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June 13, 2005

Senator Stupid

I don't know exactly what Michel Biron thinks he's doing with his "support" of Karla Homolka. He seems to think that people should be free and clear once they've paid their debts to society. Sorry, grandpa: you picked the right horse in the wrong race. The only point to be made here other than what a horrible person Homolka is and what horrible things she deserves to have happen to her is that when salivating reactionaries meet murdering psychopaths, the only possible outcome is a complete intellectual train wreck.

Meanwhile, over at Dooney's Cafe, Brian Fawcett makes a well-argued case for just chilling the hell out (though I'm a little suspicious of all the amateur psychiatry in there):

What characterized [Homolka's] personality — and the erotic pathology she and Bernardo synergized — was not a perverted monstrousness but an extreme cultural conventionality coupled with an absence of imagination.

Indeed. Bernardo was an accountant, for heaven's sake! If Paul and Karla had been a 2005 phenomenon, their sexual transgressions (i.e., everything short of murder) would have struck millions of hairy-palmed porn-hounds as the extreme amplification and acting out of a particularly depraved afternoon's downloading. I think I'm ready to accept the fact that this woman got off easy and that the chances of her re-offending, while certainly not as low as I'd like, are pretty much pegged to the chances of her finding another Paul Bernardo. And there aren't very many of those, thank goodness, no matter how little you think of society these days.

Posted by Chris Selley at June 13, 2005 12:08 AM