After a year that was very questionable in acceptability, Rotzy’s having apprehensions about what’s ahead of us in 2023.
“It’s A Sad Day”
….read the front page of last Thursday’s Expositor, the words coming from Shelley Bentley, Mayor of Haldimand, in reference to the murder of OPP Constable Grzegorz ‘Greg’ Pierzchala Tuesday afternoon. She also called the shooting ”heartbreaking”, adding ”things like this don’t happen in Haldimand”. Sorry, your Worship, but they DO. Now. And you/we can add Haldimand to the list of so-called ‘safe places’….small towns and villages where others have said the same thing….”this doesn’t happen here”. Kinda like ‘this is the end of the innocence’ to quote Don Henley….and if you remember the song Henley also says ”so open up your best defence”. Well Madame Mayor, in your particular case, Haldimand’s ‘best defence’ is/would have been to have the murderer off the streets/behind bars in some gaol last Tuesday. Where he should have been, had some Parole Board not seen the murderer as a fine candidate and ‘rehabilitated to the point to take his rightful place among the population’. Well, that should have been a red flag to The Board as the murderer had already shown he has a problem getting along with the General Population (G/P). IN PRISON! *by the bye, Rotzy is supposed to (by law?) refer the murderer as ‘the alleged shooter’. Whatever. So why was Randall McKenzie at large? He ‘fell through the cracks’ like so many others??!! That’s a biggie.
Tell you what….society makes its own rules/laws, it is up to the population to respect and live within said laws….otherwise you will be ‘removed’ from said society. OK?! Now, yours truly’s NOT gonna get into the ‘re-habilitation process’ here and now, other than to say it’s broken. Badly. When Corrections Canada knows that 60% of people charged with a crime….ANY crime….WILL RE-OFFEND!! First offenders and/or 21st Offenders. That is Fact. Also…..and this makes yours truly absolutely crazy….WTF are we spending an arm and a leg to re-hab scum like Paul Bernardo. Why would anyone with an IQ even WANT to RE-HAB him???!!! Why is HE talking about parole? Why was Miss Homolka allowed to walk after singing her ass off about her ‘ex’. Now she’s got her freedom, a new name/identity/life….and ‘she breeds’! Lovely. I wonder how the French and Mahaffy families are faring these days? Sorry, but I STILL come undone every tyme I think of that ****ing pair.
But I digress back to ‘the Cop killer(s)’, and to touch upon the ‘heartbreaking’ and truly ‘tragic’ part of the story that unfolded about OPP Constable Grzegorz, and most of you are well familiar with it now. Tuesday was Greg’s FIRST day as a full fledged OPP Const. having completed his ‘ten-month training period’ the day prior….and it was also his first tyme in a cruiser ‘solo’. And we can ‘flog and what-if’? that one forever, I’m certain that many already are. We watched on last night’s 6:00PM News as a large Police entourage took Greg home to Barrie for Tuesday’s funeral and the turn out of Police and Fire, First Responders along with everyday people crowded onto every over-pass along Hwy. #400 was an unbelievable testament to a cop who obviously touched a lot of people in a life that was cut far too short!
As to the murderer….and ‘his accomplice’….at the moment it’s Murder One for both of them. Sorry, but Rotzy doesn’t have any more faith in Canada’s Judicial System than our Parole Boards…..even tho this was/is a ‘cop killing’!, in the ‘accomplice’s’ case I keep on thinking about Homolka ‘singing’….and McKenzie getting off with Manslaughter. For killing a Cop??!!
And If You Think….
….things can’t get any worse/more bizarre, EIGHT teenage girls in Toronto (from 13 to 18) attack an olde, homeless wino on a bench at 2:00 in the morning and stabbed him to death as he ‘came to the aid’ of a female wino/friend to prevent the ‘children’ from stealing her bottle. Just watch this one unfold! It’s called a ‘swarming’. Well, in a very short tyme the olde wino and his lady friend will become cannon fodder and Toronto the good and a bunch of self-delegated ‘do-gooders’ will jump right into the fray (like they belong) to ‘save these poor children’!! ”Children”??!! ”Somebody say Children”??!! And it will be the Young Offenders Act (YOA) to the front and centre to see that ‘the children’ are protected first and foremost. (Oh yes….by all means….right after they are removed from the society they so blatantly abused! It says here that they will get little more than a slap on the wrist (for Murder 2!!) and bet your bail money (*see below) they’ll all join the 60% re-offenders club (see above). To quote Sonny Bono….not the ‘other’ Bono….and Mrs Bono, ”and the beat goes on”. By the bye, one of them is ALREADY ‘out on bail’! (*see above) Surprised? You shouldn’t be. (here’s hoping the ‘child’ didn’t pick up any bad habits whilst in the holding tank)
Sunday Jan 1st 2023….4:30AM….
….and Rotzy’s sitting in Edna The SUV down front listening to ‘The Shift’ on Global Radio, my coffee in one hand and a Canadian Light in the other. The program broke for commercials and when Shane returned, Auld Lang Syne was playing! Not Guy Lombardo but it was a nice version…of course Miz. Jo and I had missed the clock striking 12:00 last night. Again. Anyway, when the music came on Rotzy immediately called out ”Yipppeee”….which I do EVERY single day regardless of music, not too loudly, I just ‘say it’. Then I said (to myself) ”Well Toad, this one should be a piece of ***ing cake!….I mean after LAST year? this one has GOT to be better! I mean TWO ****ing trips to BGH for YOU, heart stuff both tymes! THREE separate ****ing EMS runs for Miz. Jo! broken hip, electrolytes outta whack, and a particularly bad ****ing case of pneumonia with nasty side and after effects she’s still working on here in Unit #303. Don’t forget a ****ing go at COVID-19 somewhere in that ‘smorgasbord of unwellness’!! So….SO….I’m thinking the new year WILL be better, right”? “Well I’m thinking you need to wash your mouth out with Lifebuoy*tm soap, mister garbagemouth!! Since when did you start talking like THAT”?! ”OK, OK, OK. C’mon man!….dont’cha see I’m just so happy to be leaving that train wreck behind us I feel like breaking into a chorus of ‘Oh what a beautiful morning’! I’m in such a great mood this January 1st 2023 I don’t know whether to s–t or wind my watch”?! ”OK, OK, Toad….you win. Let’s give it a go, shall we? Welcome to 2023”!
*Thought Of The Day….At the end of the day…….it’s night.
