The Besz Dispenser - This Week's Rant

For the week of March 31st, 2000

Bludgeoning a dead horse

Why, oh why, do I have to read about Paul Bernardo again? Lately I can't listen to the news on the radio without hearing his name come up somehow. The first reason is that he was aiming for an appeal for a retrial of his murder conviction on Monday, which was soundly rejected before the Crown attorneys got a chance to say a word. Everyone, you can breathe a sigh of relief with me, for common sense does still exist in some parts of the judicial system, and this is proof. Yet somehow not completely, for his lawyers, who spent weeks working on this bid, are paid for from taxpayers' pockets. Same with his meals, same with his bed, and his water heater, etc. Seems he has a better life then I do. He doesn't have to work.

Why else? Because his lawyer from the original trial is, well, on trial for hiding the videotapes of the acts (everything except the murder part). He is possibly going to jail because he hid them for half a year, full knowing what they contained, knowing they were damaging to his client's case, before coughing them up. Who says Canadians are boring? This is better than O.J. It's certainly lasting longer.

My problem of all this is there should be no trials, no wasted taxpayer dollars in this. Bernardo, regardless of whether he killed the two girls or not, is a sick little puppy that should never leave jail, or his cell. No counselling, no appeal cases, no more lawyers, no excuses. He did a very bad thing, and even if we take his excuse of "his wife did it," so what? Wasn't the fact he did everything else enough? Why are they even trying for a retrial, in the hopes that he will be able to be up for parole? Do you think anyone will allow him back into society? "Rehabilitation" for a sex killer is a joke, and I hope he rots in there. And someone in the government should stop legal aid to criminals like this.

As for his lawyer, kick him into jail too. He hid a damning piece of evidence from the police because it would be an instant conviction, he had to have known that, otherwise why would he hide it from everyone. In my mind, he was trying to free a killer, and that makes him just as bad, if not worse. Throw him in jail, and let some convicts show him how much lawyers are liked by them.

Now hopefully, this will be the last we all hear about this subject. The bad side is that we can now move on to the really bad and evil news.

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