In May, Walt brought to your attention the case of "You doesn't have to call me Johnson" Aziga, the first person ever to be convicted of murder in Canada by reason of having knowingly infected his sex partners -- note the plural -- with HIV/AIDS. At the time, the Crown was seeking to have Aziga declared a dangerous sexual offender, so that instead of being eligible for parole at some time in the distant future, he would be incarcerated "at the pleasure of Her Majesty", meaning (potentially) forever.
Canadians will doubtless be pleased to know that the Crown's application has been successful, and Johnson has been slapped with the dreaded DSO label. Apparently his defence that he was convicted by a racist jury, besides which he was neurotic about an undescended testicle, didn't work. The Crown argued, and the judge agreed, that Aziga should be labelled a dangerous offender because his abnormally high libido could lead him to reoffend.
So what happens now? Aziga has been in jail for eight years already, at a cost to the Canadian taxpayer of about $100,000 per year. Rather than spending another couple of million providing him with a bed and three squares a day, would it not make more sense to send him back to his native Uganda?
On the other hand, this could be a plan by the Canadian justice minister, Robbie Nicholson, to reduce Canada's prison population. Yeah, that's it. Just put the hyper-libidinous, AIDS-ridden Johnson in the showers with the rest of the boys, and let nature take its course. Smart thinking!
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