KILLING KILLERS is bar- - baric. So says criminologist _ Ezzatt Fattah of Simon ' Fraser University. Well, you.can include me as a .- barbarian (didn’t you know it all the time?) together with 69% of the . "rest of the population. “Criminologists” are usually in favor of being nice to criminals. ‘and being nice to criminals is one reason why we have so.much crimes Fattah is worried about Preston «Manning's call for a referendum on. _the capital punishment question, “about public reaction to the Bernardo trial and about the sen: tence of 12 years handed out to the. ghastly Homoika female, who is “now taking a university course in jail instead of being suspended from the neck until dead, She's probably studying crimi- nology, and in the fullness of time: may be able to join Fattah and Co. at SFU. Foot Fatah i is credited with having played a big part in persuading : Ottawa to abandon the death penal © ty. He is also’a big favorite with Amnesty International: “ote dn addition to describing capital “pu ishment’ as barbaric; he claims irrational, that it isn’t a deter- ent; that Killers often act'on. mopulse, and that'the murder rue - has gone'down since the death penalty was abolished. . oo He probably believes that _/ human life.is sacred, too, that being one of the arguments ‘put forward _ by mary of our disastrous liberal. *, elitists, «, . i Fact is that human life j is not sacred. Especially, not to killers.” But THEIR lives are sacred to. the 4 Fattahs. 2 60050 s for Sonic killers being impul- sive, let them control their impulses, in the: way have to control mine. : Soo HE they: Kill let them be killed.” Has the murder rate-gone down)! ” nee. the do-gooders pot to, work? ; That: depends. These days, murder: usually isn't murder. It's downgrad- : ed to manslaughter. And we've practically invited:women to knock . off any husbands they don’ ‘t like ify NORTH VANCOUVER'S 12 students’ scored above provin grades inthe” exams. "Students, in’ Grade12 write ‘provincial exams as”. “orand Plastic Dou Lo Collins ‘ = ‘ on the aan other hand they can claim ta have been abused. That a woman could walk out the door and NOT be abused ° : doesn’t seem to count for anything. | Then there’s the claisn that the - innacent may be found guilty, And + is truc enough that you can't bring’ the dead back to fife. Against that, you have to con- sider that many a killer has killed / again: What about TH OSE. inno- { cent victims. Who gives a damn | aoqut them? : fe barbarians do, that’s who, | . But ecinntactts don't. }. - Furthermore, faulty verdicts in’ j first-degree murder, cases are rare, Ics much more likely that a killer Will walk out of court siniling. A lawyer in the UK. who is studied the inatter has reported that Since capital punishment was abol-. ished there in 1965,-75 murders have been. committed by killers released from prison: In Canada there have been at | least 72 second killings. by convict. i [ i ed killers, in prison and out of it. That figure comes from a for- mer senior RCMP officer who has kept track of cases reported in the» press since 1978. It includes both manslaughter and murder cases and he points out that it is by nu means complete, There's something else the Fatuths don’t make much off a murderer now has every incentive to kill witnesses. Why spare some- “ ane who has seen the crime? Even if the killer gets caught for doing: away with several people he will sd only have to go to jail and take a few courses. The lawyer mentioned above’ ‘has also shown that the homicide f sate in the U.K. has doubled since r the death penalty was abandoned. Here in Canada, blind foolish- : ness led by the Fauahs and the Rock- heads! will ensure. that mur- _derers are guaranteed an easy ride, So Manning is whistling in the wind. Already, Cliftord Olsen could be up for parole in a year or so and some insane clergymen want the 25-year mandatory sentence reduced to 15.—~ which; because of . J _ the parole system. would be ° reduced to eight or so. a As a barbarian, | say that the relatives of the murdered are enti- tled to fee) that justice has been done: that a dead killer will never Aili again, and that. the death penal- - ly is pood for the taxpayer, who _ WHE not have to fork out $50,000 a “year to keep killers in luxury. . 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