Ok completely different topic here.
I am first of all totally saddened by the 4 RCMP officers getting shot in Alberta. Apparently one would have to go back to like the rebellion of 1885 to come close to an event that took so many officers lives.
(although, I am at a loss to find the statistics on how many native lives were taken during that battle)
I try to imagine how it was possible for all 4 officers to have been shot, and I bring myself there among them standing in the Quonset hut on a chilly winter day when they see the first of them drop. Then, I suppose, they would hear the shot. They were all so young. 3 of them under 30 and the oldest only 34. Did they panic? Was there no cover? I cant imagine the terror.
Well actually I can, and thats the worst part. I can imagine the terror, and it wont stop.
Even the investigative team is having a hard time figuring out how the gunman got back onto the property with an "assault rifle".
The stupid part of this entire tragedy is this:
The officers were there investigating a grow-op.
Of all the stupid reasons to get killed, its over weed.
At first, over and above the obvious tragedy, I thought that if anything this would make the powers that be re-think this whole that plant is illegal thing, and realize that if it werent for this ridiculous prohibition, the guy first of all would not have been growing it because there was no profit for something that you can buy at your local government run liquor store, (when was the last time you bought moonshine?) and secondly the cops would have been elsewhere that day probably writing traffic violation tickets and wondering what they were going to make for dinner that weekend.
Where would the mob have been back in 1935 if they didnt get that thankful boost of the lucrative booze blackmarket during prohibition? They would have been a handful of loser thugs holding up grocery stores for cigarettes and probably getting killed in drunken bar-room brawls. They wouldnt have been able to afford even one of those suits.
Ive heard that weed is BCs biggest cash crop. More money comes into this province for BC Bud (or BC Hydro, as Ive heard it called) than lumber. Thats fucked. We are systematically shaving huge chunks black for the satellite photos in massive clearcuts of our rainforest, sending ship after ship out into the ocean laden with our wood, and this hidden industry of weed pulls in more cash?
That makes me think that there are probably a select few near the top of that industry that would most likely protect their market with whatever means necessary. That means you are going to get your ass shot.
So the needless death of those four young guys in Alberta I thought, would finally slap the liverspotted, fuzzy, wrinkled cheeks of those idiots in parliament hard enough to make them finally realize its due time to really look at the laws around that evil weed.
And I guess it did.
I have been hearing the soundbites from the powers that be for the last 2 days on CBC radio. They DO think that its time to revisit the dope laws. They DO think that something has to change.
But what did they come up with in all their wisdom?
Tougher penalties for grow ops.
Oh my fucking god you must be kidding.
Do you suppose this guy may not have killed 4 RCMP officers if the penalties for what he was doing were stiffer? Increasing the risk of having a grow up is only going to push that industry further into the hardass territory. Only the hardest of the hard: Mr. Gran Ite Buttocks; will venture into that and its going to be extremely organized at a murderously corporate level. (more-so than it already is)
(BTW, Mr. Hells Angel I am only expressing my opinion here, its nothing personal. Dont shoot the magpie.)
I was really hoping that these deaths would be the final happening that would prompt the government to realize how ridiculous this prohibition is. The deaths were unnecessary, unrighteous, and embarrassing. Getting killed over hunting a serial killer, a rapist, a puppy shaker, thats something worthy of being shot over.
Prove to me that these 4 young guys from Alberta were never sitting out in their friends car in grade 11 smokin a fattie on a Friday afternoon, before they had any idea they wanted to be RCMP. They were doing their job because they had to. I doubt they were running into that property with vigor going after that terrible marijuana maker.
Anyways, Im just totally blown away that this event has made the lawmakers want stiffer penalties, how they can be so blind to the obvious answer, the reality of the problem.
You ever feel like you are living in a different world?
I am first of all totally saddened by the 4 RCMP officers getting shot in Alberta. Apparently one would have to go back to like the rebellion of 1885 to come close to an event that took so many officers lives.
(although, I am at a loss to find the statistics on how many native lives were taken during that battle)
I try to imagine how it was possible for all 4 officers to have been shot, and I bring myself there among them standing in the Quonset hut on a chilly winter day when they see the first of them drop. Then, I suppose, they would hear the shot. They were all so young. 3 of them under 30 and the oldest only 34. Did they panic? Was there no cover? I cant imagine the terror.
Well actually I can, and thats the worst part. I can imagine the terror, and it wont stop.
Even the investigative team is having a hard time figuring out how the gunman got back onto the property with an "assault rifle".
The stupid part of this entire tragedy is this:
The officers were there investigating a grow-op.
Of all the stupid reasons to get killed, its over weed.
At first, over and above the obvious tragedy, I thought that if anything this would make the powers that be re-think this whole that plant is illegal thing, and realize that if it werent for this ridiculous prohibition, the guy first of all would not have been growing it because there was no profit for something that you can buy at your local government run liquor store, (when was the last time you bought moonshine?) and secondly the cops would have been elsewhere that day probably writing traffic violation tickets and wondering what they were going to make for dinner that weekend.
Where would the mob have been back in 1935 if they didnt get that thankful boost of the lucrative booze blackmarket during prohibition? They would have been a handful of loser thugs holding up grocery stores for cigarettes and probably getting killed in drunken bar-room brawls. They wouldnt have been able to afford even one of those suits.
Ive heard that weed is BCs biggest cash crop. More money comes into this province for BC Bud (or BC Hydro, as Ive heard it called) than lumber. Thats fucked. We are systematically shaving huge chunks black for the satellite photos in massive clearcuts of our rainforest, sending ship after ship out into the ocean laden with our wood, and this hidden industry of weed pulls in more cash?
That makes me think that there are probably a select few near the top of that industry that would most likely protect their market with whatever means necessary. That means you are going to get your ass shot.
So the needless death of those four young guys in Alberta I thought, would finally slap the liverspotted, fuzzy, wrinkled cheeks of those idiots in parliament hard enough to make them finally realize its due time to really look at the laws around that evil weed.
And I guess it did.
I have been hearing the soundbites from the powers that be for the last 2 days on CBC radio. They DO think that its time to revisit the dope laws. They DO think that something has to change.
But what did they come up with in all their wisdom?
Tougher penalties for grow ops.
Oh my fucking god you must be kidding.
Do you suppose this guy may not have killed 4 RCMP officers if the penalties for what he was doing were stiffer? Increasing the risk of having a grow up is only going to push that industry further into the hardass territory. Only the hardest of the hard: Mr. Gran Ite Buttocks; will venture into that and its going to be extremely organized at a murderously corporate level. (more-so than it already is)
(BTW, Mr. Hells Angel I am only expressing my opinion here, its nothing personal. Dont shoot the magpie.)
I was really hoping that these deaths would be the final happening that would prompt the government to realize how ridiculous this prohibition is. The deaths were unnecessary, unrighteous, and embarrassing. Getting killed over hunting a serial killer, a rapist, a puppy shaker, thats something worthy of being shot over.
Prove to me that these 4 young guys from Alberta were never sitting out in their friends car in grade 11 smokin a fattie on a Friday afternoon, before they had any idea they wanted to be RCMP. They were doing their job because they had to. I doubt they were running into that property with vigor going after that terrible marijuana maker.
Anyways, Im just totally blown away that this event has made the lawmakers want stiffer penalties, how they can be so blind to the obvious answer, the reality of the problem.
You ever feel like you are living in a different world?
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