Sticks and Stones?

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but names will get you a punch in the face. An on duty Kelowna mountie chased down and punched a man in the face for lipping him off- and if the mountie was swaggering arrogantly like some of them do, the mountie deserved to be lipped off. Either way, the mountie was found guilty of assault, but the judge gave him an absolute discharge.

Well, consider this: as of last month, an Angus Reid survey shows that 7 out of every 10 British Columbians think all of us  should be calling the RCMP names!

Now that the judge has declared open season on 70% of us, that could amount to a whole lot of face punching by armed thugs we don't like or respect against unarmed citizens who now don't even have the appearance of the protection of the law. Oh, and judge.... if somebody doesn't meekly submit to having his face punched by one of your enforcers, we all know a serious charge will be trumped up, the poor sap is going to be swarmed by a mob of your crazy RCMP thugs and  beaten up- if not actually killed *- back at the station house, and then to top it all off, if he survives you'll send him to jail.
70% of us are not amused.
(* video about Robert Wright, mugged 8 days ago by Terrace RCMP and still in a coma. In the video the spokesman for the Westminster police (appointed by the guilty police to investigate themselves as usual) very casually says- as if  he could hardly be bothered and was talking about a pesky fly that had just been swatted- that it will be MONTHS before they condescend to give their report. MONTHS!

I think that we as a society, are failing to take a few seconds to really FEEL the enormity of travesties like this one when we find out about them, and that's one reason they keep happening again and again. We need to make the effort and use the energy that it takes to really get deep down disgusted and let our blood pressure rise. Here's what I mean.... What would happen if the mountie had been punched in the face for swaggering and generally throwing his weight around in a totally bullyish and obnoxious manner? There wouldn't be any absolute discharges, I can tell you that for sure. I can also tell you there wouldn't have been any absolute discharges if the victim had been related to the judge. Maybe there wouldn't have been an absolute discharge if the mountie's lawyer hadn't been an ex-RCMP officer- which he is. After all, the legal system is quite a cozy little in-bred close knit group. For example, one of the lawyers defending one of the RCMP murderers in the airport tazer case was appointed a judge right after the case was over by, of course, the provincial government- the team leader. The team leader who quietly foisted the RCMP on us for another 20 years so sneakily.

CITIZENS, BE CAREFUL OUT THERE !