Christopher

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Christopher

When cowards are in command
it takes an 18-year-old girl to say what needs to be said
I’ve been quite horrified about the International Olympic Committee’s stalwart refusal to hold so much as
a minute of silence to honour the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by terrorists at the
1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
I was so disgusted by the resounding deafness of the International Olympic Committee and its president,
Jacques Rogge, that I wrote an article and awarded him and the entire IOC the Olympic Gold Medal for
Cowardice. In that article I wrote the following:
By giving in to the childish whims of Israel’s haters, be they athletes at the
Olympic Games or nations at the United Nations, these organizations that
are supposed to be above all this petty crap only ensure it will never end.
By erecting a barrier for the Lebanese Judo team the International Olympic Committee won the Gold Medal for Cowardice. If they had the backbone
God gave a gnat they would have told the Lebanese Judo team that if they
didn’t want to practice next to the Israeli athletes they were welcome to go
back to their hotel rooms, pout all they wanted and not practice at all. Instead
they caved like a house of cards and with about as much resistance.
While treating all athletes equally regardless of race or nation is obviously NOT an “Olympic Value”, World Class Cowardice most certainly is.
I’m hardly alone in this sentiment, but it turns out I have some
very talented company indeed. I don’t know how many followed the
women’s gymnastics event at the games, or in particular the incredible performance of American gymnast
Aly Raisman in the floor exercise that won her the individual Gold Medal, but if you didn’t see her dazzle
both crowd and judges alike you missed out on seeing pure poetry in motion.
Aly Raisman was, in a word, spectacular. But her performance on the floor was nothing compared to
what she did afterward. Eighteen-year-old Aly Raisman did what no member of the Olympic Committee
had the spine for. She honoured the 11 Israeli athletes who were murdered 22 years before she was born.
“Having that ﬂoor music wasn’t intentional. But the fact it was on the 40th anniversary
[[of the Munich Massacre] is special, and winning the gold today means a
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Rights and Freedom Bulletin Issue No. 96 -- Aug 11, 2012
http://RightsAndFreedoms.org
Privacy Rights
Privacy watchdog concerned with licence plate scanners used by Victoria police
By Rob Shaw, Victoria Times-Colonist
B.C.’s privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into whether the Victoria Police Department is
breaking the law by automatically recording vehicle license plates.
Information and privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham’s office said Monday that concerns about the
implications of widespread police surveillance technology have prompted her to launch the review, which
should be complete later this summer.
“There will be some discussion of what kind of information is being collected, how it is being used, is it
being disclosed to anybody or any other agencies, how long is it being retained, these are the kind of questions the investigation will examine,” said Cara McGregor, a spokeswoman in Denham’s office.
The automated license plate recognition system consists of a camera mounted to a police vehicle, capable of recording 3,000 license plates per hour. Those plates are automatically run through ICBC and police
databases, instantly flagging drivers with outstanding warrants and insurance infractions. Police say it’s a
valuable safety tool.
Several local police agencies, such as the Saanich Police Department and the Capital Region Integrated
Road Safety Unit already use the system. There are 43 camera-equipped vehicles in the province. Denham’s
report will focus on VicPD but contain recommendations for other departments, said McGregor.
The investigation was prompted by a letter to Denham from three Victoria researchers — Rob Wipond,
Christopher Parsons and Kevin McArthur — who have spent two years fighting for information about the
license plate program from VicPD and the RCMP.
“This is a very dangerous tool we have given our police forces,” said Wipond, a journalist who has catalogued hundreds of pages of data on his website www.robwipond.com.
“It’s a mass population surveillance tool that has extraordinary capacity for abuse.”
Key to the group’s concern is what happens to the information captured about drivers who are captured
by the system but have done nothing wrong.
“We’re talking about a very pervasive swath of the population that may be under this surveillance and
may never know,” said Parsons, a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria.
Currently, that “non-hit” data on clean drivers is deleted every day, said Supt. Denis Boucher, who runs
the license plate recognition program as head of RCMP E-Division traffic services.
But the RCMP is considering keeping the data on ordinary people, so that it can log the time and location
of thousands of British Columbians and their vehicles.
“It can be used to either validate an alibi, or it can be used to find information on a suspect,” said Boucher.
The RCMP will decide if it wants to proceed with the expansion in the next two or three months, he said.
“We have to seek the advice of the privacy commissioner on those types of things, and we will,” said
Boucher.
The RCMP administers the license plate recognition program for B.C. police forces, causing further
confusion over whether the Mountie-run systems fall under B.C. privacy laws or report only to the federal
privacy commissioner.
