Concur. Do they go home giggling? Ever seen a judge questioned in public about the horror one of is recent releases imposed on the innocent?

* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/horror-man-fatally-stabs-woman-barnes-noble-south/

** See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/blm-linked-bail-fund-sprung-repeat-offender-jail/

When my family moved to the Bay Area in Jan. 1963 I remember a grisly story in the news about a San Francisco doctor who had tortured his young wife with acid so horrifically she died a month later. Her mother prayed for her death.

But I never heard the story again and began to wonder if I had imagined it. I couldn’t remember the doctor’s name except it seemed to begin with a K.

I would have thought such a heinous crime would be up there with Manson or the Boston Strangler or Jeffrey MacDonald, the doctor who murdered his family and blamed it on Mansonoid hippies.

Eventually I found the right Google search, “doctor murders wife san francisco 1962” and discovered that Dr. de Klapany had only served 12 years in San Quentin!

He managed to con a bunch of people into thinking he would devote his life to serving the poor as penance and was paroled to a Taiwan missionary hospital. A few years later he disappeared. He eventually surfaced in Europe as a naturalized German citizen
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As the San Jose Mercury reporters revealed in their 2002 article, de Kaplany’s parole was a fiasco from beginning to end. The wife-killer had secured the support of several Catholic priests and one archbishop who lobbied the parole board, in secret, on the doctor’s behalf.

http://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/the-acid-doctor-the-most-horrendous-murder-in-american-history/
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God bless this Catholic archbishop and these priests! The Bay Area archbishop in those days was Joseph Thomas McGucken.

Apparently de Kaplany was one of the reasons California later instituted “Life without parole” as a sentencing possibility.

Let’s face it, from what I understand—far removed from our Pioneer days–most of us here in the U.S. are very well insulated, from what has been the norm of human existence on our planet for the last hundreds of thousands of years—cold, thirst, hunger, violence, someone trying to rule over you by force, and taking what little you might have from you by guile or, more often, by superior force and violence.

In the real, normal world which prevails over most of our planet, it has always been and is very hard not to encounter and to experience–first hand–real violence, and real evil.

In contrast, in the insulated, fantasy world which our progress has provided to us, it’s not, and having no experience of real violence and evil, its easy to believe that real evil doesn’t exist, that everyone has a spark of humanity and goodness in them, that everyone can be redeemed, and that no one is really so evil and/or so violent and/or crazy that they have to be locked away to keep the rest of us relatively normal people safe in our beds at night, and safe on the street by day.

Or do we as a society just sit back, wring our hands, and go “Oh my, whatever shall we do?” as we’ve been doing. Literally if need be, kick them in the nuts hard (or more) is the proper response.

I wish that our oh-so-progressive legal system would acknowledge the reality that there are some amongst us who, defined by their actions, simply do not belong, and should not be allowed to wander freely, in civilized society, for the harm and terror that they inflict on the innocent. This story of the attack on the elderly woman in Seattle reminded me of that….