Seeking out terror groups

By Letter to the Editor on April 26, 2019.

Well that did not take long. Rachel Notley’s office chair isn’t even cold and the federal government has paid $1.2 million for a report on possible Alberta homegrown terror groups who may or may not be possibly considering or thinking about or maybe talking or maybe thinking about being one of 14 people who may or may not be a threat or thinking about being a threat or maybe living as a possible threat anywhere between California, Minnesota and Alberta sometime between 2003 and 2012.

These same not-proven folks are actively promoting via social media the usual anonymous drivel we now know as twitterati, etc. We old folks called it malicious gossip.

There are also “unsubstantiated to date” reports of antigovernment activity by Albertans who are dead, i.e. James Roszko and Norman Raddatz. These same researchers do not believe they present a significant threat. Good grief Charlie Brown, they are dead or lurking in their mother’s basement complaining the Cheezies are stale and they want the brand name soda not the no name stuff, blah blah blah.

The report also states that while “traditional” white power groups are in decline, more sanitized “identitarian” and ethno-nationalist movements are attracting new members. Wow, $1.2 million sure gets you a lot of big dictionary type words what we minions have to have explained to us. I am still trying to find an ethno-nationalist. Sheesh.

Ian Parkinson

Medicine Hat

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