VicPD chief Jamie Graham said in a statement that the system is “an incredibly important application
that directly contributes to improved road safety.”
VicPD also said it’s developed policies to ensure it complies with privacy legislation, but wouldn’t provide
a copy of those policies when asked Monday.
B.C.’s Justice Ministry said any changes to how police departments use the license plate technology need
to be reviewed by the provincial and federal privacy commissioners.
2 Rights and Freedom Bulletin Issue No. 96 -- Aug 11, 2012
Property Rights
When is your private property not your own?
Whenever a bureaucritter of the Nanny State says so.
We like to believe that when we make the most expensive purchase of our lives, our family home, we’re
actually the ones who own it. It’s a fallacy, however, as more and more homeowners, if I can even call them
that, are discovering across North America.
When we buy a piece of land and a house, we believe we can do what we want with that land and home.
Oh, we’re such silly people sometimes, aren’t we? The bureaucritters of the Nanny State, ever desirous
of control over our every waking moment, continually come up with stupider and stupider rules to inflict
their will on us and our property.
It wouldn’t be so bad if these bureaucratic buffoons did not have the full power and weight of the State
behind them, but they do. Submit or Die seems to be the motto these Nanny State Bureaucrats live by, and
they aren’t particularly caring about which one we do, either.
Anyone who knows the story of Carl Drega knows exactly what I’m talking about. (For the full story
on Carl Drega’s decades long nightmare that ended with his death please read The Ballad of Carl Drega by Vin
Suprynowicz.)
The latest case of bureaucratic stupidity comes out of La Belle Provence and the town of Drummondville,
where Michel Beauchamp and Josee Landry are learning all about “approved” gardening from the mindless minions of the State.
Welcome to their municipal bylaw nightmare, where growing their own food is a crime punishable by a
fine of $300 PER DAY for every day they do not comply with a bureaucratic order to remove their garden.
And why must they remove their beautiful and useful garden, you ask? It doesn’t comply with The Rules,
you silly citizen! And the Rules say every front yard MUST… yes MUST contain the prescribed amount of
useless green grass or else!
Ah yes, I remember now…
The Rules Are More Important Than
People.
How silly of me to forget, even for a
moment, that it’s the Minions of The State
who are in charge of my life and not me, a
mere citizen.
It sounds like something out of a bad
horror movie, doesn’t it? How can growing
your own food possibly be a crime?
Quite simply because you are proving that
you are not dependent upon the Almighty
State for your pathetic existence and what’s
worse… you’re showing that fact off for the
whole world to see! Oh, the horror!!!
What is so heinous about bylaws like this
and the bureaucratic minions who mindlessly enforce such stupidity, is that it’s so
hypocritical.
On one hand the state demands that
people be more “green”, that we recycle more and more stuff, even if the waste disposal company simply
puts it all in the same landfill anyway. You know… all that Agenda 21 hypocrisy.
On the other hand they turn us into criminals when we actually take positive steps toward self-sufficiency as the Municipal Council Members of Drummondville, Quebec are doing right now to Josée Landry and
Michel Beauchamp.
As you can see by the photo above, this garden is hardly an eyesore. It’s a beautiful and well-maintained
garden that provides Landry and Beauchamp with food and passersby with a lovely view of what is possible
when we simply put our minds to it.
Growing our own food is not a crime.
Tell the Municipal Council Members of Drummondville, Quebec, that their bylaw is dumb and that penalizing decent, hardworking citizens for growing their own food is simply un-Canadian. Visit and sign the
petition that supporters of this deserving couple have posted online.
My good friend Jane Gaffin had this to say in response to my article:
Ah, brilliant minds thinking alike again, I see! Funny you should mention
The Ballad of Carl Drega by Vin Suprynowicz.
About a week ago I did take the book from the shelf for a second read. It
is more enlightening than 10 years ago maybe because I have a better grasp
of how, without the citizens’ permission, the social engineers, politicos,
bureaucrats, regulatory enforcers and bad laws are eroding our freedoms
and liberties as well as destroying property and constitutional rights.
Yep, I certainly do endorse your suggestion.
Everybody should read The Ballad of Carl Drega as well as Vin’s other
essays on the freedom movement and follow him in the Las Vega Review
Journal http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/Vin_Suprynowicz.html where
he often addresses the same concerns that Canadians have to wrestle with
on a daily basis.
Thanks to the useless,
corrupt United Nations and its
Agenda 21 blueprint, everybody will soon be living in a
sub-standard environment unless we fight and win against the
incremental encroachment of these power-hungry madmen/
women.
