about three weeks ago, a 17-year-old Sikh high school student in Richmond, B.C. reported that he was attacked by five young white males. according to the student, they tore off his turban and cut his hair that, in accordance with his religion, had never been cut before.
Initially the RCMP believed his report. He had wounds on his head that were consistent with his struggling against attackers. after two weeks, the youth confessed that he had made the whole thing up, cut his own hair and the wounds on his head were self-inflicted. The reason he did this was that he wanted to have shorter hair without incurring the wrath of his strictly religious parents.
The RCMP, that has to be the slowest police force in the west (not to mention the east, north and south) immediately announced that they had decided not to lay criminal charges against the teen. He could have been charged with the offence of public mischief for causing the police to enter into an investigation of an offence that did not happen. although public mischief is not tantamount to murder or bank robbery, it is usually considered a serious offence against the administration of justice.
The RCMP decided quickly to divert the youth into a restorative justice program that brings offenders together with the victims. as stated in the Richmond Review, it is hard to see exactly who the victims in this case are. Not to worry; the RCMP chose the Sikh community to be the victims of this particular offence.
The RCMP issued a statement that said, "The RCMP and our partners do not believe it is in the best interests of this young person or society in general to have this incident carry forth through criminal charges. This is a time that calls for calm understanding and not a time to be thinking about criminal charges… There are definitely some cultural identity issues and this young person is under an incredible amount of pressure."
What utter and complete nonsense! assuming he did cut his own hair, he committed a criminal offence but yet apparently this is not the time to talk about criminal offences. The RCMP could not have made it any clearer — the youth got special treatment because he’s a member of a favoured ethnic group. The actions of the RCMP are really not surprising since this is not the first time that they have bent over backwards to please their political masters in Ottawa. It was just recently that the police force provided a uniformed honour guard at the wedding of the son of a former "Liberal" prime minister. Enforcing the law comes second to advancing the Liberal Party agenda.
The only people that seemed to be upset about the way this matter was handled were some members of the Sikh community. They saw the obvious problem that incidents such as this can only inflame racial intolerance. and when real incidents of racial attacks happen in the future, they will not be taken seriously. They wanted the youth to be punished by the criminal justice system.
The RCMP has shown that the force has one law for certain ethnic groups and one for the rest of Canadians. along with Paul Martin, the RCMP is doing their part in Canada’s march towards banana republic status.
RCMP Corporal Peter Theissen stated that the youth was under an "incredible amount of pressure". In other words, like Runaway Bride, Jennifer Wilbanks, he "had issues". The youth’s defense counsel, if he had ever needed to have one, couldn’t have put it any better.
The RCMP, as police forces are wont to do, complain that they simply do not have sufficient resources to do their work. They are not upset in the least that the precious resources they do have are wasted in hunting down a group of young thugs who don’t actually exist.
It is difficult to imagine a better illustration of how political correctness trumps policing; how offenders get off the hook because the police characterize them of victims because they happen to belong to certain ethnic groups. Like Jennifer Wilbanks, there was no necessity to lock him up. But he should have faced charges that would have acted not only as a deterrent to this type of conduct but would have expressed society’s condemnation at people who cause the police to enter into false investigations.
So much for justice.