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| MEMO to employers : the RCMP doesn’t really consider it a crime : not when it helps them laundry-the-truth |
Only this time, the media is portraying the Mounties as being ultra-flacid on crime and the Parole Board - of all people ! - as coming across as tough-on-crime.
Normally the media loves to portray the Mounties are ever-determined to ‘get their man’ and the Parole Board as being all too willing to let unrepentant killers back out on the loose.
But when it comes to Gabriel Wortman, as usual, the RCMP does a complete volte-face.
But it was not Wortman’s dead face they were trying to protect - it was their own.
Pete Griffon, convicted drug dealer with Outlaw Biker and Latin American drug gang connections, initially lied to the RCMP right after the April Wortman killings, claiming he hadn’t printed up the Mountie car decals that allowed Wortman to kill so many people by evading RCMP capture for so long.
But after the Mounties searched his boss’s print shop and Griffon’s phone, they found he had lied.
Griffon had illegally sold material owned by his boss and illegally used equipment of his boss to make the decals.
Three violations in one.
Firstly, workplace theft, a criminal offence.
Secondly, copyright infringement of the RCMP copyright on the decals ; a civil law matter.
Thirdly : lying to hinder a police investigation into 23 murders : again a criminal offence.
Oddly, the RCMP overlooked all three matters : Mountie Superintendent Darren Campbell blandly lying about them to the CBC in an exclusive June interview cum back massage.
(Do I really need to remind readers why I hate press “exclusive” interviews : they’re a land where the softest of softballs go —-and then refuse to die.)
Nope, said our Darren : my good buddy Pete (I can call you Pete, yes ?) has been perfectly co-operative.
(Er - no, he had lied to the RCMP, stolen their copyright and had enabled a man to kill an RCMP office and 22 other innocents.)
Yes we own the copyright on the decals he used without our permission but we will not be taking him to civil court.
And know we don’t think this crime of workplace theft is really a crime, Parliament erred there, so we won’t be taking Griffon to criminal court either. Ditto lying to the police during a mass murder investigation isn’t really a crime.
EXTRAORDINARY !
What the Red Serge didn’t tell the CBC was that they had cut the same deal they had with dozens of the other “witnesses” they had interviewed.
With a nod and a wink, they made it clear that they would not pursue charges against individuals or expose their earlier moral failings re Wortman (failing to report his illegal gun caches, drug smuggling, tax-avoiding cash-under-the-table deals, for a start) as long as they kept their mouth shut and didn’t blab all to the press.
The RCMP needed a lot more time to truth-launder their relationship to the Wortman family over the years.
Pete Griffon benefitted from this kid gloves treatment but he was hardly the only one.
But then the Red Serge heard that ‘the f—-king Parole Board had to go and do its f—king legally prescribed job’ instead of acting as bureaucrats are supposed to do : wherein protecting their own ass is always JOB ONE.
But maybe the Parole Board’s decision to revoke Griffon’s parole and make that decision fully public was in fact the (Parole Board) bureaucrats, once again, protecting their own ass.
This time it was only the Mounties who were left holding the bag....
"But it was not Wortman’s dead face they were trying to protect - it was their own."
ReplyDeleteThat's a false dichotomy. It's the same face, Harvey Dent doesn't have two faces it's just one face half of which is monstrous, twisted and ruined. Understated FACT is Harvey Dent's mind is as twisted as his face and even a thousand surgeries will end with what Dickens described (for once) men throwing torches into the air to let them fall on their own faces. The genotype of evil always exposes itself via the phenotype. Sooner or later "The Force" (why make it easy for critics? Sounds worse than "The Party") will say 2+2=5 the logic of their position demands it.
“What do they know of Wortman, who only Wortman know?
The news before the news. Hitting all the high notes before the halifax examiner, Maclean's and CBC again. Paul Palango and Tim Bosquet are still quick and get the scoop on some of the bigger stuff first but I'd include the author of 40 gallons in that essential trinity of journalists breaking the news and being essential modern day Emile Zolas. It's okay to take the flattery from me because like Orwell I might just be laying the frame-work to support the most biting criticisms to follow at a later date. For now, why is Peter Griffon skating? We're not all living under ONE law for all people are we? If you or I did these things, we'd be treated differently? Why it's axiomatic to western civilized societies that there is a common law. (We pretend anyway, go to some lengths to LIE in regards to that ) so why drop that pretense? What vile thing is behind the smokescreen? When the fog clears will Darren Campbell be consulting with those three witches from Macbeth? J'Accuse! J'Accuse RCMP!
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