Being Part of Canadian Judas-Prudence Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry - Meet Pedophile DALE OSWALD

• "Neighbours of a halfway house that has become home to a long-term sex offender have put together a 450-signature petition to voice their fears to the federal government about the man’s proximity to their children."


• "In the interest of community safety, the Kingston Police, and Chief W. Closs under authority of the Police Services Act of Ontario, is disclosing the following information regarding 33 year old Dale OSWALD."


• "... Based on Bill 34, a man like Dale Oswald -- and I would have given you the complete article so you could have seen it -- joyfully admits he is addicted to the taste of young boys. That was in The Toronto Sun. He was considered a predator and a stalker."


• "... [Oswald] was convicted in 2003 of a dozen offences, including assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, uttering a threat, and assault resisting arrest..."

And Dale Oswald now resides in a halfway house a few hundred meters from an elementary school. He can see children at play from his window. This evening I saw a report about this situation on CBC Newsworld and was filled with the familiar acidic exasperation as some lethargic representative of Corrections Canada (named Gerry) verbally shrugged his shoulders over the community's fears of Dale Oswald living in their community.

From the Kingston Police Web site: "OSWALD is described as 6’ 7”, 350 lbs, Caucasian." At this size, he is a fearsome menace to even fully grown adults. But Oswald is unconcerned with adults. He targets children.

I am a believer in creative sentencing for non-violent offenders. I'm a believer in rehabilitation where it is possible. I am also for taking those few irredeemable people -- Paul Bernardo, Clifford Olson, Dale Oswald -- and locking them away from society until the end of their (un)natural lives.

Pedophiles cannot be cured. They cannot be rehabilitated into non-pedophiles. Pedophiles are like real-world vampires, often turning their victims into pedophiles. It's a diabolical fact that many people who suffer sexual abuse as children become abusers, themselves, later in life.

The representative from Corrections Canada, this evening, gave his final, laconic dig at the community in which Oswald resides by saying the offender can only be transferred to another community upon the offender's request. And foxes make honest, reliable custodians of henhouses.

When will people of conscience and conviction finally be in charge of offenders such as Dale Oswald? When will someone with the authority to use the laws that are already on the books in Canada, meant to guard society from those few violent, malformed, evil, sadistic, violent offenders and predators, finally stand up and put the rights and needs of society ahead of the miscreants who prey upon us?

How banal and offhand would Gerry of Corrections Canada be if Dale Oswald lived in his neighborhood? Maybe Dale Oswald should be moved there to see how he would fit in.

To my mind, when pedophiles are apprehended -- "pedophilia" being just another type of murder -- they should never see the light of day again. Anyone who preys upon those most vulnerable in our society in the most fiendish and sadistic manner ought never to walk among the rest of again. Period.

Final note: If you want to sleep at night, don't run a Web search on the word "pedophile" on any news site. The number and variety of stories is nightmarish.