DANIEL AITKEN SHOULD REMAIN IMPRISONED FOR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE: Convicted of Samir Shamoon’s manslaughter, Alexander McLean’s + Adan Merino’s murders

Daniel Christopher Myles Aitken now awaits sentencing for his second conviction for murder, that of Alexander James McLean at Macaulay Point Park in Esquimalt, according to Louise Dickson.  

Mr. McLean had ‘been shot twice in the back of head on October 28, 2003,’ says the caption below a huge mug shot of the deceased.

Mr. Aitken is currently in custody for two previous convictions.

The first was one of manslaughter, in the case of Samir Shamoon, described by Dickson as ‘one of the city’s most notorious drug dealers and pimps.’

Charged originally with second degree murder in the Shamoon case, Mr. Aikten was finally found  guilty of manslaughter in the 1995 shooting death.

Earlier this year, Mr. Aitken had been found guilty of first degree murder for shooting Adan Merino outside the Chelsea apartments on View Street in Victoria, in December 2004.

I was not aware of the prior manslaughter conviction until I read about it yesterday in a long front page article by Louise Dickson in Victoria’s sensationalistic Times Colonist war-mongering rag.

In any event, I believe that this case is significant for Canada as it is likely to be cited by proponents of the death penalty in the next Canadian federal election.

Arguments will very likely be made by some of the more fanatical of Death Culture proponents in the imperialistic Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), those paranoid and ultra-reactionary candidates in favour of the reimposition of the death penalty, and they will likely cite the lamentable history of Mr. Aitken, and those of other violent recidivists like him, as justifiying such a change.

Their arguments should be refuted with vigour by the best pro-life anti-death penalty historians, jurists, philosophers and politicians in the land, and I am not one.

This huge constituency abides, however, in all Canadian political parties, with high concentrations in the left wing of the CPC (former ‘Red Tories’ in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada), and in the right wing of the Liberal Party of Canada (like pro-life Democrats in the USA). 

Almost all of the Bloc Quebecois, and even a few members of the New Democratic Party are also known to be pro-life opponents of the death penalty’s use in Canada.

Many of these people have been influenced by the teachings of the late Polish Pope on the Death Culture, and in particular, his position on the death penalty.

While adhering to the traditional Roman Catholic teachings on life and death based in the Thomistic philosophic system, which in its turn owed so much to Arabic translations of Aristotle, Pope John Paull II called into question the need for the use of the death penalty in our time by advanced technocratic societies.

He practically admitted that most post-war secular governments in Europe had already properly and efficiently banned the death penalty, and hinted that it would be a good thing for civilization’s sake if more countries followed suite.

Now is the time for these pro-life opponents of the death penalty, and especially elected Members of Parliament and other concerned Canadians to expose the deadly philosophical links between the Conservatives’ costly unjust war-making and their desire to needlessly reimpose the death penalty in Canadian prisons,  reactionary and totalitarian terrorist policies that ape the Death Culture materialism of the Empire of the South.

Let’s not let the Canadian Death Culture Establishment use Daniel Aitken (or any other killers like him) as the poster boy for the death penalty to be brought back to Canada.

If anyone in Canada should be incarcerated for life without parole, it should definitely be Daniel Aitken.

- Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, President

Concerned Citizens’ Coalition

 

[For a link to the Louise Dickson page one article in the Victoria Times Colonist on Daniel Aitken's history of crime,

please refer to the Commments section below.]

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