Karla Homolka
Interesting, that within Canada in the same week, two women, one celebrated yet scorned, the other notorious and reviled, have been much written about in the news media. Belinda Stronach, the celebrity Member of Parliament, has occasioned many news articles, some lauding her decision to leave the Conservatives for the Liberals, some chiding her for obvious ambitions to reach a position of unearned power (certainly for a neophyte politician) and disloyalty to a party which she helped engineer and demonstrated ambitions to lead.And then there is the notorious Karla Homolka, whose very name elicits shudders of disbelief. Who, after all, can believe that a young woman would energetically collude and participate in the rape of other young women, including her own sister? Who would, who could believe that an attractive, seemingly intelligent young woman would be a willing partner to murder? That being said, who could believe that a young woman, so besotted by her partner that she would be willing to take part in such atrocities would be found guilty, yet serve so little time in prison for her odious, unbelievable acts.
Well, this woman, Karla Homolka, is a true living example of the worst kind of sociopath. She has felt no remorse for the pain and anguish she has caused. Rather, she is still, and likely will always be, inbued with a sense of entitlement. That she was directly involved in the horrendous murder of two teen-age schoolgirls after helping to rape and torture them does not seem to have bothered her very much. Anyone with a sense of justice would be outraged as most Canadians were, to see photographs of this woman with other inmates celebrating, partying, as though they and she represented normal society. This, a woman dedicated to satisfying the most disgusting, disgraceful whim of her-then fiance, in agreeing to help to rape her own teen-age sister. Whom she first drugged into insensibility with medications which she stole from a veterinarian clinic where she then worked. A more unspeakably unbelievable plot for horror can't too easily be imagined.
That the investigating police force was so inept as to completely overlook vital evidence secreted in a bathroom of the house in which they lived, inside a ceiling light fixture is also difficult to believe. Don't these police watch any television? That a deal made in hell was made to provide a certain amount of immunity to this monster in order to have her testify against her husband was yet another travesty. That the police officer in charge of this investigation was so inept, that his men were so inept, hardly inspires confidence in the entire system of protection and justice. That this very same man is now the chief of police in this nation's capital is only another piece of this nether-world puzzle.
Oh, but that this woman, Karla Homolka, having now 'served her time' is set for an early July release is yet another chapter in the failure of our system of justice. While in prison she benefited from her unspeakable crimes by acquiring a better education than she started with. She learned another language, and with it is determined to settle into a nice, upper-middle-class echelon in Montreal. Oh yes, here's another 'that': That this woman's parents forgive and support her simply cannot register in my lexicon of human understanding. I must be missing something here.
posted by Pieface @ Monday, May 23, 2005
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