Is The RailGate StoneWall Finally Starting To Crumble?

WaggingTheHerd'sTail
Pro-MediaVille

Despite tepid editorials from the Globe and Mail (Center of the Universe edition), not to mention comments about the evils of the 'bloggosphere' from Keith Baldrey and Bill Good, there are signs that the Lotuslandian pro-media herd has started to change course so that it can make a run at RailGate's Stonewall.

Witness today's Vancouver Province column from Jon Ferry in which he says shocking things that no truly cowed watercarrying herd-member would ever utter.

Things like this:

"The time for stonewalling is over. The political stench is just too great.

The Campbell government must come clean with British Columbians over yesterday's bombshell revelation that cabinet e-mails from the time of the so-called raid on the B.C. legislature in 2003 were ordered destroyed as recently as this May, during the provincial election campaign.......

{snippety-doodle-dandy}

......(W)e're not just talking about a little bit of sleaze here. The so-called Vasigate scandal involves the entire machinery of government, at its highest level.

If the allegations are true, it would make Bingogate, the Nanaimo-Commonwealth affair involving the New Democratic Party and the skimming of charity funds, look like small potatoes. And it continues to make the B.C. Liberal government look really bad, as if it had something truly shocking to hide...."

In other words fine media folks all over Lotulsand, the time has come to break away from the herd and start using all five of those W's you learned so much about at J-school so that you can find out....

1) Who ordered the destruction of those E-mails

2) What, specifically, was (or was not) destroyed

3) Where, exactly, was the order given to destroy them

4) When, precisely, was the order given to destroy them

5) Why was the order given to destroy the E-mails in May of 2009 in the middle of an election campaign at a time when some polls were suggesting that the eventual outcome was too close to call.

And don't give us that codswallop about how 'we have to wait to find out what comes out during the RailGate trial' before we can start reporting on this matter in a concerted, sustained manner on stuff of this ilk.

Because, based on what we know so far, it would not be unreasonable for a reasonable person to conclude that some other person (or persons) consciously, with malice aforethought, did their best to make sure that potential evidence, evidence that was requested by the defense in 2007, would not come before the courts in 2009.

So stop the silly posturing that professes to justify your inaction please pro-press people.

Right now.

Because your (mostly) collective, herd-like inaction on this matter so far is hurting British Columbia.

OK?

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