP officers posing as criminals taped Cheeseman admitting to them that he knew Roszko was planning to kill the Mounties.

"Well, obviously we knew that he was going back to kill RCMP officers," Cheeseman admits on the tape.

"He said he was pretty much going to take care of business."

Anonymous said...

It is weird how they omitted that from the interview he did on TV. And I am unsure of what was known at the time of the murders. I am sure he is guilty of something relating to the killings but I don't think it is manslaughter.