Is There A Lawyer In The Country?
There's a lot of fingerwagging reaction to the interview in the Globe with the father of the 17 year old recently killed by Winnipeg police, but to me it was as if his no bullshit honesty about life at the bottom for him and his son came straight out of a David Adams Richards novel.
Honesty is almost unrecognizable as the truth, these days, isn't it. I was particularly struck by his tacked on bravado in saying he was going to sue police over the death of his son. So now my fondest desire for this Year of Our Lord 2008 is that a Canadian Atticus Finch will stride forth from the life sustaining prairie to take his hopeless case to court.
We need something to happen here, something civilized.
