OTTAWA — Questioning the country’s top cops’ motive for supporting the long-gun registry isn’t only the province of crazies.
While Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz caused a furor this week when he opined in an online op-ed the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police support the registry as a furtive means of taking away Canadians’ guns, a more moderate Tom Flanagan said questioning their motive is legit.
“Police have a long history of taking positions against citizens’ rights of self-defence. I think the gun registry fits into that tableau,” said Flanagan, a University of Calgary prof and former senior advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
“If they want to play politics, that’s fine, but then they have to understand they can’t intervene in politics and assume that everybody will immediately bow down just because they’re police chiefs.
“They represent organizations with a vested interest in maintaining their jobs and monopoly over the use of violence.”
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It seems to me that Blair isn’t above punishing a lot of people to get revenge on a few .
http://nfa.ca/operation-zero-tolerance
It’s OK…as soon as Ford takes over Blair will retire to the local golf course. Not long now.