If “Law enforcement has no role in policing the thoughts of Canadians” then why is the RCMP attempting to police the thoughts of Canadians?
In a disturbing but not surprising development, the RCMP wants all “anti-government, anti-law enforcement” statements reported so the RCMP’s Thought Crimes Squad can “monitor” those heinous mere citizens who believe their right to Freedom of Expression is still a thing.
What a pile of bovine excrement.
Seems that, under this new initiative, I’ll be reported to the RCMP on a regular basis because I regularly criticize bad policy makers at every level of government.
I also regularly report on criminals who carry badges and guns and wear a colored stripe down their legs, too. My RCMP Hall of Shame is but one example of “unapproved” thoughts the RCMP now believes should be reported and investigated.
When in Doubt, Report It?
“When in doubt, report it,” RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki said in a statement promoting the RCMP’s Guide to Reporting Suspicious Incidents.
Given the litany of complaints over staffing shortages coming from Commissioner Lucki and her subordinates, I can’t think of a stupider line for her to say out loud.
Is the RCMP really going to waste scarce resources investigating me because I called her an idiot for making that statement? (Guess I’ll find out shortly…)
None of this comes as a surprise to me, nor will it surprise anyone else who pays attention to these issues because the RCMP has a long history approving of and promoting government censorship of mere citizens.
As noted in Blacklock’s Reporter, the RCMP praised Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government for its proposed legislation to censor the internet of unapproved thoughts and opinions.
The RCMP heartily endorsed Bill C-36 – An Act To Amend The Criminal Code and approved of its $70,000 fines for anyone who posted legal content that someone else found “offensive”.
“It [Bill C-36] may not seem like a massive development in terms of dealing with the scope of everything that’s been talked about here today, but it will equip law enforcement to see more things through to charges in this country.”
—RCMP Corporal Anthony Statham, British Columbia Hate Crimes Team
During a July 19 webinar sponsored by the federally-subsidized Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Corporal Statham said the following:
“In Canada we don’t have anything regulating speech. Under Section Two of our Charter of Rights our freedom of expression is protected. So there is no such thing as free speech in Canada, only freedom of expression.”
What the ….?
It gets worse.
The opening line of the RCMP’s Guide to Reporting Suspicious Incidents states:
“Some people hold social or political beliefs that may be considered ‘extreme’ or outside mainstream ideologies.”
Given mainstream ideologies, including those of the pathetic Conservative Party of Canada, are so far left that simple common sense is deemed a thought crime, it appears the RCMP believes government-approved opinions are the only opinions we mere citizens can lawfully express.
All other thoughts must be reported to them for investigation.
RCMP Tracking Canadians Is Nothing New
Tracking Canadians and their thoughts is nothing new for the RCMP.
Those of us with a Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) or a Restricted Possession and Acquisition License (RPAL) are subjected to the RCMP combing through every word we utter on social media prior to our licence renewals.
But it doesn’t end there.
The RCMP (and other police forces across Canada) have a long history of surveillance state activities as well as manufacturing crimes to further their political agenda.
Remember the Victoria bomb plot that was manufactured by 240 RCMP members who were paid almost $1 million in overtime to “foil” the plot they hatched? That’s just one of many cases that prove unfettered power is detrimental to our rights and freedoms.
In their report, To Surveil and Predict: A Human Rights Analysis of Algorithmic Policing in Canada, Kate Robertson, Cynthia Khoo, and Yolanda Song state:
Algorithmic policing is an area of technological development that, in theory, is designed to enable law enforcement agencies to either automate surveillance or to draw inferences through the use of mass data processing in the hopes of predicting potential criminal activity.
The latter type of technology and the policing methods built upon it are often referred to as predictive policing.
Algorithmic policing methods often rely on the aggregation and analysis of massive volumes of data, such as personal information, communications data, biometric data, geolocation data, images, social media content, and policing data (such as statistics based on police arrests or criminal records).
