Democracy For Dummies

Lede from an article in the Brandon Sun:

The RCMP is reminding its officers that they have a duty to protect the safety of Prime Minister Stephen Harper — not the Conservative Party of Canada.

And I suppose we are all supposed to believe that these adult police did not already know this? Where am I, Egypt?

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Hands Up

Those of you who have confidence the RCMP will ever charge any powerful politician with anything. Thought so. Me neither.

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Day Passes The Puck

So, the SDQ is now claiming that they did have undercover cops in the crowd, but that they were there to stop violence. So, what was the one cop doing holding a rock and pushing Dave Coles?

Second, Stockwell Day is trying to push all responsibility for this fiasco away from the RCMP and onto the SDQ, by saying it was purely an SDQ issue.

"I've made the inquiries and there was no RCMP that were involved as far as those three individuals go," he told reporters in Winnipeg.

How is that possible? I realize Day is slicing the salami pretty thin here. No, the three were not RCMP, but the RCMP was in charge of security for the event. Either the RCMP knew about these operations in which case it is as culpable as the SDQ, or it didn't, in which case it was grossly incompetent (I suspect this is the final defense Day will fall back to in the coming days). Either way, Canadians have a right to know what the hell was going on up in Quebec.

Update: As others have pointed out, the fact that the SDQ lied about the cops' identities in the first place makes the rest of their utterances on the matter highly suspect. Why should we believe anything the cops have to say on this matter? We need an independent investigation.

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Tale Of The Sole

The sole of the boots worn by the "protesters" in Quebec, have been identified as Vibram Model 134AR. Coincidentally, those same boots are worn by the police and are marketed by the company as Fire/Police soles. There are just too many coincidences here. There needs to be an investigation by a judicial inquiry.

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Is This The Face Of A Cop?

I took this from the Youtube video of the three "protesters". It is the best screen capture I could manage. It was taken just after his masked was ripped off. Anyone recognize this guy? Click on the picture for a larger version.

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