I just listened a few minutes ago to a conversation with the Asst Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on NPR, regarding the arrest of 17 Canadians who had acquired substantial quantities of explosives, partly as part of an RCMP "sting" operation. The arrested parties will be charged under relevant terrorism laws.
The interviewer asked some sort of fear-pandering question like, after finding that the arrested persons were mostly if not all natives rather than immigrants, how it felt or "what was it like" now that he (the Commish) had to monitor citizens and not just immigrants.
"We don't monitor immigrants"
"We don't monitor citizens"
Was the response.
"We look for criminality"
The Assistant Commissioner said.
Implicit in that was the simple concept: we're cops. we go after criminals. that's all.
Oh, Canada! I'm proud of you this morning, for not catering to hatred and fear.
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