Vic Toews comes by his reactionary politics honestly. He was born into a German Mennonite community in Paraguay, one of the favored destinations of Nazis on the lam after WWII. Those Nazi war criminals and the Mennonites had one thing in common; they hated anything that smacked of Bolshevism.
That makes Toews feel right at home in the Harper cabinet. There are many tentacles of Bolshevism yet to be uprooted in Canadian society. Anything to do with workers rights, unions, unemployment insurance, and so on.
In fact, old Vic is such an over-the-top right-winger that his right-wing boss had to yank him out of the Attorney General job and put him into something a little lower profile, the newly created Ministry of Public Safety.
So when the opposition was asking pointed questions in the House of Commons today about the Ashley Smith travesty, old Vic seized the moment.
Smith is the Canadian teenager who was bounced around between eleven different prisons before she succeeded in killing herself after years in solitary confinement. The case is a bit of an embarrassment to the law and order crowd because it highlights the futility and inhumanity of their approach to juvenile "crime."
Smith's treatment at the hands of prison authorities would have made those Nazis of Toew's youth blush with embarrassment. She was beaten, tasered, drugged and duct-taped. If you've got the stomach for this sort of thing you can find some of the videos her tormentors made on You Tube.
Vic sniffed out an undercurrent of Bolshevist sensibility in the opposition's line of questioning. After all, any right thinking Canadian would understand that prison staff were just doing their job, and besides, anybody in the system wouldn't be there to begin with if they didn't deserve it.
So he quickly turned the tables on the questioners. They obviously care far more for criminals than they do for the victims of crime.
And obviously Ashley Smith was a criminal.
Why else would she be in prison?
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