Wil's Rant

In another fine example of the every day lunacy in the Canadian Justice System, a victim has been awarded 5.7 million for the injuries he suffered at the hands of three pieces of garbage. He is not expected to ever be able to collect on any of it. As for the criminal process, the worst of the three received 8 years, he will in all likelihood be out much sooner. All the better to be able to get right back to being the upstanding citizen he has been thus far.

Certain types of crime should not ever be allowed to be repeated. This is one of them. I can understand the humane aspects of trying to rehabilitate criminals but there are limits. We as a society have far surpassed those. Once a person commits this type of violent crime we have a much larger responsibility to the victim and to society as a whole to ensure that they never do it again. While rehabilitation is a noble goal to be sure, that first responsibility to society trumps it. Our legal system is failing in that responsibility. There are far too many repeat offenders of these extreme violent crimes. Once convicted of such an offense, that should be sufficient for the rest of us to assume that they might very well do it again. There is no way to be sure that they won't short of putting them away forever and never letting them walk among civilized humans again!