High River- Police seizure of firearms

[cletrac (RIP)]

I guess when you start doing the goose step it's easy to overstep the bounds of your authority. It seems to go to your head!!
How are you protecting property by kicking down locked doors and leaving them swinging in the wind? If there was anyone inside a simple knock on the door would have gotten a reply.
This was a forced evacuation and the mounties and military were the only ones left in town. Maybe the military should have had authorization to protect the property from the RCMP.
Protecting property was a ruse and they didn't find a soul in the "protected" homes so what was the real reason for it? Personally I'll go with the firearms seizures.

[cletrac (RIP)]

Rob, I think you'll find that the phrase "doing the goose step" is a colloquialism referring to anybody that's overstepping their authority. Sure the Germans gave it notoriety but Iraq and North Korea do their part to keep it going.

[rob love]

Sorry to ruin the continuity of this thread, but I have removed my posts. Some of this thread is a little too over the top for my liking, so I think I'll just step back.

[motto (RIP)]

I've been away for a couple of days and so missed some of what is referred to here.
Freedom, particularly when applied to private firearms ownership is a very emotive issue and discussion therefore always apt to boil over.
The fact that some of the thread went 'a little too over the top' is all the more reason for you to stay in there Rob. Your posts were well balanced and reasoned and added some worthy input to the debate.
I for one miss your contribution and am sorry that you left the field.

David

[Marc Montgomery]

Sorry you decided to withdraw, and that you removed your posts with the relevant info. I hope you will change your mind.

I agree with Jon, Im surprised that mainstream media seems to have avoided this story and I really cant understand why

[Harry Moon]

Sun News has been covering it. About the only news channel i take the time anymore to watch. Lots of FOI requests and a pretty steady campaign for a public inquiry.

[chris vickery]

If firearms were owned legally and stored in a lawfull and corect manner, why would they be so concerned about safety?
Just a prime example of how registries can be used against Citizens, I mean Subjects.
I truly believe that the RCMP has, and has always had an agenda towards firearms ownership in Canada.
Read the book on Sam Steele, its in there going all the way back to early settlement in Canada's West. The NWMP at the time were very concerned with the United States mentality towards gun ownership and came up with a mandate to ensure Canada did not become plagued with the gun culture of the American West. Given the fact that this police force is our Federal police, it makes me feel really uneasy about how and why they do things the way they do. It seems a continual list of breaches of Civil rights, internal scandals and execution by Cop. They can't even keep things under control within their organization. Sexual misconduct charges swept under the carpet, tazering to death inoccent civilians, theft, drug use, illegal search and seizures and so on.
And add, most recently reclassifications of legally owned firearms with the stroke of a pen, just because they can.
A group turly out of control and abusing power over Canadians. Maybe its time to re-evaluate and perhaps dis-band. Heck the Canadian Airborne Regiment was dis-banded over a whole lot less....