“The BIG STOP” : new Raymond Chandler novel about the termination, with extreme prejudice, of a federal ‘consultant’

RCMP ordered an “indirect” hit on potential assassin MARIO BACHAND

Man oh man, that Ray Chandler can really write : what a smasheroo opening, boffo box office for his latest novel “The BIG STOP” :

“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? Next to a dirty gas pump or in your big log mansion by the sea : you were dead, sleeping at the BIG STOP, its oily water the same as Portapique’s sea winds and fresh air to you...” 

Thanks to the frequency with which white cops in America kill people there for “breathing while black”, we Canadians have gotten used to CCTV footage of deaths by gunshots.

I don’t watch them myself, but a lot of people do.

In Nova Scotia, an increasing number of civilians are wondering why there has been no release of CCTV footage from the BIG STOP in Enfield, to back the RCMP claim that the death of spree murderer Gabriel Wortman under a hail of RCMP bullets was his decision alone, when he choose to reach for his gun rather than put his hands in the air.

More and more civilians are wondering if GW was a longtime RCMP CI (confidential informant) who went seriously rogue.

And rather than risk a very public exposure at a trial of all of Gabriel’s violent behaviour while under RCMP CI protection, the informal RCMP order went out to shoot him, if he so much as blinked.

Not a conventional assassination order perhaps, but an effective one nevertheless.

It is not as if Canada hasn’t ordered a “indirect” hit on someone before ; we all remember (don’t we) Quebec separatist Mario Bachand who was assassinated in Paris in 1971,  after the PMO &  the RCMP felt he might kill Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa on his official visit to that city.

Of course, rather than feed ever more tin hat conspiracy theories, the RCMP could just release the complete unedited CCTV footage, such as it was, of the shooting at Enfield’s BIG STOP.

The longer they delay, the more even reasonable cautious civilians - such as myself - begin to think there really is something to this “terminate with extreme prejudice” theory....