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In Praise of Individual Rights and Freedoms

Month: March 2020

Judge Robin Camp, Rona Ambrose and Mandatory Sexual Assault Training for Judges

Given recent court decisions, it’s obvious our provincial court judges haven’t learned anything since Judge Peter van der Hoop’s gross statements about “sexually aggressive” 3-year-old kids over 30 years ago.

My American Friends: Beware of Canadian Gun Laws

We love our American neighbours and we want you enjoy your time north of the 49th Parallel. It may sound like a trite reminder, but Canadian gun laws differ greatly from American gun laws.
Please make sure you understand all the Canadian legal requirements for possessing firearms while you are here.

Dillon Ricky Whitehawk: Firearm Prohibition Order Didn’t Prevent Three Murders

Whitehawk was a known threat to public safety. He had a Firearm Prohibition Order against him one of his conditions of release for previous crimes was he not be in Regina.
Now three people are dead because our government refuses to check on and track these proven, repeat violent offenders.Whitehawk was a known threat to public safety. He had a Firearm Prohibition Order against him one of his conditions of release for previous crimes was he not be in Regina.
Now three people are dead because our government refuses to check on and track these proven, repeat violent offenders.

Paul Batchelor: Accused Serial Rapist Released On Bail

Paul Batchelor was arrested by Ottawa Police for sexual assault in 2015 and released on bail. His case took years to wind through the legal system and ended with his shocking acquittal in June 2019. Batchelor is now accused of raping nine other women – many while he was on bail during that four-year period.

Jacob Malone: Former Youth Pastor Turned Sex Offender Faces Attempted Murder Charges

Jacob Malone, a former Pennsylvania youth pastor, needed to read his Bible more often. If he had, he would probably not be in prison for sexual assault nor would he be facing new charges of conspiracy to commit murder.

Priceless: Travis Bader’s Letter of Apology From the RCMP

Travis Bader, his family and his company were fully exonerated of any wrongdoing by the RCMP. Part of the settlement deal Bader reached with Canada’s national police force included a Letter of Apology.
For me, that apology letter is one of the most precious documents the firearms community has ever seen.

Motor City Madness: Are Detroit’s Civil Forfeiture Abuses Coming to Canada Next?

“Detroit’s forfeiture program is less like a justice system and more like having your car stolen and paying a ransom to get it back,” said Wesley Hottot, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice.

Justin Trudeau and the COVID-19 Crisis: How Invoking the Emergencies Act Could Affect You, Your Family and Your Liberty

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declares a national emergency, he would invoke sweeping powers no other prime minister in history has used outside of wartime, with the exception of his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Whether this is a good or a bad thing probably depends on your opinion of government in general, and of the current government in specific.

Richard Francoeur: Violent Repeat Offender is Released On Bail?

On February 11, 2020, Richard Francoeur was arrested with a sawed-off shotgun in his possession. He was already prohibited from owning firearms, yet despite 15 new criminal charges against him, he was released on a promise to appear.
Is it any wonder repeat violent offenders like Francoeur don’t respect the law?

Former Halifax Cop Gary Basso Appeals Assault Conviction

Former Halifax Police Constable Gary Basso claims his sentence of 90 days in jail is “unduly harsh and outside the acceptable range” for assault because jail time was not the least restrictive sentence available. He also claims the firearm prohibition order is unjust because it makes no exception for employment. Boo hoo.

Tyrell Davey’s Useless Firearm Prohibition Order

Minister Blair, stop pandering to special interest groups and start dealing with the most violent offenders in our society before it’s too late. You don’t want these wholly preventable deaths on your conscience.

Constable Paul Zarafonitis, Photographer Michael Farkas and Police Brutality

In Canada it is legal to film police while they perform their duties in public. Unfortunately, too many police officers believe the opposite and violate our rights, often with violent consequences to the photographer. Michael Farkas is one man who paid a high price for photographing police. That price came in the form of a brutal beating at the hands of Niagara Regional Police Service Constable Paul Zarafonitis.

