Posted May 27, 2002
Analysis by Richard Cowan

Canadian police are far less politicized than their counterparts to the
south. The major reason is that Canadian police officials are appointed, not
elected. However, this does not mean that the Canadian police do not have a
political agenda that seeks to maintain their power, as is typical of government
agencies.

Unfortunately, unlike most other government agencies’ self-serving
propaganda, claims by the police are usually accepted uncritically by the
Canadian media.
This is a dangerous mistake.

Canadian police have a major vested interested in maintaining cannabis
prohibition in Canada, but that interest is not necessarily as simple as it
might appear.

Although more than half of all “drug” arrests in Canada are for simple
possession of cannabis, ending marijuana prohibition would not result in massive
layoffs of police. There is certainly enough real crime to keep them all busy.
So in trying to understand this problem, it is unwise to use the standard
practice of “following the money.”

The real vested interest that the police have in cannabis prohibition is
political. Follow the power, not the money.

First, at the street level, cannabis prohibition is a source of arbitrary
power for the police. Even the “reforms” supported by The Canadian Association
of Police Chiefs would continue to let them decide whom to arrest. For example,
the association’s board adopted a policy that calls on the Canadian government
to give police the option of charging someone with 30
grams or less or issuing a ticket and fine or community service.
See

Canadian Police Chiefs To Support “Decriminalization” Of Marijuana.
“Government will give serious consideration to recommendation.”

Even more important, cannabis prohibition is a source of moral and political
authority for the police and admitting that it has always been a
counterproductive fraud and morally wrong would undermine their moral and
political authority.
See
The Racist
Origins Of Canada’s Marijuana Prohibition Reported In the National Post.

The police are in too deep to just shrug and cut their losses. This is as
true in Canada as in DEAland.

Over the last few years I have documented numerous examples of lying by the
Canadian police. Sometimes this lying is at the institutional level. It is
outrageous that the police can even get away with lying to the Canadian Senate.
See
Canadian Police
Association Demonstrates The Role of Ideology in the Maintenance of Marijuana
Prohibition. Sweden Ideal While the Dutch Are the Worst. Analysis by Richard
Cowan.

Other times this is simply business as usual, lying to the media who never
question anything they say.
See


Canadian Police Lie to The Canadian Media Who Lie To Their Readers
To Justify More Power Over the Canadian People To Please DEAland Narks
An Utterly Wretched Piece Of Pseudo-journalism
and
“It’s Time To
Declare Peace,” Says Great Canadian Op-ed. But Can Canada Escape the DEAland
Marijuana Prohibition Trap, As the Mounties Lie To Keep the War Going? — 2
items
and
Author of Ottawa Citizen
Series on Prohibition Blames The Media for the Drug War. Great Journalism Is The
Antidote.

Other times the lying is an overt interference in the political process, as
when the BC police attacked the BC Marijuana Party. This is such an obvious
threat to the democratic process that everyone should be offended by this.
See
Police
Interference in the Canadian Electoral Process. The Royal Canadian Marijuana
Police Disinformation Campaign for Marijuana Prohibition. Analysis by Richard
Cowan.

Then there is the lying to promote more prohibitionist propaganda in the
guise of “drug education.” The DARE program is very popular among the police who
are peddling it in small Canadian towns, and anyone who criticizes it is called
pro-drug, even though DARE’s own president has admitted that it does not work.
See
The Royal Canadian
Marijuana Police and DARE: Selling a Big-Time Fraud in Small Town Canada.

However, of all the lying done by the Canadian narks, perhaps the most
dangerous is that done to undermine Canadian sovereignty. This category of lying
is done to support the DEAland prohibitionists interference in Canada’s internal
affairs.

