A friend commented yesterday that I haven't blogged for a while and as I tried to articulate why, I realized it is because the things I have wanted to say for the last month may be too extreme for this forum. Now I realize that, like all political activism, blogging comes with risks and trashing the police and other security forces in a public forum may come with risks one doesn't want to take, but at a certain point, one has to decide if one's concerns warrant those risks.
In the last month - - since the Polish man's horrible death at Vancouver airport, added to the death by a shot to the back of the head of the young man in Vanderhoof, BC (over a year ago) and another man in the interior of BC, all unarmed, added to the fact that they are trying to declare a First Nations man a dangerous offender because he was drunk and killed three people 'in a police chase', added to the number of taser deaths overall and deaths in police chases overall and now a BC man in critical condition from tasering and beating - - the nature of law and order in this country has started to freak me out, and I'm willing to bet that I am not alone.
At the same time, what is our precious government going on and on and on about - law and order. So is all this that has been happening "law and order" and they want more of it? This country has been hijacked by a minority of Canadians who are angry about something, somewhere in their early life they suffered abuse of some sort and they want us all to suffer along with them. How did it come to this, that we have given control over this wonderful peaceful country to a bunch of angry men and women who see bad people around every corner and can hardly wait to punish them?
Those of you inclined to spank your children - don't, or one day Canada will have the death penalty by lethal injection.
And to all those angry people - try to get it through your thick skulls that the crime rate was going down before your campaign of fear - 'law and order' equals oppression of the innocent.
