The Path of Evil

Copyright 2012: singeronthesand

Good Sense will scout ahead for danger,

Insight will keep an eye out for you.

They'll keep you from making wrong turns,

or following bad directions of those who are lost themselves,

and can't tell a trail from a tumbleweed;

these losers who make a game of evil

and throw parties to celebrate perversity.

Proverbs 2:12-15

There once was a porn star who delighted in torturing and killing kittens.  He suffocated or strangled them, often videotaping his grisly deeds and then posting them on the Internet.  He would also use the kitten carcasses for acts of sexual perversion--videotaped as well.  Unfortunately, as often happens when one wholeheartedly embraces evil, killing animals did not provide enough of a thrill.  On May 26 or 27, he killed a Concordia University student from China, dismembered the body, and sent a hand here or a foot there to various political entities in Canada.  Having videotaped the entire process from death to dismemberment, he posted that video online as well, then fled the country.

It is difficult to understand that depth of depravity.  The killing of an innocent animal is a horrendous act.  The killing of a fellow human being is beyond the pale.  How does one become so deranged at only 29 years of age:  by embracing small steps of evil that do not "seem so bad," at the time, eventually graduating to greater and greater atrocities, until one's conscience is completely seared by the seduction of wickedness (an old-fashioned word, but an ever-present reality in modern society).

The videotape of the killing and the discovery of the body parts sparked an international manhunt that ended yesterday in a Berlin cyber-cafe.  German authorities will charge him today with a multitude of crimes, including capital murder, Canada will file for extradition, and the long process of bringing this man to justice will commence.  Justice might bring a measure of peace to the victim's family, but it will not bring back his life.  Some effects of evil can never be rectified.