Antisocial Personality Disorder
That's quite the characterization: 'antisocial personality disorder', a combination of psychopathy and misanthropy. Might there be anything invested in such a personality to be of value to society? To the person involved?
Well, it depends on who that person might be, and only if they're afflicted by misanthropy, absent the psychopathy. There have been many great and good people in the history of humankind who have been misanthropes, but that unfortunate predilection had not diminished their value as decent human beings, regardless.
It's just that virulent combination, culminating in a personality type certain to disturb society at its deepest levels.
And there is a convicted killer, Craig Munro, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980, whom a parole board has consented to allow four 15-day periods of unsupervised absences from the penal facility where he is incarcerated, a minimum-security Correctional Service of Canada aboriginal "healing village" near Mission, B.C.
Craig Munro has been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. His prison psychologist claimed to be "cautiously optimistic" that through the medium of an unescorted temporary absence from prison he could be assisted to living eventually as a free man. If he is ever granted parole. Let's hope he is not.
This man, in the company of his brother, another sterling citizen of Canada, were out to raise funds for a bond required to enable him to remain at large, when they entered a Toronto-area establishment armed with a semi-automatic weapon, and a sawed-off shotgun.
Demanding money from the patrons of George's Bourbon Street, they were violently abusive; an employee escaped, flagging down a police car. When the policeman entered the restaurant he was shot in the chin and the chest. His lung punctured by the second shot, the police constable was put out of commission.
For one and a half hours Constable Michael Sweet lay there with the two gunmen looking on, as he pleaded for medical attention. The Munro brothers laughed at the dying man, promising him he'd never again see his family. Constable Sweet's wife and his three young daughters, then six, four and one years of age would, in fact, never see him again, alive.
Even though the parole board's decision noted that Craig Munro had "a versatile criminal history dating back to 1968", inclusive of convictions for robbery, car theft and assault" they decided to allow him those leave periods. Even while agreeing that the man still poses a threat, the granted him that limited leave.
"Your known community supervision history is quite poor as you often ignored court-imposed orders, breached release conditions and re-offended under supervision", went the decision. Jamie Munro, convicted of second-degree murder, was granted parole in 1992 and now lives in Italy.
"Neither one of these two guys should have got out. I do believe for some crimes, life should be life", said now-Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, Julian Fantino, who was an investigating officer at the time. As for Constable Sweet's wife, she lives with the memory of the excruciating pain she experienced on learning of her husband's brutal death.
"Craig Munro showed an utter absence of humanity when he murdered my husband knowingly and consciously, leaving me a widow at 29 years of age and our three children ... without their loving father."
But the parole board has compassion for this antisocial-personality-disordered reprobate. Is this imbecilic or is it not?
Well, it depends on who that person might be, and only if they're afflicted by misanthropy, absent the psychopathy. There have been many great and good people in the history of humankind who have been misanthropes, but that unfortunate predilection had not diminished their value as decent human beings, regardless.
It's just that virulent combination, culminating in a personality type certain to disturb society at its deepest levels.
And there is a convicted killer, Craig Munro, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980, whom a parole board has consented to allow four 15-day periods of unsupervised absences from the penal facility where he is incarcerated, a minimum-security Correctional Service of Canada aboriginal "healing village" near Mission, B.C.
Craig Munro has been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. His prison psychologist claimed to be "cautiously optimistic" that through the medium of an unescorted temporary absence from prison he could be assisted to living eventually as a free man. If he is ever granted parole. Let's hope he is not.
This man, in the company of his brother, another sterling citizen of Canada, were out to raise funds for a bond required to enable him to remain at large, when they entered a Toronto-area establishment armed with a semi-automatic weapon, and a sawed-off shotgun.
Demanding money from the patrons of George's Bourbon Street, they were violently abusive; an employee escaped, flagging down a police car. When the policeman entered the restaurant he was shot in the chin and the chest. His lung punctured by the second shot, the police constable was put out of commission.
For one and a half hours Constable Michael Sweet lay there with the two gunmen looking on, as he pleaded for medical attention. The Munro brothers laughed at the dying man, promising him he'd never again see his family. Constable Sweet's wife and his three young daughters, then six, four and one years of age would, in fact, never see him again, alive.
Even though the parole board's decision noted that Craig Munro had "a versatile criminal history dating back to 1968", inclusive of convictions for robbery, car theft and assault" they decided to allow him those leave periods. Even while agreeing that the man still poses a threat, the granted him that limited leave.
"Your known community supervision history is quite poor as you often ignored court-imposed orders, breached release conditions and re-offended under supervision", went the decision. Jamie Munro, convicted of second-degree murder, was granted parole in 1992 and now lives in Italy.
"Neither one of these two guys should have got out. I do believe for some crimes, life should be life", said now-Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, Julian Fantino, who was an investigating officer at the time. As for Constable Sweet's wife, she lives with the memory of the excruciating pain she experienced on learning of her husband's brutal death.
"Craig Munro showed an utter absence of humanity when he murdered my husband knowingly and consciously, leaving me a widow at 29 years of age and our three children ... without their loving father."
But the parole board has compassion for this antisocial-personality-disordered reprobate. Is this imbecilic or is it not?
Labels: Canada, Justice, Life's Like That
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