MysTerri

Should we ask that anyone who wishes to become a police officer in Canada, to first complete 500 hours of volunteer training at a mental health facility, so that they can develop a non-violent approach toward suspects in the future? If this had been a requirement in the past, Dziekanski would still be alive, as would Ian Bush, Michael Vann Hubbard, Frank Paul, and a host of others who have died at the hands of officers ignorant of the methods we insist our mental health professionals use everyday. You would have to live in a cloud to not agree that police are prone to escalate a situation and possess no skills in DE-escalating a situation, resulting in needless deaths in far too many circumstances.

By law a 14 year can legally decide to have sex. A 14 year old who becomes a parent, we consider an adult. Anyone old enough to make decisions that lead to becoming a parent is an adult. On the other hand, there are varying degrees of crime. Stealing a loaf of bread is not something that should stigmatize someone forever. Armed robbery and violent crimes make the young adult a danger to society. At that point stigma or not, the 14+ young adult should face adult time in the name of protecting the greater majority and due to the violent nature of their crime, society should know their identity, just like with child molesters. Society's protection is FAR more important than the 14+ young adult who chose that path.

How about all those "good" Christian Ku Klux Klanners? Now there is a terrorist organization for ya.

Personally I don't get the uproar over the mosque in NYC. It is NOT on the site of the WTC and its been there all along anyway. No one from that mosque has been found guilty of plotting and carrying out any attacks anywhere. This whole subject is fanatical. America, when I was young, was run by fanatics. Returning to fanaticism is not progress.

Any church, mosque, synagogue, (ie. - the Church in Florida whose minister wants to burn Korans), should have its religious/charitable status revoked, pronto, but not the whole religion.

You're obvious blindness as the the wisdom of little old ladies and trust in police who fail too, are at the root of the problem we have with police today. Even little old ladies know that. Police DO fail and also fail at an investigations when they have the chance to cover for someone behind a blue wall. History has shown that truth over and over and over and over. There is no argument FOR police investigating themselves that is not full of failure.

Hate? What's to hate? I do not trust politicians. Until laws are changed that stops the conflict of interest "lobbyists" from donating money (bribes) to politicians who then ignore their electorate, all politicians are out for themselves only. They are even considering letting the corporate "PERSONS" have a vote! That is proof enough for me that politicians have lost touch with what really matters, the electorate. There is not one honest politician (or lawyer for that matter) who will take the dirty rotten, Earth polluting, resource gulping, wage-freezing, greedy corporate persons to task for their crimes against the electorate. Only then we will see someone who deserves LOVE. Show it & you get it.

Absolutely This is the kind of thinking we need more of in the world today. There are so many other investments that could bring about more profitable and sustainable existence for life, without the tremendously disastrous consequences we see in one corporate act after another. These criminals should be dissolved and their assets re-dispersed to those whose ideas for industry are more in keeping with life on the planet for all. Kudoos

It won't take another man made disaster like the one BP has done to convince me; oil companies need to go. We are FAR behind where we should be in the alternative fuel market. We are far behind because of the choices governments have made to not say " No!" to oil. Like the Liberal government in British Columbia, who legislated out of existence a bright, alternative vehicle company, GEM, not only out of business, but right out of the country to Pakistan who is now enjoying the enormous profits. This was a huge mistake, yet British Columbia clumbers ahead taking steps to allow off-shore drilling instead. What will it take? There has already been so much death and destruction at the hands of oil giants. Time to put them to sleep. And any other corporation that breaks the law. Time to force corporations to adhere to the law or lose their privileges and have punishment administered, like anyone else. ENOUGH of their FREE REIGN.

You wouldn't? If everyone ran around covered head to toe, there would likely be more crime. Who can say what the criminal looked like? It's all about showing your face.... as if YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE.

Yes, but at least you can see their face, what they look like, should you have to opportunity to share it with police. You can even photograph it, video tape it when it is not covered. NO one CAN walk into a public building in swimwear. THAT is the LAW. You even have to remove your sunglasses. So women who wear veils are on "Public Notice" in Quebec: It is ILLEGAL to wear a face covering in Public Buildings. If you'd like the push the point about the beaches being public too, I would not be opposed to banning burkas on public beaches. You are right, they STILL present a security risk on the beach, if something happens, you need to be able to describe the suspect. Surely this is not beyond your comprehension. This is not a statement about whether God approves or not, it is a statement that this part of the Earth does not approve of faces being covered in public , because it makes them feel threatened as it presents a security risk. How God feels about it, who knows and who can truly say? Certainly not Waldo or you, nor even I. It is not our place to moralize about others attire. It IS our right to secure the public.

No not a trial, an independent investigation. Meaning .... the police don't get to supply the evidence if there is to be a trial. People with a vested interest in justice, truth and fairness investigates police when there is cause to, and the independent team gets to supply the evidence for a trail if it feels one is warranted.

Yes what happened to Ian Bush is a prefect example of the malignancy police self-investigations propagate. Sign my petition, copy it and collect signatures yourself. Let's stop police self-investigations. They are DEADLY to the public. http://www.gopetition.com/online/35135.html

That is so true! What it boils down to is that you HAVE to trust a bunch of independent somebodies (who are elected and paid) to lead jurors in investigations into police misconduct charges. Jurors, to me, are the employers of police and if someone doesn't trust them, don't argue with the boss; it's the boss's right to participate. Of course if you can bring that about, you are free to try and talk the government into having overseers or jurors, but it seems a waste of time and money. All I ever hear from politicians is how to cut things out not include them.

Driving a car with your face covered IS a security risk. You have no peripheral vision. and the thing can blow up over your eyes, not to mention that if your hit someone, it would be a huge mistake to not allow the victim to get a look at the person who hit them. Right? Personal Security. Plus one never really knows WHO is under a veil; it could be someone out to do you harm. You know that's why the style is so popular with criminals. Besides in Quebec women (and men BTW) may NOT wear a veil in a public building. It's PUBLIC, so be PUBLIC. You can still go to the beach wearing a burka, unless of course 'Allah' is against playing at the beach.