Killer Karla

Infamous Canadian Schoolgirl killer and rapist Karla Homolka will be freed by Monday, after a twelve year sweetheart deal that saw her sentence reduced to manslaughter in exchange for her cooperation. She has been desperately seeking an injunction to prevent any media or Internet coverage at all of her release, even though she she is a completely unrepentant offender under a rare order to keep reporting to police as she is considered an ongoing danger to society.

She is worried, terrified that somebody will kill her when she is released, and that is why she wants an unprecedented order muzzling everyone, even the public. But while society may have an obligation to protect her from harm from theoretical (and unproven) murderers, it has a greater obligation to let the fourth estate help protect society from a narcissistic killer who has hooked up with another murderer much like the first one with whom she committed her crimes. The rest of us are not like her - human life may mean nothing to her, but it does mean something to us. Ordinary people may not like that she's free, but we will not do to her what she and her odious husband did to her victims.

In fact, I can't help but ironically note that as she begs for relief, Karla lacks any of the courage or dignity of Kristen French, her last victim.