_A2- Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1981 - North Shore News

just people. — #
All the rhetoric about
equality under the law

doesn't change this fact for a
minute. Even if laws were
‘perfect, which they ain't,
you'd still never be able to
find a perfect lawman.

The discovery that the
RCMP have warts is old
news. If anything, the fact
that they turned out to be
bunglers when it came to
internal espionage is a point
in their favor.

So they burned a barn—-so
what? If anything, the record
indicates they probably
helped the PQ get elected.
They proved to be perfect

whipping boys for Rene
Levesque, just when he
needed to look lke an
underdog

strictly personal.

by Bob Hunter . |

Cops are people, too

Thinking about the McDonald Commision the
other day, I realized that one of the reasons the
report didn’t really shock anybody was the fact
that we all know, deep in our hearts, that cops are

Actually, I have a soft spot
for the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, and I might

“as well admit it.

Everything being relative,
I think they're great.

The McDonald Com-
mission report was one of
the most exhaustive political
inquiries to which a national
security force has been
submitted anywhere in the
world, ever.

And what did it turn up?
“Some bizarre Nixonian
undercover stuff in Quebec
and B.C. in the early 70s,
plus the existence of a mass

surveillance system that is:

about as Big Brotherly as
any, anywhere.

A mixture of good and
evil, oui?

What was missing from
the McDonald Commission
report was any hint that the
Mounties at any time ever
tortured, mutilated
murdered anyone.

I think this is quite ad-
mirable. You don't get all
that many national police
forces about whom the same
can be said

or

I remember a

young
Mountie arriving on my
doorstep - at dusk one
evening, about a decade

ago. I was hving on a farm.
There was a small office
nearby, which had _ been
broken into several times.

The owner had asked me
to call the cops if I noticed
*dnyone lurking. Well. sure
enough, I did.

It took half an hour before
the young cop arrived.

A 43-year-old West
Vancouver man was
reported in- satisfactory
condition in Lions Gate

Hospital Monday after being
attacked with part of a road
sign under the Lions Gate
-bridge.

A West Vancouver Police
spokesman said 21-year-old
Tony Welch, of 206-240
Mahon Avenue in North
Vancouver has been charged
with assault causing bodily
harm as a result of the in-
cident :

‘lis spokesman said an
alt-r-ahon between Welch

and = Murrary9 Roznatofki
beg n Friday _ night in
an

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Roznatofski's trailer at
Capilano trailer park.
He said the two were
involved in a verbal dispute
in whicha knife was drawn.
As a result of the dispute.
the two left the trader and
went to a location near _ the
Department of Highways
depot under the Lions Gate

the

bridge.
At that point, the
spokesman said. it 1s

believed a 4 X 4 secti
sign was used - to
Roznatofki.

As a result of the attack.
Roznatofski is believed to
have suffered broken teeth,
a broken nose, jaw and
cheek. He also suffered a
fractured skull and lost part
of his ear.

The spokesman said hquor
may have contributed to the
incident.

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He made me feel ancient.
He couldn't have been more
than 19 years old. And he
was scared out of his brain.
First bust, probably.

He asked me to come with
him. I couldn't very well say
no, although when he pulled
his gun out and his hand was
shaking so badly I though he
was going to shoot the thing
off by mistake, 1 wondered iL

that had been’such a smart.

move.

He got his man, with me
staying as far in, the
background as I could. The
burglar was quick to
surrender, just as worried as
I was that our young friend's
trembling finger on _ the
trigger just might precipitate
some kind of unwholesome
disaster. ;

Stull, the Mountie was a
kind of a hero.

On the dark side, I assume
that I'm one of those 800,000
people in Canada on whom
the Mounties keep a file.

When I was 20 years old. |
took a Yugoslavian freighter
to Europe because it hap-
pened to be the cheapest
ride around. Later, | learned
that this was the sort of thing
that got the RCMP opening a
file on you.

I have to hang my head in

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shame at the thought of all
the international con-
spiracies that I've been
involved with since.

My feeling ail along was
that if the Mounties weren't
keeping a file on me, they
weren't doing their job.

1 mean, there are certain
circles wherein i 1s a status
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I guess that won't be so
easy {to accomplish any
more, what with the
Mounties being moved out
of the internal police spy
business.

But, you know, ! have a
feeling the next guys will be
just as nosy. Human nature.
You can't get away from it.

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