Rest in Peace, Jane Creba
Imagine that on the day after Christmas, you and your 15 year-old daughter are shopping for bargains in a popular and usually safe section of your hometown, when suddenly gunfire between gangs erupts. Your daughter, caught in the crossfire, takes a bullet in the torso and is mortally wounded.
I can't even imagine that level of grief, and I hope you've never experienced anything close to it. However, now try to imagine that the mayor of your city uses the tragedy as a political opportunity, and that the leader of your country writes off the death of your daughter as "the consequences of exclusion," defecating on her memory while taking advantage of the situation to promote his "hug a thug" agenda.
That's exactly what happened to Bruce Creba and Virginia Barton, the parents of Jane Creba. On December 26, 2005, at 5:19 p.m. on Toronto's popular Yonge Street, gunfire erupted in in front of a Foot Locker store (340 Yonge St.). Seven people were wounded, and Jane Creba didn't survive.
Jane Creba, killed on December 26, 2005 by misunderstood and "socially excluded" youths who simply needed more social programs and a few more hugs
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, facing an election on January 23rd after his Liberal government fell to a recent no-confidence motion, wasted no time in an attempt to use the tragedy to his political advantage, expressing the following drivel about the Boxing Day shootings: "I think, more than anything else, they demonstrate what are, in fact, the consequences of exclusion," in effect pissing on Jane Creba's grave before she was even buried. I think, more than anything else, Martin's words demonstrate that he is, in fact, a flaming asshole.
In other words, Paul Martin's answer to this tragedy is to try to convonce you that a bright and promising teen died because taxpayers hadn't been sufficiently fleeced to provide enough freebies to keep gang members happy.
I could speak volumes about Paul Martin, but this depiction of a Martin brain scan should sum up most of what I would say if I wanted to spend weeks typing up what I thought of this moron:
Remarkably accurate scan of the brain of Canadian PM Paul Martin
Tragedies like these often bring out stupidity from a variety of fronts. For example, Detective Sergeant Savas Kyriacou of the Toronto police force was temporarily deprived enough of brain power by the Creba killing to uncork this gem at a press conference: "It was a tragic loss and a tragic day. I say tragic because it's a day when Toronto has finally lost its innocence." This statement is so stupid that it would be difficult to explain without charts (one would think a police officer of his rank would know his own city better than that) but at least Kyriacou was genuinely affected by Jane Creba's death and had his heart in the right place.
You'd think that his political rivals would have jumped on this and taken advantage of such stupidity and insensitivity on Martin's part, but such is not the case. Jack Layton, the leader of Canada's New Democrat Party (like they need more Democrats up there), blamed the shootings on "poverty, unemployment and social exclusion" - yet another call for higher taxes, more ineffective social programs, and further coddling of thugs who use idle time to shoot up crowds.
Both Martin and Layton are calling for more gun control, ignoring the fact that Canada's $2 billion gun registry doesn't stop crime, and joining the march towards a handgun ban is Toronto Mayor David Miller. Yep, that should make those bad ol' criminals turn in their guns and take jobs at fast food restaurants. After all, I'm sure the gun used to kill Jane Creba was obtained legally.
As someone who is vehemently in favor of legal gun ownership for law-abiding people who pass background checks, I could go into painstaking detail about how ineffective gun bans are, how crime increases as a result of gun bans, and how gun bans simply make the streets safer for criminals who have no intention of complying with these laws - blinding you with a series of statistics that probably won't influence your thinking anyway, regardless of which side you're on regarding this issue. But Paul Martin, aside from basically excusing the shooters, also found a way to make use of his knee-jerk tendency to bash the United States on December 27th while using Jane's death to his advantage: "What we saw yesterday is a stark reminder of the challenge that governments, police forces and communities face to ensure that Canadian cities do not descend into the kind of rampant gun violence we have seen elsewhere," a none-too-subtle shot at the USA.
Miller was even more blatant: "The U.S. is exporting its problem of violence to the streets of Toronto." Sure, Dave. If we were capable of exporting violence, we wouldn't have any. By the way, let's see some proof that those legally-obtained weapons used to kill one of your constituents came from us to begin with - every country has gun runners, you arrogant ass.
The template for thug-hugging, America-hating liberals is simple: when an innocent victim dies, regardless of age, blame everyone and everything except the killers and the utterly pansified system that coddles them. Get this: one day after Jane Creba was killed, a Toronto judge released a 23 year-old drug dealer named Marcel Laframboise, who "allegedly" (chuckle, snort, guffaw) committed first-degree (premeditated) murder of an Ottawa man during an attempt to collect a drug debt - on $50,000 bail! That's probably America's fault too, with Canada being at fault only in their "social exclusion" of the otherwise lovable Mr. Laframboise.
By the way, here's how the gun control that Messrs. Miller and Martin love so much actually works in Canada: earlier in the month, Constable Valerie Gignac...
