By Owen Paine on Monday June 5, 2006 06:29 PM
These seventeen
Canadian fertilizer bombers
strike me as slapstick relief --
like the follow-up fizzle bombers in London.
They and their Marplot scheme have all the tender earmarks (or is it hoof marks?) of a hot house rose. Maybe some are wild -- hey, maybe most are -- but there are bound to be plants among 'em -- plants with a royal Mounty seal on their behind.
So har-har, right?
But then again the story of Lee Harvey's nurturing would have been a har-har too, if he hadn't beaten the long odds and hit what he shouldn'ta been able to hit.
Comments (2)
They might have been making posion pumping vests, not bombs, and that's why the police haven't brought any charges. They're hoping to tie it in with a even bigger conspiracy and it's not, as it would appear, dangerously silly police theatre designed to excite nativist violence and take people's minds off the massacres in Iraq.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs | June 5, 2006 9:25 PM
Posted on June 5, 2006 21:25
The Toronto Star had a really good article about this.
The whole thing was all just for show and, as many of the defendents' lawyers have pointed out, it was conducted in a way that will severely prejudice the Canadian people against them...
Posted by Tim D | June 6, 2006 4:38 PM
Posted on June 6, 2006 16:38