Some criminals are beyond redemption
People all over the Miramichi, and all over New Brunswick for that matter, are breathing a sigh of relief at the news convicted serial killer Allan Legere will stay locked up in the super-max prison in St-Anne-des-Plaines, just north of Montreal.
But it’s more than a little disturbing to know the bureaucrats in charge of looking after monsters like Legere are more concerned with his right to privacy than with decent people’s right to security.
It wasn’t that long ago that Legere, known as the Monster of the Miramichi, was skulking through the shadows just down the road, or across the field, or in your backyard waiting to jump out and kill you. Like his worship the mayor said, for those who went through it, it’s like it only happened yesterday.
Now those bureaucratic clowns at Corrections Canada want to put us all at risk again and for what? To save a buck or two? Because he’s changed his ways? Give me a break.
Instead of bending over backwards to destroy this country, why can’t the federal government do something useful and execute a few of the Allan Legeres and the Clifford Olsens and Paul Bernardos that we’re spending huge money to keep in our already overcrowded prisons.
These people are some of the most wretched, cold-blooded, soulless creatures to ever walk the face of the earth. Maybe God will see fit to forgive them, but they’re beyond all redemption on this earth.
In this society, if a rabid dog bites someone, we put it down, not out of malice or spite, but to protect the public.
And unfortunately there are people in this society who have proven themselves to be no better than a rabid dog. They are vicious, they are dangerous and the only way the public will ever be safe from them is when six feet of dirt is pushing them into the ground.
Give Legere a chance and he’ll be running through these woods again, lurking in alleys, hiding in shadows, ready to kill and kill until the river is red with blood.
It’s all he knows.
Like Rick MacLean, who was editor of the Miramichi Leader when Legere held this community hostage for more than half-a-year was quoted as saying in this paper last week, “What’s he got to lose?
“What’s the worst thing that can happen to him if he escapes and kills someone? He goes back to where he already is. He has nothing to lose — absolutely nothing to lose,” MacLean said.
I say this society has everything to lose by allowing ourselves to think rabid dogs can be cured by a pat on the head or that blood thirsty monsters can be rehabilitated.
But it’s more than a little disturbing to know the bureaucrats in charge of looking after monsters like Legere are more concerned with his right to privacy than with decent people’s right to security.
It wasn’t that long ago that Legere, known as the Monster of the Miramichi, was skulking through the shadows just down the road, or across the field, or in your backyard waiting to jump out and kill you. Like his worship the mayor said, for those who went through it, it’s like it only happened yesterday.
Now those bureaucratic clowns at Corrections Canada want to put us all at risk again and for what? To save a buck or two? Because he’s changed his ways? Give me a break.
Instead of bending over backwards to destroy this country, why can’t the federal government do something useful and execute a few of the Allan Legeres and the Clifford Olsens and Paul Bernardos that we’re spending huge money to keep in our already overcrowded prisons.
These people are some of the most wretched, cold-blooded, soulless creatures to ever walk the face of the earth. Maybe God will see fit to forgive them, but they’re beyond all redemption on this earth.
In this society, if a rabid dog bites someone, we put it down, not out of malice or spite, but to protect the public.
And unfortunately there are people in this society who have proven themselves to be no better than a rabid dog. They are vicious, they are dangerous and the only way the public will ever be safe from them is when six feet of dirt is pushing them into the ground.
Give Legere a chance and he’ll be running through these woods again, lurking in alleys, hiding in shadows, ready to kill and kill until the river is red with blood.
It’s all he knows.
Like Rick MacLean, who was editor of the Miramichi Leader when Legere held this community hostage for more than half-a-year was quoted as saying in this paper last week, “What’s he got to lose?
“What’s the worst thing that can happen to him if he escapes and kills someone? He goes back to where he already is. He has nothing to lose — absolutely nothing to lose,” MacLean said.
I say this society has everything to lose by allowing ourselves to think rabid dogs can be cured by a pat on the head or that blood thirsty monsters can be rehabilitated.
posted by Street Wise Guy | 4:56 PM
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