Lawyer alleges conspiracy at B. C. Taser probe
Dziekanski Inquiry; RCMP fabricated 'version of events,' lawyer says
Brian Hutchinson, National Post Published: Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2073528#ixzz0TELmwzKG
The above article does not as far as I can see suggest that the Polish government's lawyer used or even implied the use of the word "conspiracy". I wonder therefore why the National Post uses the word in its headline. The effect of this headline seems to me to be to discredit the lawyer: conspiracy theorists are usually the butt of laughter and contempt. I further suspect that the National Post, which seems to me to have very conservative (right-wing) leanings in its editorial outlook, would seek any opportunity to discredit someone who finds flaws in what many of us believe to be the heavy-handed and unjustified violence used by Canadian law enforcement agencies on all too many occasions
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Who has had enough?
"HALIFAX, N.S. - The archbishop of Halifax expressed his own frustration and issued an impassioned plea to his parishioners Sunday to keep their faith as they grapple with allegations that one of their bishops was in possession of child pornography.
Archbishop Anthony Mancini said the church has had enough of charges of sexual abuse and impropriety. His comments come days after Bishop Raymond Lahey, from a Nova Scotia javascript:void(0)diocese, was charged in Ottawa with importing and possessing child pornography."
The above quotation from a Halifax newspaper certainly invites the conclusion that Archbishop Mancini has an unusually large amount of guile (and gall) in him even given the standards in recent years among the prelates of the Church of Rome. There is an unmistakable implication that the "charges of sexual abuse and impropriety" are signs of a flaw in those who make such allegations. The implication is cunningly worded so as to give the archbishop "deniability" - i.e. he will claim in righteous indignation that this is not what he meant - and yet allows him to evade (again) the church's responsibility by blaming those who discern and report wrongdoing
Archbishop Anthony Mancini said the church has had enough of charges of sexual abuse and impropriety. His comments come days after Bishop Raymond Lahey, from a Nova Scotia javascript:void(0)diocese, was charged in Ottawa with importing and possessing child pornography."
The above quotation from a Halifax newspaper certainly invites the conclusion that Archbishop Mancini has an unusually large amount of guile (and gall) in him even given the standards in recent years among the prelates of the Church of Rome. There is an unmistakable implication that the "charges of sexual abuse and impropriety" are signs of a flaw in those who make such allegations. The implication is cunningly worded so as to give the archbishop "deniability" - i.e. he will claim in righteous indignation that this is not what he meant - and yet allows him to evade (again) the church's responsibility by blaming those who discern and report wrongdoing
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