What Harper Said...

Stephen Harper came out after the verdict yesterday and most of what he said was perfectly fine and normal. However, he kept repeating over and over that "justice had not been done". This left me confused; did he mean that the verdict was wrong? Or was he saying that because no one had been found guilty alltogether and thus, there's zero murder convictions to show for this tragedy, meaning that justice was obviously not done in the larger picture? I really hope he was trying to say the latter. Stephen Harper knows close to nothing about the specifics of the case, and it's mostly just sad to see hundreds of spectators across the country bemoaning the verdict as if they followed the trial extensively.

He also urged the crown to pursue all avenues of appeal before a public inquiry is set up. I'm sorry, but who is Stephen Harper to urge the crown to pursue an appeal? They'll pursue an appeal if they feel it's in the the public interest. They don't need Harper telling them how to deal with something that they obviously know far more about. Anyways, an appeal seems entirely futile at this point. The case is over, I just hope that the victim's families look back at the case with a degree of hindsight and realize how much they were misled by the Crown and RCMP through all of these years.

Also, did anyone see Paul Martin's reaction? If you haven't, please do. It describes in fifteen seconds, everything that is wrong with this Prime Minister. Empty, sappy talk with no hint of action to back up his words. "Our hearts go out..." Yeah, that's great, but what are you going to do about it? Public inquiry or not? The victim's families (I'd imagine) don't care about your heart going out to them and neither does anyone else. Are you going to do anything about the zero murder convictions? Yes or no? If no, then be quiet and stop trying to relieve the pain of the victim's families. It doesn't relieve or soothe anybody. It might just annoy them though.