Next time it'll be something serious

I grew up in a "legal family," which is a brief way of saying my father was a lawyer in private practice who did, among other things, criminal defence. We were raised on a steady diet of "innocent until proven guilty" and "in our system everyone deserves a vigorous defence for justice to be done," etc., etc. So, my ocassional fascist-leaning lapses are surprising to most. But, it's things like this that make me sympathize with the proactive defense posture of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism policy: 'Incurable psychopath' to be set free. The story is about the incurable psychopath whose well-known goal is to be "the most prolific killer in Canada." He's being released from prison in a week -- after serving his sentence (justice being done . . .) -- and, because he's managed to avoid being labelled a danger offender, despite being in jail for 15 of the past 17 years on 60!!! convictions, he will be able to roam free.

Unfortunately there is precious little that can be done except a little talk because the doctrine of pre-emtive action doesn't hold regardless of the psychopath's stated intent.

It disgusts me that such a waste of humanity can't be dealt with before somebody's child is molested and killed.

Posted by Grayson at June 25, 2004 07:12 AM