Pubdate: Wed, 20 Jun 2007
Source: Daily Herald-Tribune, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2007 The Daily Herald-Tribune
Contact:  http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/804
Author: Tim Meehan

FASCISM?

Re: RCMP Report-a-Drug-House program

Think about this: the RCMP is resorting to intimidation and 
harassment, rather than the rule of law, to attempt to manage a 
community. Doesn't that sound a little fascist for a free and 
democratic society like Canada? Didn't we fight a war so that this 
type of state intrusion wouldn't come to Canada?

Today it's about drugs -- and the problems that come with them -- 
because the government refuses to control them with regulation and 
taxation. In the future, it could be anyone else the community 
doesn't like. What if a gay couple moved in next door and the 
neighbours didn't like them?

It's not surprising that there hasn't been any complaints, given the 
toothless nature of the RCMP public complaints system. Perhaps civil 
action may be the route for victims of this type of treatment to take.

Tim Meehan
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