{"id":5268,"date":"2006-09-08T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2024-10-27T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:59:10","slug":"i-wondered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5268","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Van Houten: Denied Parole. Throw Away the Key"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wondered why this old post of mine <\/a>was suddenly receiving 90% of all of my traffic today. I knew something must be going on in that world – another parole board hearing perhaps – and yes, that’s why: Leslie van Houten was just denied parole, yet again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Good.<\/p>\n

She can cry all she wants. I have another interpretation of her tears. Leslie van Houten is vacant. She would “follow the leader” even now. I think Van Houten is a sociopath who needs to rehearse<\/i> how to be a human being.<\/p>\n

Any time I have seen her in interviews crying about the remorse she feels about the LaBiancas – I remember this:<\/p>\n

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\nAnd I remember this photo which has always made my blood run cold:<\/p>\n

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\nShe’s a monster. She’s always reminded me of Steinbeck’s Cathy<\/a> – a point I made in that post that’s getting so much traffic today. Crocodile tears. There is something MISSING there. And what is missing is capacity for fellow human feeling. She doesn’t “get it”. At all. So she can say platitudes, like “I don’t know how to make it okay” – but to that I would say: Make it okay<\/i>? Do you have any sense of what you have done? Of how horrible you really are? Of how beyond the pale your behavior really was? How dare<\/i> you pretend to be a human being and expect us to swallow it whole? You do NOT make such a horrible murder “okay”. The only recourse we have is to keep you in prison forever. But still: even that does not undo your actions. If we executed you it would not undo your actions. Keeping you in prison for life does not give the LaBiancas breath in their lungs again. But it does deprive you of your freedom, because you abdicated your human rights when you chose to act like a monster.<\/p>\n

That’s the deal.<\/p>\n

Throw away the key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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