High River- Police seizure of firearms

[Marc Montgomery]

For those who might not know, Alberta suffered its worse flooding in history.. even the major city of Calgary was flooded out..
the town of High River was one of the areas that suffered a lot of flooding and the whole town was evacuated and sealed off by police.

What happened next though- is that police- violently broke into houses-hundred and hundreds... under the excuse they were looking for people needing rescuing..and later to find "unsecured" firearms as a safety measure. Though as it now turns out, they smashed down doors in sections where there was no flooding.

They also- apparently- (Im not clear on the timeline but allegations are---) they targetted houses using a firearm registry supposedly ordered destroyed by federal order

They caused millions of dollars in damage..which the Cdn taxpayer is now paying back through the RCMP making reparation payments

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews...19-082903.html

[cletrac (RIP)]

If they get flooding again this spring how many people will leave their houses so the Mounties can go looting again? I read where the only two houses in one area that weren't broken into were owned by the local Mounties. Fancy that!
The firearms were damaged as they were thrown around roughly and all the ammunition was destroyed.

[charlie fitton]

sure doesn't fill you with confidence, does it? and

"RCMP ... have completed the physical search of all homes in High River ..." The message explains members searched 3,337 "houses and buildings," conducted 674 "forced entries" and "located" 303 people."

The article implies that the 303 people were "located" while they were conducting the forced entries....highly doubtful.

[motto]

An abysmal betrayal of public trust by an organisation held in high regard throughout the world. They have done the reputation of the RCMP a grave disservice and maybe irreparable damage. There must be many former members turning in their graves.
Sadly, it also goes to show how readily the average enforcer can be used as a goon when conditions allow and the leadership directs.
Hopefully the political will exists to punish those responsible so as nothing like it happens again but I doubt it.

David

[Jon Skagfeld]

This is also a terible indictment about Canadian journalistic reporting.

The main-stream media (MSM) are studiosly avoiding commenting on this event. The only TV news channel which is following the High River disgrace is Sun News.

The RCMP have disgraced themselves more and more ever since the barn burnings in Quebec. Some officials are howling for its disbandment.

[cletrac (RIP)]

Her's a youtube link