For background and extensive commentary, including some of my own, on the controversy, read the Small Dead Animals post.
Now read the latest post by The Black Rod following up.
And now...
Go read this report on a comment made about the RCMP by an NDP MP, Nathan Cullen, which so far doesn't seem to have caused any great uproar or attack by the MSM on the NDP or on leader Jack Layton.
B.C.'s Solicitor General John Les demanded Cullen apologize after the MP said he feared police retribution if he spoke out about the death last fall of a man in police custody.
Cullen was criticizing the amount of time it has taken for an inquiry into the death of Ian Bush, who was shot in the head after being apprehended by police for having an open can of beer at a hockey arena in northern B.C.
Layton says Les should spend more time pressing an investigation into the incident than looking for an apology from Cullen.
He says he hopes the publicity about the case will speed things up.
For any public official to spread fear about our national police force such as did Mr. Cullen, I would expect there to be more serious consequences, at least coming from leader Jack Layton. But I guess perhaps Mr. Layton thinks it's no big deal, being a leftist himself and perhaps as a matter thereof, having an indoctrinated phobia about police? Otherwise, the MP would have been disciplined somehow, as his comment was unacceptable. Oh, and how about an apology? This leftist, Mr. Cullen, is getting a get-out-of-hot-water-free pass from the MSM so far and from his leader as well. Contrast this to the Vellacott comment, which was nowhere near as strong and does indeed resonate with many Canadians who choose to think for themselves.
I'm waiting for this to become a big-deal controversy and for the MSM to use it to try to "hurt" the NDP and Jack Layton, just to be consistent in their unfairly harsh treatment of Mr. Vellacott and Mr. Harper and, by extension, all of the Conservative Party (as it gives non-Conservative politicos the opportunity to paint us all with the same brush, not that any Conservative mentioned herein deserves a stroke from said brush at all).
And I would also assert that like Mr. Layton blustered, the publicity over the "godlike powers" of the Supreme Court justices should speed up the pace at which more and more Canadians come to realize that the Supreme Court of Canada, thanks to the attitude of its justices (at least the Chief Justice via her many, many words leaving us with the impression), is and has been practicing judicial supremacy, in which the court is supreme over the people and their elected representatives... and even over the written laws and the constitution... by invoking imaginary "unwritten constitutional principles" to which only they themselves are privy (or perhaps make up on the fly as they see fit). Making up whatever they deem and having it obeyed is a little godlike, as far as I'm concerned.
In closing, the point is that the MSM has exposed itself as being unfair to the new Conservative government. After all, Liberal MPs have said worse about the SCOC than has Mr. Vellacott, and now the reprehensible fearmongering by Mr. Cullen against the police seems to be getting the brush-off from the MSM...
The new Conservative government does not have a problem here. The MSM does.
