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Great White North
The Good and Peaceable Kingdom
2004-02-05
The more Canadian police dig underneath a pig farm east of Vancouver, British Columbia, the more death they unearth. Over the past two years, police have discovered the partial remains of 31 women, making it the country’s worst serial killer case. "This is supposedly the good and peaceable kingdom ... Canada," said criminologist/sociologist Bob Ratner. "It’s getting increasingly difficult to think of Canada as some kind of sanctuary from those crimes."
Yeah, cuz there’s never any crime in the Socialist Workers Paradise™
Farm owner Robert Willy Pickton faces 22 counts of murder so far. His alleged victims are all prostitutes from downtown Vancouver’s east side.
More on the actual crime at the link. Rather annoying, this Canadian attitude that bad things only happen down south.
The details of the murders are unbelievably gruesome. Police found human body parts in freezers used to store unsold meat. They also discovered remains in a wood chipper — the victims’ bodies turned into pig feed. But most Canadians don’t know any of this horrifying evidence because the country’s media has been barred from reporting it.
Kinda makes one wonder what else the Canadia "media" has been barred from reporting, such as uncivil activies by some resident jihadis desperate refugees.
"Canadians are trying to protect the integrity of the criminal justice system, protect people’s reputation against encroachment, against jury taint," said Mary Lynn Young, an assistant journalism professor at the University of British Columbia.
Right...
But experts warn that Canada’s coverage ban has a dangerous flip side — shielding the public from the details of the case also protects the police from critical scrutiny and has the public wondering why it took so long for the women to be found.
Rather sounds like Mexico and their nice serial killer(s) case they have going on near Jarez.
Posted by:Laurence of the Rats

#15  I think I'm going to be sick. I just had bacon from Canada.
Posted by: Anonymous2U   2004-2-5 8:22:40 PM  

#14  I have no idea where this story is being reported from. Here in Canada, I can read about the case in every daily newspaper and see it on the TV news.

But don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Posted by: Anonymous   2004-2-5 5:26:58 PM  

#13  "We Don't Rent Pigs"

Now you just know they did.
Posted by: McMurtry   2004-2-5 3:49:19 PM  

#12  This isn't the first time, of course. Canada censored all coverage of the Karen Homolka and Paul Bernardo trials in 1993 and 1995. These were horrific cases; multiple murders and rapes, even of their daughter. And Karen engineered a plea bargain deal where she only got 12 years in jail; nothing was reported until after Paul's trial two years later, when people were shocked by her depravity.

Canadians flocked to US sources for trial information. There was even a USENET newsgroup in her “honor”. Of course, the Canadians tried to block that. It didn't work.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2004-2-5 2:32:42 PM  

#11  I wonder if Pickton's sign had "We Don't Rent Pigs" on it.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2004-2-5 1:12:20 PM  

#10  Don't take it out on the swine. Some of my best friends are pigs.

Yes... I do like hogs.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-2-5 1:09:55 PM  

#9  We believe it is Our duty to provide only carefully worded press releases, suitable for eyes of The People

Good Lord, it'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. Are we sure this isn't satire? Or is the emperor really that nekkid. I didn't realize stalin was alive and well in the GWN.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2004-2-5 12:07:07 PM  

#8  Jeesh..talk about a mommy-state. Here is an additional statement by Mary Lynn Young:

Some believe the purpose of the press is to report the news. However, We believe it is Our duty to provide only carefully worded press releases, suitable for eyes of The Children People(TM).

So that The Children People(TM) will sleep well, we will only print carefully monitored state sanctioned press releases which will give The Children People(TM) comfort by believing that The Boogy Man attacks only American children, who are bad and that The Boogey Man never attacks Canadian children..who are good!! Our slogan is, THE NEWS THAT WE BELIEVE IS BEST FOR YOU.
Posted by: B   2004-2-5 12:03:39 PM  

#7  The media will start calling him an American-style serial killer in 4...3...2...
Posted by: BH   2004-2-5 11:50:21 AM  

#6  They also discovered remains in a wood chipper

a la Fargo.
Posted by: Steve YAO   2004-2-5 11:48:13 AM  

#5  4thInfVet - Ahhhh, now I'm kicking myself for not remembering that line when I was posting. *g*
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2004-2-5 11:40:42 AM  

#4  the victims’ bodies turned into pig feed.

Well, so much for that Canadian bacon pizza.
Posted by: Steve   2004-2-5 11:37:08 AM  

#3  Barred from reporting it!@#@!@!!@!???!??!??

What?

You're kidding me. What would be the reaction if this happened in America?
Posted by: gromky   2004-2-5 11:23:55 AM  

#2  This always reminds me of Brick Top in Snatch. "Never trust a man who owns a pig farm."
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2004-2-5 11:20:57 AM  

#1  Ke-rap. The link to the Juarez article list is this:

http://takenbythesky.net/juarez/articles.html
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2004-2-5 11:05:08 AM  

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