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Class-less Cops ticket teenager in a coma

At least one Las Vegas police officer has absolutely no class. A 13-year-old is in a coma after being hit by a car that tossed her 125 feet in the air.  She’s fighting for her life, yet the Las Vegas…

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Rep. Marsha Blackburn introduces bill to stop US FCC’s control of the internet

I’m very pleased to see that Rep. Marsha Blackburn has introduced legislation to block the Federal Communications Commission’s desire to “oversee” the internet. The absolute last thing the internet needs is more bureaucratic interference. What’s distressing about her move though,…

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Another senseless police death, this time Police Chief Ralph Painter

A 21-year-old man was wounded and arrested after he first disarmed and murdered Rainier Oregon Police Chief Ralph Painter. The scene? a car audio store in a mall. Painter had responded to the burglary call. Early reports say a struggle…

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New Year’s Day tragedy leaves Ohio Deputy dead

This case sucks. I mean it really sucks. Some slimebag decided New Year’s Day is a good day to shoot up his neighbour’s trailer.  The neighbour called the police.  Go figure.  That’s where it gets really bad, really fast. Deputy…

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Ontario Ombudsman Report on G20 Police-State Tactics

Police misconduct and thuggery ran rampant during the recent G20 event held in Toronto, Ontario. Some rose to infamy, like “Officer Bubbles“. I haven’t heard anything recent about his attempt to sue YouTube for posting videos that mocked him for…

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Police Officer Line-of-Duty Deaths up 37 percent

That’s just not good news. Not good at all. In a report called Law Enforcement Officer Deaths: Preliminary 2010 Research Bulletin (download report pdf here), the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports a very scary number.  160 police officers…

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CTV News Story on corruption in BC’s Chief Firearms Office

The CTV did a story on the lawsuit filed recently by Travis Bader against numerous RCMP members and the provincial government.  It was through filing the lawsuit that Bader learned about the involvement in his case by Constable David Clarke,…

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Another RCMP member suspended… with pay, of course.

Here we go again.  Another corrupt RCMP constable who just can’t get over his sense of entitlement. It’s really annoying for the good RCMP members out there.  You know, the ones that actually do their job for the pay they…

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Babak Andalib-Goortani: Ontario Special Investigations Unit Actually finds wrongdoing!

It’s shocking to anyone who follows the Ontario Police “lapdog”… I mean watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit. In their entire history they’ve almost never found a case of police misconduct that they couldn’t justify. Imagine my surprise while listening to…

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Quantitative Easing 2 video: It’s NOT creating money out of thin air?

Here’s a really funny and informative video on the idea from that lunatic that’s camped out in the White House… you know the one… that you can just create money out of thin air to solve the economic woes of…

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Terrorism Law Is A War On Internet

(“War on Internet” is from Jane Gaffin’s archives, published in the Whitehorse Star, February 25, 2002, and is posted here in conjunction with the current “Big Brother is Eyeing Complete Take-Over of the Internet”.) In keeping with the Red Book…

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Nazi Nutritionists Are Cooking Up A Menu You Won’t Soon Forget

Maurice Strong is not a household word, yet he wields influence over your everyday life. The former senior advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan and controller of the World Bank was once the mentor of former Canadian LIEberal…

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“CO Kilback is poorly trained, careless, reckless, and incompetent…” says judge

A decision was handed down in BC Supreme Court on December 1st, 2010 that caught my attention.  A man from near where I live had sued Conservation Officer Aaron Kilback and the Province of British Columbia for malicious prosecution and…

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“Weapon-Making” Pencils Ban from Elementary Class

Google, parent company of You Tube, is trying to ban alternate news media InfoWars.com and PrisonPlanet.com for–well, telling the truth. But some videos like the one cited seem to have been re-instated, or sneaked back in. Here’s an interesting video…

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Lawrence Manzer Case News Archive

Update — December 6, 2010: The Crown has decided it is in the public interest to move forward with this case.  That’s a joke, not justice. I had a long talk with Lawrence Manzer yesterday about his case, what happened,…

