The Vancouver Riots

Yesterday was a difficult day for Canadians. The night previous – the catalyst being a lost ice hockey game – lawlessness and anarchy ran amok through the heart of Vancouver.

AR hopes this is not due to hockey. Canada is the best hockey nation on the planet and we have nothing to be ashamed about. The Stanley Cup IS HOME. The Boston Bruins are by-and-large Canadian, just like the previous champs, Chicago Black Hawks. The Winnipeg Jets are coming back and we're Olympic Champions.

Perhaps these riots were due to a bunch of spoilt brats searching for a good time. It's increasingly looking like this is the case as young people are exposed via Facebook and other social media.

But Canada deserved better than Wednesday night. We are one of the greatest countries in the world and our justice system needs to bring those who started and participated in this anti-social chaos to JUSTICE.

With that in mind AR would like to post a quote from one of our favourite jurists, Sir Edward Coke:

I as to thee (gentle reader) next to thy duty and piety to God, and his anointed, thy gracious Sovereign, and they honour to their parents, yield due reference and obedience to the common laws of England: for of all laws (I speak of human) these are the most equal and most certain, of greatest antiquity, and least delay, and most beneficial and easy to be observed. If the ancient laws of this noble island had not excelled all others, it could not be, that some of the several conquerors and governors therefore, that is to say, the Romans, Saxons, Danes, or Normans, and especially the Romans, who (as they justly may) do boast of their civil laws, would (as every of them might) have altered or change the same.

Police and Crown Attorneys in British Columbia -- go to work!!!