(Hat tip: Marc)
Shouldn’t they cut and run at this point? There’s trouble, after all! What’s their “exit strategy”? I demand to know! They went into this without a plan! Quagmire! Quagmire!
And where’s that darn Liberal negotiation and appeasement tea set and tray of nice tea buns? Are they already out of tea and buns? Well that ain’t liberal!
But Community Safety Minister Monte Kwinter said the fact no one has been killed or seriously hurt should be a measure of the success police have had in Caledonia.
By that measure, the CBC is a success.
The headline is Police tactics under fire in Caledonia
—but they’re not under fire for being too tough—they’re under fire for being
pantywaists
liberals
useless.
[…] Since native protestors began occupying the Douglas Creek Estates development in February, police have been widely accused of turning a blind eye to lawbreakers, including those who dug up portions of the highway with a backhoe, lit tire fires and blocked the road.
Police officers are now saying their hands were tied by orders from OPP top brass.
“There were physical assaults taking place in front of you and you can’t do anything about it. The OPP is a joke in terms of Caledonia. It has tarnished our name,” said an OPP officer who spoke to the Star on condition of anonymity.
[…] Since the beginning of the Caledonia dispute, Haldimand County council officials, local residents and OPP union representatives have been waiting for a public explanation of Boniface’s rationale for the hands-off approach. Some believe she got her orders from Liberal government officials who wanted to avoid a replay of other land disputes, where police and protestors died.
But they say the approach has caused damage to the force’s reputation.
“They’ve turned into peacekeepers rather than law enforcers,” said Ken Hewitt, a spokesman for the Caledonia Citizens’ Alliance. “The question of their ability … has been challenged.”
Worse, Hewitt said, it has become clear there are two systems of law in Caledonia. How each is applied seems to depend on which side of the barricades you live on.
[…]
Oh yeah and vote liberal.
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