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grte@lemmy.caM to CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago

Heather Stefanson Launches Ads Declaring She Will Never Search Landfill For Remains of Murdered Women

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Heather Stefanson Launches Ads Declaring She Will Never Search Landfill For Remains of Murdered Women

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Manitoba PC leader Heather Stefanson is running partisan ads politicizing search for Indigenous women believed murdered by a serial killer
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    If it were the bodies of affluent and or white people there would never have been a question: the bodies would be recovered.

    This is just more anti-indigenous racism from Canada.

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      That’s the part that confuses me in these “it’s too expensive”-style responses. We have PLENTY of evidence that NO COST IS SPARED in recovering bodies of white folk (as long as they’re not sex workers, I mean). But because these are natives, meh. It’s too expensive.

      I get more ashamed of my passport with each passing year.

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        I don’t know is there a case where they have searched a landfill for people who are not native? Like having no idea where the body is and just blindly searching like this is?

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          Canada just sent s+r teams to the bottom of the north Atlantic to find 5 rich adventure tourists…

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          A landfill specifically I can’t think of off-hand (though I don’t doubt they exist), but I know for a fact (because I participated in them) that huge searches of large areas of rough wilderness have been searched for white chicks gone missing and presumed dead.

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            Those are rescue operations. In those cases even if they are ‘presumed dead’ there is a chance of recovery.

            Searching the landfill for long dead bodies is not a rescue operation. These are very different scenarios.

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              OK. Here’s the same situation then:

              • “Beginning Monday and for up to nine weeks, dozens of Valley officers will be searching there for Christine Mustafa’s remains.”
              • “After months of searching at a massive garbage dump, Toronto police have located the body of a 57-year-old man who they believe was murdered this past winter.”
              • “Officers had been searching the Coffin Bute Landfill in Corvallis since Friday as part of a homicide investigation.”
              • “For the second time in less than 18 months, authorities from New York combed a landfill in Somerset County Monday, looking for the body of a slain woman whose alleged killer abandoned her little girl on a Queens street.”
              • “New landfill search for woman’s body likely after fugitive’s capture, confession”
              • “Goggles, protective suits: Cops search Michigan landfill for teen’s body”

              This was a trivial Google search to find. It turns out searching landfills for homicide victims is pretty normal. Except if you’re a Canadian native.

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                White chicks like Christine Mustafa and a 57 year old man, got it.

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                  Oh for fuck’s sake!

                  I’m showing that searching landfills isn’t unusual you utter fucking cretin! Grow the fuck up and just admit you were WRONG on whether or not this was a common thing or not, you dimwitted twatwaffle!

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                    It should be unusual. It’s dangerous and it doesn’t make sense to risk lives to recover a body. maybe if it was super recent, you had an idea where the body was AND it would be very likely to lead to stopping a mass murderer or something. Certainly not for ‘closure’ or ‘peace of mind’.

                    But don’t pretend you aren’t moving the goalposts from ‘they would only search if it was a white chick’ either.

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