Crack Addict: Daily Life in a Small Town

by Barry Artiste | May 21, 2008 at 05:35 am

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Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

Anyone who thinks Drugs are harmless, Rehab is the answer, when temptation is everywhere for addicts should rethink their stance on our Lienient Drug Dealer Laws.

This story is about Francis Proulx, CrackHead Kidnap Murderer, with Multiple previous charges such as:

Break and Enter
Robbery
Fraud
Theft
Drug Possession

Francis a Local Small town Crackhead you see has the above mentioned multiple convictions and lived amongst the outraged residents of this small farming town.

The recent discovery of a Grisly Kidnap Murder scene of a Young Mother of two infants, by the husband who was met by Blood Spattered walls inside the Family Home, had the citizens and Police instantly fingering this Local Crackhead. Why this Crackhead with multiple convictions allowed to walk free is our incompetent Justice system at work.

This Crackhead had taken the womens butchered and bloodied body 370 km away to be disposed of in an abandoned house, where Police discovered it.

The Kidnap and Brutal Murder of a young mother by a local Crackhead was known instantly as the grisly discovery came to the attention of the local police.

The Montreal Gazette reported the following quote"

"Francis Proulx was known to the local police detachment," Ross said. "We suspected him from the beginning."

Francis Proulx, on the other hand, is portrayed as a disturbed unemployed man who has a record for cocaine possession and robbery.

My Questions are many, but ones that come to mind are as follows:

If Police and the Townspeople instantly knew this Crack Addict was responsible, what does this say about our non existent laws and our mollycoddling of Addicts?

Why was this Addict with so many previous convictions, including violence allowed to live amongst any society?

Why is it Society is so complacent when it comes to Drugs and Addiction that it takes a Butchered Woman for the Public to open their eyes?

Opened eyes, that for the time being, others will go tsk, tsk, and then go about their daily lives forgetting this event and past Murderous events that are a Cancer in our Society?

Has Society been so Numbed by all the daily Violence, Rape, Murders and other crimes committed against society, that many it seems, feel it is just the "Price of doing Business" for Freedoms we currently enjoy as Canadians, in that if a few are killed that is acceptable?

Is it acceptable as Canadians feel it is a "Roll of the Dice", much like "Lottery Tickets" in that the Chances are one in a "Hundred Thousand" seems like pretty good odds in being affected by a criminal act?

Why is that once a Canadian who accepts these Odds is the First to Cry out for Justice when a loved one is Murdered?

Why is Society waiting for Crime to affect them personally before wanting Political Will to Change for them, when change and prevention should be made immediately before it strikes YOU ???

Perhaps the following answers should be put to Canadians!

Demand Laws be put in place to protect Society, deman Laws to incarcerate those who do us harm for Serious Crimes to have Serious Time!

Some may not Like the Three Strikes Law, but if this were in force in Canada, we would not be reading this Grisly story. If Canadians feel this is too harsh, then wait until you, your children or those close to you are no longer living on the face of this earth because of a Criminal, then perhaps like the Lottery, you may feel this would never happen to you!

Certainly this murdered young women, felt it would never happen to her in a small farming community where everybody knew everyone. What makes you think it will never happen to YOU?

Accused Quebec killer charged in scam
By Andy Blatchford, THE CANADIAN PRESS

RIVIERE-OUELLE, Que. - Francis Proulx spent most of his time tinkering with his pickup, playing on his computer and rarely rolled out of bed before the afternoon sun hit the small Quebec village of Riviere-Ouelle, says his neighbour.Rene Nadeau said he was stunned Sunday when provincial police arrested Proulx in the death of a provincial cabinet minister's aide, a woman who lived just around the corner.Proulx, 29, has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Nancy Michaud, 37, a well-liked resident who worked for Natural Resources Minister Claude Bechard. Both Proulx and Michaud grew up in the community about 140 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. Residents say they knew each other.