All people, especially those who inhabit the Western World,
are destined to go down together into totalitarianism through
the incremental chipping away of individual rights if we don’t
stop it.
On first blush, the contents of this column may seem like
an anomaly reserved for Drummondville, Quebec. It isn’t.
This situation isn’t an anomaly and it is not trivial. These
Garden Nazi Councils are just the beginning of more diabolical
schemes planned for every community to show the residents
who’s boss.
Read about Carl Drega and others who were forced to their
wits’ end by obnoxious, overbearing government hotshots
swaggering with power and position which is what needs to be
corrected before these types steamroller everybody and everything in sight…or die trying.
Graphic: Gun ownership around the world
by Richard Johnson
email: rjohnson@nationalpost.com
Twitter: @newsillustrator
See more of Richard Johnson’s work
http://NewsIllustrator.com
Late July 16, news broke of a brazen
shooting that left two dead and 23
wounded after two people opened fire
at a crowded barbecue in east Toronto.
The murders made headlines around
the world and kicked off renewed
debate on gun crime in urban areas.
By the end of the week, the debate
reached a new level after a lone
gunman entered a Colorado movie
theatre and shot 70 people — killing
12 and wounding 58.
The massacre sparked responses at
every level of politics — up to Barack
Obama and Mitt Romney — on if the
government should step in with new
regulations, or if stricter gun laws
would have stopped the Colorado
shooter.
With this in mind, The National Post
takes a look at gun ownership around
the world compared with the rate of
firearms-related deaths.
Turns out the cry of “the sky is falling”
is nothing more than hysterical wailing
of the Nanny State Ninnies who just
can’t stand not getting their way.
The entire graphic is far too long
to include here in the Bulletin, so I
highly recommend you click on this
link and download a copy of the entire
PDF (300kb) for yourself. The quality
of image you will see will also be far
higher than what’s showing up here.
It’s quite educational and informative and dispells most of the myths
surrounding the so-called dangerous
countries like the United States.
Human Rights
Indian Act changes are a big step by Lorne Gunter, Sun News
Whatever we think of past efforts to make life better for Canada’s First
Nations people, most Canadians likely agree that something must be done.
The life of our aboriginal fellow citizens is all too often appalling, especially on remote reserves.
Last year it was Attawapiskat, with tales of families -- including children
-- living in uninsulated shacks and even flimsy tents as the harsh northern
Ontario winter loomed.
Before that, it was Kashechewan, another northern Cree community
where hundreds of residents had to be evacuated south in 2005 when E.
coli bacteria were discovered in the community water supply.
Of course, much of the poverty and deprivation is self-inflicted.
At Attawapiskat, it turned out the federal government had given tens of millions of dollars for housing, yet somehow not enough new units had been built even as the chief had a lovely big office complete with a big-screen satellite
TV and high-speed Internet.
And the problem at Kashechewan? It wasn’t neglect by uncaring white politicians. Instead, no one on the reserve
thought it was a problem to build the water treatment plant downstream from an outlet for untreated sewage.
There is usually plenty of money to go around, but incompetence, nepotism and, occasionally, out-and- out
corruption by band governments stifles any improvement.
The average aboriginal band in Canada has fewer than 600 residents, yet nearly one-in-10 chiefs is paid more than
the premier of his or her province.
A few chiefs are paid as much or more than the prime minister. And because they live on reserves, these politicians’ incomes are tax-free.
But finger-pointing won’t produce solutions. Playing the blame game won’t encourage native students to stay in
school, it won’t create on-reserve jobs or end alcohol and drug addiction.
The problems are monumental.
Two-thirds of off-reserve Aboriginals are unemployed; half of those living on-reserve have no jobs. Forty-per cent
of reserves have insufficient treated water or no treated water at all.
A quarter of reserves are under federal administration -- and probably half of them could be.
Substance abuse among First Nations people is three and four times what it is among other Canadians and in
some provinces as many as 40% of prison inmates are aboriginal.
The federal government and many provinces have tried throwing money at the problem for years. But if tax
dollars were the solution, the problem would have been solved long ago.
The Harper government wants to bring fundamental changes to the way Ottawa deals with the 370,000 Canadians who live on our 630 reserves.
It wants to let First Nations governments grant property rights, if they choose. Right now, the Indian Act
prevents reserve residents from doing something as simple as owning their own homes.
The Conservatives also want to give band councils the power to enact bylaws. Maybe it might even permit First
Nations government to tax their residents.
