RCMP
By artboomer on December 8, 2007 - 11:16am
YVR made sure last night that ALL local city newscasts and their global feeds reported on their much improved, much needed multi-language information kiosks, info screens, passenger list screens, and multi-language phones and signage while adding more security staff in custom areas. Well done.
Creating a permanent memorial for Robert Dziekanski was the politically correct thing to do. Bravo.
Now if we can only convince our RCMP in losing their happy gun slinging tasers...
The only way I will ever see that day is on the day we get to elect our city Police Chiefs and RCMP Commissioners! Is it not time that all our law enforcements were "accountable" to those they were hired to "serve and protect"?
"I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.
Yes what a wonderful world"
(thanks Satchmo - thank you YVR)
By artboomer on November 24, 2007 - 1:01pm
The Perception you are leaving us RCMP and YVR Airport Authority is in your continued self-denial and ineptness. If it were not for today's photo/video enhanced multi image gadgets you would have been able to shrug-off hide your inadequate inhumane behavior and abominable tactics.
No more no longer. Apparently there is a God after all and he is heavily into digital imagery devices.
As Vancouver's apparent and latest rebel non-conforming editorial cartoonist. I have been overwhelmed with emails in support in my graphic depictions in the tragic ending to a soul who was only looking for help but received instead the strong arm of the RCMP with no Airport Authority or security support for almost 10 hours. Such an injustice fuels my drawing hand.
And now in support I received today this 2010 Olympic t-shirt an "iconic depiction" illustrating something I have been trying so far in vain to prevent from happening VANOC and IOC...but your tardiness in this whole tragic affair has left you exposed and naked to this kind of graphic slander. Get ready VANOC this t-shirt is only the beginning it will prompt those you are turning off with your lack of "no voice" in this matter to realize you have become part of the problem.
By artboomer on November 23, 2007 - 3:29pm
WHEN are the the VIAA and RCMP going to get it. We live in a world of video instant replay thanks to just about everyone over the age of 12 owning a vidphone and or a vidcam.
And now our fumbling inept Vancouver International Airport Authority have been caught "lying" to the media and their audiences. They (VIAA) have denied on camera to BC Global TV that they have not altered, moved any of the video security camera locations in the security holding area where Robert Dziekanski met his untimely 10 hour death!...
Wrong! BC TV doing a news story comparing airport security between our airport and Seattle's airport discovered while editing that one of the security cameras had been moved when comparing it to the infamous amateur video footage taken at the time of Robert's tasered demise.
Thus my new cartoon editorial career keeps on trucking thanks to yet another unbelievable mystifying going-against-the-video-replay-odds! Thank you VIAA and RCMP I'm sure you will be keeping me busy over the days, weeks and months leading up to our 2010 Olympic Winter Games!
Quietly, this must be raising havoc with VanOC. Time VanOC and IOC to stand up and shout loud and clear "fix it or (we) lose it".
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.
By artboomer on November 21, 2007 - 11:06am
My Robert Dziekanski memorial editorial cartoon has been overwhelming.
Except of course our Vancouver city newspapers who feel I have gone to far, saying it is to edgy, to provocative, over zealous and misleading. Good luck Vancouver dailies explaining away my illustrative efforts to the Dziekanski family. My editorial cartoon has been in spite of their "struck a nerve attitude" well received by the Polish media and various blogs sites across Canada and the USA. I am on a mission to ban all taser guns used by the RCMP for our upcoming Olympic Winter Games in 2010. I will now (provocatively) begin illustrating new editorial cartoons on this theme. Stand by Vancouver.
For those of you have not seen my controversial editorial cartoon...Check it out at: www.aksproductions.com/HTM%20pages/Dziekanski_yvr.htm
By artboomer on November 20, 2007 - 8:09pm
I was compelled to illustrate an editorial cartoon depicting my frustration with the happy go lucky taser gun slinging RCMP that caused the unnecessary loss of life, a mother who will now out live her only son and the apparent arrogant negligence by YVR Security.
I decided on a memorial YVR monument theme as international visitors entered the airport. I chose Michaelangelo's Piety grieving sculpture for Mrs. Dziekanski and lost son. While depicting the RCMP in a "Charlie Angels" taser drawn pose in behind overlooking the fallen Robert Dziekanski. The sculpture would not be complete without including an empty YVR security chair with turned-off camera.
You can view my editorial cartoon "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK" at:
http://www.aksproductions.com/HTM%20pages/Dziekanski_yvr.htm
(I also wonder how this is playing out in the minds of future 2010 foreign Olympians/countries coming to our Olympic Winter Games.)
By artboomer on November 20, 2007 - 8:01pm
I was compelled to illustrate an editorial cartoon depicting my frustration with the happy go lucky taser gun slinging RCMP that caused the unnecessary loss of life, a mother who will now out live her only son and the apparent arrogant negligence by YVR Security.
I decided on a memorial YVR monument theme as international visitors entered the airport. I chose Michaelangelo's Piety grieving sculpture for Mrs. Dziekanski and lost son. While depicting the RCMP in a "Charlie Angels" taser drawn pose in behind overlooking the fallen Robert Dziekanski. The sculpture would not be complete without including an empty YVR security chair with turned-off camera.
I tried in vain to have any of our local papers from the Vancouver Sun, Province, Georgia Strait and North Shore News to publish my editorial cartoon. The general consensus from these papers is that my illustration of such a tragic event is to risky! (chicken shits)
(I also wonder how this is playing out in the minds of future 2010 foreign Olympians/countries coming to our Olympic Winter Games.)
