Last summer the beheading of a young man on a greyhound bus chilled the nation. Something is innately terrifying about decapitation, extremsits in developing nations have capitalized on this grisly method of execution to motivate richer nations to leave their country, and in many cases, despite the rhetoric, it has scared the countries into compliance. Last summer when Vince Li killed a carney travelling home to Winnipeg people gasped, cried and lost sleep.
Today Mr. Li was found not guilty of second degree murder because of a mental illness read this article Judge Finds Li Not Criminally Responsible.
I hate to be insensitive but that is fucking ludicris. This man needs to be looked up. Anyone who murders someone who is asleep in the back of a bus becasue 'God' told him to needs to be locked away - forever. If someone has an illness that can kill others they are quarantined until they die or are cured. Since mental illness is so difficult to diagnose maybe we sould err on the side of public safety.....to me that means anyone who cuts anyone else's head off rots in prison.
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It's sad how easily people tend to forget and then become accustomed to something happening no matter how gruesome it is. The case of Vince Li was left on a back burner for so long that it is safe to say that it was a deliberate move on the side of his defense. They wanted the public to 'wait it out' in hopes that it would somehow blow over. And it worked. Not only is the public not nearly as outraged as they should be, but they seem to have simply forgotten. If that's the case, I don't know which situation is more depressing. Vince Li being found 'Not Guilty' or the public being Guilty of not giving a damn.
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