Mother of Slain RCMP Officer: “It’s Time to take our Liberal Attitude to Task”(Canada)

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[youngtory]

Mother of Slain RCMP Officer: “It’s Time to take our Liberal Attitude to Task”

RED DEER, Alberta, March 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mother of one of the four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers who were shot dead during a drug bust in Alberta Thursday, spoke to the media Saturday with a powerful message for Prime Minister Paul Martin.

“It is time that our government take a stand on evil,” Colleen Myrol said Friday from in front of her home in Red Deer, Alberta. “The man who murdered our son and brother was a person who was deeply disturbed and ill. It is our duty as Canadians to stop and rethink how we are raising our children. It is time to teach honour of our country,” she read.

Marijuana grower Jim Roszko ambushed four RCMP officers at his northern Alberta grow operation Thursday morning, killing all four officers before turning the assault rifle on himself. Peter Schiemann, 25, Anthony Gordon, 28, Leo Johnston, 32, and Brock Myrol, 29 were the four officers killed in the attack. The four officers had been investigating Roszko’s farm in Mayerthorpe, a small hamlet of some 1,300 people in western Alberta.

“Prime Minister Paul Martin, we depend on you and we expect you to change the laws and give the courts real power,” she said. “Give the power back to the police. Take the power from the Supreme Court and give it back to the House of Commons. We are a good country. Brock knew that. He loved the RCMP and all it stood for.”

Brock Myrol had only been on the job two weeks.

“Our country is hurting,” she said. “It is time to care for our fellow man . . . It is time to take our Liberal attitude to task." Addressing the families of other victims she said, "God Bless you all.”

[-YYZ-]

1) Pot is neither legalized or even decriminalized in Canada, unlike some US states. The pot the gov't contracted out to produce (to a private company) was strictly for medical pot users.

2) And thus, your second point is irrelevant.

You should try to learn the facts about a subject before you comment on it.

[NorthOf45]

Amen indeed.

[NorthOf45]

I noted this as well albertabound ... dispicable, but expected from the CBC.

[Wolfie]

Psssst...it wasn't a drug bust.

[ApesForEvolution]

If this plant was legal, these young Canadians would still be alive.

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NO! If this dumb f*cking pothead coward murderer weren't a pothead icewipe criminal, then the 4 RCMP might not be dead you mean...

[rabidralph]

It seems that it's the criminals who are growing this stuff. Will criminals stop growing it when it's legal or stop killing people even though it's legal? In the same way that the mafia shakes down legitimate businesses, it seems that criminals would prey on legal grass growers too and strike at any government entity that tried to regulate the crop.

[-YYZ-]

"PS. Are you called YYZ because you're in Toronto?"

Close, just down the road in Hamilton. Also because YYZ is a an instrumental by the band "Rush" that I like, and it's easy to remember.

[ghitma]

I don't think so. This guy sounds like he is on the fringe. I don't see him as a legit business person filling out forms and collecting taxes and hiring workers.
This person would be involved in something illegal regardless. Making weed legal does not take the criminal element out of it. There would still be growers and sellers not licensed (for lack of a better word) to sell
weed, selling on the black market to avoid taxes and regulations. The cost of regulating and enforcing the regulations would be staggering.

[Drango]

Take the power from the Supreme Court and give it back to the House of Commons.

Take the power from the Supreme Court and give it back to the Congress.

[Nowhere Man]

Time to cue up the theme to "2001 - A Space Odyssey." Bump.

[McGavin999]

May God bless this woman and thank her for her strength. She's right, it's time for the good people to stand up and take back their country.

[Niteranger68]

I want to know what the "Jersey Girls" think about this.

[-YYZ-]

"Unpleasant people like this would have no reason to be growers if the stuff were legal though."

Unless it was fully legalized in Canada AND the US, or penalties for growing in Canada were increased to US levels (currently they are quite a bit less severe), there would still be an incentive for criminals to run illegal grow ops in Canada for "export" to the US. The stiffer penalties for grow ops in Canada are supposed to be on their way, which may reduce the problem of grow ops, and particularly of smuggling Canadian-grown pot to the US. There will still be a market in Canada, however, which might even expand with the decriminalization of possession of quantities up to 15 grams that is supposed to be part of the same bill (although I doubt it).

[TKDietz]

"NO! If this dumb f*cking pothead coward murderer weren't a pothead icewipe criminal, then the 4 RCMP might not be dead you mean..."

The police were not there for a pot bust. They'd have been there for the dispute he was having with the dealership that sold him a car whether he was growing pot. Two of the four officers were called to the scene after the first two discovered the man was running a chop shop where he was parting out stolen cars. The man was a known psycho and these officers would have been killed whether he had a few pot plants growing in his quonset hut or not.

[Know your rights]

“Give the power back to the police. Take the power from the Supreme Court and give it back to the House of Commons.

I'm not up on Canadian affairs ... what Supreme Court decisions is she referring to?

[youngtory]

She's referring to the Supreme Court of Canada and the provincial regions. They have been giving these people the grow-op people lenient(sp?) sentences.