where's the justice?
Incredible news out of Vancouver last night: the two men accused of the worst terrorist atrocity in Canadian history, the bombing of Air India flight 182 in 1985 were acquitted by the judge. Hizzonor cited police incompetence in his 600 page judgement, as well as a string of suspicious and corrupt witnesses as the main reason for the acquital. It's a travesty - I simply cannot imagine what the victims' families must be going through right now. To relive the terrible time 20 years ago when their nearest relatives, their children, their parents, their siblings were blasted out of the sky just as dawn was breaking off the coast of Ireland...to endure almost twenty months of tortured testimony only to hear the words "not guilty", words that will no doubt perpetuate their nightmare forever.
There had been wrangling among Canada's security agencies, botched investigations, shredded documents, shady witnesses and who knows what else. The upshot is that well over three hundred people had been murdered by terrorists and their murders go unpunished....
This country is adrift. Aimlessly steered by successive idiotic Liberal governments who do not even begin to understand the scourge of terrorism. Governments mired in financial scandals - that the public seems indifferent to, otherwise how could they possibly re-elect these crooks? We shout and protest when the Americans call us naive and weak-kneed but that's exactly what we are. We cannot even mete out the justice that the families deserve and we are unable to show the murderers that their acts will not be tolerated here. March 16 is a sad day indeed in the annals of Canadian jurisprudence and a sad day for all of us who want to see "the true North strong and free!"