Reader Taser Song Dziekanski

Thanks for sending the song about the tasering to death of Robert Dziekanski by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - a case that puts Canada in the ranks of brutal police states along with - as the refrain goes - Russia, China, Northern Korea and Israel - the Super-States under Big Brother Goldstein comprising the most inhumane systems on the planet. See also POLICE DOGS IN ANIMAL FARM.

Oh Robert Dziekanski
he came to this country
from Poland one day
through a wide open door
and he got as far as the Vancouver airport
from the Vancouver airport
went straight to the morgue

Ah take me to Russia
take me to Israel, take me to the West Bank of old Palestine
take me to China, Northern Korea
But don't take me to the Vancouver airport next time

And his mother sat waiting, anticipating
for hours and hours and hours on end
'til somebody told her
she should go home now
that her dear son Robert
was nowhere around

Ah take me to Russia,
take me to Israel, take me to the West Bank of old Palestine
take me to China, Northern Korea
But don't take me to the Vancouver airport next time

And the cops at the cop shop
they're walking in circles
they're making up stories
and they're changing their minds
saying "Who will we tell what?"
and "What will we tell who?"
and "I'll cover your ass
if you'll cover mine."

Ah take me to Russia
take me to Israel, take me to the West Bank of old Palestine
take me to China, Northern Korea
But don't take me to the Vancouver airport next time

Ah Mrs Dziekanski
tell me "What will you do now
when spring becomes summer
and summer comes fall
will you go sit in this chair
go sit in that chair
go to bed before supper
and cry all night long?"

Ah take me to Russia
take me to Israel, take me to the West Bank of old Palestine
take me to China, Northern Korea
But don't take me to the Vancouver airport next time

Well if you come to this country
through the Vancouver airport
I hope you are met
with professional smiles
kindness and freedom
and laws that defend
the hearts of all mothers
and the lives of all men

Ah take me to Russia
take me to Israel, take me to the West Bank of old Palestine
take me to China, Northern Korea
But don't take me to the Vancouver airport next time

~ by Andy McGaw

Once upon a taser (cop says man holding stapler a threat; even with his arms up in surrender). Winnipeg Sun, Mar 3, 2009