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Cognitive Dissonance
Oct. 27th, 2014 03:45 pmOkay, I can't seem to place two lists of things next to each other in an LJ entry, but here's a comparison of the deeds and official treatments of cop-killer Bourque and soldier-killer Zehaf-Bibeau.
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Links to the two newspaper stories, in the same paper on the same day, that prompted this post:
http://www.timescolonist.com/ottawa-shooting-driven-by-ideological-motives-rcmp-1.1467396
http://www.timescolonist.com/justin-bourque-targeted-mounties-because-of-the-badge-they-carried-says-crown-1.1467860
What do these incidents share?
How are they different?
Which one is/was the greater threat to Canada?
Anyway, just putting this here for now, no answers or rhetorical flourishes....
Meanwhile, we've started arresting mouthy senile angry old men:
The arrest of a 70-year-old man who made threats against the B.C. legislature while on a ferry underscores the challenge police face, in the wake of the Ottawa and Quebec attacks on soldiers, to determine if such statements pose real dangers or are merely empty threats.
...a man on the 7 a.m. ferry from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay was heard making reference to the Ottawa attacks, followed by threats against the B.C. legislature. The man was not physically violent and did not have any weapons.
B.C. Ferries staff called Sidney/North Saanich RCMP at 8:19 a.m. Thursday and kept the man in a secluded area of the vessel, said Island district RCMP spokesman Cpl. Darren Lagan. Mounties boarded the ferry at 8:35 a.m. and arrested the man. “Throughout the day, investigators undertook a full investigation and assessment of the man’s actions, and determined he posed no threat to public safety,” Lagan said, citing existing mental-health issues as a significant factor.
Lagan said the man was released from police custody later in the day, after mental-health professionals became involved. He will not face any charges.
A second man who was set to meet the older man was also detained and questioned. He co-operated and was released without charge.
( Read more... )
Links to the two newspaper stories, in the same paper on the same day, that prompted this post:
http://www.timescolonist.com/ottawa-shooting-driven-by-ideological-motives-rcmp-1.1467396
http://www.timescolonist.com/justin-bourque-targeted-mounties-because-of-the-badge-they-carried-says-crown-1.1467860
What do these incidents share?
How are they different?
Which one is/was the greater threat to Canada?
Anyway, just putting this here for now, no answers or rhetorical flourishes....
Meanwhile, we've started arresting mouthy senile angry old men:
The arrest of a 70-year-old man who made threats against the B.C. legislature while on a ferry underscores the challenge police face, in the wake of the Ottawa and Quebec attacks on soldiers, to determine if such statements pose real dangers or are merely empty threats.
...a man on the 7 a.m. ferry from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay was heard making reference to the Ottawa attacks, followed by threats against the B.C. legislature. The man was not physically violent and did not have any weapons.
B.C. Ferries staff called Sidney/North Saanich RCMP at 8:19 a.m. Thursday and kept the man in a secluded area of the vessel, said Island district RCMP spokesman Cpl. Darren Lagan. Mounties boarded the ferry at 8:35 a.m. and arrested the man. “Throughout the day, investigators undertook a full investigation and assessment of the man’s actions, and determined he posed no threat to public safety,” Lagan said, citing existing mental-health issues as a significant factor.
Lagan said the man was released from police custody later in the day, after mental-health professionals became involved. He will not face any charges.
A second man who was set to meet the older man was also detained and questioned. He co-operated and was released without charge.