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duo

at 15:43 on May 21st, 2008

GOOD STUFF -- Interesting story! The Canadian Press reports that police released a video of Francis Proulx withdrawing money from his victim's bank account using her bank card shortly after the murder, so it would appear that he might be guilty. The news article says he was described as being "reclusive." I note that Proulx was described in your article as being a "disturbed unemployed man." Do these references mean that Proulx is known to have mental problems? Was he ever treated for mental illness? Unfortunately, severely mentally ill people sometimes try to self-medicate by using illegal drugs, but only end up with a new problem - addiction.

Tragedies like the deaths of this mother and her children may have been averted with proper psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. I feel sorry for the families in this tragedy.

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
Website: http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
P.O. Box 7222, Atlanta, GA 30357

Barry Artiste

at 15:51 on May 21st, 2008

Thanks for the commentary Mary, indeed Proulx looking for money picked an easy target, townspeople describe him once a normal, mild mannered person, whose slide into drug addiction , scams, robbery and fraud, with violence certainly shows as a multiple convicted criminal, that Rehab wasn't to his liking. Trust me, Quebec have many rehab programs out there for Free, but as the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but can't force it to drink. The Laws in this Country need to be enforced and stricter towards those who supply and sell drugs, otherwise we will be revisiting this scenario, time and time again, By the way if you feel this is Good Stuff as you say in your comments, there is a icon in which to express that Opinion, for those who feel as strongly on this disease as I do.

Again, thanks for the comments and visiting my story

duo

at 01:47 on May 23rd, 2008

Barry, something's strange about my computer -- many fields do not show up. If I go to another computer, I promise to select this as GOOD STUFF! because it is. I didn't even realize y'all had such awful crimes in Canada! Regarding the drug rehab places, unfortunately, this man did not avail himself of them. I wish he had, and now I am sure he wishes the same thing. My condolences to the families

Barry Artiste

at 04:33 on May 23rd, 2008

No problem Duo, It actually happens from time to time the entire GS and the rest of the Icon selection takes a vacation for some reason, though only for a short time. It has happened to me a few times. Usually a reboot, followed by a Refresh cures it, then a few choice expletives usually does the trick hahaha. If not, then perhaps Now Public traffic is Heavy. Sometimes for me it takes 5 minutes of so to even submit a story, Thanks anyways, much appreciated.

maleger

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 04:19 on May 27th, 2008

Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Barry Artiste

at 04:37 on May 27th, 2008

Thanks Malager for stopping by, much appreciated.

maleger

at 02:35 on June 8th, 2008

I don't think that stricter law would make a difference. In the USA, in states that have stricter penalties, crime has not been reduced. It is always easy to proposed solutions a psteriori but crime and human nature are unpredictable. In small town ans rural areas in Quebec, as the recent Bouchard-Taylor comission and the saga of "accomodomenets raisonnables" has shown, people in rural areas live in an illusion that the problem of big cities do not, or should not, afflict them. But societal problems, like sexual perversion (pedophilia, necrophilia, zoophilia), drug traffic, alcool abuse or gambling additions are everywhere today, in this society of the inter-networked global villiage. People suffer from information overload which feed their general anxieties caused by deep rooted problems of acceptance, desired to be loved and difficulty to accept their place and role in society in relation to their image of self and what they believe they should have coming to them. It is a sort of feeding frenzy of delirium in which a very small percentage of psychologically troubled individuals catalyse more delirium.

There will never be sufficient controls in society to eliminate this psychosocial imbalance unless we, as a socity, come to grips with the fact that there is a fundamental imbalance between the image of self projected by the consumeristic society and our limits as a single human being with our individual constraints. Only education can give men the tools to enable them to deal with this and accept their future as the outcome of their past. Putting people who have choosen to evade their future by taking drugs, which lead them into the inferno of addiction, while recomforting to most, will solve nothing in reality. Thousands of years of so called evolution can demonstrate this, but within the global village paradigm, situations such as the one in Rivière-Ouelle, which have happenend many times before, are only more visible, not new and not unique.

While I believe that the specific individual in this specific case must be severely punished if he is gulty as it seems, my research in the area of security indicates to me that security issues need a multidimentional approach that include prevention, protection and punishment, not just one of these elements.