Friday, July 08, 2005

Who is Karla Homolka?

I just mentioned Karla Homolka in the last post as an example of extreme hubris. For the unknowing, or just basically non-Canadians, Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo were two cute suburbanites who kidnapped, raped and tortured three teenaged girls to death, including Homolka's own younger sister. Pretty horrific, huh? Now, were this the states, she'd be pushing up daisies right now. But, since Canadian justice is entirely too polite, she has been freed after 12 years in jail. There was a plea bargain (known here as the "deal with the devil"), there were loopholes, etc. etc.

As for her utter arrogance, well get this... instead of just being happy to be free, retiring to Montreal and waiting to get shot, she's been giving interviews for the CBC in which she bitches about how the media has treated her! Apparently, they haven't been considerate enough to someone who drugged her own 15 year old sister so that she and her boyfriend could rape and torture the girl to death two days before Christmas! Maybe they could have sent her a "Good Luck in Your New Life!" card from Hallmark or something. So, she tried for months to get a "media ban" along with the inevitable police protection, and then, on her first night out, did a televised interview for the media! Anyway, she's pretty much the textbook definition of sociopathic hubris, and an especially whiny Canadian criminal.

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