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Month: July 2012

Police Brutality Police Corruption Police Misconduct

Milwaukee Rapist Cop Ladmarald Cates sentenced to a special place in Hell

Back on February 14, 2012 I wrote the following under the title “There is a special place in hell reserved for you, Officer Ladmarald Cates”: When you dial 9-1-1 you expect the police to arrive and help you.  The very…

Good Samaritans Great Police Officers

Kimmirut, Nunavut, and Sir Robert Peel’s 9 Principles of Policing

Fascinating news out of Kimmirut, Nunavut, yesterday.  Kimmirut is located roughly 120 kilometres south of Iqaluit and is where RCMP Constable Douglas Scott was murdered in 2007. The tiny town has a long tradition of hating the RCMP enough to…

Life

Documentary: James Nachtwey – War Photographer

Hello there…… If you have a chance, please watch the video below. It’s a documentary about the life and work of a war photographer, James Nachtwey. I have always admired, deeply admired, those men and women who put themselves, their…

Courts Crime Justice Denied Justice System Abuses Police Police Sentencing Double-Standards RCMP Accountability RCMP Hall of Shame

Justice for Orion Hutchinson and his family? Not a chance. Disgraced former RCMP Corporal Benjamin (Monty) Robinson plays the race card and wins

I was disgusted but not surprised that another piece of garbage in an RCMP uniform, Constable Geoff Mantler, walked free the other day, acquitted by Judge Takahashi.  I saw that one coming a mile off. Reading the news, however, that…

Police Police Brutality RCMP Accountability RCMP Hall of Shame

RCMP Constable Geoff Mantler WALKS on assault charge, as predicted

As much as I would like to have been surprised by Geoff Mantler being acquitted of assaulting Manjit Singh Bhatti on August 30, 2010, sadly I am not. I predicted he would be acquitted on July 12, 2012 in my…

Warren Kinsella is “a fucking idiot” who despises YOUR Rights and Freedoms

Warren Kinsella, touted as a “Liberal badboy“, showed his true colors a week ago on his blog and again last night on Sun TV. Warren Kinsella despises your Liberty.  Warren Kinsella despises your Charter Rights.  Warren Kinsella believes you have…

Bureaucratic Incompetence Gun Politics

City of Toronto reverses decision to ban medal-winning sport shooters from Ontario Summer Games promotional event

Cockroaches and politicians have one thing in common. Both scurry for the shadows when the spotlight is on them.  In the case of Toronto politicians, that spotlight is public displeasure with their latest stupid decision. As I wrote yesterday, gold-medal…

Bureaucratic Incompetence Gun Politics

Ontario Summer Games Committee to award-winning target shooters: You’re Not Welcome Here

Politicians and bureaucrats have an incredible talent for sending precisely the wrong message. In this regard the Government of Ontario and the City of Toronto have combined for a new all-time low: blaming two award-winning sport shooting youths for Toronto’s…

25 Reasons To Dump The RCMP Courts Police Police Misconduct Police Sentencing Double-Standards RCMP Accountability RCMP Hall of Shame

RCMP Corporal Monty Robinson finally quits in disgrace prior to sentencing hearing

RCMP Corporal Monty Robinson has finally done something honourable… if you can call quitting in disgracebefore you’re fired as “honourable”, that is, right before you’re about to be sentenced for obstruction of justice. As regular readers of my columns will…

Concealed Carry Gun-Free Zones

Why every mass shooting has the same common denominator: A GUN-FREE ZONE

The mass shooting at the Aurora, Colorado, Cinemark Theatre on July 20, 2012 is a tragedy.  There is no doubt about that. It was, however, a preventable tragedy (at least as far as the high body count goes) except for…

Ethics in Politics Freedom of Speech

Ontario’s so-called “conservative” Tim Hudak claims to believe in Freedom of Speech

Freedom of Speech is such an invaluable right, but like what happens with any one of our precious Rights and Freedoms when it is taken for granted, those of us living in the western world don’t appreciate its value. We…

Justice Denied Violent Criminals

Nova Scotia provincial Judge Gregory Lenehan stupidly joins the “ban camp”

Anything that might possibly be used as a weapon should just be banned.  That’s the flawed logic of left-wing idiots like Toronto city councilor Adam Vaughan and now, apparently, Nova Scotia Provincial Court Judge Gregory Lenehan. It’s just so much…

Concealed Carry

Armed Robbers Take Heed: Don’t Mess With Old People

There will always be individuals in society who believe they are entitled to the contents of someone else’s wallet without ever having earned it.  Generally we call these people thieves, although there is an argument to be made that the…

Common Sense Gun Politics

Common Sense from Toronto City Council? Who’d have thunk it!

