Posted on 03/08/2005 10:38:47 AM PST by 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.”
Amen.
What is it they say, a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged?
The very notion of confronting evil is too 'American' for most Canadians to contemplate.
Someone has to get the ball rolling. It's unfortunate that it took the deaths of 4 rookie RCMPs.
So they're finally going to take on the laws that turn honorable young men into the tools of tyranny?
what the hell is wrong with us?
Does it take a tragedy like this to remind ourselves:
Hey what's going on?
what the hell is wrong with us?
If you're gonna kill yourself rather than surrender, can't you do it before you murder someone?
No, a conservative is an Albertan that gets a chance to speak up. Ironically, when the CBC aired exerpts of this statement they carefully bleeped the critical parts.
Nonsense.
I am Canadian and I left becasue Canada is becoming the compost pile of the modern world. It's where all the B*llSh*t ideas from around the world get dumped to rot.
Rubbish, and I say that as someone who supports full legalization of marijuana. The raid on this nut-job's property had little to do with pot, and would most likely have occurred even if he didn't have a few pot plants growing in a shed out back. Rather than calling him a "marijuana grower", a more accurate description would be "paranoid, violent psychotic career criminal." Who should have been in jail for his previous crimes, btw.
There are also pretty big questions about the way this operation was run, leaving aside the fact that this guy should have been in jail. How does one man, equipped with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle or not, manage to kill four armed police officers? Were they sleeping? If they'd been laying in wait for this guy they should have been able to take cover and make him come much closer if he wanted to kill them, close enough that a rifle wouldn't have been an advantage over their sidearms. This was a poorly planned and executed operation, in my opinion.
"This will likely be the case that not only decriminalizes pot, but may even make it into a legal substance. Her son will be used as a martyr for the drug legalization crowd. how sad."
Yep, while I favour legalization, I don't think using this as an argument for it is right. To start with, as I've said, this was not a major organized-crime run grow-op. And the pot plants were not the main reason for this raid.
In any case, even if we legalized pot in this country, we would still need to up penalties for illegal grow ops in this country to be at least as harsh as those in the US, so as to discourage those who would grow it here to smuggle into the US, or the problem will not go away.
Am I mistaken or are those 2 contradictory statements?
Enlighten me, what do the deaths of 4 RCMPs in a drug bust in Canada have anything to do with your extremely anti-American attitudes and ultra socialist society as compared to any other drug bust gone wrong in the United States?
Let me get this straight; you would legalize pot to the extent that it would still be a criminal offense to grow unless you were a farmer or "businesspeople"?
And here I was thinking that marijuana was a legal product in Canada! Oh, I forgot, it's only legal when the GOVERNMENT grows it. How stupid of me!
Well, this incident proves two points:
1. The government must grow some really bad pot if there are people willing to kill in order to grow their own. How badly can you screw up growing a plant? Oh, I forgot-- when government workers do anything, they do it badly since they're not motivated by fear of market forces (i.e. getting fired, making a profit).
2. The argument that once an illicit substance is legalized, with regulation and restrictions on it's use, it does not automatically follow that you eliminate the criminal element.
A lesson is here for all of those American "Legalize Pot" idiots.
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