After breaking into residents’ homes to seize them: “The guns will be returned to owners after residents are allowed back in town and they provide proof of ownership…”
You don’t say;
Will be tougher down the road to get people to evacuate in a disaster now that we know RCMP will root through our personal stuff #abflood
— Cory Morgan (@CoryBMorgan) June 28, 2013
Update: PMO to RCMP: Give back the High River guns
h/t Rick
(11:23am – bumped)
It is ironic that only a few weeks after the aniversary of D-Day Canadians are watching armed civil servants run around stealing guns and acting like Nazis.
Gunny, my posts tend to be shorthand in nature. Probably out of laziness, but also I tend to think people know what I am thinking.. stupid I know. In a semi-rural community like High River, I am sure there are less gun safes than the required amount. I am sure where there are gun safes, they are probably in the lower levels of the house. So when people are leaving in a hurry, I am sure they don’t drag a heavy gun safe upstairs, but just bring the guns upstairs. Also gun locks may be in shorter supply than in the city. So, move guns from gun safe upstairs, sans locks. Unsafe storage. Also in rural areas, guns get passed down from generation to generation. I am willing to bet there were quite a few handguns that were in the families for years and years, that were not thrown out. Restricted weapons. Therefore we have issues.
Perhaps, stradivarious….but the fact remains…..the government allowed…and even ENCOURAGED building in those areas and so they are complicit.
Oh and by the way….the “slough” is not always apparent, now, is it?
Due diligence to be sure, but when the government indicates building is fine, they are signalling that they have things under control.
Sorry, Knight, I’m not just sure how the imm got on the end of my name — it would definitely be my fault (a poor proof-read, as I was editing my post sequentially). I’m still David Southam, which name (mine) I always post under, as you well know.
Joey, Here is something to think about. Most of the damage from the water in HR is due to the Bow breaking through its natural river banks and created an entirely new riverbed. The flood plain has now been redefined by the new course it is taking. Unless the engineers rebuild where the breach has taken place, HR is now susceptible to flooding like this again.
As I have stated here before. The RCMP do not work for the citizens. They are agents of the Queen, having sworn an oath to uphold the interests of the Crown, not the pleebs. They have also formed a Union which is accountable to its own interests as well, beholden to the directives of the Union Bosses. The RCMP pecking order and promotion directives are controlled by the Freemasons. You cannot advance into upper management without being a ring-bearing/oath taking Masonic Lodge Member.
In all likelihood, the boys on the ground doing the gun snatching were just following orders of compliance from their superiors. Wanting to be in the old boys club, they just did as they were told, showing that they are trustworthy and know the mandate.
The RCMP will circle the wagons and close ranks and we will very likely never find out who and where and what the orders were. They will cover their tracks and put up the smoke screens. Most people are way more interested in getting back into their homes to salvage and rebuild their lives than pour the energy into holding these agents responsible for their illegal actions.
The new Praetorian guard was starkly evident on TV broadcasts – dressed in signature black uniforms designed to intimidate the proles while obeying their political masters.
Police, fire, EMS and by-law officers all subscribe to the same dress code. Even mayor Nenshi wore black when addressing the crowd at the Calgary Stampders’ opening game!
Mere coincidence? Methinks not.
David Southam >
Apologies David, I simply copied and pasted your moniker as was.
I knew who you were but assumed it was some sort of obscure acronym attached and not a spelling error.
Actually, it’s the Highwood River, not the Bow flowing through High River.
This is an excellent map that shows areas susceptible to flooding in Alberta: http://www.envinfo.gov.ab.ca/FloodHazard/
You can zoom in and out from 1:2500 scale up to 1:5 million