R.C.M.P. STUPIDITY BITES THEM IN THE ASS AGAIN

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this Opinion article by Marco Navarro-Genie titled "Firearms seizure increases mistrust of RCMP". High River Alberta was evacuated due to the terrible flooding which recently hit Calgary and numerous other communities in Alberta. The RCMP however are learning a lesson which should be shared with the rest of Canada. This has to do with "...the purpose of justice is not the blind application of the law but the promotion of fairness and goodness." Our western Mounties ordered homes evacuated and then went door to door allegedly checking to see if people had complied. They then proceeded to enter homes, according to this article, even locked ones. Once inside they purloined/stole/confiscated firearms that had been left behind due to the emergency evacuation order. Nice Eh! Who the hell are you afraid of, a couple of outlaw motorcyclists or the world's largest street gang, namely the police?

Again this article suggests that "in plain view" might actually have included firearms in people's closets. If so then this goes beyond stupidity and enters the realm of extraordinarily bad legislation. The article asks the question "Are the Mounties more interested in boosting their incident report statisitics than in protecting the rights of vulnerable citizens?". I believe that this is a big driver for police enforcement everywhere. Afterall continually dropping criminal activity literally costs the top cops big money at budget time. Our national police force seem hell bent on destroying their own credibility and trust across Canada. Job poorly done Mounties.