Posted on 06/03/2010 4:35:50 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The man who dismembered a fellow Greyhound passenger less than two years ago will soon be free to roam outdoors.
In a decision that Manitoba’s Attorney General called “contrary to the interests of public safety,” the independent Criminal Review Board of Manitoba has granted Vince Li permission to leave his locked forensic ward and walk the grounds of the Selkirk Medical Health Centre for up to one hour.
The decision jolted both the family of Mr. Li’s young victim, Tim McLean, and the provincial government.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
...or butcher shops...or a local mosque (gotta keep in practice, donchaknow).
I don’t want to seem harsh or unfair but he should have been executed.
He wasn’t executed?
Oh hell, let him ride on a bus. Make him comfortable. Open up an airway or two... preferably his.
Why don’t they just give him job in a barber shop?
This Li Canada’s John Hinckley?
I’m sure the staff escorts and other patients will really feel safe with this psycopath out in the unfenced open.
I would love to see the following headline in a Manitoba newspaper - “Killer Li Shot & Killed; Mistaken for a Moose”.
This was predicted when it happened.
If he asks to carve the Thanksgiving Turkey, it might be time to leave the room.
Do Canadians carve Thanksgiving tukeys, or Canada geese? I just don't know.
This may well be in our future.
Contrary to the interests of public safety? That was the best you could do?
So you can kill someone and still go for walks?
Visions of Silence of the Lambs.
Maybe that's Canadian for, "F**kin' insane, eh?"
At least, I hope it is, otherwise that guy's a twit.
Let him go for all the walks he wants... in the middle of the winter with no clothes.
But a schizophrenia support group said allowing Mr. Li sunshine and fresh air is both humane and an important part of his treatment.Well, good for Mr. Li. Now that he's able to manage his illness, he can be put on trial for murder, found guilty, and executed.“The people who take exception to it, unfortunately, have bought into the myth ... about mental illness that pervades our society. They think the person can't get better,” Chris Summerville, the group's executive director, said.
“The science is very clear. (Li) can learn to manage his illness.”
Canada sucks.
Or the local knife shop.
Canada doesn’t have the death penalty.
mega bump to ppost #16. Am tired of nuckleheads defending violent paranoid schizophrenics. They are nutcases. Period. Lock them up and protect society.
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