The Editorial Cartoon our Vancouver Newspapers do not want you to see!
By artboomer on November 22, 2007 - 1:29pm
Enter YVR at Your Own Risk!
Re: A mother's fallen son at the hands of our over zealous RCMP.
I apparently have stuck an unwanted illustrative cord with our local newspapers, from the Vancouver Sun, Province, North Shore News to even the supposed liberal Georgia Strait.
My editorial cartoon concept was to create a provocative memorial YVR monument as international visitors entered our international airport. I borrowed from Michaelangelo's Piety grieving compassionate sculpture for Mrs. Dziekanski and lost son. While depicting the RCMP in a "Charlie's Angels" tasers drawn pose in behind overlooking the fallen Robert Dziekanski who is still holding onto the staple gun. The sculpture would not be complete without including an empty YVR security chair with turned-off camera.
Most of the local paper comments revolved around "to risky, time to move on, makes our RCMP look trigger happy"...if the shoe fits.
I also wonder how future foreign Olympians and their respective countries are digesting all this as they to must shortly enter the walls of our international airport and encounter an inapt security system and an apprehensive RCMP force.
I don't think future Olympians will have a problem at YVR due to the many changes taking place there. My instinct tells me that these changes would not have been made were it not for the Olympics coming up. They had to do something to instill confidence in travellers. Thank god for the Olympics, otherwise nothing of significance would have changed. Interesting though that for some of the improvements you need to know English to be able to understand what they are i.e. asking to have you name announced on arrival - who would know about that?