Zs Doug Collins gel this straight ® DISGUSTED THOUGH you may be at the atrocities be- ing committed by criminals on parole — multi-murders, as in the Allan George Foster case — there’s more silliness 10 come, Having been successful in abolishing the death penalty, the forces of ‘social reform’? want even softer handling of killers, psychos and suchlike. They accepted the 28-year man- datory sentence for premeditated murder only reluctantly. It was a temporary trade-off, sort of thing. “They'’ were churchmen, sociologists, criminologists, dim- witted media people and other deep thinkers who believe that most monsters can be rehabilitated. And for some time now the cry of the wimp press has been that 25 years in jail is . inhumane. troduced to appease the rednecks. Most lifers, she proclaimed, “are the safest of all inmates." Yeah, just the sort you would like to have tea with, one must assume. Well, let ber tell that to the ghosts of those three guards in Archambault jail who were wiped out by killers already serving time for first-degree murder: also to the ghasts of the woman and two little girls massacred by Foster, of whom Birnie’s parole board had a similar opinion seven veats after he had killed an [&-year-otd in 197]. Shortly after the Birnie piece appeared, the Globe gave a big spread to the sad plight of Ray «AC least 15 men convicted on homicide charges killed again in the period to which the newspapers refer. So why don’t my ” Last ¢ October, Lisa a Hobbs Bir- : nie fired an carly shot in the cam- paign in a Globe & Mall piece headed. ‘‘Murder’s unjust “desserts: time to change a bad law.” (As Lisa Hobbs, she wrote “a-sob-sister. column for the Van- couver Sun until being appointed to the National Parole Board, on which she served from 1978 to 1986. ) While covering her flank by ad- * mitting that there are some killers “who should never be allowed out “.— no one‘has yet suggested that ‘te: Clifford Olson be released — Bir- onie's thesis was that the 25-year term is.a piece of savagery in- acrylios & crochet patterns, needles, supplies, « stretcher S etc. (Balance unsold “Offered: at auction | fellow newshawks pursue such things?” Enright, a guy who had taken a shotgun and killed a waitress in a restaurant, She had annayed Enright by refusing to go out with him. He once played for the Edmon- ton Eskimos, | knew him but never did think he was a nice guy. I thought he was a nut. The headline in this instance was “Growing ranks of Jifers face a grim future,’’ and Ray opined that people like him become “angry and alienated” atthe pro- spect of spending so much time behind bars. No doubt, But the kid he killed had no chance to become angry and alienated. The Globe is a top perpetrator of the liberal tone in this country. ht was a leader in the anti-death penalty fight and has defended the parole system while damning the 25-year terms, “Crushing,”’ it calls them. It also peddies the myth, as docs the Vancouver Sun, that ‘‘only"’ two killers released on parole during a {0-year period had killed again. Even that would be two too many and the equivalent of two innocent men being hanged for murder, which would cause liberals to have fits. But they do not have fits over the victims of the two. The statement that no more than two murderers became repeaters is truce only in the nar- rowest sense. A National Parole Board figure, it applied to those released on full parole and exclud- ed those who killed again while on + day parole. (The man who killed police officer Robert Baril of Montreal in November 1986 was on day parole, .. give one example.) It also excluded those who had been sentenced in the first in- stance on a reduced charge of manslaughter. Even the parole board has admitted that nine repeat killers (either murder or mansiaughter) had killed again after being released. Furthermore, no one seems to take much notice of repeat killings in jails. At feast 15 men convicted on homicide charges killed again in the period to which the newspapers refer. So why don't my [ellaw newshawks pursue such things? Because they can't be bothered. Either that, or they don’t want to know. Stand by the for next play in this game, which will be claims under the Charter that 25 years in jail is ‘‘cruc) and unusual punishmert."’ Have | ever lied to you? The Pemberton Seminar Series. 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