High River residents to be compensated for RCMP searches

about bloody time...now they still have to answer why they were searching in the first place, and under who's orders.

As I am reading the comments in that story I find it pretty pathetic how the majority of the posters so readily surrender their rights. Makes me wonder WTF men died for on the shores of Normandy and in the Bocage if only to see their grandchildren put up with worse behavior than what the Gestapo handed out at one time.

Per my friend Johan Bos, a survivor of the Holocaust who has also been subjected to a wrongful no-knock warrantless drug raid by a California Department of Justice SWAT team (paraphrased):

The difference between the Gestapo and the American police is that when the Nazis occupied Amsterdam we were all in fear of a knock on the door at midnight. The Americans don't even bother to knock.

And if the prevailing attitude of Canadians is to blithely accept warrantless breaking and entering and grand larceny from your cops then I assure you that your cops will keep pushing the envelope until you cry 'Uncle!'.

Seriously, if you folks are collectively willing to submit to open tyranny on the part of your government then you'd best get used to putting up with worse because it will get worse.

Well, it was a little different with the Gestapo because they would whisk you off never to be seen again.

That said, I do find it atrocious how easily Canadians surrender their rigths. It was a couple of years ago now, but it still sticks in my craw--a woman was violently arrested here in Vancouver because she didn't hold on to the rail while descending an escalator (technically that would be a de-escalator). I was just appalled, but everyone else was like "Meh."

Wait, what? You can get arrested for that? What the hell?

Wait, what? You can get arrested for that? What the hell?

http://montreal.livejournal.com/3171924.html

Montreal--sorry. Not that they wouldn't arrest you in Vancouver. The other one that floors people from other countries is when I tell them I played in a band for several years in a pub where the law said you couldn't dance. As soon as someone got up to dance, we had to stop playing. They're always like "Wasn't that a movie about the southern US." No, Vancouver!

That's your fault for playing dance music. I once had a drunk broad crash my mic-stand...nearly cost me a tooth, but I didn't miss a lyric and finished the Who's "Bargain" with the blood running down my chin.

That's rock'n'roll baby!

if u wanna b hardcore u gotta live hardcore

It's becoming a trend in Japan too fwiw.

I bet you waltz to the elevator music at Canadian Tire...you !

The best part was when the RCMP kicked in the doors of houses that had been left unlocked.

But you know that the RCMP were doing a good job searching for flood victims trapped in homes because they were tossing beds and dumping out dressers and closets.

Exactly. It was all just a bull$hit excuse to do a warrantless blanket search.

And have they returned the guns to their owners like the PM told them to?