Omg....Col Russell Williams

[Niya W]

I just hope they don't focus in on the panties and draw conclusions on the trans comunity.

The commander of Canada's largest air force base is to plead guilty to the murder of two women and the sexual assault of two others, his lawyer says.
Col Russell Williams once acted as pilot for Queen Elizabeth II and was in charge of Base Trenton in Ontario - Canada's busiest air force hub.
His lawyer told an Ontario court he would plead guilty to all charges.
He is also charged with 82 counts of breaking and entering. Prosecutors said he had stolen women's underwear.
One woman was found dead in her house in November 2009. The other went missing in January this year.
Col Williams was arrested on 7 February. He is expected to enter guilty pleas at his next court appearance later this month.
The murder victims were Marie Comeau, a 38-year-old corporal, who lived in Brighton, Ontario, and Jessica Lloyd, 27, a resident of Belleville, Ontario.

[Loni]

sad, very sad here was a guy who had every thing going for him, and he drops down to the lowest level of murder.
i feel for the family's of the murdered.

and he should fry.

[Niya W]

I'm trying to figure out when did he have time to do this. It's not like he is some low level grunt with lots of free time.

[Jenny Beth]

This has been the biggest news story in Canada since he was arrested and the more we hear the more distrurbing it becomes. He plead guilty to all charges today sparing a lengthy trial but what is comming out now about his past is sickening. And to add insult to the whole thing he is eligible for a $60,000 annual pension from the military and the government says it can do nothing to prevent it. I am outraged.

[Emma Chase]

I have pasted a news story currently here in Canada...

Modorators .. if this is wrong I am soooo sorry.

Just go to show again that with media begin what it is easy to point that finger and say THATS the stemming of all this ... again ONE can make it bad for the rest in regard to X dressing


BELLEVILLE, Ont. - Col. Russell Williams indulged his fetish for women's and girl's lingerie by taking thousands of pornographic photographs of himself wearing their stolen underwear — and sometimes masturbating for the camera — before his sexual obsession escalated to sex assault and murder, court heard Monday.
Graphic images of the decorated Canadian military commander posed in the lingerie he collected as trophies flashed on screens in an eastern Ontario court, after Williams pleaded guilty to two murders, two sexual assaults and 82 break and enters.

[Tammy V]

That is some bad press alright. I wish could get some good press to counteract it.

[abigailf]

There are good news stories out there. They just don't get sensationalized as well as the bad ones. That is the case whether it involves crossdressing or not. Maybe someday we will hear about a hero crossdresser. Maybe we already have and just don't know they crossdress.

[April Renee]

Reminds me of the thread " I blame BTK" check it out in the archives in this forum.
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April
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[Daintre]

I just caught this on the local 6 PM news. The prosecution showed pictures this pervert took of himself in the stolen lingerie. Reporters talked to the people in the courtroom after the session and all thought it was sick, the pictures obscene. This lowlife broke into over 80 homes to steal lingerie and finally committed 2 murders. It seems to be a story that will receive much world press.

This "person" held a position of power in Canada's Armed Forces. I can only offer my condolences to the families of the 2 murdered women.

[sandra-leigh]

I stopped by to post about this story but see there's already a thread.

A national newspaper's article about the story is here.

[Leslie Langford]

...sure hope this guy doesn't give the rest of us CDer's a bad rap due to assumed guilt by association...

Check out the attached link - even Jerry Springer couldn't have invented this type of stuff. Then again, maybe Jerry will invite the Colonel to appear on his show, should he ever get out of prison on parole.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/1...rders_military

And his wife allegedly never had any inkling about his secret life - Mind-boggling!

[celeste26]

If this person was in the US military he would lose all compensation including his retirement benefits.

[Chickhe]

So far, he doesn't look much like a crossdresser. More like a person who was collecting trophies and expressing his power over these women by putting on their clothes. Bad press for the CDers who 'borrow' clothing without asking and underdressing, however because any ignorant person who discovers that may be thinking the worst.

