Pubdate: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 Source: Nanaimo Daily News (CN BC) Copyright: 2010 Nanaimo Daily News Contact: http://www.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1608 Author: Russell Barth RCMP SHOULD BE DISBANDED FOR GOOD Re: '2010 will be tough for cops' (Daily News, Dec. 29) To my mind, the more trouble the RCMP have suppressing our civil rights and liberties -- or "doing their job" -- the better. I simply do not recognize the authority of the RCMP. I consider them a government-sponsored gang. They are incorrigibly corrupt and answer to no one but themselves. Their continued lobbying of the media, the public, and the government for more and more drug prohibitions, ever-increasing powers of intrusion and coercion, and their ongoing "growopaganda" that they keep spouting, is enough justification to completely disband them. But, then one would have to ignore all the other scandals, killings, and screw ups of the past 100 years. They should have been disbanded decades ago. Russell Barth Nepean, Ont. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake