Local news is reporting that after a band election at Clearwater River First Nation north of La Loche resulted in violence, RCMP were called in, only to be pelted with stones as they tried to apprehend suspects.
There have been several incidents of this type involving the RCMP in the province this year. It’s just a matter of time before we have another Mayerthorpe. With the RCMP lacking the capacity to pursue white collar crime and money laundering, a justice system that rewards those with multiple drunk driving fatalities with a comfy bed and scenic setting in a “healing lodge”, when judges are heckled as “racists” by prisoners and peanut gallery alike, and media giggles over criminality in the highest offices of the land as “Liberal shenanigans” – why would petty criminals and local rabble rousers respect the average constable?
An anonymous reader writes;
At present, the Commissioner acts as a Deputy Minister and reports to the Liberal government.To be reasonably arm’s length he should be reporting to Parliament instead if there is to be integrity built into the system. He knows the government has underfunded the RCMP for years but takes the public line that they are adequately funded which is nonsense. They are really short at least 2500 “experienced”officers if they are to do their jobs in a timely manner.
Taking about 18 years to get the Air India case to trial, about 20 years to deal with the tainted blood (because of connections) 7 years for the Bre-X mining scam and the report yesterday, that they didn’t have enough resources to deal with money laundering are not examples of operating in the optimum manner.
All sections of the RCMP are underfunded and understaffed despite the rosy assurances of the Public Security Minister with her fictitious $10 billion for security. (it was $8 billion over 5 years and they added $2 billion for PR but nobody knows where the extra $2 billion came from..They are living on their laurels from 20 years ago. The height of BS was when one of their senior officers said about a month ago it would take 18 months to investigate the murders of the 4 RCMP officers. This would have been priority #1 and it appears this was to allow the elections to slide through without embarrassing the government over the fact that an assault rifle was used by Roszko to kill the officers making the $1.5 billion gun registry useless.
It’s only a few lousy million, but has anybody noticed that the Commissioner of the RCMP was too proud to fly in a home turf Bombardier. He convinced somebody to buy him a Piaggio, the Ferrari of private airplanes.
With the librano errosion continuing, it’s going to get worse, a lot worse. The scum sucking librano$ are siphoning money off from all avenues of control.
The RC’s at the lower levels have a shit job, and are bearing the brunt of the frustration. It wouldn’t suprise me to see them walk away.
PRIME MINISTER PRJUDICES MATTER UNDER RCMP REVIEW-Martin’s Next Conflict of Interest
Today, in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister and other Liberal MP’s made frequent and dismissive comments about evidence MP Grewal has turned over to the RCMP–evidence Grewal feels backs up his accusations of bribery against a Liberal MP.
Read more at http://705blue.blogspot.com/
rob,
you really need to give more thought to your wording, you have now truly given scum sucking a bad name.
speaking of Grewal ( a little off topic) but something stinks here… http://nomoresocialism.blogspot.com/2005/06/i-think-trivial-is-proper-term.html
Jeez, I’m really getting whipsawed by checking in here only sporadically. Today I learn that the RCMP are heroic foot soldiers in the war against dangerous aboriginal scofflaws. Why it seems like only yesterday that they were irredeemably compromised Liberal stooges.
Come to think of it, it *was* only yesterday.
kelly,
If I said it, the way I want to ay it, Kate would ban me…. 😉
Scum sucking has now become a casualty of war..
Herb,
As stated earlier, yesterday, it’s only the way higher ups that are a problem. The lower and mid level ranks are taking all the heat for the political wing that’s causing problems. Everyone knows that, and has more then respect for what the divisions have to handle.
The RCMP budgets were gutted a number of years ago – there were references to this in the Mayerthorpe affair. However, the ordinary working RCMP cannot comment on this type of thing – it would be worth their jobs to talk out of school. If anything, they have been placed in a worse position than the average Canadian – no ability to publically address the issue and there on the front lines, potentially getting shot at.
You really have to wonder about the spending priorities of our govt, when you see what they’re choosing to spend and NOT spend on.
The RCMP budgets were gutted a number of years ago – there were references to this in the Mayerthorpe affair. However, the ordinary working RCMP cannot comment on this type of thing – it would be worth their jobs to talk out of school. If anything, they have been placed in a worse position than the average Canadian – no ability to publically address the issue and there on the front lines, potentially getting shot at.
You really have to wonder about the spending priorities of our govt, when you see what they’re choosing to spend and NOT spend on.
Opps! sorry about that doubling – up thing!
I have a couple of friends who retired from the RCMP, who haven’t much use for the small-p politics on the force, and the fact that as a white male, there’s little chance for advancement.
Huh?… racism in the RCMP… oh, never mind, there white.. they don’t count.
warts and all, I can’t help but have some respect for the RCMP, most of them are doing their jobs and their political masters are far far away. The rank and file are honest and hard working. We have to believe there is some good.
hey Richard Evans how about posting that entry at the Shotgun too. That is so far the best explanation of what happened at the Air Canada counter. Thanks.
I’ve always been told that name calling was sinking to the lowest common denominator in a debate.
We can debate ideas and report facts and opinions but attacking the person yeilds no fruit and just incites people to act like squabbling children.
The issues facing our nation are bigger than that and I want to thank Kate for giving us a forum to share info with other Canadians who share our concerns.
There are other sites where the name calling is ferocious. Try the Liberal and NDP Blogs. They have really turned insults of the character of conservative minded Canadians into an art form.
I know HappyDaze. I told you today about BlogsCanada.ca that one is a gem.
Mike P – I cannot post on Blogs Canada. I think my email has been blocked.
Going back to the Mayerthorpe thread – why is it that no one commented on the fact that only really really junior officers were left there alone. One of those guys killed had less then 2 months on the job and between all four there was less than 10 years. Not one of those officers killed had the experience to know what to do in that situation.
The budget was gutted – poor excuse for the kids now growing up with no father!
The RCMP is far to political – you think!!! Sadly it’s hurting them and their officers in ways they don’t seem to understand. Lack of respect in LaLoche barely touches the subject.
the lack of ability to investigate white-collar crime and money-laundering, is not the RCMP’s problem- they aren’t allowed to.
Back in the ’70s, in hicksville B.C., one of my buds sold his house to somebody. He sez: “Hey-wanna see something really neat?” Well- sure.
He took me to his former home and rang the bell, and when a woman came to the door, he asked her if he could show me around? (She could not refuse-the house was not legally theirs yet). He led me into the master bedroom, swung open the doors to a large closet, and told me to take a look- over one dozen full-dress Miltie the Mountie uniforms in there! (Hubby was hiding in the basement at the time.) Hubby was an undercover drug cop, pumping gas at the local gas station. (Did you know that pot is considered a ‘gateway drug’ for Leukemia patients?)
The RCMP carry guns – therefore they are bad, maybe even scary, why would you expect that lieberals would fund them adequately?
Tthere are existing and proposed state-mandated social programs to fund. Why would you expect peace, order and good government rather than nanny state daycare? Have to look out for the liberal voter who loves to be bought with other peoples money.
Of course if the RCMP could free themselves of the gun registry anchor they would immediately be able to re-deploy several hundreds of officers.
Shortly after the Liberals took over the government in 1993 hundreds of millions of dollars were stripped from the the RCMP budget by the the finance minister of the day, and we all know who that was. This process took two to three years to do but each year more money was taken. It was during the time when federal employees wages were frozen for 5 years. I was a member of the RCMP then and don’t recall exactly how much was stripped from the budget, too many beer out aluminum cans, but it was in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Since that time very little has been put in, even though the liberals can find billions over the years for HRDC, the gun registry, Adscam and so on and so on. Not to mention the billions upon billions to buy their way into a few more months in power during Martin’s continous spending spree. Yes the force is under staffed and under funded and Liberals could care less because it is not something that the public is squawking about. The rank and file members in the field for the most are trying to do the job and provide the service to the public but have zero support from our politicians in Ottawa. In all honesty I think that the Liberals don’t want a federal police force and if they continue to under fund the Force eventually the public in the contact provinces will be so tired of the members not being able to provide adequate service that there will be no protest if the Liberals no longer provide the RCMP to provinces on a contract basis. If a few more Mayerthorpes happen along the way that will be “regretable but acceptable casualtilies” to obtain the goal. Hate to sound like a conspiracy nut but could it be just one more step in divide and conquer that the Liberals seem to so good at?