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Breast-feeding Moms Beware: TSA will “get” you

Especially if you know the TSA Guidelines better than the petty thugs you’re dealing with at the airport. This is the story of a young mother’s nightmare at the hands of the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) goons. The video below…

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TSA Airport Abuse and Humiliation Protest Grows

I loved reading that WorldNetDaily has got over a half a million letters of protest on the way to Washington.  Kudos to Joseph Farah and his team for making that happen. WASHINGTON – More than a half-million individual letters of…

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Lawrence Russell Manzer CKOM News Talk 650 Radio Interview

If you’re not familiar with the name Lawrence Manzer, I’m shocked.  But for those who haven’t heard of this man, here’s a brief background: In March 2010 he was woken up in the middle of the night by his neighbour. …

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West Van Cop forged witness signature?

Just yesterday I posted about a brave and courageous police officer, Patrick Sirois, who gave his life to save someone he didn’t even know. And today I came across a news story about a police officer in West Vancouver who…

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Off-Duty Police Officer’s Ultimate Sacrifice

Patrick Sirois, a Nolanville, Texas reserve officer and full-time Fort Hood civilian police officer, was headed to Wagoner, Oklahoma to be with his family for Thanksgiving when tragedy struck. Lt. George Brown said, “He (Sirois) was in his own private…

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G20 Summit — Excessive Force By Police? No, says SIU

Excessive Force By Police during the G20 Summit?  Not according to Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU).  They are, without a doubt, the most useless police oversight group in the Canada. Police smashed people with batons, broke bones, and beat people…

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Corrupt Cop Arrested in FBI Sting Operation

The Chicago suburb of Maywood is less one corrupt cop today after an FBI sting operation caught Robert M. Welch stealing money from alleged gang suspects. Welsh was one of the tactical officers that focused on suppressing gang activity.  He…

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Holiday Travel Fun With The TSA by J.J. Jackson

Federal Agents are notorious for their lack of humor in humorous situations. And granted there are certain times when humor is not called for. When the Secret Service has you prone and with a gun to your head after you…

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Refuse TSA sexual assault? Face fines and jail

In a stunning display of unchecked raw power, the TSA has decreed that once you enter an airport security check, you can’t just leave the airport. Refuse to subject yourself to their officially-sanctioned sexual abuse will get you a very…

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Quebec’s Anti-Gun Hysteria reaches new high

Police in Papineauville, Quebec (about 70 km northeast of Ottawa), have charged a high-school student with “careless use of a firearm“, even though he didn’t actually have a firearm. The facts don’t matter to hysterical people, and that seems to…

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Backlash Growing against TSA’s legalized sexual assault

Earlier this month I wrote a post about the upcoming changes to the US screening procedures for all airline passengers.  I write about the state-sponsored pseudo-rape in the name of “security”.  More and more people are deciding they will not…

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RCMPWatch.com – What a great idea

In one of my meanderings around the web I came across the site RCMPWatch.com. The site lists news stories and various reports on the actions of RCMP members, and on the force as a whole, and the site owner has…

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Ontario’s Attorney General’s Office Angry about public scrutiny in home seizure case

Crown Counsel James McKeachie is very annoyed with the Montague family for making public the letter he wrote to them where he spelled out his intention to take their family home using Ontario’s Civil Remedies Act. They posted his letter…

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Ontario’s Attorney General’s Office Angry about public scrutiny in home seizure case, Part 4 of 4

And what happens to all the money and property seized? Well, of the $13.4 million seized in Ontario since 2003, only $1.2 million has been turned over as compensation to “victims of unlawful activity”, whatever that phrase means. Almost half…

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Ontario’s Attorney General’s Office Angry about public scrutiny in home seizure case, Part 3 of 4

Donna Montague was not impressed. “At every stage of this process, whenever we’ve ‘negotiated’ with them, we’ve been railroaded,” she said. “The search warrants were illegal.  They said that for our Constitutional challenge to go forward we had to drop…