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Those who tend to be arrogant consider everyone else to be ignorant. Quite common actually.

<sigh>. Go back and read my original post for the answer to this. Have you ever considered becoming a defense lawyer? With any luck your "grievance" attitude that has been shown in here towards the RCMP would help many criminals get lighter sentences for atrocities they commit.

Unfortunately, his jailhouse buddies will probably treat him like a hero. Not much love for the law and particularly police officers in the pen.

Good post. Holding back what they wanted to do is a true testament to the training and professionalism of the RCMP officers who arrested him.

I'm surprised to see this post from someone as schooled in the justice system as you are WWWTT. There should be an even a higher charge reserved for scumbag cop killers like this guy.

...and all of this results in what?? Protecting the public. Give your head a shake and admit when you post something that is ridiculous.

Hey Monty, maybe you and Bergdahl should become pen pals when he gets convicted of being a deserter and a coward. Sounds like you two would have been good buddies and probably deserted with him if you were there.

I am not sure you realize just how silly your above statement reads. Read it again and think about it some more. Last time I checked the justice system is in place to impose laws that do protect everyone which includes the victims and unfortunately even perpetrators like this sad excuse for a human being. If it were not for the justice system, I am sure this guy would have gotten a bullet to the head the moment they spotted him crawl out of the brush.

Pay off Aboriginals? It's not that new really. It's been going on since Cabot and Cartier landed.. It worked well on many occasions and in the colonists' favor back then but it doesn't work now unfortunately. It only seems to be making matters worse and is a clear waste of real taxpayer's money. The courts and politicians need to grow a pair and start treating First Nations as equals under the law and build more prisons with the money saved if that is what it will take. Either way, enough is enough.,

Maybe Obama is looking for a summer home when his term is over in 2016. Seriously though, you may be right but it won't last if they get there at all. The Chinese are way to corrupt to get there. Not to mention their GDP is full of hot air as well.. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-13/chinas-1-trillion-gdp-lie. Since history generally repeats itself, if there's going to be another real superpower someday it'll come out of Europe as they realize the tragic results of socialism. Ironically, us North Americans want to repeat the lessons Europe is already learning and trying to dig out of.

Another demonstration of how much of a Putz Justin is.

First Nations are being used as pawns yet again because FNs can get away with civil disobedience far easier than a bunch of white environmentalists blocking a road. The cost of that entire affair should be levied from the federal transfer payments given to that band IMO. Instead, us working folk fit the bill for this nonsense yet again.

The mistake the GOP are making is NOT allowing Obama to sink with his train wreck of Obamacare. If they did this and let Americans see that Obamacare is not what they expected, the GOP may have a slight shot at both houses and maybe even the presidency. However, the more the GOP try and stop Obamacare, the more years of Democratic economic policy Americans will elect in all houses and in the oval office further weakening what was once a great nation. The US has become the laughing stock of the rest of the world because of idiots on both sides of the aisle and particularly a weak President that is incapable of solving anything or uniting anyone. Most Liberals see a utopian world under their ideology but IMO when the smoke clears history will show that it was these liberal policies and their incompetent President that was in power when the back of the US economic and military might finally broke apart. These problems of division and continuing shift to the left in the US will spell bad times ahead for all Americans and the rest of the world and further diminish the US and the West in general. Ultimately it will pave the way for a much lower standard of living for everyone in the West and a much more dangerous world for our children to grow up in. Franky, there's not much the GOP can do to stop where the US is headed anymore since the left is is obviously where the voters want their country to head because they re-elected him and he is delivering exactly what he said he would. I see little reason for that voting trend to change unless there is some major worldwide event that occurs to scare voters in the US back to the GOP.

Nonsense and clearly biased statement...Reid, Pelosi, Barney Frank are just a few equivalent over on the Dem's side. If you don't thinks there's loons on both sides responsible for the complete division down there, you're dreaming.

While I agree we don't need more intoxicated people on the road, cannabis smokers are driving now on the roads regardless of legality. I said this before that I agree with legalization but would like to see it go hand in hand with an equivocal roadside test as a breathalyzer. The only thing that bothers me are that many of the pro-legalization folks put legalization above having the same safeguards we have to convict drunk drivers just because of their ideology. BTW, unlike tobacco cannabis alone does not have the same cancer rate as smoking tobacco by a long shot so get your facts straight. http://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/smoking-marijuana-does-not-cause-lung-cancer/ This and many other studies prove it, yet many anti-cannabis folks still ignore the facts to push their own antiquated agendas.