This report first outlines the methodology and scope of analysis in Part 1. In Part 2, the report provides critical social and historical contexts regarding the criminal justice system in Canada, including issues regarding systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system and bias in policing data sets.
This social and historical context is important to understand how algorithmic policing technologies present heightened risks of harm to civil liberties and related concerns under human rights and constitutional law for certain individuals and communities.
The sixth of their seven recommendations states:
Law enforcement authorities must not have unchecked use of algorithmic policing technologies in public spaces: police services should prohibit reliance on algorithmic predictions to justify interference with individual liberty, and must obtain prior judicial authorization before deploying algorithmic surveillance tools at public gatherings and in online environments.
In other words, violating our human rights is of little concern to policing agencies because, for them, the ends always justify the means. Even if the means is manufacturing the crime that must be solved, as noted above.
Given Brenda Lucki’s insistence that every statement should be reported and RCMP Corporal Anthony Statham’s belief that Canadians have no right to Free Speech, it’s easy to see why the government and the RCMP will never accept these recommendations.
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government and the RCMP wholeheartedly believe in the Almighty Surveillance State.
Here’s the thing… I’m a professional. We earn well. We contribute to parties and charities. We never break the law. We’re as mainstream and upstanding as you get..
But I’m at the point where I can’t stand the RCMP. I hate how corrupt they are. I hate how power-hungry they have become. I hate everything they represent now.
My point is: I’m their traditional support base… I’m the demo that has stood up for them and fought for them over the years… and I want to see them torn down. I want them to turn in their red uniforms and sell the horses. I want them gone from the Canadian landscape. They have become repulsive to me.
You want my friends to turn me in, Lucki? I’ll save you the time. I’ll send you my address. I’ve got a family full of lawyers and I’m spoiling for a fight.
A leader with no followers or supporters is just a dude out for a walk.
Enjoy your walk.
Like you, I am the RCMP’s traditional support base. As a child, I was used to RCMP members in the house all the time as my father was an RCMP auxiliary for years. Today, the only way they’re getting into my house is with a warrant. That’s how far the RCMP has fallen in my eyes and the eyes of my family.
Let me know when they come for you, Brendan. I’ll happily report on your case every step of the way.
Hi Christopher, I am saddened by how far we as a country have fallen. Such tactics were thought to be used by oppressive and fascist governments, not supposed free countries. Yet if this is how OUR government and OUR RCMP are now operating, then they have therefore become that oppressive fascist government. Although I’m not really surprised, as any entity that uses fear and storm trooper like tactics on another group, they usually do it because they themselves are fearful of that other group, because they know what they do is intrinsically wrong on so many levels. I am well aware that your musings are probably monitored, but is anything you write or state ‘misinformation” ? As a semi regular poster on your site, I know I too, am probably monitored as well. I almost didn’t post this, as my thought was that it’s best to stay below the radar on some issues.
Then I thought No, I am a free person, and you need to know there will be others with the courage to stand up and be counted with you, when things go sideways. So for what it’s worth, I am sending this post, and signing my name to it. When we collectively don’t hold responsible, our politicians, civil service, and law enforcement service. Then we allow them to become complacent and corrupt, whereas they should be working for the collective good of decent lawful citizens.
I proudly stand with you, and I support you and your work.
Thank you and bravo, for doing and saying what needs to be said and done, when others that should be doing those things, slink away with their tails coiled under their quivering hind ends. I am of course referring to our bought and paid for, main stream media.
Thank you, Gerry! I’m grateful to have many courageous friends and allies like you in this ongoing battle for our freedoms. Brenda Lucki and her ilk can pound sand.
The new SS. Will that yellow stripe down those pant legs turn orange with little swastikas on them?
You wonder why the public wants to defund the police.
Will I get into trouble for saying this?
Maybe, Eric, but they’ll come for me long before they come for you, if that’s any consolation. 🙂
As I posted in a previous comment to one of Christopher’s earlier commentaries, the RCMP is now an internal department of Trudeau’s PMO.
