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| Alanis, isn’t it IRONIC a Whitewash begins with so much BLACK ? |
The not-departing-soon-enough Stephen McNeil’s government lawyers are abusing the taxpayers’ own tax money to fight a desperate rearguard action.
An action designed to prevent that same public from ever learning even the most banal things about the NS RCMP’s all-out effort to sweep everything under the table about what went wrong (a lot/everything) during the mass killings of Gabriel Wortman.
Clearly McNeil’s government lawyers must feel that “BLACK LINES MATTER” because they will soon be up into the millions of dollars in costs trying to prevent almost everything on search warrants (that are ordinarily public court documents) from ever reaching the eyes of the Nova Scotia taxpayer.
The search warrants they initially were court-ordered to release still came out with more black lines of redacted banalities than text on the page.
Yet when these Black Lines are un-redacted, there was a collective “WTF?” from the media and their readers
Nothing hidden behind the Black Line was worthy of a tinkers’ damn - this was obstructionism, not to hidden something truly bad and scary, but to hide something that was truly banal and safe.
‘Obstructionism for the sake of Obstructionism’ : what business and government lawyers (armed with unlimited funds extracted from shareholders and taxpayers) do best : delay, delay, delay ....
Obstructionism for obstructionism and seeking power entirely for it's own sake. When you ask smurfs why the RCMP autocracy does this the doublethink response you get. It doesn't make me imagine beating them with a rubber truncheon but it does make one almost understand O'Brien's frustrations when he cranked the torture device to 35 and said: "That was stupid, Winston, stupid! You should know better than to say a thing like that." Watching the smurfs engage in olympic level contortionism an honest man might even admit he's a touch envious of O'Brien.
ReplyDeleteSome newspapers have the proud slogan "All the news that's fit to print" they should be a lot less proud about that. A rare few courageous people write in the spirit of Fiat justitia ruat caelum. On top of that there's no mixed metaphors or idioms here. No "rocket surgery" like Tim Bosquet wrote the other day, like Orwell said no more certain of way to realize the writer is tuned out and not thinking or imagining what their words mean. Some people wanted to say "rocket surgery" was a joke or meant for rhetorical effect. C'mon... It's a mistake when you're tired or excited to retort or repudiate something. All those reddit smurfs come out with "rocket surgery" when you offend them. Tim Bosquet must have been exhausted or the modern evil of auto spell check got him. Even Halifax examiner maybe even Frank magazine would crimestop before some of this euphony. Lines, LOL
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