That might not sound like a good thing to those of us who groan under the property taxes levied by our municipal
governments, but with taxation comes demands for accountability.
If you think your local council and bureaucrats pay no attention to you now, imagine how easy it would be for
them to ignore you completely if they didn’t have to rely on your taxes to fund their operations and pet projects.
And the Tories want aboriginals to be able to make wills, another right the rest of us take for granted.
How can these changes make a difference? By helping aboriginals develop a political culture that promotes selfreliance rather than dependency.
Will these changes make all the difference? Of course not.
But they are a big, big step in the right direction.
Police Misconduct
Move along, nothing to see here, just business as usual at the RCMP.
Mounties issue sweeping denial in high-profile B.C. sex harassment lawsuit
The federal and B.C. governments are denying allegations in a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit that
prompted several other female Mounties to come forward with claims of abuse.
The Mounties have issued a sweeping denial in a
high-profile sexual harassment suit by a British Columbia officer, whose allegations have prompted other
women to come forward with their own claims of
abuse.
Cpl. Catherine Galliford, a police spokeswoman who
was the force’s public face during the Air India and
Robert Pickton cases, first outlined her allegations in
media interviews last year. She filed a lawsuit this past
May.
Her allegations have prompted the RCMP to promise
to tackle harassment within the force.
Former RCMP Cpl. Catherine Galliford
In the months since, several other female Mounties
have filed cases of their own, including one who says
dozens of other officers are prepared to join her in a class-action lawsuit.
Galliford’s allegations span nearly two decades, during which she claims her colleagues and superiors
sexually assaulted, harassed and intimidated her until she developed post-traumatic stress. She claimed she
didn’t come forward because she feared retribution.
But the federal government, which represents the RCMP, filed a statement of defence this week denying
all of Galliford’s allegations.
Instead, the government paints her as an alcoholic who refused treatment and rejected the RCMP’s
efforts to keep her away from one of the men she alleged harassed her. When she finally complained in
2011, her allegations were immediately investigated, says the statement of defence.
“These defendants deny each and every allegation contained in ... the notice of civil claim,” says the statement of defence.
“If the plaintiff had concerns about conflict, harassment or intimidation in the workplace or by other
members or officers at any time, she was obliged and had opportunities to make a complaint.”
The B.C. government contracts the Mounties for provincial policing and is also named in Galliford’s
lawsuit. While the statement of defence indicates it was filed by both the federal and B.C. governments, the
province issued a statement stressing it was not directly involved in the case and had no part in drafting
the statement of defence.
Galliford’s suit also names Const. Marvin Wawia, Supt. Mike Bergerman and Insp. Doug Henderson; Dr.
Ian MacDonald, an RCMP-employed physician; and Const. Phil Little, who worked for the Vancouver police
but was part of the joint RCMP-Vancouver missing women investigation.
The statement of defence denies all of the allegations involving those officers, with the exception of
Wawia, who was the subject of a complaint in the early 1990s shortly after Galliford joined the force.
The two met while Galliford was preparing to join the force. Galliford’s lawsuit claims Wawia aggressively
pursued her after they met. The governments’ statement of defence says the pair were “co-habitating” from
December 1990 to March 1991.
The Mounties acknowledge Wawia was later disciplined after a complaint involving Galliford, though
the statement of defence doesn’t say what the complaint was about.
The statement says after Galliford finished her training, she repeatedly
requested to be posted to the RCMP’s B.C. headquarters, despite the
force’s concerns the two officers should not be working together.
Eventually, Galliford married another officer stationed in British
Columbia and she was transferred to North Vancouver.
The statement of defence says health-care staff within the force first
heard concerns about Galliford’s alcohol consumption in late 2004 and
early 2005.
She was referred to a treatment program and agreed to what’s known as
a “relapse prevention agreement,” but the statement of defence says she
continued to drink. Because of Galliford’s refusal to participate in treatment, her case became a disciplinary one, the statement says.
“The plaintiff has failed to follow medical advice in respect to treatment,
and in this way caused or contributed to any medical conditions or problems she had or now has,” the statement says.
The government denies Galliford’s claim that a medical report provided to an RCMP doctor diagnosed her
with post-traumatic stress. Rather, the report merely asked whether she had the condition, the statement
says.
None of the allegations contained in either Galliford’s lawsuit or the government’s statement of defence
have been tested in court. Galliford’s lawyer could not be reached for comment.
B.C.’s justice minister and attorney general, Shirley Bond, issued a statement distancing the province
from the lawsuit.
