What defines a Monster ...

This isn't a regular blog...just a twitter... a mini blog.
Mastoora Qezil plead guilty and will be sentenced later this month.
I'm not surprised by her plea,she will merely get a slap on the hand as the Crown has conceded, " she didn't mean to hurt anyone".
Right...when you insert sharp objects that can kill into a piece of food there is obviously no intent to hurt anyone.
This evening my thoughts were focused on Mastoora Qezil as I drove home from the library.
The modern justice system has a disdain for shaming or extracting the proverbial pound of flesh from criminals.You're not a bad person unless you intentionally kill someone.. "on purpose like". If you kill a person with your vehicle while impaired or
insert needles into "kid food" it's not on purpose, so not as bad.
Unbelievable...
The eureka moment burst into my consciousness as I turned onto my street.
A monster is someone who would rather be feared than loved.A sane person will always choose love over fear, it's that single choice that makes us human.
When you choose to exact your revenge on a former employer through lacing needles into a product which others will eat, that's clearly premeditation.
Mastoora chose an act of evil and through this act perpetrated fear and chaos.
Why should she get a light sentence when she clearly decided to wield fear and destruction?

Where the f@#k is Miss Manners when you need her ?

I'm blaming The Hot Librarian for my instant slide into profanity.
I don't think swearing makes you appear smarter unless you fit it into a funny context. The Hot Librarian is funny and I admit that I view her as a younger,drunker,
single,childless me albeit with better grammer and syntax. I miss being uncensored.
I'm struggling with the Mumminess of Mummy blogs.

Im not a hypocritical tight ass who flogs multicorporate wares on the innernet.
I tried... I signed up to a Canuck mum blogo site and agreed to review a product.
I was so excited when I signed for my package from the sexy Purolator delivery dude and coyly mentioned to him that I was reviewing the product for a company when he queried .
I opened the box and pulled two measly boxes of @@@@@@@ out. You know... the hotel jam size. The glow went off the whole "review" scam...I wanted a new iphone,Acer or Flip Cam not two packets of condiments.After the scammy reality of flog your blogness set in I decided that I'm just not cut out for promoting mommy products.
That being said ...
Blogging has been good for me.I'm gradually improving my writing skills and learning new and interesting ways to express myself.

I'm proud to have introduced and enbedded 'The Undertoad" a blog about a guy named Andrew Kummer who killed three people in London Ontario one early spring night, Mastoora Qezil, a Mom who laced needles into hotdogs sold through out Ontario, and Fast Times at Lanigan High ,a new phenomena about gen x and boomer parents who supervise their teenagers binging.
Hundreds of you have visited my corner of the internet looking for information on binging,food tampering or the undertoad.For what ever reason,I hope you cutnpaste the relevant parts out for your essay and pray your teacher takes off marks for your (my)poor grammer and syntax, serves you fuckers right:)

I'm really hoping that the Lanigan class of 2010 plans their prom theme to be "Fast Times at Lanigan High" as my prom theme suggestion in 1986 got shot down. I thought we has a shot at getting the Premier to come to our high school if we planned our prom theme to be "Millers Ontario". Sure it was sarcastic but I think the prom theme election process was rigged.Who in their right minds would want "Walt Disney" to be your prom theme. No debauchery there.

Despite a few kudos and hurrahs over a few thought provoking posts, I'm not completely happy with the overall tone of the blog.I'm not an uptight hyprocrite Stepford Mom, just someone who may have grown wise in the last couple of decades but for the most part I'm stuck at the virtual age of 21. Don't get me wrong,I believe in
truth,justice,honesty and the rules of right and heaven help you if you think you're above the laws of the land.I have raised my daughters with this mantra but I'm not a prude. I like to push and reveal hypocrisy while watching society rotate from the outside ring.
I'm not a nice stepford Mom or the typical Redbook Mommy.
I endured a decade long dysfunction of a marriage with a narcisstic asshole before waking myself up from my nightmare to fight for my children and the right for us to live a normal life. I'm proud that we have made it so far and am so ever blessed to have met my knight in shining armour who secured our future and continues to butter my toast each and every morning. So I'm now a wiser smarter 21 year old revolutionary who likes to have the odd glass of pinot grigio and not drive.
I drop the f word at home on a regular basis but then again we all do...Katie worked up a wicked profanity habit from watching Bubbles on the Trailer Park Boys. We finally had to ban her from integrating swear words into every fucking sentence. It was getting to be a lazy habit, after all profanity only works if it's used in the right context.
Life's only interesting uncensored.
So from now on, no more pseudo stepfordisms... just the naked truth. Promise ...

How Could You Mastoora Qezil ?

