Re: Another Pedo Celeb
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:46 am
Brady has been rotting in jail for 40 years and, unlike Hindley, never believed he would ever be freed. He's taunted relatives of his victims, perhaps hoping to provoke someone inside to put an end to his miserable existence; he's spawned newspaper headlines again and again, in a bid to make people think he is still relevant and still a monster, instead of the empty old man his is; and he's attempted suicide on a number of occasions.
If, 40 years hence, Ian Huntley is still behind bars and leading that kind of life, I'd consider that as close to justice as we are ever likely to get.
The evil that people do in life can survive after them. Hitler, Stalin, Jack the Ripper all still have an aura of evil; Brady has had that dark aura leaking from him over the decades. People like him, and Charles Manson, Peter Sutcliffe, Dennis Nielsen, will be in jail until they die. Old, spent men. The Ripper was never caught, his crimes never properly explained, so the murders in Whitechapel 120 years ago seem immediate to us than those in Yorkshire 90 years later.
Israel sought answers and a kind of catharsis for the Holocaust when they captured Adolf Eichmann and put him on show trial. Instead of a leering, hideous monster, he was little more than a petty bureaucrat for whom Stalin's alleged comment that one death is a tragedy but one million is a statistic might have been written.
Put these people to death, by all means---but in their death, the latent potential of their evil somehow lives on. Allow them to fade away quietly behind grey prison walls until they seem an irrelevance, until they barely cast a shadow any more, and you destroy their power to mesmerise and terrorise the public.
If, 40 years hence, Ian Huntley is still behind bars and leading that kind of life, I'd consider that as close to justice as we are ever likely to get.
The evil that people do in life can survive after them. Hitler, Stalin, Jack the Ripper all still have an aura of evil; Brady has had that dark aura leaking from him over the decades. People like him, and Charles Manson, Peter Sutcliffe, Dennis Nielsen, will be in jail until they die. Old, spent men. The Ripper was never caught, his crimes never properly explained, so the murders in Whitechapel 120 years ago seem immediate to us than those in Yorkshire 90 years later.
Israel sought answers and a kind of catharsis for the Holocaust when they captured Adolf Eichmann and put him on show trial. Instead of a leering, hideous monster, he was little more than a petty bureaucrat for whom Stalin's alleged comment that one death is a tragedy but one million is a statistic might have been written.
Put these people to death, by all means---but in their death, the latent potential of their evil somehow lives on. Allow them to fade away quietly behind grey prison walls until they seem an irrelevance, until they barely cast a shadow any more, and you destroy their power to mesmerise and terrorise the public.