A World of Cheese, For your Pleasure

But he was an ingenious man. He fathered a son in Canada. He takes him and the mother to the mall sometimes. Great guy.

This wasn't a recent conviction; this happened back in 1996. He served 18 months on weapons charges and has been clean, they think, since. He has a steady job. Here's where I have a problem. The cops clearly believe that he was on his way to commit murder, so why wasn't he charged with attempted murder? It is known that you can be charged with intent to traffic drugs if you have more than a certain amount of drugs on you. You can be charged with intent to traffic drugs even if there are no drugs in existence. On the other hand, you can't be charged with possession of child porn if the children don't exist, or you can't prove that they exist, or were harmed.

My older brother, not the one that was recently sentenced for trafficking drugs that don't exist, but the one that was sentenced two years ago with trafficking drugs that do exist, is not a Canadian citizen. He simply never bothered to do it, and I don't know why, although I suspect it has to do with the same sickening arrogance that he has had his entire life. He is going to be released later this fall on parole, but then they are going to start proceedings to get him out of the country for good, I imagine. (With the exception of the occasional hurricane, I suppose you could do worse than to be forced to go there.) Unless he quickly starts up a second family, he won't have any compelling reason to keep him here. But it kills me that would-be and actual murderers get to stay while small-time drug smugglers get thrown out of the country. No race card here, obviously, but aren't our priorities a little out of sync with reality? Or am I simply a crackpot?

Thinking of my brothers always makes me think of these people.