Mastoora Qezil pictured here:

The blogosphere has been rife with controversy since last weeks arrest and bail hearing of Mastoora Quezil ,the alleged former employee of Maple Leaf Foods who has been charged with "mischief" over lacing fifteen needles in hotdogs and lunchmate snacks.
People are furious over two issues,the slack would be sentence of less than two years and the concern that this was a politically motivated terrorist action.
Right wing bloggers are right in pointing out that food tampering has been used as a terrorist ploy by many extremist factions for many years and leaving any anti muslim overtones aside, food tampering is a terrorist action.

I have been following the forum debate at The National Post and Globe and Mail and citizens are outraged that Mastoora Quezil if found guilty will only be sentenced to up to two years. If this is her first offense perhaps she will get house arrest ?
Forum followers want to know if the crime was a politically motivated terrorist act and are concerned that this angle hasn't been thoroughly investigated.

I don't want the right vs left debate clouding the fact that Canada has gaping holes in it's laws,leaving us vulnerable to would be criminals.
Any food tampering is a terrorist act and tougher legislation similar to the FDA
should be enacted.
It's time for our politicians to reform this law as fast as they changed the "safety sports helmet" law.
Contact your MP or better yet Steven Harper and tell him he needs to move fast to protect the lives of Canadians.

http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/fedatact.htm

Food Tampering = Attempted Murder Mastoora Qezil

In the United States, food tampering carries a serious sentence ... up to punishable by death. In Canada , the maximum penalty is ahem,two years or less.

Ron Doering,the Gowlings "Food Law Guy" expounds on our slack law's on his blog at
http://www.gowlings.com/resources/PublicationPDFs/rdoeringMarch2006.pdf
The Canadian Food Inspection agency defines food tampering as,

Food tampering can originate from any number of possible sources and may, at times, appear to be accidental. Often, the motive is unclear but may be related to:
extortion for personal gain
labour-management problems
an attempt to draw attention to a "cause" by obtaining free publicity
revenge, by causing financial damage or discredit to an organization through lost sales or damaged reputation
mischief
reasons known only to the perpetrator
possible terrorist act

Twice, our government has dropped the criminal code reform regarding food tampering.
Our laws need to protect us , not protect the criminal.
Your child or mine could have died from eating tampered Scheider Lunchmate meats.
Two years or less is a travesty !


See story and criminal code definitions below ...


229. Culpable homicide is murder

(a) where the person who causes the death of a human being

(i) means to cause his death, or

(ii) means to cause him bodily harm that he knows is likely to cause his death, and is reckless whether death ensues or not;

(b) where a person, meaning to cause death to a human being or meaning to cause him bodily harm that he knows is likely to cause his death, and being reckless whether death ensues or not, by accident or mistake causes death to another human being, notwithstanding that he does not mean to cause death or bodily harm to that human being; or

(c) where a person, for an unlawful object, does anything that he knows or ought to know is likely to cause death, and thereby causes death to a human being, notwithstanding that he desires to effect his object without causing death or bodily harm to any human being.R.S., c. C-34, s. 212.

VS

COMMON NUISANCE
... / Definition.
180. (1) Every one who commits a common nuisance and thereby

(a) endangers the lives, safety or health of the public, or
(b) causes physical injury to any person,
is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
(2) For the purposes of this section, every one commits a common nuisance who does an unlawful act or fails to discharge a legal duty and thereby

(a) endangers the lives, safety, health, property or comfort of the public; or
(b) obstructs the public in the exercise or enjoyment of any right that is common to all the subjects of Her Majesty in Canada. [R.S., c.C-34, s.176.]

Woman arrested in meat tampering
Vik Kirsch
Mercury Staff

GUELPH

City police arrested a Guelph woman yesterday after sewing needles were discovered last week in Schneiders luncheon meats and wieners at a supermarket on the city's west side.

A 41-year-old woman was arrested yesterday, city police said in a news release last night. Held in custody, she is scheduled to appear in bail court in Guelph today.

Early last week, a customer of the No Frills grocery store on Silvercreek Parkway discovered a needle in a package of Schneiders turkey luncheon meat and returned the package to the grocery store. Store management and investigators from city police and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency then checked almost 340 luncheon meat packages and related meat products in the refrigerator unit where the original tampered product was found.

In all, they discovered 13 sewing needles of various sizes in 12 packages of 11 kinds of luncheon meats and wieners over the next couple of days.

Police noted yesterday nobody was injured as a result of the tampering.

Parent firm Loblaw Companies Limited checked similar products in its stores in its supermarket chains, including Zehrs, within a 25-kilometre radius of the Guelph store, but found no further tampering.

The food inspection agency was called in to determine if other stores had tampered meat products, but found none in the days after the incident.

Loblaw management, food inspection agency officials and city police investigators could not be reached for comment last night.

Mastoora Qezil, 41, is charged with one count of common nuisance.

The police investigation continues. Anyone with information is asked to call city Const. Kevin King at 519-824-1212, ext. 222.

Anonymous tips can be phone in to Crime Stoppers, at 1-800-222-8477.

vkirsch@guelphmercury.com