“While I am aware that a statement of defence has been filed in BC Supreme Court regarding the civil
action of Ms. Galliford, the province is not directly involved in this matter,” Bond said in her statement.
“Per legal procedure under the Police Act, the province is named as defendant and these litigation matters
are solely led by the federal Department of Justice.”
Since Galliford went public, several more women have similar filed lawsuits targeting the RCMP and its
officers.
Const. Susan Gastaldo filed a lawsuit alleging she was sexually assaulted by Staff Sgt. Travis Pearson, who
maintains the pair was involved in a consensual affair. An internal disciplinary board accepted Pearson’s
version of events, but Gastaldo is still pursuing her lawsuit.
Const. Karen Katz has filed two lawsuits. One alleges colleagues harassed and sexually assaulted her. Her
second lawsuit, filed earlier this month, alleges more widespread abuse during her career.
Cpl. Elisabeth Mary Couture filed a lawsuit last December, alleging harassment and intimidation from her
superiors and colleagues.
And Janet Merlo, a 19-year veteran of the force, filed a class-action lawsuit in March alleging sexist
comments, sexual pranks and derogatory remarks while on the job. Her lawyer has suggested dozens of
other officers are prepared to join the case.
And in breaking news... Bridgewater RCMP officer charged with sex assault, uttering threats.
A Bridgewater RCMP officer faces several charges ranging from sexual assault to uttering threats in
connection with alleged domestic violence incidents dating back more than two years.
The male officer, whose name has not been released because it could identify the alleged victim, appeared
in Bridgewater provincial court Wednesday afternoon.
He will be back in court Thursday for a bail hearing and was to be held in custody until then.
The officer, in his 30s, was taken into custody by midnight Tuesday evening after Bridgewater Police
Service and the RCMP notified the province’s Serious Incident Response Team, said team director Ronald
MacDonald.
Read the rest of this story online
Kimmirut and RCMP plan to form safety committee
On July 29, 2012 I wrote an article titled “Kimmirut, Nunavut, and Sir Robert Peel’s 9 Principles of
Policing” in which I said that if police are to expect help from citizens, then they must show their respect
for those citizens long before trouble hits.
RCMP Corporal Wendy Cornell and Constable Allan Jagoe have the majority of Kimmirut’s citizens on their side
to such a degree that those citizens are willing to put their own lives on the line for them. That speaks volumes for
their credibility and professionalism, doesn’t it? It shows they have taken Sir Robert Peel’s 9 Principles of Policing
to heart, whether knowingly or not.
On August 8, 2012 the CBC posted the following story on their website as a followup to the events I
wrote about on July 29th. There is a lesson here for the RCMP if they would only be willing to learn it.
Nunavut RCMP and the community of Kimmirut plan to form a safety committee, following a community meeting held Friday to address concerns about the number of shootings in the hamlet in the last six
years.
The most recent incident happened about a week ago when a man shot at the detachment while two
RCMP officers tried to protect a young woman inside.
About 10 residents stopped the gunman and secured the weapon until an Emergency Response Team
from Iqaluit arrived. No one was hurt.
Kimmirut’s mayor Qinnuajuaq Pudlat said it was a very emotional meeting with many suggestions being
made.
“Our hamlet council meeting with visiting officials went longer then we planned,” he said in Inuktitut. “People
in Kimmirut were eager to meet together, too, and were waiting for us to start the public meeting. Our gym was
almost full with residents.”
He said at the next council meeting they will discuss what was said and talk about forming a safety
committee.
Pudlat also said the community wants outside help after the latest shooting incident.
“We need more support in aftermath experience, to have more people from outside of our community, for example, mental health case supporters to help us deal,” he said. “Sometimes it’s very hard to deal with some problems.”
This is not the first incident in the community where RCMP were the target.
In March, a man fired at two police residences while the officers and their families slept inside, and in
2007, Const. Douglas Scott was shot and killed while responding to an impaired driving complaint.
On Friday, community members, RCMP and the hamlet council met to talk about the eight shooting incidents that have taken place since 2006.
“This is really about the activity, the dangerous actions of a number
of people within this community towards the police officers,” said
RCMP Supt. Hilton Smee.
The new plan calls for a committee to focus on firearm safety,
stopping the bootlegging of alcohol and more patrolling.
In the meantime, two additional officers are being posted to
the community, including a new detachment commander. Usually there are only two officers stationed in the hamlet.
Smee said the additional staff will stay until police feel the
risk to officers has been reduced. He said that could take several
RCMP Supt. Hilton Smee
months.
Meanwhile, a healing ceremony is being planned for the community.

Christopher

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