These web sites recall local Taser victim Robert Wayne Bagnell (2004)s and also provide recent news reports and discussions on recent events in the taser controversy:
"Darkness to Light: A Web Tribute to Robert Wayne Bagnell"
http://robertbagnell.ejohnlove.com
"Truth, Not Tasers": A blog by Patti Gillman, Robert Bagnell's sister
http://truthnottasers.blogspot.com
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.
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
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.)
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.)
