The first phase of a public inquiry into the use of Tasers in British Columbia begins today. Police departments in Chicago, Illinois and Birmingham, Alabama have reportedly discontinued their use of the weapons due to safety concerns. Until such time as unbiased study into the safety implications of Tasers has been properly completed, I think that a moratorium must be imposed upon the weapon who killed 20 people in Canada.
Like so many Poles of his generation, Dziekanski went looking for work in one of those “normal” countries that Poland was supposed to become but never did. Two million Poles have joined this mass exodus during the last three years alone. Dziekanski’s cohorts have gone to work as bartenders in London, doormen in Dublin, plumbers in France. Last month, he chose to follow his mother to British Columbia, Canada, which is in a pre-Olympics construction boom. However, the nation that used to be known around the world for its openness to refugees, is militarizing its borders, with lines between immigrant and terrorist blurring fast. “After seven years of waiting, [Dziekanski] arrived to his utopia, Vancouver,” said the Polish consul general, Maciej Krych. “Ten hours later, he was dead.”
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