Crooked in Canada

In July 2008, Tim McLean was butchered to death on a Greyhound bus taking him home to Winnipeg, Manitoba. His killer, Vince Li, even took the time to feast on his victim’s eyes and heart while cowardly passengers stood at the side of the road, preventing Li from coming after them. He was just one man.

In as little as twenty-four hours, the fate of  Vince Li will be decided, but he isn’t likely to be found guilty of his crime given that the Crown prosecutors concur with Li’s defense team that he should not be found criminally responsible for the murder because Li has managed to convince everybody that God made him do it. ARE YOU EFFIN’ KIDDING ME!

Nothing like blaming God for one’s murderous actions, especially when God cannot be called as a witness.

What is wrong with people?

I don’t doubt for one minute that Li is a mentally deranged and psychotic individual, but how psychotic and deranged is he if he was able to convince those assessing his mental state that,  it was God who told him to kill McLean because if he didn’t  McLean was going to kill him.

I can just hear Li saying as he is sitting across from the battery of psychiatrists, psychologists and neurologist, “God made me do it,” over and over again.

Seriously, how hard would it be for anybody to convince a battery of doctors that they hear voices in their head?

How hard would it be for any one of us to convince somebody that we are not of sound mind if we put our minds to it, knowing full well that if we don’t put on a convincing show, we will never see the light of day from anywhere but from behind prison walls until we are carried out in a body bag.

Vince Li, as far as I’m concerned, put one over on everybody.

Now there’s the distinct possibility that in less than a few years time, depending of course on whether or not he can fool those in the mental institution into thinking he is no longer a threat to society, he will be walking the streets of Winnipeg, or pehaps another street somewhere else in Canada, and the only people who know about it to are those who will have treated him in whatever mental institution he winds up in.

What an effin’ joke, and how sad for Carol deDelley, Tim McLean’s mother.

Imagine how broken she must feel, and how that slap in the face she is getting from good old Canadian justice is hurting her.

Yes sir, nothing like letting somebody off the hook for a cold-blooded murder because he or she is schizophrenic and suffering from hallucinations at the time of committing a murder.

Aren’t there illicit drugs that has though side effects, including paranoia, and how complete were the toxicology tests that were done on Li?

I’m going to assume that investigators, prosecutors, and anybody else involved in this case had the good sense to order that one be done immediately after Li was taken into custody.

I’m taking a stand here and now, and suggest to Crooked in Canada readers that Vince Li knew exactly what he was doing, if only for the fact that he was methodical in what he did, even taking the time to put Tim’s chopped up body parts in plastic bags found scattered on the bus.

Li knew exactly what he was doing during his kill, and knew exactly how he was going to get out of going to prison for the rest of his life.

He had to have known, whether he was hearing voices in his head or not., that what he was doing was wrong.

This isn’ t just a case of a simple “brain snap” as both the prosecution and defense is implying,  it’s a case of cold-blooded murder, whether Li is a mental case or not.

Furthermore, if Li didn’t know the difference between right and wrong at the time, how is it he is able to distinguish the difference between right and wrong almost immediately after being taken into custody?

Don’t anybody think for one minute Li didn’t say something to somebody, or even muttered to himself something that indicated he knew that what he did was wrong. He would have been very apologetic too.

He definitely would have had such thoughts running through his head once he was in custody.  Its called remorse, but the kind of remorse Li would be feeling would be the kind that one has after being caught do something wrong. Didn’t know the difference between right and wrong, GET EFFIN’ REAL MAN! HE’S RUNNING A SCAM!

Unless the guy was on mind altering drugs, and I’m inclined to believe that he was, that toxicology tests weren’t thorough enough to disclose that;  then there is no way he didn’t know the difference between right and wrong.

God told Li to butcher a sleeping man, because if he didn’t, that sleeping man was going to kill him. How effin’ dumb does Li think I am?

At the end of the day Li is going to get away with murder, serve a few years in a mental institution where he will be doped up and forgotten, except when he has “appointments” with the in-house shrink, and then he’s going to walk out into the world with a smile on his face thinking him to himself, “Boy did I fool a whole lot of people. Now let’s go find me another victim, I’m bloody hungry.”

The Canadian justice system doesn’t work at the best of times, at least it would appear so lately, but when it comes to mentally twisted individuals like Vince Li, murder is murder, and if Li can’t be held criminally responsible for his actions because of a temporary “brain snap,” then the least the judge should do on Thursday is, make the determination that until Li is found fit enough to take responsibility for his crime and stand trial, he should be locked up in a mental institution until that day arrives, if in fact that day ever comes of course.

My condolences to Carol deDelley.

May the God that is apparently responsible for taking her son’s life find it in his or her heart one day, to tell the mentally deranged person standing, lying or sitting next to Vince Li, to take Li’s life in the most horrific of ways.

Vince Li doesn’t deserve to take another breathe, and whether he dies at the hands of somebody else, or of natural causes, he shouldn’t be allowed to enter society again under any circumstances.

Of course we all know that there will be people who will eventually be throwing their support behind his eventual release back into the community. You just know that that is going to happen.

Maybe when the day comes that Li is released,  there will somebody  waiting  for him with machete in hand.  I know if I had that kind of killer instinct in me, and the way I feel about this case, that killer in waiting could very well be me.