Crime shouldn't pay, ever.

Crime shouldn't pay. Ever. I'm not talking about crime fiction . . . I'm talking about real people, committing real, abhorrent crimes and profitting from them. Specifically, I'm talking about Clifford Robert Olson.

I never thought I'd live to see the day when I would be writing about him. After-all, when he murdered those 11 kids, I was the same age as some of his victims. By rights, he should've been long dead. But he isn't. And now he's making money again.

Granted, it's not a lot of money, but after the hue and cry over the $100,000 his family was paid for information regarding the location of his victims' bodies, you'd think the government would've cut him off of all possible forms of taxpayer funds a long, long time ago.

Apparently now, the man I consider to be Canada's worst criminal - you can't get much worse than a killer of children, although Willie Pickton comes in a close second! - is collecting both CPP and OAS!!

Is the government nuts?? What are they smoking up on Parliament Hill?? Must be something good, if they can even consider giving such a man any more money. Money, by the way, which came from Canadian taxpayers. Money, which, when you get right down to it, came from the families and friends of his victims.

Am I disgusted? You bet.

If it wasn't for Clifford Olson, those kids would be in their 30s and 40s now. They'd have kids of their own . . . but no. He thought it was fine to murder those poor defenseless kids, and to profit from his crimes.

Personally, I wish Canada had the electric chair. Or maybe the guillotine. Something nasty, something painful and gruesome. Something that would provide a fitting punishment for people like Clifford Olson. Not the pampering that we apparently give those residing in our prisons.

Of course, this is just my opinion. Obviously, the goverment doesn't agree with me. Although, since we put 'em there, perhaps they should listen to people like me, not people like Clifford Olson.