To regain some measure of sympathy for the RCMP’s actions on the night of April 18th 2020 in Portapique it really helps to view this video, deliberately shot from a car driving at normal dirt road speed, that viscerally brings home just how big and sprawling the tiny community is, and just how far apart are the homes and of all the woods between each of them.
Now just try to imagine travelling that heavily wooded road in the inky black darkness of dead of night.
Which begs the question : why were the small number of RCMP on the spot so certain they would locate and arrest the suspect in that sprawling darkness, when they clearly had not yet done so ?
Why not swallow their lifetimes of preening Mountie pride, announce to the world, not just the unprecedented number of murders so far, but also to confess that the spree killer might just escape their roadblocks in the inky wooded darkness to drive off in his fake police car to do more killings ?
Mountie unbounded pride, a sin in the eyes of God, tussles with Gabe Wortman’s unbounded evilness, for the major reason why eight more people died.
Viewing this video, we regain some measure of sympathy as well for the neighbours who Gabriel Wortman threatened.
For they were NOT neighbours at all - not in the urban and suburban sense of that term.
Gabe could have killed everyone at one house with the nearest neighbours hundreds of metres away in either direction, none the wiser - let alone the RCMP a 100 km away.
I highly doubt that Gabe would be able to so casually threaten the next door neighbours around the Pine Street Dartmouth home he shared with his first wife Corinna Kincaid : the Austenville Residents Association would be up in arms in an instant.
Urban people may feel that they are safer from violent neighbours in the country, but people like myself, with some experience of living in rural areas, feel just the reverse.
Gabriel Wortman might have been the unchallenged Billy Stafford of Colchester County, but he was hardly alone - wacky scary neighbours with guns is part and parcel of actual country life in rural Nova Scotia.
Rural sprawl is a large part of it : there are virtually no villages in the European sense - many times you basically find it is easier to drive to your nearest neighbour rather than make the five minute walk.
I partially blame my generation of urban hippies, with all their back-to-the-land visions, for forgetting why their parents had fled the land in the first place.
Fact is, communities like Portapique are generally tranquil —-albeit mixed with some rumours of hell-raising on the illegal side of shady — and then the rare outburst of extreme violence that stuns everyone, until the tranquil life resumes...
Now just try to imagine travelling that heavily wooded road in the inky black darkness of dead of night.
Which begs the question : why were the small number of RCMP on the spot so certain they would locate and arrest the suspect in that sprawling darkness, when they clearly had not yet done so ?
Why not swallow their lifetimes of preening Mountie pride, announce to the world, not just the unprecedented number of murders so far, but also to confess that the spree killer might just escape their roadblocks in the inky wooded darkness to drive off in his fake police car to do more killings ?
Mountie unbounded pride, a sin in the eyes of God, tussles with Gabe Wortman’s unbounded evilness, for the major reason why eight more people died.
Viewing this video, we regain some measure of sympathy as well for the neighbours who Gabriel Wortman threatened.
For they were NOT neighbours at all - not in the urban and suburban sense of that term.
Gabe could have killed everyone at one house with the nearest neighbours hundreds of metres away in either direction, none the wiser - let alone the RCMP a 100 km away.
I highly doubt that Gabe would be able to so casually threaten the next door neighbours around the Pine Street Dartmouth home he shared with his first wife Corinna Kincaid : the Austenville Residents Association would be up in arms in an instant.
Urban people may feel that they are safer from violent neighbours in the country, but people like myself, with some experience of living in rural areas, feel just the reverse.
Gabriel Wortman might have been the unchallenged Billy Stafford of Colchester County, but he was hardly alone - wacky scary neighbours with guns is part and parcel of actual country life in rural Nova Scotia.
Rural sprawl is a large part of it : there are virtually no villages in the European sense - many times you basically find it is easier to drive to your nearest neighbour rather than make the five minute walk.
I partially blame my generation of urban hippies, with all their back-to-the-land visions, for forgetting why their parents had fled the land in the first place.
Fact is, communities like Portapique are generally tranquil —-albeit mixed with some rumours of hell-raising on the illegal side of shady — and then the rare outburst of extreme violence that stuns everyone, until the tranquil life resumes...
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