Blogging Tory and Boy Detective Steve Janke seems a bit miffed with recent developments:
Inspections of private homes to commence
The Ontario government will begin entering homes looking for evidence of laws being broken.
In order to ease the people of this province into this new reality, the process will be done in phases.
First, only elderly gun owners will be expected to submit to a search.
After that? Who knows? Once we've established that public safety trumps individual rights, it won't be too hard to extend this principle to anything that the government deems dangerous or risky. Or for that matter, to anything that runs counter to the public interest.
As a police spokesperson said, any steps should be welcome by the public.
And here I was only welcoming constitutionally legal steps.
Forgive me, but wasn't it the Right who have, for the last several years, been contemptuously dismissive of issues of privacy? You know, when it came to warrantless wiretapping, they were all, "Hey, if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have anything to hide, right?" That was them, wasn't it? Now, suddenly, they're all, "But that's not constitutionally legal!"
When the fuck did that happen?
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Yeah, but this is different…
The LIBERAL government is targeting helpless old folks (with TEN or more guns in their house) for now, but that’s just the thin edge of the wedge.
As CBL luminary “Mary T” points out with her own brand of lunacy, this terrifying sort of “intrussion” will put the good citizens of Ontario “just like we were back during the war, when the radio police would arrive to check if you had a license, or the booze police who would arrive to search the home of taxi drivers for illegal booze.”
Geez, can’t you connect the dots there CC?
Oh, and there's stuff about a sink and someone gimpy with polio involved...
I swear that these folks have all gone completely crackers.
This is way too rich.
Janke must wear Introspection-Gard™, and a fucking lot of it.
Go check out the now well-flayed thread over at CBL for the latest hilarity courtesy of Patrick Ross.
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