As Matt Gurney of the National Post  said, it was a rare outbreak of sanity in Toronto as the Toronto City Council voted against banning bullets inside the city limits.  The city that voted so stupidly to ban plastic bags…

Common Sense Justice Denied

Canadian Justice: Sentence the Victim of the crime to 3 times the prison sentence as the actual criminal

The message from police and Crown prosecutors is very clear: “Don’t get involved. Leave crime-fighting to the professionals.” That is precisely the wrong message to send to Canadians, yet that is exactly the message sent in the case of grocer…

Police Police Brutality RCMP Hall of Shame

Constable Geoff Mantler’s Fate in Assault Trial awaits Judge Takahashi’s decision

It’s not surprising that Provincial Court Judge Mark Takahashi has reserved his decision in RCMP Constable Geoff Mantler‘s police brutality trial in Kelowna, BC.  Judge Takahashi has two conflicting stories to reconcile, as well as figure out who to believe….

Gun Control Stupid Human Tricks

It’s Adam Vaughn’s Wet Dream Come True! Washington, DC, charges Veteran for Possession of Unregistered Ammunition

Toronto City Councillor and all-around idiot Adam Vaughn must be just about wetting himself at the thought of being able to send decent Canadians to prison for the heinous “crime” of owning a legal product, namely ammunition. No doubt Vaughn’s…

Police Police Brutality RCMP Hall of Shame

Thug RCMP Constable Geoff Mantler finally faces the first of two assault charges

Thug cop and Kelowna RCMP Constable Geoff Mantler is well-known to anyone who follows cases of RCMP misconduct.  In January 2011 he made international headlines after video surfaced of him [allegedly] brutally kicking Buddy Tavares in the face as Tavares…

Self-Defense: A Tale of Two Police Forces and how they deal with citizen self-defense

The response to armed self-defense in the home during a home invasion is so different in Canada and America that it borders on the bizarre.  I’ll use a recent example of the case of a 14-year-old boy in Phoenix, Arizona…

America is in Trouble and Treason Reigns Supreme in the White House

This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is what can be loosely referred to as the run up to a civil war in defiance of a tyrant. Across America we are finding the US federal government meddling in the affairs of private citizens,…

Poorly-Written Laws Are Criminal by Jane Gaffin

“To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of (any nation’s) system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the…

US Supreme Court rules lying about receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor is perfectly legal, even if it’s immoral

The Stolen Valor Act made it a crime for a person to lie about being a valid recipient of any military decoration or medal.  That crime was punishable by up to a year in prison if the offense involved the…

Priscilla Dang sends her would-be muggers packing

In what can only be described as the bad guys getting precisely what they deserve, a story out of Vancouver, Washington really put a smile on my face.  A couple of juvenile delinquents decided young Priscilla Dang was a good…

Under Agenda 21 “Property Seizure” is Seen as “Profit-Sharing” by Jane Gaffin

Canada’s Constitution is the supreme law. Any law passed by any federal, provincial, or territorial government that is inconsistent with the constitution is invalid. The next highest law in the pecking order of paramountcy is the Criminal Code of Canada…

BC’s new Animal Health Act (Bill 37) is quietly withdrawn due to outcry over prison terms for making fish farm diseases public

There is an old saying that probably began with Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech movement in the United States around 1750… “The public has a right to know.” That saying is based on the idea that it…

Does the Yukon Territory really need a pseudo-police department to deal with drug dealers, bootleggers and prostitutes?

Does the Yukon Territory really need another layer of bureaucracy to do the job the RCMP is already paid to do?  Apparently, the answer to that question is a resounding YES! according to Yukon’s Parliament. If that shocks you, you’re…

Russ Caswell’s Civil Forfeiture Nightmare

Russ Caswell is 68 years old.  He has not been charged with a crime, yet the Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Police Department is using civil forfeiture laws to steal both his livelihood and his retirement estate. Russ Caswell owns and operates his…