wortman BY-STANDERS need a good excuse & we have a doozy !

BYSTANDERS R US

And God knows, there are enough Wortman bystanders about.

They are crawling - and crawling is the operative word - out of the woodwork.

Here’s that all-purpose excuse they need to have memorized, before fronting the media or RCMP :

“I was afraid I was going to be killed.”

 Isn’t it just the perfect  & perfectly nice, safe, generic, excuse for doing nothing and saying nothing?

 And yes, technically, every Canadian not in a coma between  the age of 9 and 99 could kill someone -  so it covers almost ever situation when you wish to avoid stopping something or calling the cops.

“Yes, officer, I did see my neighbour stagger down the steps to her car, but I was more afraid she might kill me than worry than she might kill a little kid on a bike —- I know, let’s hold a candlelight vigil and think kind thoughts.”

Avid readers of my blog know what I think of bystanders back in September 1st 1939 : they included almost the entire world.

Which reminds me : it is strictly lack of money, not a disregard for the majority of the voters, that causes governments to give out medals only to heroes, not cowards.

There are always too few heroes —- and way too many cowards....