On Mar. 29, Hamilton’s conspicuously Leftist newspaper, The Spectator, published a lengthy piece on David Gomez-Rodriguez, a Mexican who had come to Canada in the spring of 2023 claiming refugee status. Six months later, in Dec. of that year, he was arrested for smashing a dinner plate over the head of an individual who was simply eating his lunch at our downtown Salvation Army location. The act was utterly unprovoked. Released on the condition that he honour a future court date and not return to the Salvation Army site, he ignored both orders and was arrested once again in Mar. of 2024 for causing havoc at that same site. But these are but two of the multiple confrontations with the Law he has had since his arrival in Canada.
A month later, on April 25, police were called to a local neighbourhood where a ranting, swearing individual [Rodriguez] was caught wielding a pair of shears with which he was randomly attacking the shrubbery of local residents. This past Christmas he was arrested again for terrifying those at a Burlington bus station, threatening them with a fire extinguisher. While such behaviour may seem more demented than dangerous, he was in court once again on Mar. 14 of this year for threatening people with a knife at Hamilton’s downtown Farmer’s Market.
The above information indicates that Rodriguez was released after each of the incidents cited. While he was granted a suspended sentence after his gardening shenanigans, his defence lawyer, arguing that such a sentence entails a criminal record which might jeopardize his client’s status as an immigrant, pleaded with the court to cancel that ruling. Compassionate Ontario Justice Davin Garg did so, ensuring that Rodriguez would remain in the country. It was only on Mar. 14 of this year, a few days after his antics at the Market, that he was officially declared a criminal, though he was once again released on probation. Two days later, he walked into the home of 74 year old Charles Jouvence and knifed him to death!
The victim’s friend, Jordan Steele, said Jouvence was the kindest of men, beloved by all of his neighbours. I cite his murder as but one example of the thousands of crimes committed across North America by individuals who had been arrested repeatedly only to be released again and again, either because their communities lacked the facilities to detain them or because of the “liberal” views of those such as Justice Davin Garg who did not want to burden Rodriguez with a criminal record for fear of jeopardizing his status as a refugee. At the very least, Rodriguez should have been consigned to a mental institution!
Simple, irrefutable fact: Any sane government’s first priority must be maintaining the safety of its citizens. The building of prisons and maintenance of adequate police forces ought to be utterly prioritized over the various D.E.I. initiatives upon which our Leftist governments are spending billions of dollars annually. An online article proudly declares that Chicago’s 2023 murder victims numbered only 617, a decline of 13% over 2022. At the same time the city experienced 2,450 shootings that year! These numbers are insane and indeed an embarrassment to any country that deems itself civilized! Most of Chicago’s murder victims are Blacks killed by other people of Colour! One wonders, of course, how many of those responsible for such numbers had been arrested over and over again, only to be released because of their status as members of an “oppressed” minority. Indeed could it be that a culture that tells various groups that they are the innocent victims of an evil society actually encourages criminality amongst them? While too complex a subject to exhaust here, it is a fact that thousands of crimes, both violent and otherwise, are committed across North America annually by people who have repeatedly been allowed to walk free by a judiciary contaminated by the demented world-view of the Left, a world-view that actually led it to support “defunding” the police just 4 years ago in the U.S.!
“Progressivism” killed Charles Jouvence. In 2022, Myles Sanderson, a Canadian Indigenous who had been arrested 59 times [!!!!!], murdered, along with his brother, 10 fellow Indians in the Provence of Saskatchewan. “Progressivism” killed those people! I could go on and on citing examples of the Left’s utter disdain for the Rule of Law and the welfare of Law Abiding Citizens. For the moment, Biden’s open border policy which allowed over 10 million unexamined foreigners into his country throughout his term, will have to serve to illustrate the the American Left is no less insane than that of my home and native land!