CHIBOUGAMAU, Que. – A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government has pleaded guilty to starting a series of fires himself th...
“At this point, the accused admitted he was the one who started the fires and, as his main motivation, claimed he was doing tests to find out whether the forest was really dry or not,” Charron said.
Would an adult elementary school jail sentence function as a form of punishment?
Yes. But only if they refuse to acknowledge that you’re an adult and don’t belong there. Otherwise it’s just reading small books and adding numbers together manually.
Doesn’t seem like a believable motivation to me. You don’t need to literally light things on fire to tell when forest conditions are like a tinderbox, let alone do it 14 times. I figure this guy knew in his gut that the government was setting those fires, and if he could just find some evidence then he could crack the whole case open and people would stop calling him crazy. Of course he can’t find any such evidence (because it doesn’t exist) but he knows in his heart what’s happening so what’s the harm with creating some ‘evidence’ to move things along?
I stopped going to my favorite breakfast resto because every morning during the wildfires they would be loudly bloviating on how Trudeau was out starting these fires to block out the sun and make it harder to grow food so that we’d be beholden to the government just to eat.
I don’t relish the idea of adding insanity as a spice to my eggs and bacon. But maybe it will be time to go back for one more cup of coffee and ask their opinion on this shithead’s escapades.
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Would an adult elementary school jail sentence function as a form of punishment?
Yes. But only if they refuse to acknowledge that you’re an adult and don’t belong there. Otherwise it’s just reading small books and adding numbers together manually.
Stay-at-school suspension for 4 years.
Doesn’t seem like a believable motivation to me. You don’t need to literally light things on fire to tell when forest conditions are like a tinderbox, let alone do it 14 times. I figure this guy knew in his gut that the government was setting those fires, and if he could just find some evidence then he could crack the whole case open and people would stop calling him crazy. Of course he can’t find any such evidence (because it doesn’t exist) but he knows in his heart what’s happening so what’s the harm with creating some ‘evidence’ to move things along?
Agreed, totally bogus motivation.
Billy Madison style
He could not test that by collecting some samples and using a fireplace?
Your first mistake was bringing rationality to a bonfire.
Sounds akin to that woman that joined the search party for herself. Yeah, that’s bullshit and disastorous, but it’s the Onion-tier bittersweet funny.
I stopped going to my favorite breakfast resto because every morning during the wildfires they would be loudly bloviating on how Trudeau was out starting these fires to block out the sun and make it harder to grow food so that we’d be beholden to the government just to eat.
I don’t relish the idea of adding insanity as a spice to my eggs and bacon. But maybe it will be time to go back for one more cup of coffee and ask their opinion on this shithead’s escapades.
“How do you know he wasn’t paid by Trudeau?” Just you wait.
Of course it’s the governments fault, they never stopped me.
Wait a goddamn minute. What about the wildlife he killed and the habitat he destroyed?
Charge this guy with environmental terrorism and 1 million counts of animal cruelty.
Forced confession?