I’ll see your university against free thought and raise you a puritanical, unenlightened judge. From the Toronto Star (emphasis all mine):
An Ontario judge is at the centre of a misconduct investigation after insisting a witness who is HIV-positive and has Hepatitis C don a mask while testifying in his courtroom.
Three groups have complained to the Ontario Judicial Council about the conduct of Barrie judge Justice Jon-Jo Douglas, who later moved the case to a bigger courtroom in order to create more distance between the witness and the bench.
The judge refused to accept Crown counsel Karen McCleave's entreaties there was no need for such measures.
"The HIV virus will live in a dried state for year after year after year and only needs moisture to reactivate itself," Douglas insisted, according to a transcript of the Nov. 23 trial proceedings.
I’m all out of patience with this kind of ignorant bullshit. This guy is a judge and he’s got his head so far up his ass, he can kiss his own colon.
I’m going back to bed now.
4 comments:
His claim is, strictly speaking, true... If he is covered in open sores, and his opponent regularly spurts blood from his eyes, then his precautions are well advised.
Otherwise, he's a fucking idiot.
The Wikipedia article on HIV says that it exists in low concentrations in saliva, tears and urine though no infections have ever been linked to those vectors.
So maybe he's just paranoid and uninformed.
This moron should not be at the center of the misconduct investigation, he should be at the back of the unemployment line. What. A. Moron.
This moron should not be at the center of the misconduct investigation, he should be at the back of the unemployment line. What. A. Moron.
By Blogger the rev., at 5:24 AM
I wouldn't hold my breath. If it were in American he'd probably have a Presidential Medal of Freedom by now.
Post a Comment