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From: Canuck57@nospam.com
On 13/09/2013 4:28 PM, The Doctor wrote:
> In article ,
> =?UTF-8?B?Q29uyYBSQ29uyYA=?= wrote:
>> On 9/12/2013 7:13 PM, The Doctor wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> =?UTF-8?B?Q29uyYBSQ29uyYA=?= wrote:
>>>> Calgary Herald - September 12, 2013
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Minister apologizes for f-bomb, but not sentiments
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths’ infamous f-bomb still hangs
>>>> in the air, unexploded. He briefly apologized for bad language on
>>>> Twitter but hasn’t said a word since his outburst last week.
>>>>
>>>> But he finally unloaded Wednesday in an interview from Ottawa, with an
>>>> apology for the word but an even tougher attack on Wildrose Leader
>>>> Danielle Smith for allegedly fuelling anger over the response to
>>>> flooding in High River.
>>>>
>>>> “I know emotions are high and tensions are high and I’m proof positive
>>>> that sometimes they get higher than they should,” Griffiths said.
>>>>
>>>> “That’s where my f-bomb came from. And I apologize for the f-bomb, but
>>>> not for my sentiments.”
>>>>
>>>> Asked last Tuesday about Smith’s forum to air grievances against the
>>>> RCMP, Griffiths startled the province by saying “it’s f---ing
>>>> embarrassing ... I am sick and tired of people like her going around
>>>> trying to blame people when we’re still trying to rebuild the
community.”
>>>>
>>>> In the interview Wednesday, Griffiths says High River is a town
>>>> suffering from collective depression, anger and post-traumatic stress.
>>>>
>>>> “And what’s (Smith) doing?” he asks. “She’s having a town hall
to make
>>>> sure people stay mad.
>>>>
>>>> “That’s not going to help anybody. It staggers and sickens me.”
>>>>
>>>> Griffiths now says there’s proof the RCMP saved lives by breaking into
>>>> homes.
>>>>
>>>> “We have pictures of people coming out on stretchers, turning blue
>>>> because they were unconscious and they were trapped,” Griffiths says.
>>>>
>>>> “And if it wasn’t for the RCMP kicking in their door, nobody would
have
>>>> known and they would have died.”
>>>>
>>>> If somebody had in fact perished that way, Griffiths alleges, “Danielle
>>>> Smith would have been the first person screaming dereliction of duty of
>>>> the RCMP, how dare they just ring the doorbell and knock, and assume
>>>> people are fine.”
>>>>
>>>> Smith has always said many High River residents have legitimate
>>>> grievances (there are nearly 1,900 claims against the RCMP) and she’s
>>>> just representing her constituents, as a good MLA should.
>>>>
>>>> She insists the government is out of touch with the amount of damage and
>>>> the feelings in High River.
>>>>
>>>> But Griffiths also says the RCMP was called in only after firefighters
>>>> and volunteers were threatened by some townspeople who refused to obey
>>>> the evacuation order.
>>>>
>>>> “We had a firefighter who went to a door, rang it, and the guy opened
>>>> the door and shoved him off the steps and said ‘I’m not leaving.’
>>>>
>>>> “There were death threats against people going door to door during the
>>>> search and rescue.
>>>>
>>>> “So the local emergency operations then decided we couldn’t have
>>>> volunteers and firefighters, we had to have the RCMP if there are
>>>> threats ...
>>>>
>>>> “So the RCMP go into it. They ring the doorbell and knock on the door.
>>>> That’s what they’re supposed to do. They try to pick the lock, and if
>>>> they can’t they kick in the door.”
>>>>
>>>> “And then when they go in they find out some of these vacant homes have
>>>> guns lying all over the place, unsecured.
>>>>
>>>> “So now we have 300 to 400 people who refused to evacuate and a door’s
>>>> been kicked open during search and rescue and there are guns lying around.
>>>>
>>>> “We’ve got angry people kicking firefighters off the steps and
there’s
>>>> guns ... We’d better secure them.”
>>>>
>>>> Griffiths doesn’t dispute that the RCMP might have made mistakes.
“When
>>>> the evaluations are done they may say they went too far and they did
>>>> something wrong.
>>>>
>>>> “But I’m going to wait until the evaluation’s done before I hang
some
>>>> RCMP officer who just tried to save people’s lives when there were death
>>>> threats all over the place.
>>>>
>>>> “I got a threat made to me ... I had to make an RCMP report myself.
>>>>
>>>> “I got some criticism for the f-bomb. But I can’t believe people
saying
>>>> on Twitter, ‘how would you like it if RCMP hooligans broke into your
>>>> house’?”
>>>>
>>>> As for Smith, the minister levels one final profanity-free blast:
>>>>
>>>> “It sickens me that any politician is trying to capitalize on this and
>>>> make people angry and enraged ...
>>>>
>>>> “That’s why I said it’s embarrassing and used the f-bomb.”
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Why any right wing parties are not option on my voting card.
>>
>>
>> If you support the likes of the 'BC Liberals' and many of Justin Trudeau
>> 's policies - at least the ones he's made public - you do indeed support
>> right wing parties.
>
> Christy Clark is a federal Liberal like Joyce Murray and Hedy Fry unlike
Gordon
> Campbell.
Just like neo-Con Redford too.
Money buys western politicians as we are a tax colony. Need to make
sure the provinces are in tow.
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Socialist-statism corruption is a great idea so long as the credit is
good and other people pay for it. When the credit runs out and those
that pay for it leave, they can all share having nothing but
unemployment, debt and discontentment.
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