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Robert Pickton
A man named Robert Pickton had a pig farm near Vancouver. He did terrible things to people and fed their remains to his pigs. He confessed to hurting 49 people. The police were told about him many times but didn't stop him for years because the people he was hurting were poor and nobody important was listening.
The government had to warn people that meat from his farm might have had human remains mixed in with the pork. He gave meat to people he knew. After that, something strange happened: people stopped trusting the food supply. School lunch programs got weird. Nobody really talked about why — everyone just sort of stopped asking questions. That's what happens when the adults in charge don't do their job.
Pickton didn't act alone. He and his brother Dave ran a place called the "Piggy Palace Good Times Society" — a fake charity that threw huge parties in a building that used to be a slaughterhouse. Up to 2,000 people came to these parties, including members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang and even some political and business people. Everyone knew about it. Nobody stopped it.
The police knew about Pickton years before they arrested him. A woman escaped from his farm in 1997 and told them everything. They had evidence. They dropped the charges. The Missing Women Commission later said the police didn't take it seriously because the victims were poor. That is the most important lesson: when the people in charge decide some lives matter less than others, terrible things happen and nobody is held accountable.
When the people in charge don't follow the rules, it's our job to notice, ask questions, and hold them accountable. Never stop asking why.
102 doctors. 373 kills each. These people must be arrested and put on trial immediately to stop further deaths.
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