Many in the world have heard of Karla Homolka, the woman convicted of partnering with Paul Bernardo. Since her release from prison, the media has been pouncing on any tidbit of information about her.
Now, she’s gotten a job at a hardware store owned by Richer Lapointe. Mr Lapointe has been secretly taping his conversations with her and has givien these tapes to the police. The “news” shows (with this tripe, I can’t remove the quotation marks) have been feeding on this like it was filet mignon! This violation of her privacy is being passed off as “normal” and “okay”. Perhaps Ms Homolka is the heinous devil that she has been made out to be. Perhaps she is heartless and antisocial. Regardless, she did the time alotted to her and is now out and free to do what she wants.
Does Homolka’s past actions entitle Mr Lapointe to assume the vigilante role and rat her speech out to the police? Last time I recall, even the police needed a court order to secretly “listen in”. Funny, I didn’t see Mr Lapointe’s badge in any of the news stories…
What he’s doing is wrong, but he’s getting proof of her conspiring with criminals wich is breaking her parole
Witch shouldn’t be free anyway IMHO.
Is he breaking the law? Impinging on her civil liberties?
I think that there is a case for that. I know that she is a convicted serial killer, but she did do her time and this is not the method to get even more justice from this situation. The action should be directed towards the legal system if her punishment hasn’t been deemed sufficient.
Ahemmm, This is from a person that has lost a family member to a crime. She’s alive and enjoying life. OH! Toooo f’n bad the press is on her ass. But hey, wa-da-bout my cousin who can’t visit the family on the framily reunion and so on. Ta hell with her, should be locked up for life! Period! Served her time, payd her time to justice. Ta hell with that dude! Take a life, suffer! Anything you do in your life should be monitored, either it by your boss or the little girl down the street, DAMN right! She lost that privacy right when she murdered a person. Nuff said.!
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Lucky she didn’t do it Texas!
Oh and to spamm a bit more, but to answer the topic.
Hell ya! It’s fair!
Let her rot in prision, for what she did, why even let her out.
I feel this way because if you delibrety kill a person you should be held responsible for it, if it was an accident by your stupidity, sure serve time, you’ve learnd your lesson. You don’t learn a lesson from killing a person on purpose, especially when you’ve planned it. Damn! YOu ‘ve hit a nerv Corey!
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Probably. This still doesn’t make it okay for a Charles Bronson a la deathwish-like vigilante justice. Yes, killers ruin many lives. We still have to use the justice system that we have and work within it to change it…not take it into our own hands.
“Anything you do in your life should be monitored, either it by your boss or the little girl down the street, DAMN right! ”
I can’t agree with you less, my friend. If anyone started monitoring my every movements, watching my back, recording everything, then they’d be on the end of a big hurting. Remember where you live. Once you mess with civil liberties, you’re asking for a revolution. Our friends to the south would certainly be in an uproar about such a thing (although the Patriot Act has slid in without opposition, hmmm).
Let me stress once again, I am not condoning the acts of a convicted serial killer, but I am certainly condemning Lapointe’s actions as illegal and unconstitutional, and in violation of the Charter of 1982. His “evidence” won’t be admissible anyways. He’s quite stupid, actually, as are the idiots who are running the stories on him (they are some of the worst pieces of television journalism I’ve seen). If he wanted to help put Ms. Homolka back behind bars, he’d tip off the police, leaving the media out of the loop, without taping anything. He’d then consent to allow the police to do the job they’re trained for and begin their legal surveillance, so that she could be remanded properly, without any loopholes. Instead, this idiot has turned his hand and Homolka (and her lawyer) will now be super careful and she will remain free, if only because of technicality. You talk about “empty helmets”. This man certainly has one.
Thanks for the debate, BTW. I figured this post would drum up some discussion. I did, after all, as what everyone thought. Keep it up. Does anyone else have an opinion?
When I said ,”Anything you do in your life should be monitored, either it by your boss or the little girl down the street, DAMN right!” I was refering to if you were a murderer, not a regular joe that goes to his/her 9-5 job.
When you kill somebody deliberaty you become scumm of the earth and loose you’re rights as far as I’m concernd.
But that’s my opinion, and you’re entitled to it.
I know what you mean. i can’t say that I don’t feel that there might be a bit more done in the case of murder, but that still doesn’t give anyone a free pass to break another law to further their views. m Lapointe is stupid. He should have alerted the police and let them do the job they’re trained for. He shoulda kept his fame-seeking mouth shut and not talked to the media first (or at all).
Yea, but that’s just how some people are. Ooooo lookie, lookie, I’m on TV! Yippie! He should have gone to the police instead, I agree.:|
This raises many interesting issues, Corey.
When does a person become a ( err) celebrity and become fair game for the public? When is enough, enough?
I’ll have to read more of those Bernardo links. Interesting that he just didn’t burn those videotapes instead of giving them to his lawyer where he felt that they and he would be safe.
He and Paris Hilton seem to have something in common. BTW, has anyone sen anything lately about blondie?
If I remember my legal tidbits, the justice system isn’t supposed to do anything that would inject disrepute into it. Sure looks like the deal with Karla made respect for the lady with the scales go down a notch or two.
Gee, maybe they should have injected a clause that warned Karla about the deal being off if they found out that she (gasped) lied. Something about misrepresenting material facts resulting in the contract being null and void.
Yes it is noble to keep your promises but gimme a break.
By the time they are done giving Picton his day in court, they could have built about 10 pediatric cancer wards.In a world of limited resources we have to choose guns or butter.Meanwhile the travesties in the justice system continue to mount….