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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:15 pm
 


4 RCMP officers murdered on Alberta farm

ROCHFORT BRIDGE, ALTA. - A raid on a suspected marijuana grow operation in rural Alberta has left five people dead - four of them RCMP officers. It is the single worst multiple killing of RCMP officers in modern Canadian history.

"It's my sad duty to inform you that four RCMP officers, four brave young members have been killed in the line of duty," said RCMP Assistant Commissioner Bill Sweeney. All of those killed were described as junior officers.

According to police the incident unfolded early Thursday morning when four RCMP officers - three from the Mayerthorpe detachment and another from nearby Whitecourt, took part in a raid on farm near Rochfort Bridge. The officers were investigating allegations of stolen property and a marijuana grow operation.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:17 pm
 


Maybe the government will begin to understand the harm their prohibtion of marijuana is causing now.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:25 pm
 


I disagree with you on this Rev. Although legalizing dope would make things much easier on the people who use and free up court and prison money, I don't like the idea of just legalizing another substance that alters peoples minds. Dope kills brain cells, worse for your lungs than tabacco and cause a restriction of motor skills and judgement. For those who need it for medical reasons, let them have it, other than that society just don't need it.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:34 pm
 


Ahhh, but you can tax the hell out of growers, users and sellers!

Why not? Give all that tax money straight to the cops along with strict regulations on who can use it (age) and where they can use it.

Nobody ever got stoned then beat the shit out of their spouse. You get high, you fall asleep. In a lot of ways it's less harmfull than tobacco.

Either way, calling the death of four young Mounties a tragedy, is a gross understatement. :cry:


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:48 pm
 


Want to get of the underground illegal substance economy and its related, violent and dangerous organized crime element? Decriminalize marijuana – it will go a long way to eliminating some criminal elements and their assorted enterprises. Didn’t we learn anything from Prohibition? :x


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The only thing is Mustang, do you really think the criminal element really would be gone after legalizing Pot? Nope, they would just move onto something else. Plus the fact dope dealers are not only selling pot, but most of the other drugs so they're not going anywhere and you wouldn't stop anything.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:32 pm
 


Something I want to point out is that when they find this/these SOBs I hope they get the max penalty..... oh wait. That'll be like 10 years with good behaviour.
I hope they resist arrest and get the same treatment they gave the mounties!
But that's my opinion.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:36 pm
 


Legalizing maijuana could effectively pay the national debt.


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Something I want to point out is that when they find this/these SOBs I hope they get the max penalty..... oh wait. That'll be like 10 years with good behaviour.


The guy who shot the cops is dead too. I don't think he's going to court.

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Legalizing maijuana could effectively pay the national debt.


Yes it could.

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The only thing is Mustang, do you really think the criminal element really would be gone after legalizing Pot? Nope, they would just move onto something else. Plus the fact dope dealers are not only selling pot, but most of the other drugs so they're not going anywhere and you wouldn't stop anything.


Grow-ops tend to be pretty much just pot. The organised crime that they revolve around is involved in other drugs, but that is usually kept in a separate location.

The fact that dope dealers usually sell other drugs as well is a reason for legalizing pot, not continuing its prohibition. We are exposing people who would otherwise break no laws or consider no other drugs to people who would very much like them to use harder, addictive drugs.

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Dope kills brain cells


At a much lower rate than alcohol. Some studies suggest that it doesn't kill brain cells at all.


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worse for your lungs than tabacco


Nobody smokes twenty-five joints a day.

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and cause a restriction of motor skills and judgement.


isn't that kind of the point?


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:16 am
 


Rev_Blair Rev_Blair:
Maybe the government will begin to understand the harm their prohibtion of marijuana is causing now.


[url=http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/03/rcmpreaxn050303.html]
Zaccardelli calls grow ops 'plague on our society'[/url]

Police say busting grow ops extremely dangerous


Wild guess here Rev but I am going to say this is going to be the opening salvo of a Canadian war on drugs. A blitz on grow ops is in the mix and soon and with headlines like this they will run with it. Just when the leader of the weed party became a lib too. :( They just string the weed vote along just enough, but the libs will NEVER legalize the weed. Sure we could pay the debt off with the billions created in revenue but we dare not piss of the US anymore and the libs know this. Why else did we spend 13 billion on the army? To placate the US on BMD. We don't have another 13 billion to spend on the army to begin the decriminalization or taxation of weed. The politically cheap and easy course will be to make a scape goat out of grow ops.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:07 am
 


Rev_Blair Rev_Blair:
Maybe the government will begin to understand the harm their prohibtion of marijuana is causing now.
I must say Rev.. that was a stoopid comment.. It started out as a stolen property investigation and when they got there they found the grow op...

'Its a very sad day here in Alberta and all accross Canada .... Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and co workers of the slain officers..


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Wild guess here Rev but I am going to say this is going to be the opening salvo of a Canadian war on drugs. A blitz on grow ops is in the mix and soon and with headlines like this they will run with it. Just when the leader of the weed party became a lib too. They just string the weed vote along just enough, but the libs will NEVER legalize the weed. Sure we could pay the debt off with the billions created in revenue but we dare not piss of the US anymore and the libs know this. Why else did we spend 13 billion on the army? To placate the US on BMD. We don't have another 13 billion to spend on the army to begin the decriminalization or taxation of weed.

Look at the money the U.S. has pumped into Mexico and Columbia to fight drugs... A total waste of money and manpower.. They stopped nothing...


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:33 am
 


RoyalHighlander RoyalHighlander:
Look at the money the U.S. has pumped into Mexico and Columbia to fight drugs... A total waste of money and manpower.. They stopped nothing...


Preachin to the choir RH but that waste in money reaps rewards in political capitol, as Bush would put it. That can oil the gates at the boarder for beef and lumber, lotta money there to be made right now that is being lost every day. Bushco keeps the boarder shut. This way here the libs can say the are cracking down on crime without looking like total sellouts to Bush AND get Bush to return some favors in return.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:18 am
 


Rev_Blair Rev_Blair:
Maybe the government will begin to understand the harm their prohibtion of marijuana is causing now.

I agree Canada should be legalizing pot it makes sense.Tax the hell out of it and sell it.More people are gonna die this year from tobacco and booze than pot.
But your dismissing of 4 dead RCMP officers as a political call to make pot legal is damn cold.
Whether it should be legal or not is not the issue here.
4 brave people died serving their community.
I wish thier family the best and hope they can find peace soon.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:28 pm
 


so tax it so people just grow it anyway to avoid tax, not a solution, this avoids other issues which need furthure consideration


remember this was ine demented person, he had issues outside of everything else, it takes one messed up head to do something like this.

my questions would be
why was he let out of custody?


my condolences go out the the families of the fallen brave, and the whole police comunity


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