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Where is Karla?

After discussing Homolkamania in the media here a while ago, I couldn’t resist posting this. It’s a site dedicated to tracking her down and publishing her address:

www.whereiskarla.com

The site is intended to make the public “feel safer and more connected”. Did it work for you?

14 Responses to “Where is Karla?”
  1. wemi:

    No, not at all I find it extremely intrusive!. All it did was show me pictures of her, I don’t get it?

  2. Ade:

    They don’t know where she lives yet. When they do, they claim they will have her address on the site.

    Is this an attempt to make the public safer or an attempt to make Homolka less safe?

  3. alevo:

    It strikes me as odd that the same site has a detailed privacy policy. People who want to stalk Holmolka can do so in relative anonymity here. They must stalk her in a respectable fashion, and avoid profanity in doing so. No derogatory laguage. I wonder if we could find the addresses of other celebrities online? (I digress) This is a pretty roomedial use of the internet.

  4. nicole:

    I feel the website contributes the the “Karla hysteria” that people in Ontario have at this time. The terrifying truth is that there are many more rapists, child molesters, and murderers in our midst and all we can do is protect ourselves, educate our children, and pray for a little luck that the people we love will not fall victim of a Paul Bernardo or Karal Homolka. My girlfriend is a probation officer and often reminds me that if we really knew how many sex offenders lurk in our midst we would truly question ever leaving our front doors.

  5. Ade:

    That she will be stalked if her location becomes known seems almost guaranteed. In her case, the stalker doesn’t need to feel guilty about his actions (I assume a male in this case), because her previous actions create the justification for doing so. It doesn’t matter what is done to her, because what she did was worse.

    It’s vigilante justice, the same “justice” meted out by lynch mobs that ended the lives of so many African-Americans during and before the struggle for civil rights.

    The sentence she received was unjustly light for the crimes she committed. At the same time, she is a Canadian citizen who has served her time as decided by our judicial system. This website sets a dangerous precedent: that if we decide our judicial system has failed, we will take care of the punishment ourselves. What happens if someone is acquitted of a crime, but the website’s operators decide that they were guilty? Is it acceptable to publicize the acquitted’s location then?

    Our society depends on a compact between all of us that we respect each other’s rights, our laws and how they are applied. If we wish to change those rights, those laws or their applications, there is a democratic process available to us, flawed as it might be. The website would serve us all better if that’s what it sought to do instead of enabling stalking or even violence.


  6. I see people have nothing better to do with thier time than stalk Karla? Seriously – can’t they find something more enjoyable, perhaps more productive than this? It makes more sense for the family members of the victims to stalk her…but random people?

    Who knows, maybe we should let “them” stalk her so that they can be placed in a Canadian institution too. I’m not sure we want those people running around freely either. Two birds with one stone…

  7. Joyce Hawinkels:

    Let her get back what she dished out. I don’t need to stalk her, she will hang her self , She loves the media to much.
    Lets clean up our court system and get rid of our bleading heart parole board.
    People should be held accountable for their actions, and we should be more selective for the moneys that are spend on legal aid cases.
    May God grand peace to Karla and Paul’s victims and may their parents find the strenght to go on with their lives.
    The Homolka ‘s may live with the monster they created and they too should be held responsible for Karla’s actions for what she did to her sister.

  8. Guy:

    Really http://www.whereiskarla.com is a waste of effort, Unless of course you want to prolong the buzz about Karla having completed her sentence. It’s unfortunate people have such morbid interests.
    Agreed that public officails need to know what potential offenders are up to, but to place this in the public domain seems kind of dangerous. There have been plenty of outwardly hostile comments about her release and this already lends excuses for the vigilante types to do their thing.
    If Karla is to make a smooth transition into her so-called free life she needs some kindness to be able to do so.


  9. I am surprised that no one seems to see through all this static on the KH case to the real issue. I feel that the REAL issue is the state of the justice system in this country. Surely it is high time for change when such a large and vocal segment of the populace feel that justice has NOT been done. I, for one, feel that both these hideously pathetic individuals should have been executed. That’s how a large majority of us feel, and until the grey-flannel wearing, tax-dollar wasting, butt-patting, voter-ignoring, delusional demi-gods in power wake up to this, there will continue to be plenty of this kind of reaction, indeed, perhaps, revolution in the air.

    Does anyone really believe that the ‘deal with the devil’ would have been necessary but for the fancy-shmancy lawyers whose greedy eyes saw nothing but dollar signs in the whole proceedure? There was plenty of evidence without doing such a thing. The evidence was enough to convict them of the crime and rid society of such maniacal menaces forever!

    Redirect your vitriole–put it where it belongs: upon the system and its projenitors whose namby-pamby, self-serving ways have created a worse monster than the Homolkas could ever manage to become–the monster that allows such shoddy excuses for humanity to go free after such an inadequate sentence.

    By the way, consider this: Paul Bernardo, that piece of human excrement and waste of skin, will live out the rest of his life in prison, fed and clothed, entertained and kept healthy, while more than one out of three children on this planet go to bed hungry each and every night.

  10. alevo:

    Is namby-pamby a technical term?

  11. Ade:

    Socrates makes a good point, one that alevo made in a comment on a previous post (“technical” comment notwithstanding):

    For me, this topic naturally adds perspective to a couple of past topics from this blog. To mind, these are the issue of lax criminal sentencing in Canada and gun control/ownership.

    Most Canadians would agree, I think, that KH escaped proper punishment for her crimes. It’s not just her. I recall a case locally here in the Hamilton region where a woman had the courage to report the abuse she was suffering at the hands of her husband, a police officer. Due to delays bringing him to trial, the case was dismissed.

    Our justice system is replete with examples of serious crimes going un- or under-punished. That said, neither capital punishment (recall David Milgaard) nor vigilante justice (whereiskarla.com) are the answers. If a revolution is required to change the system, so be it, but let’s stay keep away from the packed jails and frequent executions that characterize the American justice system.

  12. La Bella Donna:

    I was extremely surprised to find this website. Even after all these years, the public has an unhealthy obsession with this woman. I am sure there have been people worse than her, both before and since that time. I am glad that she is pursuing her own life, without re-offending, as so many people had feared she would.

  13. Dave:

    Even after all these years the anger is still there as we the public feel like we got screwed by the justice system in an open and shut case of a demented serial killer. A serial killer who took lives of young women in their prime and rec’d for same a ridiculous sentence. A serial killer who was pampered in prison (remember the chicken delivered by gaurds for her to cook ?) She was and is manipulative. Yes there are others who are the same and if and when they are caught and tried and treated the same way then we will rant about them. As for ‘being glad she is pursuing her own life without re-offending’, I agree wholeheartedly that she has seen the light and found god and the goodness in people and she has been completely rehabilitated and purged of her deviant murderous sexual urges in the short time she has been incarcerated. Let her move in beside you in a close knit community with your daughters becoming friends with her and get back to me on your feelings then. Altered perspective of life….I hope she is stalked and watching over her shoulder ’till the day she leaves this earth as the justice system did not mete out the proper justice. Remember that thios was not a circumstantial evidence case….this was solid visual evidence so it is not related to milgaard who was completely circumstantial.