Muttering into the void.
The Winter Olympics start in two weeks, and there is much activity at the Vancouver airport. The sound of high-powered turbine aircraft engines fills the air.
My office is right under the approach path to runway 26L, so I see CF-18 Hornet fighter jets
and CH-146 Griffin helicopters
flying around several times a day.
Rumor has it that two Halifax-class frigates
will be anchored offshore to provide extra air defense.
Seems somebody repealed Section 494 of Canada’s Criminal Code, which provides for citizen’s arrests, without telling anybody. A shopkeeper who caught a thief and locked him up until police arrived is now charged with kidnapping, among other things.
We’re from the government, and we’re here to help. Oh, and that little thing called the Law? In yer dreams, pal.
And shame on the Globe and Mail for using the term “vigilante” and omitting any mention of the concept of the citizen’s arrest!
The Averter of Evil, the Mouse-Catcher, the Delphinian, the Radiant God, the Watcher of the Heavens, graciously answered his priestess’s prayer and granted his gift of divine fire today to the nation of Canada.
He had withheld his favour from the past three Winter Olympics, so Canadians should feel especially εá½Î´Î±Î¹Î¼Î¿Î½Î¯Î±Î¹.
The federal Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (the body that decides the cases that the “Human Rights” Commission persues) has declared that Section 13 of the Human Rights code (the “pre-crime” section — it allows extra-legal persecution of speech that is “likely to expose someone to ridicule”) violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
This is great news in the fight against the wholly corrupt Canadian “Human Rights” commissions.