Pickton gets the maximum!

He got the same sentence as the maximum for first degree murder in Canada. He won't be killing any more.

Here in the Lower Mainland there is huge underground consternation that the millions of dollars spent on the Pickton trial should have been used to help the low end sex trade workers and their immediate kin.

In fact many of Pickton's buddies still roam free. And the general indifference authoeities have to low-end sex trade workers has not changed.

And to think of all the additional money you are going to waste incarcerating this piece of human garbage. Lemme give you a hint - a .22LR only costs about 2-cents, and you can feed him to his pigs afterwards....

You can bet that a lot of the dispossessed-underground people and a lot of the low-end sex trade workers would not have shed a tear if that had been his fate. Pickton will now get better food, better shelter, and better medical than those he hurt.

Ironies abound but still the general indifference authorities have to low-end sex trade workers and dispossessed-underground people has not changed.

In a related further example, mega-money is being spent on the 2010 Winter Olympics of which only a chosen few will reap the benefit from whereas the outcasts of society will still linger in the cold.

It's been said that a good yardstick of a society's ethical success is how well those on the bottom rungs are treated.