Censorship is alive and kicking at the headquarters of the Calgary Police Service. It's would appear that Police Chief Jack Beaton has used a rare legal tactic to seize a computer from a private home that was believed to have been used as a webserver discrediting the Police Chief. Not only did he get the webserver seized, he managed to get a complete and suffocating gag order issued that prevents anyone from talking about the case or reading any documents related to it. This has rubbed city media the wrong way and they have put up legal arguments to have the order lifted.

Curiously enough Alderman Craig Burrows has no problem with this extreme form of censorship. Burrows tells CBC News, "I think any time you go after the morale of a service or the morale of a city that takes pride in its service, the chief has a right to act." Fair enough, but that doesn't give Beaton the right to act like a bully.

Anyhow..., I guess I'm a bit of an Anarchist so that's why power, and especially it's abuse, irks me to no end. I'm pretty sure this isn't the last we'll hear of Police Chief Jack Beaton and his detractors.

Check back regularly, no telling what little nugget of gnarled knowledge or whimsical wisdom you're going to unearth here but it could be 'censored'.

Hasta La L8r Señor Censor

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