Canada’s Supreme Court: Don’t Jail Aborigines!

Good morning,

In Canada, Lady Justice has removed her blindfold. National law tells judges to treat “aboriginal” people specially—legally defined as the Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples. That means giving indigenous criminals greater leniency, and crimes against indigenous victims greater severity. In a ruling last Friday, these two unjust priorities collided, and the Supreme Court sided with the offender.

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In R. v. Cope, the court upheld a reduced sentence for Harry Cope, a Mi’kmaw man with a long criminal record who repeatedly punched his common-law partner on a sidewalk and threw her to the ground, seriously injuring her face and upper body.

• The trial judge gave him five years. The appeals court cut that to three, with 18 months already credited for time in custody.
• Then came Canada’s Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 that the trial judge gave insufficient weight to the recommendation of an indigenous “sentencing circle” that Cope be freed from jail immediately.

“Sentencing circle”? To address “indigenous overincarceration,” the government of Canada allows the offender’s own community—family, supporters, elders—to help decide (reduce) his punishment. This means more mercy for “aboriginals,” and two standards of justice.

• In this case, the Supreme Court blamed the “indigenous overincarceration” problem and violence against indigenous women on “colonization”—a word that appears 11 times in the ruling. Apparently indigenous people only started beating their wives after white people showed up.

Yes, Canada’s “justice” system is worse than America’s.

My boggled mind tracked back to “The Great Feminization,” Helen Andrews’s essay in Compact last year, where she warned that “the rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female.”

• She argued that as women come to dominate an institution, its values shift. Empathy, consensus and protecting whoever seems most sympathetic become more important than rules applied the same way to everyone.
• America just witnessed a textbook example in the Lindsay Clancy case: Mom murders her three children in cold blood—yet 11 of 12 jurors and considerable public opinion say, Not her fault: Don’t punish her.

Sure enough, Canada’s highest court became majority female in 2023. In R. v. Cope, four of its five women joined the majority, and three of its four men dissented.

• Ironically, the court’s sympathy did not go to the woman on the sidewalk. It went to the man who put her there, because his story of colonial injury was more compelling.

God’s law forbids exactly this. “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour” (Leviticus 19:15). Justice must not tilt toward the powerful nor toward the pitied.

Isaiah described a nation of Israel in collapse: “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths” (Isaiah 3:12).

• Canada, descended from Joseph, is living this prophecy. Its leaders have abandoned God’s standard of justice and are destroying “the way of thy paths.” We all suffer for it—especially the victims.

What Does the Pope’s Cancer Diagnosis Mean?

Pope Leo xiv was diagnosed with lung cancer after undergoing surgery yesterday to remove a nodule from his lung. According to oncologists, the early detection and surgical removal offer an encouraging prognosis. However, this sudden health scare so early in his pontificate shows that man’s plans are subject to a higher power.

The surprise election of Pope Leo xiv at age 69 last year was widely believed to mark the beginning of a long pontificate. Yet only weeks into Leo’s papacy, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote, referencing numerous Bible prophecies:

In several ways, Pope Leo xiv does not fit the picture in these prophecies. I do not expect him to remain pope for long. Still, he may set the stage for a more ambitious and aggressive pope.

At the time there were no indications of a short papacy. In fact, many expected the opposite:

• In anticipation of his 70th birthday, American Conservative wrote that “reticence toward a long papacy is waning.”
• After 100 days in office, the Catholic News Service suggested that his papacy “easily could last 20 years.”

Leo’s recent surgery and lung cancer diagnosis make such a long pontificate seem far less certain and Mr. Flurry’s prediction far more likely.

Mr. Flurry did not base his forecast on what could be seen at the time but on what the Bible reveals. Isaiah 47 and Revelation 17 show that the Catholic Church will forcefully unite its daughter churches under its rule and play a critical role in the revival of the deadly Holy Roman Empire. There are also specific prophecies about the man at the top of the church when these prophecies will be fulfilled, as explained in “Where Will These New Leaders Take the World?”

Netflix’s Favorite Monsters

Netflix has a new star. Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the fourth season of a true-crime series, brings the 1892 Fall River ax murders to screens around the world. Netflix isn’t just telling the story and making a profit. It’s celebrating mass murder. Here’s one promotional summary:

• “The killings give birth to an icon who breaks out of her cage and writes her own legend. Shocking, monstrous and gloriously free.”

Netflix considers a woman murdering her own father and stepmother with 28 swings of an ax worth re-creating with millions of dollars paying an army of actors, cameramen, cosmetologists, set builders, lawyers, video editors and scriptwriters who make a demonic murderer “relatable.” And Netflix promoters and advertisers want you to think it involves glory and freedom.

This isn’t an obscure corner of the culture. It’s the mainstream.

• The Monster season on the cannibalistic murderer Jeffrey Dahmer passed 1 billion viewing hours and reached Netflix’s all-time top 10.
• Critics hated the season on serial killer Ed Gein—but audiences pushed it to No. 1 in more than 60 countries anyway.
• The creators are already working on re-creating the next “monster.”
• Plenty of people, if you ask, now have a favorite serial killer.

This is extraordinary moral depravity. We’ve reached the point of glorying in the most patently vile works of the devil.

The fruit: Is it any surprise what our streets look like?

• Chicago: A man with a long criminal record allegedly murdered a transit worker. He is reportedly the 17th person this year accused of killing or trying to kill someone while out on felony pretrial release.
• Philadelphia: A gunman with a record going back to 2012 allegedly ambushed police, killing one officer. A second officer was shot 12 times.
• Virginia: A 6-year-old who stole his mother’s gun took it to school and shot his teacher. Police body-camera footage shows him afterward cursing at officers: “If you want a piece of me, come get it all.”

That child wasn’t born that way. Criminal behavior is learned, absorbed from the home, the neighborhood and—if you are not constantly at war against it—the entertainment.

God’s law of cause and effect is simple: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (Galatians 6:7). We are sowing violence in our entertainment and refusing to punish it in our courts. So we can expect to continue reaping more of it.

IN OTHER NEWS

Drones strike ships on NATO’s border, leaving 21 people missing: Drones hit two merchant vessels just outside of Bulgaria’s territorial waters in the Black Sea yesterday, sinking one and leaving 11 people unaccounted for. A similar strike occurred on two other commercial ships in the same region on October 6, sinking one and leaving 10 crew members missing. Though culpability has not been established, the strikes occurred in an area Russia operates and align with its broader efforts to push against nato.

Poll: Majority of Spaniards foresee war with Morocco: A September 13–15 Politico poll of 2,066 respondents in Spain indicates that 58 percent of the population expects an “armed conflict” with Morocco over the disputed cities of Ceuta and Melilla to occur within the next 10 years. Those cities, owned by Spain but located in North Africa, are tense, especially after roughly 70,000 immigrants entered Spain through Ceuta at the end of July. Daniel 11 and other Bible prophecies reveal that Spain will be part of a Catholic European superpower that will wage war against several Islamic nations in North Africa and the Middle East.

Federal agents raid home of politician Ilhan Omar: Agents from Homeland Security Investigations raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s residence in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Under a court-approved warrant, criminal investigators are looking into a long-running accusation that the Minnesota Democrat congresswoman’s father committed fraud when moving the family to the United States from Somalia.