Editor:
Is there no limitto the hypocrisyof politicians? So we British Columbians can stand togetherto condemn all acts of violence against women whilethe B.C. government proclaims Prevention of Violence Against Women Week, can we?(Coast Reporter, "Stop violence against women," April 19).
According to the submitted article, A-G Shirley Bond claims that,"Violence against women not only impacts victims directly, but also hasserious consequences for the health and well-being of children, families and communities." It does indeed.
So why doesn't sheact to charge the known criminals of thepolygamous cult of Bountiful with their crimes of sexually exploiting underage girls?She hasknownsinceJune 2009 that the RCMP haveDNA andbirth certificate proof that "Bishop" Winston Blackmore has impregnated nine underage girls, and that some parents in Bountiful have trafficked their underage daughters to FLDS compounds in the U.S., where they are forced to become concubines in the harems of middle-aged men.As well, she knowsthat Judge Robert Bauman of B.C. Supreme Court declared that S.293 CC, proscribing polygamy, is constitutional, thus eliminating herfinal excuse for not acting.
Four long years have passedduring whichthousands of mainstream Canadians, either speaking individually or through their clubs,have begged her to act, yet all we get from her is silence.
Whenpoliticians such as A-G Bond makepolitically correct pronouncementswhich are the exact opposite oftheir actions, it meanstheNewspeak that George Orwell warned us about in his novel 1984 is alive and well and living in B.C.
Jancis M. Andrews, Sechelt
