Russell Williams started out as a peeping Tom, then graduated to breaking, entering and stealing women's underwear. Then he moved on to hanging around, trying on their underwear and lounging around on their beds. As these behaviours failed to adequately excite him, he upped it to rape and finally his ultimate pleasure: Murder.
That's what apparently happens, milder behaviourers escalate as the thrill fades. All this time, women were complaining and saying they felt "uncomfortable" around him, but he was a colonel and thus nothing was done. Heck, he even got to fly the Queen around during her visits to Canada! This is why the military has to get serious about sexual harassment, assault and rape. Williams was charged with breaking into 82 houses before he graduated to murdering four young women. Even then, it was a fluke that caught him, not the military. But, folks, he started with voyeurism.
No one ever talks about this link and the attitude of the armed forces that overlooks it. Will anything change? I doubt it. Bizarrely, no one mentions this in the blanket coverage of the Vance scandal. No one even references it?!
Well, I just did. Think about that, please. How many other perverts are there in the military and other quasi-military organizations lurking around in the shadows? Just heard horrendous coverage of the Ottawa Police Service, where a number of officers have been investigated for, or charged with, sexual assault. Everyone knows this goes on because it's simply infused in, and accepted by, the culture.
Many men must be shaking in their boots, waiting for the flood gates to open and the other shoe to slam them hard on the head.
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