Only the good die young: 25 year-old Laval Constable Valerie Gignac was killed on December 14, 2005
...was killed while responding to a seemingly routine noise complaint in Laval, Quebec by a high-powered rifle shot that went straight through her bulletproof vest. The "socially excluded," misunderstood poor soul that pulled the trigger was a short, fat, ugly loser named Francois Pepin...
"Socially excluded" loser Francois Pepin, who must have gotten his rifle and ammo from the United States
...who in 1999 was banned from possessing firearms for 10 years. The unusually strict conditions of this ban were as follows: the socially excluded Pepin was ordered to store his guns at a friend's house and only use them during hunting season. Amazingly, Pepin didn't follow the law. Yes, much like the Washington snipers, who didn't let the Assault Weapons Ban stop them from picking off mothers and bus drivers with a banned Bushmaster rifle, Pepin chose to ignore the sort of laws that Miller and Martin so cherish. The result? One less good cop in Quebec's second-largest city.
So, while the Creba family was just beginning to cope with the shock of having Jane's life senselessly snuffed out by criminal scum, Martin and Miller (who was on vacation in Spain and didn't exactly rush back) raced to figure out how they could use this tragedy - anything to further their agendas. Try to imagine dealing with a loss like the Crebas' compounded with the audacity of politicians at the highest level of your city and country treating your daughter's death like a lucky break that they could exploit.
As usual with stories about tragedies like this, the victim is spoken of as if he or she were a saint loved by everyone, but I've done quite a bit of reading into this case and it seems that Jane Creba really was something else. Straight-A student, softball star and universally loved. Her death was a real loss that Paul Martin and David Miller see as little more than a springboard to help them keep their jobs.
On January 23rd, Canadians go to the polls. The prediction here is that by then, Canada will have forgotten all about Jane Creba and leave the Liberals in power. The feeling here is that even if it's the mentally deficient Jack Layton or the milquetoast "conservative" Stephen Harper, any change would be a good one - and this comes from someone whose country is run by a world-class jackass who bloviates like a Republican but spends (and coddles illegals) like a Democrat. Regardless of whether you share my views on gun control, I would hope that the opportunism of Martin and Miller disgust you as much as it does me.
Like many, I've heard thousands of stories about senseless killings and become desensitized enough to them to not lose any sleep the same day I hear about them. However, the Gignac killing still has me spitting nails, and the Creba killing angers me like none other that I've ever heard of. Coddling killers and spitting on the memory of a dead tenth-grader in order to promote an agenda - no matter what that agenda may be - is as disgusting as it gets. I'm not generally known for my sensitivity, as will become clear as this blog grows in size, but my heart really goes out to the Creba family - they lost their daughter and then watched the leaders of their city and country use her death like a pawn in a chess match. Keep them in your thoughts.
Rest in peace, Jane.
Jane Creba, 1990-2005
I can't even imagine that level of grief, and I hope you've never experienced anything close to it. However, now try to imagine that the mayor of your city uses the tragedy as a political opportunity, and that the leader of your country writes off the death of your daughter as "the consequences of exclusion," defecating on her memory while taking advantage of the situation to promote his "hug a thug" agenda.
That's exactly what happened to Bruce Creba and Virginia Barton, the parents of Jane Creba. On December 26, 2005, at 5:19 p.m. on Toronto's popular Yonge Street, gunfire erupted in in front of a Foot Locker store (340 Yonge St.). Seven people were wounded, and Jane Creba didn't survive.
Jane Creba, killed on December 26, 2005 by misunderstood and "socially excluded" youths who simply needed more social programs and a few more hugs
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, facing an election on January 23rd after his Liberal government fell to a recent no-confidence motion, wasted no time in an attempt to use the tragedy to his political advantage, expressing the following drivel about the Boxing Day shootings: "I think, more than anything else, they demonstrate what are, in fact, the consequences of exclusion," in effect pissing on Jane Creba's grave before she was even buried. I think, more than anything else, Martin's words demonstrate that he is, in fact, a flaming asshole.
In other words, Paul Martin's answer to this tragedy is to try to convonce you that a bright and promising teen died because taxpayers hadn't been sufficiently fleeced to provide enough freebies to keep gang members happy.
I could speak volumes about Paul Martin, but this depiction of a Martin brain scan should sum up most of what I would say if I wanted to spend weeks typing up what I thought of this moron:
Remarkably accurate scan of the brain of Canadian PM Paul Martin
Tragedies like these often bring out stupidity from a variety of fronts. For example, Detective Sergeant Savas Kyriacou of the Toronto police force was temporarily deprived enough of brain power by the Creba killing to uncork this gem at a press conference: "It was a tragic loss and a tragic day. I say tragic because it's a day when Toronto has finally lost its innocence." This statement is so stupid that it would be difficult to explain without charts (one would think a police officer of his rank would know his own city better than that) but at least Kyriacou was genuinely affected by Jane Creba's death and had his heart in the right place.
You'd think that his political rivals would have jumped on this and taken advantage of such stupidity and insensitivity on Martin's part, but such is not the case. Jack Layton, the leader of Canada's New Democrat Party (like they need more Democrats up there), blamed the shootings on "poverty, unemployment and social exclusion" - yet another call for higher taxes, more ineffective social programs, and further coddling of thugs who use idle time to shoot up crowds.
