If Wishes Were Staplers....

....Would Horsemen Ride?

After all, apparently they are more deadly than Tasers.

Staplers, I mean.

Neal Hall, in the VSun, had the story last week:

....Robert Jorssen, the chief financial officer of the RCMP in B.C., said he was at the airport in the early hours of Oct. 14, 2007, waiting for his cousin to arrive from New York, when he saw Dziekanski being Tasered after four Mounties arrived to deal with the agitated, angry man.

He initially testified Tuesday at the Braidwood inquiry, which is probing Dziekanski's death, that police did not employ a Taser until Dziekanski grabbed a stapler from a counter and "brandished" it above his head.

But inquiry commissioner Thomas Braidwood said he was having trouble seeing Dziekanski raise the stapler before he was shocked with a Taser. Braidwood asked Jorssen to watch a civilian video of the incident again.

After watching the video, Jorssen said: "It appears he reacted after he was shot."

He added: "I didn't see the object [stapler] before he picked it up."....

Listen.

This is pure codswallop, regardless.

Because even if Mr. Dziekanski was brandishing six semi-automatic staplers, three pneumatically-driven three-hole punches, two deluxe model, high volume paper shredders, and an ink cartridge in a pear tree, that would not justify the rapid and continued deployment of deadly force shown on that video.

And for the RCMP to even suggest as much is enough to make the most law-abiding citizen question the validity of anything (and everything) they say.

So they should just cut the crap.

Right now.

Before they lose all credibility with the public.

OK?



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Alison, as usual, has already posted up eloquently on this one. And now she's cranking up to smack down the greedheads as they prepare, once again, to sell our country down the river.


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