To the Editor,
Re: Crime fell across city last year, Jan. 25.
My first reaction upon reading this headline was one of optimism, as surely this was confirmation that the 3,000-year-old philosophy of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” had finally been proven effective at limiting my chances of experiencing any harm in our system of wealth mis-distribution.
I was even willing to go so far as to entertain absurd notions, like a few of the extra police cars and officers sitting around idling at road blocks could be reassigned as buses and bus drivers to ensure that people who had been drinking could actually be provided a public option for transportation rather than incarceration.
Then I remembered the revered words of Stockwell Day, former federal minister of public safety, when he preached the sobering reality that he was “very concerned about the increase in the amount of unreported crimes that surveys clearly show are happening,” because “people simply aren’t reporting the same way they used to.”
I agree with Day. I’m not sure how people used to report, but the article states that the quoted crime statistics are compiled “according to calls for police services.”
This method totally excludes the real crime that has affected the citizens of Nanaimo – specifically the theft of the value of their savings, equity and pensions through international financial theft, fraud and predatory lending.
I, like many of the citizens here, can clearly attest to the harm and misery it has caused for us and our children and have been wondering who is in charge of protecting us from the banksters – as the federal government and security regulators seem to be impotent.
Now we know. If you are a citizen who is un(der)employed and/or cannot adequately sustain yourself financially, or you have seen a significant loss in your investments, pension funds or home value as a result of the artificial scarcity imposed upon our economic system by ‘unreported crimes’, then you need to phone your local RCMP.
Jesse Schroeder
Nanaimo