XPost: can.politics, ab.politics, edm.general
From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article <12q%t.138483$HB7.131779@fx27.iad>,
Canuck57 wrote:
>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.
>
Gordon Campbell would fit into a Harper Cabinet
like Allison Redford.
>
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>that pay for it leave, they can all share having nothing but
>unemployment, debt and discontentment.
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