Biron: Homolka treated in totalitarian style

Alexander Panetta, Canadian Press
Friday, June 10, 2005

OTTAWA -- A Quebec senator is standing by his contention that schoolgirl killer Karla Homolka's freedom is being violated by a totalitarian-style law.
Liberal Senator Michel Biron's comments raised eyebrows on Parliament Hill on Friday, but he didn't back down.

Conservative deputy leader Peter MacKay called Biron's "moral support" for Homolka repugnant.

Good for you Peter!

And one member of the Liberal caucus in the Commons called on Biron to resign.

Wow there is evidence of life there after all!

The senator said there's no excusing the horrific crimes Homolka committed, but he's against the law imposing restrictions on Homolka's post-prison life _ including monthly check-ins with police and avoiding contact with former criminals.

Typical Liberal, more concerned about the welfare of criminals than that of the innocent public.

He says he's revolted by Section 810 of the Criminal Code and it should be scrapped because it repunishes criminals even after they've paid their debt to society.

The voter is society and they have spoken out about the nasty deal that the courts made with Homolka and they are in their rights to demand restrictions on here freedoms, you idiot!

"This law is the kind of law used in totalitarian regimes," Biron said in an interview Friday.

Are we not living in one right now? Your friends in the LPC sure know about totalitarian regimes, running one in this country and being friends of myriad world dictators.

"Rehabilitation is more important. We are not living in the time of Victor Hugo, with Les Miserables."

The vagabond in Hugo's Les Miserables, stole because he was starving in an era where there was no support for the poor and the upper-class were as distant from the man on the street as many of us are from men on the moon. But Biron shows his ignorance when he indicates that he does not know the moral of the story.

Biron said he's never met Homolka and isn't excusing her actions.
"I want to reiterate my sympathy for the victims and the victims' families . . . and in no way am I defending the crimes Homolka has committed," he said.

Obviously, you have little concern that such behaviour could be repeated unlike many people that know her.

Homolka will be released between June 30 and July 4 after completing a sentence for her role in the grisly sex killings of teenagers Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.

Just a few of the total victims, which included her own younger sister... facts which the media like to gloss over by the way.

She was given a reduced jail term after testifying against her husband Paul Bernardo. He is serving a life sentence for the killings.

How does one go from a life sentence, issued on a twenty-something adult to 12 years for Homolka? Makes the head spin I think.

Walt Lastewa, Liberal MP for St. Catharines, Ont., the scene of Bernado and Homolka's crimes, said Biron should quit if he wants to lend her his personal support.

Why is an idiot like Biron in the senate in the first place? Does anybody know why? Biron is just annother example of the pressing need to revamp the senate or get rid of it.

"I feel he has totally made bizarre statements and as far as I'm concerned he should resign," Lastewa said.
"If he wants to do things in a personal light, he should resign from the Senate.

I say he should be forced out... oh I forgot, he has more protection than a professor on tenure or even gasp... a school teacher in the teacher's union!

Biron, 71, attended the hearing in Joliette, Que., last week that resulted in conditions on Homolka's release.

Why? Maybe he is sympathetic to Homolka.. maybe he was on the list to buy some certain films..

Appointed to the Senate in 2001 by then-prime minister Jean Chretien, Biron is a former telecommunications executive and recipient of the Order of Canada.

Why is he in the senate and what does communications have to do with Homolka? Figures that he was a crony of Chretien's though, one of the worst Prime Ministers in Canada's history.

Section 810 came into effect in 1994 amid a public uproar over repeat sex offenders who resumed targeting children following their release from prison.

Annother example of why Biron is an idiot. There is much precidence for what has been done with Homolka and the public demanded it. Biron needs to find a new job, I for one do not like the idea that he is in the senate collecting hard-working tax payers wages that are stolen from them.