Both Martin and Layton are calling for more gun control, ignoring the fact that Canada's $2 billion gun registry doesn't stop crime, and joining the march towards a handgun ban is Toronto Mayor David Miller. Yep, that should make those bad ol' criminals turn in their guns and take jobs at fast food restaurants. After all, I'm sure the gun used to kill Jane Creba was obtained legally.
As someone who is vehemently in favor of legal gun ownership for law-abiding people who pass background checks, I could go into painstaking detail about how ineffective gun bans are, how crime increases as a result of gun bans, and how gun bans simply make the streets safer for criminals who have no intention of complying with these laws - blinding you with a series of statistics that probably won't influence your thinking anyway, regardless of which side you're on regarding this issue. But Paul Martin, aside from basically excusing the shooters, also found a way to make use of his knee-jerk tendency to bash the United States on December 27th while using Jane's death to his advantage: "What we saw yesterday is a stark reminder of the challenge that governments, police forces and communities face to ensure that Canadian cities do not descend into the kind of rampant gun violence we have seen elsewhere," a none-too-subtle shot at the USA.
Miller was even more blatant: "The U.S. is exporting its problem of violence to the streets of Toronto." Sure, Dave. If we were capable of exporting violence, we wouldn't have any. By the way, let's see some proof that those legally-obtained weapons used to kill one of your constituents came from us to begin with - every country has gun runners, you arrogant ass.
The template for thug-hugging, America-hating liberals is simple: when an innocent victim dies, regardless of age, blame everyone and everything except the killers and the utterly pansified system that coddles them. Get this: one day after Jane Creba was killed, a Toronto judge released a 23 year-old drug dealer named Marcel Laframboise, who "allegedly" (chuckle, snort, guffaw) committed first-degree (premeditated) murder of an Ottawa man during an attempt to collect a drug debt - on $50,000 bail! That's probably America's fault too, with Canada being at fault only in their "social exclusion" of the otherwise lovable Mr. Laframboise.
By the way, here's how the gun control that Messrs. Miller and Martin love so much actually works in Canada: earlier in the month, Constable Valerie Gignac...
Only the good die young: 25 year-old Laval Constable Valerie Gignac was killed on December 14, 2005
...was killed while responding to a seemingly routine noise complaint in Laval, Quebec by a high-powered rifle shot that went straight through her bulletproof vest. The "socially excluded," misunderstood poor soul that pulled the trigger was a short, fat, ugly loser named Francois Pepin...
"Socially excluded" loser Francois Pepin, who must have gotten his rifle and ammo from the United States
...who in 1999 was banned from possessing firearms for 10 years. The unusually strict conditions of this ban were as follows: the socially excluded Pepin was ordered to store his guns at a friend's house and only use them during hunting season. Amazingly, Pepin didn't follow the law. Yes, much like the Washington snipers, who didn't let the Assault Weapons Ban stop them from picking off mothers and bus drivers with a banned Bushmaster rifle, Pepin chose to ignore the sort of laws that Miller and Martin so cherish. The result? One less good cop in Quebec's second-largest city.
So, while the Creba family was just beginning to cope with the shock of having Jane's life senselessly snuffed out by criminal scum, Martin and Miller (who was on vacation in Spain and didn't exactly rush back) raced to figure out how they could use this tragedy - anything to further their agendas. Try to imagine dealing with a loss like the Crebas' compounded with the audacity of politicians at the highest level of your city and country treating your daughter's death like a lucky break that they could exploit.
As usual with stories about tragedies like this, the victim is spoken of as if he or she were a saint loved by everyone, but I've done quite a bit of reading into this case and it seems that Jane Creba really was something else. Straight-A student, softball star and universally loved. Her death was a real loss that Paul Martin and David Miller see as little more than a springboard to help them keep their jobs.
On January 23rd, Canadians go to the polls. The prediction here is that by then, Canada will have forgotten all about Jane Creba and leave the Liberals in power. The feeling here is that even if it's the mentally deficient Jack Layton or the milquetoast "conservative" Stephen Harper, any change would be a good one - and this comes from someone whose country is run by a world-class jackass who bloviates like a Republican but spends (and coddles illegals) like a Democrat. Regardless of whether you share my views on gun control, I would hope that the opportunism of Martin and Miller disgust you as much as it does me.
Like many, I've heard thousands of stories about senseless killings and become desensitized enough to them to not lose any sleep the same day I hear about them. However, the Gignac killing still has me spitting nails, and the Creba killing angers me like none other that I've ever heard of. Coddling killers and spitting on the memory of a dead tenth-grader in order to promote an agenda - no matter what that agenda may be - is as disgusting as it gets. I'm not generally known for my sensitivity, as will become clear as this blog grows in size, but my heart really goes out to the Creba family - they lost their daughter and then watched the leaders of their city and country use her death like a pawn in a chess match. Keep them in your thoughts.
Rest in peace, Jane.
Jane Creba, 1990-2005
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