A crime is a crime, to be solved and the perpatrator brought to justice. To concede a "sociological phenomenon" is to invite all manner of inconvenience for his government.
It should come as no surprise that I agree with Tim Harper's assessment of the PM. Stephen Harper is functionally fixed, a troglodyte of conscience in the Platonic sense. Like Rob Ford, Harper goes with his gut and, when the challenge is great enough, tends to just back away and do nothing.
Tough on crime. What happens when those in charge of making and enforcing the laws engage in criminal acts themselves?
Free market - what if the people choose liberalism? Is trying to reduce their options not against the principles of the free market and general rights and freedoms? Is that, then, not akin to criminal intent?
Ultimately, it comes down to might makes right. But that's what Putin does, and we know Harper thinks Putin is evil.
Stephen Harper is a walking contradiction, standing against many of the things he does or allows to happen. The more entrenched he gets in his positions, the more he looks like a bad guy - and the more people grow cynical with his "it's just business" mentality.
He doesn't see this, though - there is, after all, no room for context in his world. It's too bad, really - if he'd take the time to wade into the reality-based world from time to time, he'd see how out-of-touch he's become.
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