I don't really believe in Vigilant justice, its just not the right thing to do.
However you hope that his conscience haunts him for the rest of his life, However it just doesn't seem to feel like he's taken responsibility for essentially murdering 5 people and that's the tragedy.
On a cosmic scale, he's worthless scum and not worth one of the 5 people that he took out.
I would have hoped that the parole board had good reason to give him parole after such a short sentence, maybe he showed real remorse, or attended a bunch of classes in jail or something.
As I get older the whole fire and brimestone need for message board revenge has faded and I've certainly become jaded about the state of man's ability to do inhuman things. I'm too tired fantasize that mob justice would accomplish anything, or that karma would take care of this.
I believe that a large percentage of criminals laugh at our historical, short sentence hug a thug justice system mentality. I believe that most people convicted of crimes only apologize to their victims because it makes them look better in front of a gullible judge and gets them a reduced sentence. I believe that most of the people that end up in Canadian Prisons laugh about it, they get to vote, they get good meals and T.V. and in some cases golf games and BBQ's etc.
Its just frackin disheartening that this guy got drunk killed a family and his first thought was to not rush to their aid, but to destroy evidence, and then he constantly made excuses and then cried about his fate.
I read earlier this week about the 15 year old boy who has had something like 100 violent crimes and convictions and his dad had the nerve to sit there and state that he's a good boy that's made some mistakes and then shifted the blame to the police. Get real, your kid is a psychopath and you should be doing more.
I think if you have conduct like our favorite drunk driver where you don't show compassion to your victim, destroy evidence and generally act like scum we should be bringing back short hard labour sentences. I believe if you commit a violent crime we'll do everything we can to fix you, but if you commit another one you never get out. I believe people that molest children or commit sexual based crimes should never ever get out. I believe that our justice system does a disservice to the victims, I think our justice system does a disservice to the criminal by letting them believe that what they did in the grand scheme of things is about you and not what you did and that its really not that serious. I believe that the justice system does a piss poor job of protecting the public.
This is a rant and its all over the place, but I'm just tired of reading about guys like drunky getting out early without showing remorse. I get tired or reading stories that end with Billy Bob Numchucks was arrested at the scene, he had four previous violent convictions on his record.
Justice certainly needs to have a compassionate element where we work on the criminals reasons for following a life of crime, but without the punative punishment element, without taking public safety into account, without taking the concept of victim rights into account, all we get is what we have now, a soft hearted hugging cricle of justice system.
I hope this guy never gets to drive again,but I have a funny feeling that in a few years we'll be reading about this guy again after he plows through another car while drunk.
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