HUNTER: Hug-a-thug judges hit daily double of bizarre decisions

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Canadians could be forgiven for believing this country’s judiciary is out of its mind.

Two recent decisions underscore the courtroom triumphs of a coterie of activist judges.

On Monday, Arnold and Joanne De Jong became collateral damage in Canada’s grand experiment in flooding the zone with unskilled immigration and judicial activism.

The elderly Abbotsford, B.C., couple were cruelly slaughtered in their own home in May 2022 during a botched invasion. The killers were caught and convicted but …

‘It’s just crazy. This is Canada’

Justice Brenda Brown, please step into the social justice batter’s box. Bam!

Earlier this year, Khushveer Toor, Abhijeet Singh and Gurkaran Singh were convicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the seniors’ horrific killings. An automatic 25 years in the slammer with no chance of parole. Now the trio of killers have filed a constitutional challenge seeking consideration for early parole under the so-called “faint hope” clause.

Bizarrely, Justice Brown said HURRAY! and declared 25 years behind bars without a shot at parole “cruel and inhumane.”

“It’s just crazy. This is Canada. How does this happen here?” the De Jong’s daughter, Sandra Barthel, told reporters, adding the decision was “mind-boggling” and “infuriating.”

On Monday, the family was slated to hear the killers’ sentences but were instead hit by a social justice beanball.

“(They) cruelly murdered my mom and dad, and now (the judge) is trying to say that going to jail for the time that is the mandatory sentence is cruel and undue harm. It just, it makes no sense to me whatsoever,” Barthel said.

In Canada on student visas? To hell you say!

Of course, we can also add in that two of the convicted killers were in this country on student visas at the time of the slayings. Because, of course, they were.

“You have two people who are not Canadian applying against our Charter. Our Charter should be protecting us as victims. It should not be protecting criminals,” said Barthel.

Brown will offer her reasons next month, then lawyers will argue whether the so-called infringement on the murderers’ rights was justified under Section 1 of the Charter.

In Toronto, another activist judge served up a lob ball. Activist courts, thine name is Justice André Chamberlain. Chamberlain proved on Oct. 8 why he is a hall of famer in woke circles.

Kieron Tierney — who, like the judge, has Indigenous heritage — racked up 101 break-ins. He was also pinched with an OUNCE of the deadly opioid, fentanyl. Well, the judge decided no more jail time. Time served. Hurray for us!

Prison hasn’t worked for criminal

Tierney is no boy scout. He had already done time for 85 previous break-ins costing the victims $26,000. The Crown wanted Tierney locked away for four years. But if they knew anything about the judge, they should have known if was a non-starter.

In a blindingly obvious statement, Chamberlain noted prison hasn’t seemed to work for Tierney who has been behind bars for 18 months. So, Tierney’s all ours.

This was not a one-off for the crusading, activist judge.

Toronto crack dealer Lloyd Williams won the lottery when he convinced the dewy-eyed judge that putting him behind bars would mean hardship for his, uh, nine children. Williams pleaded guilty in Ontario’s Court of Justice to three counts of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

Williams — Rotary’s Man of the Year — was busted again, and again, again. There are a bunch of failure to complies in there. The Crown asked for a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Williams’ lawyer argued for two years less a day in jail.

Couldn’t prove his Indigenous heritage

Enter Justice Andre Chamberlain.

“Lloyd Williams has nine children in total: two stepchildren and seven biological,” Chamberlain wrote. “The youngest is just 10 months old.”

And if you are capable of being shocked, Williams claimed he identifies as both Black and Mi’kmaq. He could not prove his Indigenous heritage, but did that bother the judge? Not a wit.

“It is not unusual for Indigenous people who have struggled under the yoke of colonialism in this country and its intergenerational impact to have lost connections to their roots and community,” Chamberlain sniffed.

So there. The De Jong family, meanwhile, is feeling “disrespected.”

Along with the rest of us.

bhunter@postmedia.com

@HunterTOSun

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