and “Canadians want revenge on Bernardo, but that’s not how it works: ex-official” : A letter-writer points out that it is up to unbiased professionals to determine how a sentence is to be served; another that the purpose of incarceration is that the offender not be a threat to the public or to their own survival. Pity that, in deploring the professional judgment of the Correctional Service, neither the Prime Minister nor Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino understands this.
Paul Bernardo was declared a dangerous offender for a reason. He is not a candidate for rehabilitation. I don’t wish to relive those frightening years of the Scarborough Rapist, the Bernardo and Homolka trials, and the awful whispers of horror-filled videos. But those memories make one thing crystal clear: Paul Bernardo must be denied any kind of future that absolves him of his terrorizing past.