The Feds, as well as Brenda Lucki, are exercising the exact same “Zersetzung” (gang stalking) tactics as was used by the former DDR’s (East Germany’s) Stasi (Secret Police) goons, with all of the surveillance advantages of 21st century technology.
You will be “dealt with” if you defy your government or its enforcers.
So, ratting out your neighbour or coworker is a noble thing to do? … and Canadians are okay with this? What have we become? Well …??
And while you’re all ruminating on your humanity (or lack thereof), you might want to get rid of your Alexa, smart TV, smart home network and latest 5G phone (oh … and unplug your Tesla).
Full spectrum 5G roll-out and “The Internet of Things” are essential for “predictive policing”. It’s gonna be a hoot … kinda like “The Purge” with some “Robocop/Terminator” antics thrown in!
People have to wake up. The rcmp and the government are not our friends. They want our money and our homes, and firearms. They want every thing we hold dear.
They will use the latest technology, (5g that telus is promoting right now) to gather all the info they need to screw us all.
I refused the 5G network when telus called. I do not require faster downloads and speeds unimaginable. I am at the age now where I do not do anything fast. Mostly because I have to think about the task before I act.
I am also glad I live in a remote area where police presence is minimal. You don’t see them out harassing citizens just because they can.
I stand behind people like Christopher, the CSSA, and the NFA just to name a few.
Lynn
Lynn,
I hope you are also a supporter of the CCFR as well as Zak Whittamore’s Armalytics website. The Arse-E-Em-Pee keep on adding firearms to their list of prohibs without making any public announcements.
Predictive policing runs like clockwork once you stoop to using entrapment on a regular basis.
Agreed. Zak Whittamore is doing our community an incredible service with Armalytics.ca.
Arie
I support any organization that fights for our firearms rights. I am not familiar with Whittamore’s website but soon will be. Thanks for that info.
I support our truckers and their mission. Judging buy the donations from people all over this country I believe they will be successful. Maybe all of us firearms owners will see a lesson in the truckers endeavor.
Hey Justin are you nervous, are you sweating yet? You should be.
I also enjoy reading your comments Arie.
Well, I had to temper my thoughts when I read this a couple days back.
Things must be going sideways for Brenda Lucki, she may be getting pressured , with a little greasing, by the PMO, [not unlike the pressure imposed upon Jody-Wilson Raybould , who went by her morals and ethics and still ended up being cast to the bottom and voters turning a blind-eye to that event]. So B. Lucki is at the helm when all that Class action suit came flying in the wind from harassed/abused female RCMP colleagues, and what she do?…um, nothing? There is something very wrong about that , gender hypocrisy and disregard for the frontline. Officers being abused and attacked by other officers is an unsettling thought.
I thought that kind of unsupported behavior was a thing in a redneck mill-town movie, a thing of the past.
So her creditability is shot.
And in my books, respect is to be earned and good behaviors consistently adhered to, and if an Officer does good, he/she has my respect, if they are engaging in abominable behavior, conduct not worthy of the uniform, then he/she should be made to face the music and be prepared for criticisms.
That goes for elected and non-elected government MPs/MLAs/Deputy ministers, other officials.
It is utterly mind-boggling a few days back when i heard on the radio that Julie Payette, ex-governor general, is up for some kind of outstanding award, even though her history and behaviour should negate any such consideration, it was she who … quote… “Payette resigned on January 21, 2021, following the conclusion of a workplace review that found she had “belittled, berated and publicly humiliated Rideau Hall staff” and “created a toxic, verbally abusive workplace”.
That’s putting it mildly what she did to others with absolute impunity, and this is our democracy.
I would be very disappointed and upset if our National Police force follow the command of Brenda Lucki/ Government Overlords on this snitch-on-your-friends. neighbors, workmates, the person-seated-next-to-you edict.
This is some shaky dangerous times we are entering.