The Cadre, Friday April 1, 1977 page 6

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Dear Editor:

Police.

ti tudes against women

Dear Cadre

citizens.

In view of the fact the Cadre was the first to

reveal this traves ty

against justice, I pro—

test the huge ad for R.C.M.P.

iton.

Moreover, I suggest, for the benefit of today's _ readers, that you reprint

the March 25th, 1975

expose. Sincerely, Stan Dalton

' well as a flagrant denial of respect for Canadian

recruitment in your Feb. 24th,l977 ed-

It's a shocker.

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The March 25th, 1975 edition of the Cadre re— vealed the then new in— terrogation tactics of the Royal Canadian Mounted These new "tactics" were and are extremely chauvinistic and reflect- ed the most perverse at—

wnArHEnnnGE

Sir: — On our Island in re— cent years, there appears to be a budding tradition of what might conveniently be called the professional swan \ song. Judges, politicians, educators, journalists, and senior civil servants ap- parently feel constrained, as . they begin to sniff the air of freedom from nameless and numberless fears, to un— burden themselves of thoughts and opinions which would have greatly re- dounded to their credit and the common good, if they had had ‘ the courage to reveal them many years earlier. However, when such utterances come too late in a career, they serve but to con- firm and underscore the climate of fear and cringing servility which delayed their birth.

Among the more recent of such swan songs that of Mr. Ken Bolton is probably the most noteworthy. During his years on the Island, Mr. Bolton ‘enjoyed positions -

as

a

e\ , 2,

‘ which gave him the op- portunity to understand, as Acton put it, that “the great historian now takes his meals in the kitchen.”

In a speech to the last an- nual meeting of the Third ' Queens Progressive Conser- vative Association, Mr. Bolton asserted that the Island way of life, ,depsite its many assets and great poten- tial means “the lowest stan— dard of living in Canada, with one of the highest costs

of basic necessities, in- cluding electricity....one of the highest rates of

alcoholism, of suicide and of unemployment in the coun- try, compared to one of the lowest levels of public ser- vice. . . .a. second-rate educa- tional system, a political pro- cess. dominated by profes- sional office boys and slick consultants....Canada’s

_, highest level of dependence ‘o‘fi‘ithe, federal govern- ment....the lowest rate of development despite the famous ‘under-development plan’. It means —— and this is most impertant — accep- tance of a welfare mentality, the assumption of an attitude of defeat, of resignation and of hopelessness”.

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'Slfnlen from The Guardian a... it...“

Now this is'our heritage. I believe Mr. Bolton deserves our), thanks for describing it so accurately and so well. This heritage must not be

passed on to future genera-.

tions.

Surely this is ‘ not the. heritage Premier Campbell had in mind when he stated in his current Heritage Day proclamation that “I am en- thused by the rebirth of in- terest in our heritage, and I am proud that the govern- ment is leading the way”. If it is, I agree that the govern-

‘ ment is leading the way, but.

I don’t think the Premier should be’proud of the fact. Again the Premier statés, “Our links with the past are worth preserving, not only forthe sense of identity they give us,, but also as a priceless legacy to be passed on to our own children.” Who among, us dead”, wishes to be iden- tified with linksthat bind us

to “an attitude of defeat, of -

resignation, and ,of hopelessness’ ’ ? The Premier

concludes his Heritage Day-

statement by pledging, “With a combination of citizen and government sup— port, our heritage will re-

“with soul so,

main 2; guarded treasure.” Must one assume that that treasure guarding is to be the next make-work project? Obviously, Premier Campbell cannot be referr- ing to our heritage in any- proper sense of the word, but rather to the current fad of the bric-a-brac boys and girls, which is itself a grave symptom ‘ of a people’s declining vitality. By all means preserve the historic building, the moonshiner’s “worm”, and the old cow stool; but please don’t be deluded or seek to delude

: others into thinking that such

things 1- heritage or are “a priceless , legacy to be passed on to our ‘ own children.” They‘ don’t

constitute our

and they aren’t. I am, Sir, etc., PATRICK J. MaclNNIS St. Peter’s Bay.

R.C.M.P. Interrogation Techniques

'Brninwnslling" To Obtain Evidence An

FROM THE CHPKE IMARCI-t 2‘5 The document ' ffom which the following excepts are ta- ken, is entitled Interroga— ‘ tion Technigues and origin- ates from the Training and Development Branch at Head- quarters of the Royal Canad— ian Mounted Police, in Ott- awa. It was written by Chief Inspector A.R. Roberts of the Calgary City Police and bears the crest of the R.C.M;P. on its cover. The commanding

,IQ75._ ; officer of the P.E.I. Head-V quarters of the R.C.M.P. in Charlottetown telephoned Superintendent Moffat in 0t—

‘tawa to confirm the'authen- 'ticity of the document and :reported that it is current- fly in use as a training man- ,ual within the force.

It is important to keep in mind that the Interroga-

vction Techniques outlined

'here are to be used on “sus—

d Confessions

pects" — individuals who, ac- cording to\our system of_jus— tice, ought to be assumed

,innocent of the crime in qugstion until proven guilty.

by,a court of law. it is a manual for menu bers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, not for the mafia, apt for guerrillas, or for a goon squad.r P These "techniques are

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taught and used in our Can- adian society - not in the

'jungles of Indonesia or the -

‘ kangaroo caurts of a milit-

ary dictatorship;

So when the myths fall, they fall hard! . ' ’ rR.C.M.P. trainees are taught "brainwashing" meth-

ods (cf. p. 2) to defame

and insult (p. 27, to threa- ten (p. 15), to promote lies (p. 29) and to tell lies

‘(p. 28). The manual insults and degrades women (PP. 7,8, 11, and 33). it Outrageously

Slanders religion (p. 14), it promotes methdds to cre; ate “mental imbalance" in mensand‘to destroy thqjflig' nity of the person'(p.315) to obtain evidence and can- fessiOns d and these,techni- ques are all billed as "ef- forts to seek the truth"!

_ To suggest that these methods are a search for the truth is a hideous, monst— rous parody - the product of

re gross and diseased mind:

But let the manual'epeak for itself and draw your Own conclusions. A dozen copiefi are availablef on resen'e at

lthe=p£w UPEI library.'%, ,

'This manual is a sympt of a sick.police force which in turn ispa symptom of a_; sick society! I emphaSize ‘ again that the exerptéxwh1Ch follow on pages six and Be‘ ven are verbatim exerpts $2 context from this report-

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