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Ottawa Police Constable Ripped for Charter Violations by Justice David Berg

Justice David Berg lambasted Ottawa Police Service Constable Corey Bourguignon for lying under oath when he ruled Vincent Lebrun’s Charter rights were violated so egregiously the evidence against him must be excluded.

That evidence was, according to news reports, a grenade launcher.

Brodie Curtis Young: RCMP Screwup Sets Another Career Criminal With a Firearms Prohibition Order Free

Brodie Curtis Young, a career criminal with a firearms prohibition order against him, was caught with illegal firearms and ammunition. Had RCMP Constable Rick Marshinew not shredded Young’s Charter rights, Young would be in prison today, not walking free to violate his firearms prohibition order again.

More Thoughts on R. v. Iniguez and Our Charter Rights

The R. v. Iniguez decision interests me for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which are the ramifications it could mean for 200,000+ licensed firearm owners whose guns our government wants to confiscate and destroy.

Warrantless Search Sets Illegal Sub-Machine Gun Owner Free

Elvis Iniguez is a free man today because the Toronto Police Services violated his Charter rights. They searched his home without a warrant and without his informed consent.
The question we must ask is, “Did the judge make the correct decision?”

4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Your Right to Privacy

I’m forever baffled by morons wearing robes who believe violating our Right to Privacy is perfectly okay.  The latest morons in black robes to defecate on our rights is the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. These…

EFF Report- Who is Protecting Your Data from Government Requests?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) constantly fights for our right to privacy on the Internet. It’s an organization every single person who values privacy ought to support financially, as they are continually beating back Leviathan when it comes to issues…

“In the Interest of Public Safety” High River Firearm Seizures are just the beginning

by Tim McNamara   On 20 June 2013 the town of High River, Alberta, was inundated by one of the worst floods in a hundred years – homes were destroyed, bridges washed out, and the town was completely evacuated. Unfortunately…

Canada’s Supreme Court Issues Ruling on Computer and Cell Phone Searches

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruling, R. v. Vu, found that RCMP members violated Thanh Long Vu’s Charter Rights and Freedoms when they executed a search warrant on Vu’s Langley, BC, home in 2007. Despite finding that Vu’s rights…

CSIS Does “End-Run” Around Privacy Law to Spy on Canadians Abroad

It’s as horrifying as it is becoming routine: Canadian police agencies lying to Judges in Court so they can keep violating the law they are supposed to uphold.  This time is the Canadian spy agency CSIS that’s caught in the…

[Video] High River RCMP Dog and Pony Show

RCMP in High River, Alberta, broke into the homes of evacuated residents and seized every firearm that wasn’t bolted down or locked in a safe, claiming “public safety”. These criminals with badges and guns must lose their jobs and face…

RCMP Commissioner Robert Paulson Finally Speaks to High River RCMP Gun Thefts

It took over a week but RCMP Commissioner Robert Paulson finally came out of hiding to face Canadians about the criminal actions of his force in High River, Alberta. Well, he didn’t actually come out of hiding to face Canadians. …

ATTENTION High River Residents – Essential Information Required!

The Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSSA) sends its best wishes to the residents of High River, Alberta at this difficult time. Some of you will be facing the most dreaded of problem a family can have – the prospect of…

High River RCMP Thieves Stole More Than Just Guns…

While illegally searching the homes of Canadians without a search warrant, High River’s RCMP thieves just couldn’t help themselves to a few extra items “since they were there”.

One female resident is making a unique plea that the other stolen items be returned immediately…

What does a burning Ukraine Police Station and the High River RCMP have in Common?

What does a burning Ukraine Police Station and the High River RCMP have in Common? Both police forces have no respect for their citizens or the Rule of Law. In the town of Vradiyevka, Ukraine, roughly 330 kilometers south of…

High River RCMP Looters are CRIMINALS and must be treated as such IMMEDIATELY

  RCMP members and commanders in High River, Alberta, are the worst kind of criminals imaginable.  They lay in wait for you until you are at your most vulnerable before they rape and pillage your belongings and then demand YOU…

RCMP Violates Property Rights of High River Flood Victims, Searches Homes and Seizes Their Firearms Without Warrant

It’s a story we’ve seen too many times before… the RCMP willingly and completely without legal justification searches homes without a warrant and seizes firearms “for the public good”.  No crime is alleged or presumed, just the same tired old…

Google a Defender of Personal Privacy Against Warrantless FBI Searches?

Say what you like about search engine giant Google, at least in this case they are on the side of we mere citizens as they stand up against US federal government warrantless demands for user information. Using a law that…

Is Every Phone Call You Make Recorded Without Your Knowledge or Consent?

Constitutions, Charters of Rights and Freedoms, and Bills of Rights mean something under one and only one condition: when those in power choose to follow them. There is not a government in the world that actually respects the documents created…

US Department of Justice: We don’t need no stinking warrants

US Department of Justice says, “We don’t need no stinking warrants.” It’s always reassuring when the minions of the state do precisely the opposite of what they ought.  Instead of protecting and defending the rights of we “mere citizens” they…

Labrador RCMP member arrested for child luring

Remember when Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said in defense of the warrantless search provisions of Bill C-30, “You’re with us, or the child pornographers”? I find it rather ironic that, just days before Bill C-30 was officially scrapped, an…

Who needs the Constitution when you can have a Police State instead?

  [powerpress] You’ve heard the saying many times before… The solution is worse than the problem it’s supposed to solve. That’s precisely the state of affairs in Paragould, Arkansas, a small town roughly 90 miles northwest of Memphis, Tennessee, today. …

Castle Doctrine Rebounds in Indiana after stupid Indiana State Supreme Court ruling

The Indiana State Supreme Court made a ridiculous ruling last year in Barnes v. State (May 12, 2011).  That decision said that Indiana state residents had no right to obstruct illegal police invasions of their homes. Folks who actually comprehend…

Police overwhelmingly support C-30’s warrantless searches and violation of privacy

It really isn’t a shock to see police chiefs from across Canada coming out in support of the warrantless search and privacy violations contained in Bill C-30, disingenuously named “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act”.  The Canadian Association of Chiefs…

Bill C-30’s invasions of privacy and warrantless searches are outrageous, but all the other Acts are just fine?

Bruce Cockburn wrote a famous song that contained the line “The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.” The same can be said for governments.  They always get worse, too.  The current so-called Conservative government is a perfect example…