The writers of Criminal Minds, as bizarre as some of their plots may be, could not have dreamed up this story. Our friends from the Monty Python troupe, as fond as they are of cross-dressing officers, would have been vilified if they had tried to script something like this. Russell Williams, graduate of Upper Canada College, decorated pilot, military academic and strategist, commander of a secretive base in Saudi Arabia providing support to troops in Afghanistan, commander of CFB Trenton, fetishist, cross-dresser, serial rapist and murderer.
I’d say the anti-war effort just got a big boost. While I don’t for a minute believe that military training causes men to become serial rapist/murderers, I do believe this story will end up turning into an allegorical tale that takes us beyond the strict reasoning of cause and effect and gives expression to a different kind of truth about the nature of power: no matter how polished we try to make our military look, it will always have a dirty underside. At the end of the day, our military is in the death business. That’s its purpose. And sooner or later, people vested with the power of life and death will abuse that power. Col. Russell Williams is an embarrassment to our military, not because he pranced around in women’s underwear after he raped and killed women, but because he exposed the underlying sickness of its normal — of our normal.
I’ll pose the question I posed more than three years ago: why is that stretch of Hwy 401 from CFB Trenton to Toronto called Highway of Heroes?
If we want to honour the dead, how about Marie-France Comeau and Jessica Elizabeth Lloyd? Let’s name it for victims of the military instead.
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