by Prof. Anthony J. Hall, Global Research:
The Coutts fiasco is emblematic of the political capture of Canada’s now mostly-dysfunctional criminal justice system. The latest “pre-trial” phase of this major scandal-in-the-making, unfolded in late July in a Lethbridge Alberta courthouse. In that courthouse a process is sporadically underway based on the government’s accusation that four men at the Coutts protest conspired to murder members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
A sharp contrast can be drawn between this case, involving murder charges where no murders took place, and the circumstances of massive media and government criminality that created the basis for the Coutts Protest, the Ottawa Truckers Convoy Movement and similar protest movements throughout the world.