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Unfortunately, he saw this: Official Values of the RCMP:
Integrity
Honesty
Professionalism
Compassion
Respect
Accountability
I tried to explain that they had to say that, it was just bullshit window dressing, but Eduardo saw these as potentially fatal flaws in the plan and was spooked. Nothing I could say could change his mind. Those words are anathema to Eduardo, daggers to his heart, and he was so sweaty and shaken he had to lie down with a bottle of vodka. I waxed eloquent about how the Mounties loved to recruit prairie farm boys because they're big and strong and dumb, and you can get them to do anything, including attacking union members, or parents' groups, or administering the 'fruit machine' to federal employees to make sure they're not homos and thus subject to Russian blackmail. No use. He was in a self-induced coma.
The Mounties have had to endure a self-inflicted shit-storm lately, and they just keep making it worse.
In Surrey a gang of nine heavily armed, black-clad and disguised 'peace officers' used a battering ram to break down the door of an apartment in which three men were sitting down to a spaghetti dinner. They threw the unresisting men to the floor, handcuffed them, and then allowed a police dog to repeatedly bite two of them, a sadistic practice frequently employed, but always denied as policy. Then the dog 'got loose' a second time and bit them some more. Then the men were brutally beaten by their captors. But the dumb drug Mounties had the wrong address. The men were innocent. Months later the cops apologized, sort of, saying that in a previous raid on another apartment in the same building, they did find drugs. 'So it's not our fault...'
Integrity.
Bruce Aleksich is a Prince Rupert commercial fisherman who was busted for a grow-op. Fifteen or so Mounties, guns drawn, stormed into his warehouse, threw the four people present to the ground, face down, and handcuffed them. The problem is, Mr. Aleksich's grow-op was for tomatoes. He had moved his plants indoors because of a poor growing season. So furious were the Mounties at Mr. Aleksich for not growing pot that they left their victims on the ground for an hour while they ransacked the place and the victims' vehicles. But they didn't steal anything.
Professionalism.
In 1995 in Houston, BC, 22 year old Ian Bush was caught holding (for someone else) an open beer outside a hockey arena on the day of a game. Attending RCMP officers routinely intercepted other individuals on the scene and poured out their liquor and left it at that.
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But perhaps because of a past minor encounter with Mr. Bush and an old score to settle, the latter was given a ticket, was taken into custody, and was later administered a fatal bullet in the head. From behind.
Then Mr. Bush's body was left in situ, unrefrigerated for twenty-four hours. By the time pathologist Dr. John Stefanelli took custody, valuable evidence had been lost to decomposition.
