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LETTERS: Clean up the RCMP from the top down

Dear Editor, I have to agree with the Record ’s editorial of Aug. 4, Law is a Precious Commodity, with some reservations regarding the RCMP’s continuing behaviour.

Dear Editor,

I have to agree with the Record’s editorial of Aug. 4, Law is a Precious Commodity, with some reservations regarding the RCMP’s continuing behaviour.

Yes, Supreme Court Justice Bruce, we do not need the police to create more terrorists, nor do we need to spend $900,000 and counting, with the involvement of 240 RCMP cops to entrap an impoverished, drug-addicted young couple.

Is it part of the program to create an environment of fear? I have to question the competence and direction of a police force involved in a so-called terrorist sting operation.

It is fortunate that the manufactured plot and evidence of the RCMP was seen through by our justice system and praise be to Justice Bruce, otherwise this hapless couple, who babbled about hijacking a submarine and toppling the Israeli government’s computers might be looking at life in prison. 

Over the years, that branch of the RCMP has spent untold millions of dollars with their contrived and unwarranted Orwellian surveillance of people such as those involved in the peace movement, trade unions, communists and members of the NDP, such as Tommy Douglas, none of which had anything to do with safeguarding this country.

Who is responsible in the top leadership of the RCMP that violation of the rule of law is allowed to go on with untold cost to us, not to mention the incrimination, fear and misery to the people involved?

A call to accountability and a cleanup from the top down is long overdue. 

Bill Zander, New Westminster