A8 - Wednesday, July 4, 1984 - North Shore News

A murderer fit only for~

HERE WAS NO PITY shown when the deed
was done. No warning was given. The killer

gave his victim no chance.

He didn’t tell him to drop
the bag of money — or else.
He simply shot Bob Per-
sowich three times— once in
the face — ran up the stairs,
and took off on a motor-
bike. If anyone had tried to
stop him, he’d have killed
them, too.

We are talking about the
Park Royal murder, and |
have been trying to fathom
the mind of the creature that
did it, assuming that he has a
mind. Oh, he was clever
enough to plan the murder
and knew exactly when the

Brinks guard would be leav-—

ing; knew, too, that the
shock of the event would give
him a head start.

But above all, he knew his
own neck would be safe if he
were caught, and that it
would still be safe even if he
shot down a dozen other peo-
ple in making his getaway.
Sure, he would face 25 years
in jail, but he would still be
getting up in the morning and
chewing his breakfast, and
watching TV and reading
books and having a crowd of
sympathetic psychologists

by
Doug Collins

and other twerps trying to
find out what makes him
tick, as if we didn’t know.
And let him provoke a
guard into giving him a
punch on the ear and Clare
Culhane and her crew of

i mailbox |><|

Doug must
be a quad!

Dear Editor
In regards to Doug Collins’
column, ‘‘The Keegstra

Case’’, he speaks of freedom
of speech. Again.

Now if one adult tells
another adult that’ the
Holocaust was a hoax, then
those two adults can argue
about 11. Now that is freedom
of speech.

But if a person in author
ty. a TEACHER in
Keegstra’s case, tells a class
of teenage students that itis a
hoax, that is not freedom of
speech.

We, the parents, send our
children to learn what ts on

the school curriculum, which
is set by the government, (we
the people) and anything
more will be added by same.
when deemed necessary.

Keegstra had no right tell
ing his students what he per
sonally thought of such an
enormous subject

My point, in using my
freedom of speech 1s this
Doug Collins must be one of
triplets or quadruplets! Why
do | assume this? Because
one person alone cannot be
that ignorant

Andy George
North Vancouver

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crazies would be outside the
jail with protest placards and
Svend Robinson would be up
on his feet in the House of
Commons, prating about
prisoners’ rights.

He knew all that. Which is
a lot different from knowing
that if you are caught, you
are going to face the big
darkness for sure, or the fires
of hell, or whatever it is that
might be in store on the other
side.

Our politicians don’t agree
with that, of course. They
would rather have us spend
$40,000 a year keeping the
likes of this jerk in jail. And
the social engineers and the
professors and all the other
milquetoasts who have never
stared down the barrel of a

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gun themselves and felt the
pee trickling down their legs
agree with them. Mention
capital punishment to them
and they practically burst in-
to tears.

It wouldn’t do any good,
they say. It is uncivilized,
they say. It ‘would only be
murder bv the state, they say.
It would only be revenge.

What’s wrong with
revenge? When | think of
Bob Persowich, whom 1
never knew, being gunned
down outside the Park Royal
liquor store at 5 o’clock of a
Friday evening for 50,000
lousy bucks or whatever a
day’s take is, revenge sounds
pretty good to me. It sounds
even better when | think of
his poor wife and kids bawl-

ing their eyes out at home.

Ah, say the self-appointed
experts. That’s just being
emotional. In any civilized
system, emotion’s a_ bad
thing. Besides, they say,
would you like to be the one
to pull the lever or press the
switch?

You’re damned right I!
would, if everyone else was
tgo busy. And you wouldn’t
even have to pay me. Not in
cases like this. Because we’re
not talking about a crime of
passion, or the sad outcome
of some husband and wife
quarrel, or the stupid out-
come of a pub brawl. Prison
may well be the proper place
for people who kill that way.

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sat down one day over a beer
and cold-bloodedly worked
out how, for a fistful of
dollars, he would blast
another guy to Kingdom
Come. Who the victim might
be didn’t matter. And | say
that the proper place for
killers of that sort is the big
darkness.

It is a method with many
advantages: it is cheap; it is
final. In the big darkness,
there are no repeat perfor-
mances, no interviews with
the papers, no arguments
about parole, and no useless
therapy sessions,

Above all, the rest of us
would know that in cases like
this, justice has been done.
And what we know nowis that
in justice is done.

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