Actual CTV headline: "NB First Nation prepared to forgive RCMP"

Locutus

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Cool story.

The above headline worthy of the satirical news site The Onion, was seriously posted on CTV’s website to reporter Christina Commisso’s Stockholm Syndrome-story on the violent, car-jacking New Brunswick First Nation protesters:

“What the RCMP have put our people through, it’s almost horrendous, if I can say the least,” Elsipogtog First Nation Chief Aaron Sock told reporters at a news conference Monday. “But one of the things that our community does well is heal.”
“People were violated, people were humiliated and people were injured greatly by what has transpired here,” Sock told reporters. “It’s a great injustice and Canada should not stand for the use of that kind of injustice against peaceful people.”

(see here)


Did Commisso keep a straight face when she wrote that along with this gem:

“One of the things that really makes me wonder is how much the federal government tends to cut programs to First Nations, yet we have a surveillance airplane,” he said. “Could you imagine how much money that is costing the government just for little old Elsipogtog,” he said.

You’ll also notice no mention of the IEDs that were found by the RCMP.

Off the top of my head, here are a few future headlines we can look forward to from CTV:

- ‘FNs willing to forgive CTV crew for leaving vehicle behind in protest area’
- ‘FN terrorist who blew arms off RCMP officer willing to forgive’

Media Party once again fanning the flames to create news and attack the Conservatives.

Actual CTV headline: “NB First Nation prepared to forgive RCMP” | BC Blue: One BC Conservative's view on it all...
 

Zipperfish

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Yeah, I heard that. I was pretty floored. I mean one minute it's all molotov cocktails, detah threats and kinves and then it's "stewards of the earth" and "cosultation." Meanwhile they are insinuating more violence. Sickening.
 

PoliticalNick

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damngrumpy

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Actually we don't yet know exactly what happened and I am not going to rush
to judgement. People are fed up with government and no its not acceptable
to attack police officers. In the real world look a little closer. Communities are
divided, both native and non native with regard to the shale gas projects.
Government is not taking into account the wishes of the people they have in
fact admitted that. When the government of the people won't listen to the
people, the citizens seek other remedies. The police were issuing a court
injunction issued by that same gvoerment. Police became the visual
target acting on behalf of that governmetn. Now was it a mere issuing of
an order or did some other activity take place that cited everyone to act
violently? We don't know that yet. Police in other areas have allowed their
arrogance to be front and center and that may or may not have done so here.
Oh I here this should not happen and it was illegal and so on. Face it we are
living in an open society and these things do happen. It will take a while to
sort out. Opinions are just that opinions and we have to find out the truth
and act arrordingly.
 

hunboldt

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Lord, what fools these mortals be....

Without a proper seismic survey, the chance of a natural gas well leaking is much higher. But, it just means that natural gas from Saskatchewan flows east.
 

CDNBear

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Actually we don't yet know exactly what happened and I am not going to rush
to judgement. People are fed up with government and no its not acceptable
to attack police officers. In the real world look a little closer. Communities are
divided, both native and non native with regard to the shale gas projects.
Government is not taking into account the wishes of the people they have in
fact admitted that. When the government of the people won't listen to the
people, the citizens seek other remedies. The police were issuing a court
injunction issued by that same gvoerment. Police became the visual
target acting on behalf of that governmetn. Now was it a mere issuing of
an order or did some other activity take place that cited everyone to act
violently? We don't know that yet. Police in other areas have allowed their
arrogance to be front and center and that may or may not have done so here.
Oh I here this should not happen and it was illegal and so on. Face it we are
living in an open society and these things do happen. It will take a while to
sort out. Opinions are just that opinions and we have to find out the truth
and act arrordingly.
Nice post DG.