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		<title>&#8220;Happy F-cking Reduced Sentence&#8221;, Rahim Jaffer!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Conservative MP and husband of Helena &#8220;Happy Fucking Birthday&#8221; Guergis is reportedly recovering in the hospital, nursing lacerations to his lower hand after receiving a VICIOUS slap on the wrist from Ontario courts!
Jaffer, you&#8217;ll remember, was busted last year for plowing through a village with a 50 KM/h speed limits doing 93 clicks, being [...]]]></description>
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<p>Former Conservative MP and husband of Helena &#8220;<a href="http://maplerag.com/2010/02/happy-fing-birthday-to-airport-trashin-pei-bashin-helena-guergis/">Happy Fucking Birthday</a>&#8221; Guergis is reportedly recovering in the hospital, nursing lacerations to his lower hand after receiving a VICIOUS slap on the wrist from Ontario courts!</p>
<p>Jaffer, you&#8217;ll remember, was busted last year for plowing through a village with a 50 KM/h speed limits doing 93 clicks, being pulled over, being <em>drunk</em>, and for possessing some sort of magical white nose-candy. Drunk driving, possession of a narcotic, oh boy, this guy&#8217;s DONE! He&#8217;s headed for the big house! Send my regards to the guards at Kingston Pen, buddy! He- wait, what?</p>
<p>Oh right, he&#8217;s a famous politician! He got a <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rahim-jaffer-pleads-guilty-to-careless-driving-charge/article1494775/">careless driving charge and had to pay 500 bucks</a>. Your courts hard at work!</p>
<p>Jaffer, a <a href="http://communities.canada.com/edmontonjournal/blogs/electionnotebook/archive/2009/09/16/jaffer-s-anti-drug-ad.aspx">staunch anti-drug activist</a>, somehow got the more-serious coke charges dropped. Either he successfully argued that he didn&#8217;t have possession (&#8220;Ossifer, I schwear, tha&#8217;ss not mai coke&#8230; *hic*&#8221;) or maybe the cops found it on an illegal search, which invalidates the charge. Or maybe he just snorted the whole baggy up right in front of the cops, and slurred &#8220;Where&#8217;z yer evidenthse nowwww, <em>CSI: Palgrave, Ontario</em>?&#8221; Or maybe he&#8217;s just a rich well-connected asshole and the rules don&#8217;t apply to him.</p>
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<p>With Bill C-15 being pushed through, the <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n083/a08.html?199">bullshit</a> mandatory drug-sentences law that the Tories love so much they stacked the Senate just to get it through, it looks like Rahim&#8217;s dealer&#8217;s gonna get a mandatory minimum year in jail. Rahim, of course, voted to support the bill in its earlier form when he was still in office.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I&#8217;m sure you can recognize a break when you see one” the judge told Mr.  Jaffer.</p></blockquote>
<p>Did the court reporter note that the judge then gave an overdramatic &#8220;wink, wink&#8221; motion while rubbing his fingers together to signify &#8220;money&#8221;?</p>
<blockquote><p>His lawyer, Howard Rubel said: “What Mr. Jaffer did was drive without  paying attention to how fast he was going.”</p></blockquote>
<p>He then failed to mention &#8220;Oh yeah, and he was totally shitfaced hammered, he was so drunk the cops could smell the booze on his breath, and, yeah, they also found a shitload of cocaine in the car, which my client occasionally enjoys in his nasal area. But really, the main charge here was speeding. The big silly goofball&#8217;s just a bit lead-footed on the gas, that&#8217;s all! Probably one of those fuckin&#8217; Toyotas.&#8221;</p>
<p>Anyways, the real reason the charges were dropped is because Helena Guergis kicked down the courtroom doors halfway through proceedings, screaming like a banshee, jumped off the attorney&#8217;s desk and gave a flying elbow-drop to the bailiff while screaming &#8220;HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY&#8221;, before beating the crown attorney senseless with the gavel and threatening to bite the judge&#8217;s face until they arrived at the verdict of a reduced sentence.</p>
<p><strong>[Story: <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rahim-jaffer-pleads-guilty-to-careless-driving-charge/article1494775/">Globe</a>]</strong></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE: </strong>Liberal MP Anita Neville brought up Rahim Jaffer during Question Period today, and SHIT GOT REAL! Anita passive-aggressively baited the Tories into responding in some way to one of their own getting a slap on the wrist, after which the Tories demanded an apology, banged their desks and shook their jowls in blustery rage, and Neville was pretty much like, &#8220;What, I&#8217;m not apologizing, it&#8217;s not my fault Rahim Jaffer&#8217;s a corrupt cokehead&#8221;, which led to more shoutiness and the Speaker having to say &#8220;Order&#8221; no less than 19 times to shut &#8216;em up. That should be a new CPAC drinking game: drink when the Speaker calls for order! <em>(Note: MapleRag is not responsible for your upcoming alcohol poisoning.)</em></p>
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