[Niya W]

If this person was in the US military he would lose all compensation including his retirement benefits.

They might of court martial him.

[Daintre]

The Canadian Armed forces cannot take away his pension and they cannot court marshal him. They can however take the "unprecedented" steps that would strip Col. Russell Williams of his rank and service decorations. In all likelihood he will receive 25 years in prison with no parole.

[GaleWarning]

The Canadian Armed forces cannot take away his pension and they cannot court marshal him. They can however take the "unprecedented" steps that would strip Col. Russell Williams of his rank and service decorations. In all likelihood he will receive 25 years in prison with no parole.

So his pension won't be all that flash, anyway ...

[t-girlxsophie]

If this was the UK sure as fate the headline would be "crossdresser pervert slays women" they dont need any excuse to sensationalise that part of this awful story,almost relegating the murder of the women to a side issue.sad but alas very true of the Press over here

[Elsa Larson]

Add him to the list of Crossdressers Behaving Badly.

[Sarah Michelle]

I was watching the news last night, and that was the first time I saw significant reporting of the breaking and entering and stealing underwear. I didn't relate to him as a crossdresser. I see him as a criminal sexual deviant, (not to mention rapist and murderer), but I did entertain the thought that the general public is going to associate him with crossdressing and the entire community is going to take the hit.
In a selfish and narrow way it's sad, for us. I'm not forgetting the victims and their families and their suffering, but he isn't a crossdresser, he's a murderer with a fetish.
There is to be more reporting today detailing the sexual assaults and murders, as they finsih reading in the facts for the guilty pleas.
Too bad we don't have a high profile spokesperson to make the difference clear to the public.

[Jenny Beth]

Add him to the list of Crossdressers Behaving Badly.

So far he has not been labeled as a crossdresser but rather a sexual predator, pedophile, rapist and a murderer and hopefully the public will see him as just that.

[bobbie anne]

Here in Canada the latest news is one of our top military guys is on trial for sexual assult and killing two women. He also has broken into dozens of homes, dressed up in the occupants lingerie, taken hundreds of pictures of himself in their sexy things. Now the news media is pointing their fingers at perverts who dress in womens clothing. A huge step back for us here in Canada and else where

[pattyv]

Hi Bobbie,

My thoughts exactly.

[Laura Evans]

Just read about that today in the newspaper and that was my thought exactly. It will paint a not so positive picture of all of us to the public and they will tend to generalize all of us as being just like this individual. So sad that one bad apple can so ruin all our efforts to portray a more positive attitude towards us or for that matter anyone that is different than the norm.

[Jodygurl]

I have for a long time brideled at the media's ability to orchestrate "group think" or more precisly, the lack there of. The guy is a sadistic pervert. That hardly discribes those of us who simply identify w/ the other gender. But the media outlet that produces that story would be laughed at. So disappointing.

[Raquel June]

Obviously it would be nice if the media could see the big picture. Psychopathic self-loathing perverts often engage in crossdressing or homosexuality just because they see it as more kinky. You tend to hear more about homosexual pedophilia than heterosexual pedophilia. I think eventually the TG community will get past this labeling just like the gay community did.

But there are some things that perpetuate this from our side:

- Most of the nice CDs are totally private and don't work to present us in a good light, and many of the nice TSs try to be stealth and don't work to further our acceptance. This is to be expected. Everybody can't be a martyr. But we should all be more conscious of the degree to which we represent our community. It's rare for me to see another TS person, and as such I'm sure it's rare for the people I meet on a day-to-day basis to see TS people, so that is a responsibility whether I like it or not to present us all in a positive light.


- We tend to be very adamant about saying "it's all good" and "we can't judge" no matter how badly a CD treats his wife or how blatant they are about their disrespect for femininity. Some CDs strike me as total misogynists who only like crossdressing because they see femininity as degrading and dirty and kinky. If we can't draw a distinction among ourselves, how do we expect the general public to? We will always be equated to those for whom it is a hobby to be a walking hard-on in panties.