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. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I 
     
    
   
   
    
     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”. 
     
    
   
   
    
     /.. 
     
    
   
   
    
     '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 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     samaaaauwa-qnui 
     
    
   
   
    
     -ffxeep her quiet,...§he’s net rc 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ibie' 
     
     ,<!lnwn‘fi;fi .{I} 
     
     1"“ “"uusll 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     levant ,to (this case If 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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