Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Canada passes mask law on Halloween!

Good one!

Those tough-on-crime Harperites are now getting even tougher on crime. The House of Commons has passed a proposed law that will make it illegal to wear a mask to a riot.

It's already illegal in Canada to wear a mask while committing a crime, so the new law doesn't really change anything. It makes some soothing headlines for the type of folks who buy into the tough-on-crime agenda even though statistics show Canadian crime rates trending down for almost half a century now.

The new bill is aimed at the so-called Black Bloc anarchists who tend to show up at any anti-government protest attempting to turn it into a riot. It is well known that the majority of the masked rioters are undercover cops, and they won't face charges anyway, with or without the new bill.

But the Harper gang has themselves some spiffy tough-on-crime headlines.

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