B.C. seeks U.S. apology for lynching
VICTORIA — At a time when Canada and the United States have a lot to disagree about, B.C.'s Lieutenant Governor has launched a campaign to heal a very old cross-border scar.
Yeah that's it, I'ma healer..
Iona Campagnolo is trying to get an apology for the lynching of a young Sto:lo aboriginal boy by an American mob more than 120 years ago. Campagnolo says they can't change the past, but something can be done about it.
| What can be done about it? An apology? From whom? |
Fourteen-year-old Louie Sam was kidnapped in February, 1884, and hung for murder just north of the U.S. border near the Nooksack River. The Sam Lynching hasn't been forgotten by the Sto:lo and historians, who still recount stories of a murder they believe the boy didn't commit.
| What if he did? Does somebody still have to apologize? |
Campagnolo believes the U.S.-led lynching now deserves an apology because the American government apologized to its own citizens last June for failing to protect the Americans who had been lynched by mobs in the past.
| Thereby confirming my belief in a slippery slope of stupidity. |
She chose to act for Sam in September in a speech addressing visiting Washington State Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen.
Surely we won't be troubled with this trival nonsense... Oops.
Owen responded this week by saying he's ready to steer a resolution through the state legislature to issue an apology.
| In that case, I stand ready to fling rotted fruit at Owen. |
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