Foundations of Critical Criminology – Week 1 Lecture
Knowledge stimulation – Pleasure-Threat threshold (Endorphin threshold, Fight/Flight response) When you’re reaching a point of hitting a wall, and knowledge is challenging and difficult, result of body filling with cortisol)
A professor is not a teacher? (Does not engage in Pedagogy), but does engage in adult education (Socratic method – call and response, cannot tech you anything you do not want to learn)
The Government of Canada is engaged in an act of illicit and illegal coercion of its citizens, denying them access to services and goods. All just some just for a vaccination shot. There is no legal vaccine mandate, nor can any mandate exist in Canada.
“Cui bono” – interests are laws made and broken and punishment meted out? Why are there very patently injurious harmful behaviors with many victims not crimes? (Canadians losing their human rights, freedom of conscious, we literally DO NOT have a democracy, give up rights over their bodies)
Is criminology scientific or is it a moral project? Well, for one, you cannot have a blood test for being criminal. You cannot have any indication that individuals who are subjected to penal and criminal sanctions are somehow fundamentally different from others. Hence why criminology is a fiction and not scientific.
Important passage: act right now committed by human beings that is now deemed criminal occurred prior to it being criminalised.
Britain and France forced the Chinese to consume opium and took the Chinese to war over forcing them to use it, later in the 1900’s both GB and FRA both decide to ban it, how hypocritical, they’re the people that gave us Criminology.
Plato “the laws” – looking at people who have imagined the state has that have the ideal enterprise to control human conduct, he was arguing for dictatorship (let the best breed with the best, and let the inferior fade out)
Wendell Oliver Holmes – “eugenicist” wiping out those not desirable, Nazi Germany came to him to learn about eugenics when wiping out Jews, minorities etc.
Michael Parenti – to be mindful that a democracy is built on distrust. Democracy is not about the trust of your leaders. Trust is an intimate and personal matter. Confidence is a different matter. You give or you retrieve or take away your confidence from the ruling economic and political elite.
Force and Consent – Seeing an election as slave master versus slave master, you did not consent on the person pre-selected for that candidate. You are simply ratifying a decision that was already made for you. That is not consent.
Thomas Hobbes – case about the Leviathan state. Which adjudicates between persons who are seeking their own ends, because, in the absence of a Leviathan state, it is a war of all against all. No source of evidence. He’s making a proposition that’s entirely specious and speculative. But it was simply the aristocracy in a war of all amongst themselves.
“So called vaccine mandate” – Key concepts; all about moral panic, scapegoating, social constructionism, racketeering
Propositions in Formal Logical:
2 types, Quality and Quantity, each type has 2 categories, Universal and Particular
Thus, there are ONLY four categories of propositional statements that correspond to the types of propositional statements. Meaning there are ONLY four types of propositional statements.
Quality -> Universal Affirmative (Affirmo = A, first vowel in the world “affirmo”) Universal Negative (Nego = E, first vowel in the world “nego”
Particular -> Particular Affirmative (Affirmo = I, second vowel in the word “affirmo”) Particular Negative (Nego = O, second vowel in the world “nego”)
Vaccine Example:
Universal Affirmative (Vaccines are Good -> “All” is implied)
Universal Negative (Vaccines are Bad -> “All is implied)
Particular Affirmative (Vaccine “A” is good, meaning all the other options B, C etc. are bad)
Particular Negative (Vaccine “A” is bad, meaning all other options B, C, etc. are good)
Forms of Logical reasoning:
Inductive reasoning (cumulative data that establishes a pattern.)
Deductive reasoning (conclusion drawn from the relationality of premises. For example, if “A” the major premise is presumed to be true and “B” the minor premise relates to “A”, then “B” is also true -> Syllogism.
Inferential/Abductive reasoning (It is probably “this” because although evidence is incomplete or cannot be known at present, the sum of evidence suggests it is “this”)
There is NEVER a point where the production and consumption of knowledge is not: political, affective, physiological and value laden.
Strive always to articulate and be aware of these forces that shape how you think about what you think about. Because this determines your actions in the world.
Unlike some other countries, immunization is not mandatory in Canada. It cannot be made mandatory because of the Canadian constitution. It must be emphasized that exceptions are permitted on medical or religious grounds, reasons of conscience. Legislation and regulations must not be interpreted to imply compulsory immunization.
Drug trials have four phases. Great deal to talk about “Covid Misinformation and “Covid Hesitancy” (no such thing as CH, since no one can make you take a vaccine because it is illegal for them to do so)
Rights and freedoms including other people rights to health and security, your own rights, are part of the human rights framework. BULLSHIT! Human rights framework is about individual rights. There is no such thing as a collective good in human rights law. It’s about the protection of the rights of the individual.
You cannot repeal something which is not legal. You need a legal remedy to bring a mandate into law and you need a legal remedy to repeal it
Criminal Code of Canada (216) – Duty of persons undertaking acts dangerous to life Obligation. — Everyone who undertakes to administer surgical or medical treatment to another person or to do any other lawful act that may endanger the life of another person, is accepting cases of necessity under a legal duty to have and to use reasonable knowledge, skill, and care in doing so? (Brock Administration case, where they do not have the legal authority to impose vaccine on someone)
(217.1) – Duty of persons directing work obligation. — Everyone who undertakes or has the authority to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take. Reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person or any other person arising from that work or task.
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