The Homolka Interview
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:42 am
I've watched this interview and read the transcripts. I've also read and listened to people's reaction to it. She may have pulled the wool over the judicial system's eyes (not hard to do), but it seems that the public has more common sense. If we don't have capital punishment, could we at least have life sentences for those who commit heinous crimes? What are the opinions of everyone else out there. Montrealers, how do you feel about having her free amongst your children?
muffinman @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:55 am
I totally agree. I really don't think she is all that sorry and feels she has done her time for her crime. That is crap! Canada should have capital punishment for those who are proven without a doubt to be guilty of these types of crimes! They should have both given the chair and save the Canadian tax payers money!
norad @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:39 am
Yes, she should be declared a dangerous offender like Paul Bernardo and never let out of prison.
Paul Bernardo's lawyer said that Bernardo is agitated from all the press around her release. Bernardo is now saying she did the strangling of these teenagers. A co-worker was telling me that an expert in the field of profiling even said that Bernardo was not a murderer; a rapist, yes, but did not fit the profile of a murderer. I can't verify that since I'm at work, but if that's the case, she is definitely a danger to society and should be locked up. In fact, it is of my opinion that she should be sent back to prison on the premise of making a deal with the crown by giving the authorities the false image of her being a victim in all of this mess.
She was/is far from being a victim in this. Can anyone honestly tell me that this is not a cold blooded murderer? Here is a pic of what I'm talking about: .[img][img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/AndrewJohnson/Homolka_Karla.jpg[/img][/img]
Society has this false image of the men being the murderers; in most cases this is correct, but women can be just as dangerous and just as savage.
muffinman @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:35 am
Can't say that I agree with putting her back in prison, she already learned french and got a B.A in there. Isn't that nice for the tax payers! If we are lucky someone will catch up with her when all this hype dies down and gve her what she really deserves!
BartSimpson @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:59 am
In Texas she'd already be dead.
Proculation @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:06 am
muffinman muffinman:
Can't say that I agree with putting her back in prison, she already learned french and got a B.A in there. Isn't that nice for the tax payers! If we are lucky someone will catch up with her when all this hype dies down and gve her what she really deserves!
What's wrong with learning french and getting a B.A. ?
Would you have preferred she got isolated for 12 years and get more sick in her mind then she was ?
For my point, I really don't care that she is released.
She did her time even if some think she didn't have enough. She is now free. And I would not mind AT ALL that she moves just next to my house. Can you really believe she is again a danger for the society because of what she did when she was young ? After TWELVE years of prison ?
I think no and people who believe that needs to get some brain and let the emotional part out.
norad @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:16 am
$1:
Can you really believe she is again a danger for the society because of what she did when she was young ? After TWELVE years of prison ?
Can you really believe that she isn't?
$1:
CSC's record is so pitiful on this score that it didn't even bother to define recidivism so that it wouldn't have to measure the success or failure of its kinder and gentler philosophy, which, by the way, has already been abandoned in countries like Denmark and Britain as an abject failure. Just before my book on Canada's prison system came out in 2002, a bevy of top officials from CSC and the National Parole Board insisted that the recidivism rate in Canada was between 11% and 12%, just as former CSC commissioner Ole Ingstrup had falsely reported to the parliamentary justice committee.
My own work, which was published in Con Game: The Truth About Canada's Prisons, put the recidivism rate at 43%, a figure that every bureaucrat who had ever memorized CSC's mantra disputed. Just over a year later, on June 26, 2003, then federal solicitor general Wayne Easter released the results of a study on reconviction rates for federal offenders which over a three-year period starting in 1994-95 were 44%, 43% and 41% -- or 400% higher than CSC's fake numbers.
My own work, which was published in Con Game: The Truth About Canada's Prisons, put the recidivism rate at 43%, a figure that every bureaucrat who had ever memorized CSC's mantra disputed. Just over a year later, on June 26, 2003, then federal solicitor general Wayne Easter released the results of a study on reconviction rates for federal offenders which over a three-year period starting in 1994-95 were 44%, 43% and 41% -- or 400% higher than CSC's fake numbers.
Read the rest, although a lot of it is on other government crap. Click
here.
Proculation @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:23 am
Hey I live in Quebec.
I know what the prison system is 
And you can't even think of beating that in any other province !
But that doesn't mean Karla Homolka is still a danger for the society.
The pedophile who raped his son and killed his wife with an axe and get released without condition 4 years after (that's quite what happens here) is much more frightful than Homolka.
Come on ! 
muffinman @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:31 am
You are a much more forgiving person than I. I don't believe a person responsible for such a brutal and heinous crime can ever be reformed. Mentally they are not right. It's not like she stole a car or robbed a store. She was involved in the death of even her own sister. I can't even imagine a mind like that.
norad @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:33 am
I say that she is. She hasn't proven otherwise. You fell for her shit, hook, line and sinker.
Why do you think that her lawyer is asking for the restrictions be lifted from her? She has a boyfriend in prison, who, by the way, strangled his former girlfriend; birds of a feather flock together, I guess, but she did her time and is now little miss innocent in your eyes.
polemarch1 @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:16 pm
This is bull! She should pay the ultimate price for her crimes. The fact that she's been realesed shows just how flawed Canada's justice system is.
Burn in Hell Karla 
Scape @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:22 pm
My heart goes out to Tim Hortens at this tragic time. What horrible PR for them. God, I hope they don't ditch the Iced Caps over this! 
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:33 pm
"Ice Cap, colder than Karla's heart!" . She's already manipulated CBC/SRI, why not another, and IMHO, a more important Canadian institution. The courts have to be held accountable for anything and everything she does. If they lack the ability or will to protect society, than society needs to protect itself.
Dayseed @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:49 pm
The person to whom you should direct your anger towards is not any of the Crowns, the cops or the justice system. All of them got bamboozled by her, just like the press and the public.
It's Ken Murray, Bernado's lawyer who supressed the videotapes, to whom you should direct your ire.
If he had acted morally (and legally as a damn officer of the courts) and turned the tapes over, that sweetheart deal would have been overturned in the blink of an eye.
Sucks doesn't it? She got a slap on the wrist for rape and murder. However, in the interest of civil liberties, I wouldn't want to see a precedent set for the Crown revenging itself upon her because she was successful in her lies. Almost all charged persons lie about their innocence or involvement, Homolka got away with it.
canadian1971 @ Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:54 pm
When I was 18 years old, I was charged and convicted of a Federal offense with a max penalty of 14 yrs in prison(won't get into details), and did my punishment.
Am I still a criminal who deserves to be in jail?