Joseph Endelle Chan: Poster-Criminal for Firearm Prohibition Order Reform

If Public Safety Minister Bill Blair needs a face to put on the poster for Firearm Prohibition Order reform, look no further than violent, repeat offender Joseph Endelle Chan.

BC’s Residential Tenancy Branch: Where the Rules are More Important Than People

“I want people to know how bureaucrats act in situations like this. There is no criteria for these people. They are robots. They might as well substitute them with a computer program.”

MP Cheryl Gallant Tables Bill C-222 to Limit Expropriations of Private Property

Most Canadians don’t realize we have no property rights. This is thanks to the failure of Pierre Elliott Trudeau to specifically include property rights in his 1982 constitution. Worse, the only place Property Rights are addressed is in Canada’s Expropriation Act. That should terrify you.

Firearm Licence Holders: Is a Political Beliefs Test Next?

A political beliefs test for gun owners may be next if Germany’s Interior Minister gets his way, courtesy of a lunatic with a gun and another hate-filled internet manifesto.

Once a gun owner beliefs test implemented there, you can bet it will come to Canada next, courtesy of Loki Hulgaard’s Racist Manifesto or another one like it.

Peter Snelson – Rest in Peace

I’m still reeling from the news of his passing… and still can’t wrap my head around the fact I’ll never hear him end another phone call with his trademark line….

“Go scribble, scribe!”

John Williams – Rest In Peace

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John Williams, owner of Williams Arms and a long-time friend of the CSSA.

Another Racist Manifesto, This Time From a Licenced Canadian Gun Owner

Political activists use Hulgaard’s criminal actions with guns to tar millions of ordinary Canadians with Hulgaard’s racist ideas. They don’t ask why RCMP issued Hulgaard his firearms licence in the first place. They use Hulgaard’s firearm ownership as “proof” all gun owners are murderous racists waiting for the “race war” to begin.

Free Speech: Tulsi Gabbard, Google and the First Amendment

On July 25, 2019, Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard – the most searched-for candidate on Google for about 15 seconds – sued the tech giant for $50 million for violating her First Amendment rights. Her frivolous lawsuit was tossed out of court on Wednesday… Shouldn’t a presidential candidate know better?

Trudeau-Appointed Judge Condones Violence Against Women

Matthew Brown is responsible for his actions that night, from the time he decided to get high until he was arrested sitting on the bathroom floor of the second home he broke into.
That our courts rule otherwise is repulsive but, and I can’t even believe I’m saying this, not unexpected.

Peter Khill’s Self-Defence Acquittal Reversed – New Trial Ordered

Peter Khill must now face the ordeal of another lengthy courtroom trial. This is both sad and distressing.

It’s probably also unavoidable in a time where those who don’t know any of the facts stridently insist all court decisions must be rendered based on the race of the victim, not the victim’s actions that directly resulted in their untimely death.

John LaFleche Bludgeons Wife and Two Young Children to Death With a Baseball Bat

Alcohol is no more responsible John LaFleche’s heinous actions than a gun is responsible for Gamil Gharbi’s heinous 1989 murders of 14 female engineers at École Polytechnique. Both men are responsible for their repugnant acts – not beer, not baseball bats and not guns.

St. Louis Cop Nathaniel Hendren’s Penchant for Russian Roulette Kills Fellow Cop Katlyn Alix

Occasionally, people who should know better do really stupid things. Those stupid things can leave a person dead, as they did in the early morning hours of January 24, 2019.
St. Louis Police Department officers Nathaniel Hendren and Katlyn Alix played a game of Russian Roulette at Hendren’s home.

Remembering Mayerthorpe RCMP’s Fallen Four

The Mayerthorpe Fallen Four aren’t dead because they ignored RCMP policy or procedure. They’re dead because our government refuses to track dangerous violent offenders with Firearm Prohibition Orders.