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January 30, 2007
The Pickton Follies Chapter #3
…or, The Other Pickton Trial Blog
Willie Pickton is getting nervous. The evidence is coming out now and the true horror of the situation is starting to settle in for Willie. Something so terrible that he couldn’t have imagined it in his wildest dreams and worst nightmares.
When the magnitude of the crimes began to settle into the minds of our police forces, they realized that they were woefully unprepared for what lay ahead. And so they embarked on a mission to quickly learn how conduct the investigation properly, to properly do the forensic work that would be required. They spent almost $300 dollars acquiring every episode of CSI and watched them over and over again. Then they went to New York to see how they processed the Trade Center site in their search for human remains. They learned a lot and came back to Vancouver and started digging.
See, it wasn’t all easy stuff like finding heads in freezers and feet in 'hooker heel' stilettos in the veggie crisper. Noooo…..it was about processing the entire property down to “virgin” earth. They dug up and moved over 380,000 cubic meters of dirt and sent it all down conveyor belts to sifting apparatus’ in their search for bits of teeth and bones, and thanks to the pig’s digestive tracks it was literally a shitty job.
To put this last bit in perspective, Waikiki beach is not exactly natural. It is in fact a man made beach that was made all pretty like after WWII in an effort to build tourism there. When the beach was created to cover up the earlier crappy version with pebbles, rough sand and volcanic rock. To make that beautiful stretch of beach they trucked in only 100,000 cubic meters of sand. Indeed they have to add to it every year as the tides and waves wash it away a few grains at a time, but after years of this it has done a nice job of filling in the ocean floor immediately offshore.
But at Pickton’s farm, they moved almost four times that amount. Four times!!! By any stretch of the imagination that is a lot of dirt. It became the largest physical and forensic investigation in Canada’s history. And from there has come the Pundit’s un-named and inside source of the rumors that have Willie Pickton so frightened, disturbed, shocked and scared.
You see, Willie Pickton has heard that not only did they find bits and pieces of the girls he is accused of murdering, he has heard something for more terrible than that. Something that could bring upon him years of pain and suffering. Years of wondering what can a man actually own in this country and is anything truly his? Apparently, Willie Pickton has been told that they found bones and remains of Aboriginal people in the ground, that he built his farm on an old native burial ground!!!!
The horrific ramifications of such a find can send chills down the spine of even the toughest of men. Nobody can hope to stand up to the horrors of what happens when federally and provincially funded lawyers and native land claim specialists descend upon an unsuspecting landowner. Nobody……
Now maybe it’s just a ploy to rock slick Willie’s confidence, to shake him into admitting he did it so he can go and defend his farm. Or maybe, it’s a ploy by a wise defense council to make the public feel sorry for Willie Pickton, because let’s face it, in Canada, finding old bones on your property is one of the worst things that can happen to a man. Far worse than a simple prison term. If you’re ever digging a hole and find some native artifacts, dig a deeper hole right next to the first one, smash the bones and bowls with your shovel and toss them all right back into the ground and cover them up for good. Pour a concrete pad and build a garden shed on top for good measure. It may be the only way you can save your land.
~ AP
Posted by Anonymous Pundit at January 30, 2007 04:44 PM