Just About Right?

About Karla Homolka's post-jail sentence:

I also think that the huge restrictions on her are an offense to the rights we have as citizens. Understand i don't really care about her, and i think her attempt to get the media off her back was silly. Perhaps part of the deal would have been witness protection. It wasn't. I don't know if it should have been. She has served her full term, not the 2/3 that people most often spend in jail for their crimes. I don't know if this was the right choice or not. I do know that the type of restrictions they have placed on her are the type of restrictions that they place on someone that is on parole. Yes they found another part of the law to use, but it is essentially parole type restrictions.

And with what she did this can feel right and fair to people. But allowing this how rights are eroded. Rights don't usually disappear suddenly but bit by bit, where it is not going to get a reaction. You start with people where it is going to feel right to citizens that their rights are eroded.It should get a much larger reaction that it does (or did in this case). Because it is easiest to regain your rights as citizens in a country when they first start being restricted not later. Look at the US right now, the Patriot Act needs to be renewed and not only do they want to renew what is in it but increase what they can do with the law.

[via From a Different Viewpoint, emphasis mine]