Law and Order?
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.
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.
posted by Susan at 6:43 AM
4 Comments:
So whats it like to be oblivious to the world around you?
The RCMP have been dummed down by "Political Correctness" for a decade or two . . . the last few times I have come in contact with police . . . they have been small people, with no physical abilities, getting nervous if I stood too close to them. What happened to the 6 foot plus people of presence we used to have for RCMP?
Crime is going down???
Nary a day goes by in greater Vancouver that a shooting doesn't take place . . . the body count is setting a new record this year. From what I understand TO isn't doing any better, and Winnipeg is the murder capital of Canada.
Property crimes as so common that the police can't even keep accurate statistics anymore . . .
Every crime organization and terrorist group on the planet has set up in Canada because they could!!!
So Manuel and Oldschool are you saying that the police have the right to taser and chase people to death before they have even been arrested? That would mean you are saying that we should all forget due process and we should bring back the death penalty. If that's what you are saying, then no dialogue is possible with those of us that believe absolutely in due process (the rel law and order) and are absolutely against the death penalty.
If however, you are saying that crime is rampant, that we are surrounded by bad people and the police need to do everything they can to help us, then surely you too would be appalled at how many unarmed and sometimes innocent people are getting killed by the police. And you would also be saying that, since you think crime is rampant, the police are not catching the real criminals and they can't even make a dint in the gangs (who are the ones dying in Vancouver). So what are your suggestions for improving the success rate of the police and eliminating the killing of innocent people.
Certainly the cure to those ills is to copy what has worked in places like Texas and Arizona, peaceful sleepy states where a whiteman has little to fear!
That the sudden spurt of gun violence in Canada is tied to a crime war for turf that is becoming available thanks to a gov't that has signalled 'a war on drugs' mentality, meaning its now to the prevails of Big Crime.
We can't certainly link this continuing troubling trend to CONs anti-gun registry, pro-lock'em up and ask questions later mentality, can we?
Heaven forbid that a nation and gov't dare look inward for solutions...
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