RCMP Loot Flooded Homes

[nuvistors]

HIGH RIVER, Alta. - It's the high-calibre elephant in the room.

It has the prime minister's office talking. Ditto Alberta's top cop. Ditto the premier, who isn't happy this issue is consuming political oxygen.

Ditto the Mountie mucky-mucks.

Yes, the province steps in at the request of the mayor and takes over the recovery of this town of 13,000.

But as they're talking about those plans, newshounds pose puzzlers about the RCMP seizing at least several hundred guns out of people's homes after they'd been evacuated.

The RCMP confirmed what this scribbler reported Thursday.

Some folks moved their guns out of storage in basements and got them upstairs when the waters rose.

When the Mounties entered the houses later, they saw the guns and took them to the cop shop. They will be returned when the owners present the proper paperwork.

Still, some folks don't think the move passes the smell test.

Heck, it doesn't take long for the prime minister's office to respond.

Harper's guy says they "believe the RCMP should focus on more important tasks, such as protecting lives and private property."

Alberta's top cop, Jonathan Denis, does not go after the RCMP but says what they did wasn't on his orders and adds, "We have a whole town evacuated with emotions running high. We have to be sensitive to that."

MORE: RCMP admit they seized 'hundreds' of guns

Funny thing. All week in this town the cops briefed us thoroughly on what they were doing.

But they never mentioned the gun seizure in any of those official info sessions. Never.

RCMP Insp. Garrett Woolsey is asked why.

"Over the course of the past nine days I've been asked hundreds, perhaps thousands of questions. It's never come up."

But the Mounties told us all kinds of things we didn't ask about.

Did they realize it would be a political hot potato if news got out?

On Friday the RCMP tell us they entered every home they could and "during the course of those operations, naturally, our officers do encounter firearms."

"It appears, as best we can tell from being inside these homes, some people removed their firearms from secure storage and left them either with the intention of removing them from the home or putting them to higher ground where they would not be damaged or vulnerable to water," says the inspector.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/06/20130629-070816.html

[rykkm]

I am no fan of Harper, at least lately. He has done some detrimental things, IMO, that have affected the Canadian public as a whole. But, so did Chretien, and Mulroney, and Turner, and Trudeau, et al. As Canadians, we are never happy with our elected government, and will often complain about them, even if they are the party we voted for in the first place.

Jack Layton was the best hope for the NDP to actually form a government, minority or otherwise. With his passing, I don't think they can achieve the same level of success under their current leadership. Harper has become somewhat of a megalomaniac lately, and Trudeau is a snot nosed kid who is riding on the coattails of his name. Don't even get me started on the Blockhead Quebecois.

Ok, I feel better now...lol!

[prior-of-verity*shake-hands-with-your-devil]

The thing about political affiliation is there are people like myself who have none. However we are intelligent enough to realize that some politicians have more power over the people than others. One of them is the PM, that sad little man called Harper. That is why he gets so much focus. If you're dealing with a company that is doing things wrong (and governments are like companies) then you look at the CEO ....not the person in the mailroom. That's just logical, but alas some people aren't because ........they are 'party' followers.