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Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio -
"You don't speak for me."
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“Sure thing, Chief. Your boys are gonna help me empty cans too, right?”
Volunteers will be easy to spot, if you want to help them with information..
They’ll be wearing brown shirts
What I find fascinating is that 1. most citizens already do this to at least some degree, and 2. most law enforcement either a) grossly overreacts or b) files it in the circular file cabinet.
Here in my town, someone called in a suspicious box by the side of the road. The bomb squad showed up, in full regalia, and after some time (really) it was determined to be one
of those traffic counter boxes with the rubber hose that runs across the road. Really.
What I find most interesting is the statement that they’ve got the money for another 100 cops, but are having troubles getting candidates through the “challenging hiring process.”
To anybody who’s ever participated in the government hiring morass, that speaks volumes. It’s not money that’s the problem, it’s the red tape that was almost certainly introduced to ensure fairness and accountability.
I’d be willing to bet that the trickle of newbies the police are getting is ethnically balanced, of the mandatory sex ratio, has had all the warm-fuzzy sensitization courses, etc etc.
Triumph indeed.
It appears that at least some of the inmates are getting restless. Check out the comments to the article. On a CBS website in the San Francisco area no less.
Heh. How can you expect the “gestapo” to be out arresting Republicans,when they are all busy tapping your e-mails? Yanks are so screwed,they do not even need vasoline. And our Royal Canuck Maryjane Pickers are the same.
Or a snitch network – police work will double as every disgruntled neighbour gets back at the guy who plays his tunes too loud or as th dog who dups on his lawn, by anonymously tipping the cops about his secret pot growing op – yup gotta keep the thin blue line whacking them neighbourhood criminals.
“The city has the funds to hire more than 100 officers, but is more than a dozen short due to difficulties getting candidates through the challenging hiring process.”
There’s a scarcity of non-white transgendered lesbian cripples? Who knew?
Shockingly, California now has the highest rate of poverty in the nation,
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/07/fixing-california-is-the-dream
The Calgary cops had a brilliant plan along these lines about 6 years ago.
They announced on the morning news that letter carriers would be helping the police to find grow-ops.
One astute letter carrier pointed out to his union ‘Health and Safety’ office that if a grow-op got busted on his route,he could become a target for the angry farmer.
The 6 o’clock news had a retraction up.