Doug Collins ® get this straight @ WHENEVER KILLING killers is mentioned, the great ar- my of social reform tells us we shouldn't do it because an innocent person might suffer. But when several innocent persons dic because the great army has made yet another mistake, they tell us not to worry. Doesn't everyone make a mistake now and then? That’s what happened in the Allan George Foster case. The added joke, of course. is that the National Parole Board that should never have let the creep out of jail has investigated itself. and found itself to be without fault. Foster was the one who wiped out his former common-law wife and two little girls a couple of weeks ago and then wiped himself out while awaiting psychiatric examination. “I say to hell with parole boards, which exist to provide jobs for worn-out politicians and party-liners.’’ We can cheer about the last bit, but what we can’t cheer about is that those three innocents dicd bloody deaths because socicty as represented by the professionals is stupid in its approach to crime and criminals. tt will be no news to you, but Iet me repeat it anyway: in 1971, Foster raped and killed a teenage i Kelowna girl. Eight years later the ever-lovin’ parole board thought he had become a good boy and let f him out. In 1986, while still on parole, he was up on a charge of gross indecency. For that he gota slap on the wrist — 21 days — and F the judge even called him Mr. Soon he was out on the street J again. No one in autharily seemed 16 think there was anything wrong with this psycho and the result was a triple murder. Apologists blubbered that the case was an exception and that the many shouldn’t be made to suffer for the few. Editorialists wept into their tea, producing questionable statistics to prove that all was not lost as far as turning killers into parsons was concerned. The Morning Wimp said we should not forget that parollees were responsible for fewer than two per cent of Canada’s 7,838 homicides between 1975 and 1986. Which is like saying two per cent is OK. Reverse that argument and you sce how dumb it is. Anyone on the f death penalty side who suggested it would be OK for two per cent of accused murderers to be wrongly convicted would be bashed as a monster. But liberals can be as dumb as they please and no one takes any notice. The Donald Marshall case not- withstanding, a wrongful convic- tion for murder is rarer than a rose in winter. But we have good evidence that no fewer than 37 and possibly as many as 50 killers (cither murder or manslaughter) have killed twice or more in recent times. The National Parole Board itself let on in September that one in five convicted murderers releas- ed on parole ends up in jail again. There have been many horror stories, but the do-gooders who run the country don't want to hear about them, Didn't the Great Baloncy himself announce that capital punishment was wrong? Would it have been wrong for Foster? Would it have been wrong for Allan Sweeney, who was also Iet out of prison after raping a woman and then killing her? Released into the custody of the John Howard Society, Sweeney in 1985 promptly murdered a 21-year-old female employee in his half-way house. In the Foster affair, black jokes abound. National Parole Soard vice- chairman Roger Labetle said he had investigated how Foster came to be let out of prison and then announced that the parole board people had acted ‘‘in a first-rate manner.” They did? ii Was just an “unpredicted event,’’ we were told. Unpredicted maybe. But not unpredictable. I say to hell with parole boards, which exist to provide jobs for worn-out politicians and party- liners. The federal Sentencing Commission recommended last year that they should go, so what is Baloney waiting for? The Se- cond Coming? It's also time we got back to getting rid of killers of the first degree sort. For good, in more senses than one. , Wall holds college registration A 10 per cent discount on fees for most non-credit evening and weekend workshops at Capilano College will be offered at Park Royal this week. 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