Dave,
Dude, I don’t know what you are smoking or what the point of your post about your bud selling his house was but…..
“she couldn’t refuse because they didn’t legally own the house yet”. If they didn’t own the house yet then they would not have moved in yet or if an arrangement had been made for them to move in prior to the possession date it would still have been her dwelling house and she could have and no doubt would have said “No”.
“over one dozen full-dress Milti the Mounted uniforms in there” Mounties have one dress uniform issued to them and some maybe in possession of two if they “out grow the first one” but no Mountie has ever had more than a dozen full dress uniforms at one time.
“hubby was an under cover drug cop pumping gas at a local gas station”. If this was “hicksville” BC then there would be small detachment there and any undercover drug operative would not be from that detachment. So therefore I quarantee you his family would be moving to the “hicksville” because his assignment there would short term. But let’s pretend his family was living in this house and he was undercover do you think for a moment “he would hide in the basement” and let two guys walk into his house and expose his cover by looking at his uniform? I think not. You would not have gotten in the door.
“Did you that pot is considered a “gateway drug” for Leukemia patients?” WHAT?
Again, I have no idea what your story is about or what the point is but, hey rock on dude.
I’m calling BS, dave. “over one dozen full-dress Miltie the Mountie uniforms in there!”
Why would any cop have more than one, perhaps two (depending on weight gain/loss) full dress uniforms? They wear them HOW often?
And having knowledge of undercover RCMP, I guarantee if he was undercover, you’d never have been allowed in the house. Why would they move in without first having “possession.”
Undercover RCMP don’t like to give out their last names (and their first, if they can get away with it), certainly not home phone numbers or addresses.
Bull. You’re either an idiot or a troll.
Correction on last post. Should read “I guarantee his family would NOT be moving to “Hicksville” as his assignment would be short term.
Clarification: I was permitted to visit that house, (and I could-but won’t- give you the name of the man who took me there). As a favour, they were permitted to move in BEFORE any papers had been signed. Yes- the cop was not a ‘local’- and yes, they get moved around a lot.
The heat even installed another one of these people at the truckstop where I used to work. And one day, while I had a lowboy trailer up on the jacks and was doing a brake/wheelbearing rebuild on it, (hunched over in the wheelwell), that dipshit backed up a truck to hit, (intending to hitch up), and by the time the trailer fell off the jacks, I was someplace else. I went to my foreman, ( one of the most decent men I have ever met or worked for), and told him what had just happened, and “He goes or I go-take your pick”.
That man who could have KILLED me, was then moved to the local sawmill. (continue to call me an idiot and a troll, and I will tell you some REAL Sargent Preston-type yarns, as well as the dates, and the names of other people who witnessed what I saw!) Haha-if you need ‘help’, do not call your local RCMP………
Stinging inditement. Odd how the Liberals are stingy in the area of safety for Canadians like Emergency room services, and justice for the little guys.
Provides a source for all the gravy being spread into [ more important] Libscammer projects, like election war chest reserves.
73s TG
Setting aside comments about Mayerthorpe for the moment, one of my biggest fears remains in the case of a conviction of a BC “major crime” (Air India; Picton) where the judge awards double or triple credit to time served prior to trial, and under the “two days credit for the price of one” policy of Canada’s justice system, coupled with a “25 years equals life” and “mandatory release after shortened time” that the prosecution will have dithered long enough that the convict walks free shortly after their conviction.
Back to Mayerthorpe: one of the senior officers was in the process of showing one of the junior officers what a grow-op with 283 plants looks like when the murders occured. Not 20 plants, as reported by the same ****** at CFRA who claimed that the Grewal tapes were edited.
For references, see Hansard, April 12 2005, around 9:30pm.
Dave,
Read your last post very carefully. You and everyone else who reads them will see that you admitted yourself neither story you told had a shred of truth in them. After spinning the two tales you then say “(continue to call me an idiot and a troll I will tell you some REAL (emphasis yours) Sgt Preston type yarns)” Tells me the two stories weren’t “real”. I have to agree with Candace in her assessment of you. I doubt that any of your “real yarns” would have any more truth to them so fill your boots. Tell me one thing though, if I need help but take your advise and don’t call the RCMP who do you suggest I call, a drug dealer?