A recent example of that was to be found in the particularly wretched piece
in the National Post. Clearly, the purpose of this lie is to support DEAland in
its bogus complaints against Canada’s cannabis policies.
See
Canada’s National Post
Prints DEAland Prohibitionist Propaganda and Ignores Facts. Even
Anti-Prohibitionists Have No Standards When the Subject Is Cannabis. Analysis by
Richard Cowan

This article says that “Corporal Scott Rintoul of the
RCMP estimated that 70% of the marijuana grown in Canada ends up in the United
States.”

Of course, the RCMP’s own web site contradicts that claim, and says
“Regarding claims that
“50 to 60 % of the marihuana produced in Canada is smuggled to the
United States: Any estimate of this nature is impossible to
substantiate at this time. Seizures of Canadian marihuana in the US are less
than 3,000 kilograms a year. Investigations and intelligence on both sides of
the border indicate that there is considerable smuggling activity but cannot
support nor validate such an estimate. DEA agree that this estimate is
unfounded.”

In other words, an RCMP officer is lying – according to the RCMP’s own data –
in his official capacity, while attempting to influence Canadian public policy,
and undermine Canadian sovereignty.

Is it good public policy to tolerate that sort of lying?

Perhaps the most notorious practitioner of this sort of campaign against
Canadian sovereignty is RCMP Sgt. Chuck Doucette.

The Vancouver Province had an article in its July 5, 1998 edition that said,
“Twenty years ago, the maximum THC found in outdoor
cultivated pot plants was around 0.5 percent. RCMP say the marijuana now being
grown in B.C. can contain as much as 30 percent THC.”

The same Province article quotes Doucette as saying,
“The new marijuana is highly addictive. The experts are seeing a rapid increase
in behavioral problems among users. There are acts of aggression, leading to
assaults and even murders.”
See


Marijuana Prohibition And Potency, Price, And Safety –
“Is Marijuana Stronger Now Than It Was Back In the ’60s,
When Everyone Thought It Was Harmless?”

It has been almost four years since he said that. Where are the “acts of
aggression, leading to assaults and even murders”?

Better questions: Where are the questions from the media to Doucette, et al.?
Where is the RCMP brass when officers like Doucette and Rentoul are caught
contradicting the RCMP’s own data?

Could it be that Doucette and Rentoul, et al., are doing exactly what the
RCMP brass really wants done? Maybe they are not “loose canons.” Maybe they are
canons aimed at the Canadian media in a war on Canadian sovereignty with the support of not only the RCMP officials, but also of
the prohibitionist politicians in Ottawa.
See
Ottawa Citizen
Columnist Dan Gardner Assails Canadian Justice Minister’s Kowtowing to UN and
DEAland Narks: “U.S. says jump, we say how high?”
and
Great Canadian
Editorial Calls for Legalization; Decries Justice Minister’s Giving Narks Veto
Over Changing Marijuana Laws.

The Justice Minister in the above linked articles is now the Health Minister,
and she just killed Canada’s court ordered medical cannabis program.
See
Blame DEAland: Canadian
Health Minister Blames DEA for Canadian Medical Cannabis Fiasco. DEA Wouldn’t
Sell Them Seeds. Now If Someone In Canada Would Go Into The Seed Business…

So while it is easy to prove that the narks are liars, it should also be very
clear that responsibility for this lying does not stop with them.

Canadian politicians and media need to be held accountable
by the people of Canada for this official lying. Until the lying stops Canada
will not be able to solve its prohibition problems, nor will Canadian
sovereignty and freedom be safe from its enemies foreign and domestic.
See also
The Prohibitionist
Counterattack in Canada — DEA Is Their Middle Name. May Conference In Vancouver
Requires Serious Response.
and
Marijuana Legalization,
The Missing Pillar in Solving the Substance Abuse Problem in Vancouver and All
of Canada. Analysis By Richard Cowan
and this from 1998:

Vancouver Police Put Prohibitionism Above Patriotism –
Use US Navy Agents In Attempt To Entrap Hemp BC

Share This Post

You Should Also Check Out These Posts:

Most Active Posts: