Scan BC reported that #Vancouver crews are responding to the Safe Injection Site at 139 E Hastings St for reports of a male stabbed at that location. Then reported that #Vancouver Police are on scene with a male stabbed in the back at Main St & E Hastings. I guess the "safe" injection site isn't very safe in more ways than one. The assisted suicide technicians help people inject poison and they create a violent crime area where people stab each other to a daily basis. Welcome to the tax paid Zombie Apocalypse. Close Insite and reopen the local police station.

A friend of the family who did some serious time in the US prison system shared this video on Facebook. It compares the US prison system to that of Norway. Two different worlds. It goes along with a funny episode from the Netflix series Lilyhammer where the New York mafioso does some time in a Norway prison and says to his lawyer get me out of here. This is like a freaking Christian bible camp. It was pretty funny.

People here would say that's the last thing we want. Prisons in Canada are too soft as it is but are they realy? Take a look at Norway's reoffending stats compared to the US. In the US 76% of inmates reoffend within 5 years of being released. In Norway it's only 20 %. Those numbers tell a story. In the video one of the prison wardens state that every prisoner will one day be released into society. Do you want all of your inmates to be angry or rehabilitated?

Obviously we don't want prisons to be country clubs without consequences. Yet giving inmates opportunities to advance their education and do something positive in prison will help them when they are eventually released into society. As well as being wrong, torturing them is counter productive. Recently there were seven spoilt brats who had a quiet riot in a youth facility in BC and trashed the place. Don't reward them, make them face a logical consequence. They don't get to stay in that country club any more. They have to go to a facility less desireable now. You can make inmates face consequences without torturing them.

Locking up someone for 30 years for a drug offence is counter productive when everyone knows they were just a mule and will be replaced by someone else. The Hells Angels are the biggest drug traffickers in Canada yet they are small potatoes compared to the CIA who supply them. We need to stop kicking the cat and deal with the real issue or it will never be addressed.

Since Norway has such a successful rehabilitation rate I guess it's only fitting that the support group for former gang members is based in Scandinavia. Michael Green is the new Godfather. I'm just the elephant man. Do the right thing G.

CKNW is reporting that"At least one person has died following a double shooting in Surrey in what is now an IHIT investigation. Two people had been taken to hospital after police responded to reports of gunfire just before 10:30 PM Saturday night on 90 A Avenue near 142A Street."

Last Tuesday I attended a candlelight vigil outside the Chinese consulate in Vancouver commemorating 17 years of persecution of the Falun Gong practitioners in Communist China. The following day they held a rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery. I was unable to attend but a few other non mainstream media outlets covered the event. Rebel Media posted a powerful Youtube video about the important campaign. It is shameful not a single member of the local mainstream media has picked up on this serious story. So the truth goes online and the people will carry the cause.



The United States government has passed a resolution denouncing China's practice of organ harvesting. Why hasn't Canada? Where is the local media? Text of the US resolution.





Epoch Times article - English translation

Sound of Hope article - English translation

Ming Hui article - English translation

Kelowna Capital News is reporting that One man is injured following an early morning shooting in the Rutland area of Kelowna. "The Kelowna RCMP responded July 25 at 10:10 a.m. to a report of a shooting that had just occurred in the 2700 block of Highway 97 North. Police have learned that the male victim was shot in a lower limb and was then transported by a witness to hospital." A Kelowna shooting. Well, well, well. Warriors, come out to play.

Front page of today's Vancouver Province was an article about how Surrey is bracing for more fentanyl overdoses because it's welfare Wednesday and everyone is going to spend their welfare cheques on Crack or Heroin and end up with some crack tainted with fentanyl. Can we not see what's wrong with this picture? It's just another way we are directly contributing to the gang war. Anciently, welfare Wednesday was a zoo in the DTES. People would get drunk, pass out and end up getting robbed of the rest of the months welfare cheque then be destitute for the rest of the month. an insane cycle of exploitation that continues to this day. So why are we enabling it?

In the DTES you can see line ups of people buying drugs after they cashed their welfare cheque. It's pretty easy to arrest the one at the front of the line selling the drugs. So why don't we? Especially now that we know those drug dealers are selling crack laced with fentanyl. Not arresting them makes us criminally culpable. Perhaps a portion of welfare cheques should be distributed as food vouchers instead of crack vouchers. That would be in everyone's best interest.

Study to evaluate effect of welfare cheque distribution on drug use

This is not social justice.

This story was posted on Facebook that a blog reader shared with me. They are claiming they did some cocaine at Shakerz over the weekend and ended up in the hospital because it had fentanyl in it. Highly possible since the Hells Angels run the crack outside the Front Room in Surrey where all those fentanyl overdoes occurred last weekend. Kinda makes ya wonder if Randy Jones still owns Shakerz after the name change from Tbarz since a Hells Angels associate was stabbed there after the name change. The story claims there was a fentanyl fatality at Shakerz over the weekend but I have yet to see that confirmed in the media. Has anyone else heard that?

Update: It turns out it wasn't cocaine laced with fentanyl, it was straight up fentanyl. Toxicology report didn't find any cocaine in her system. That means someone gave her fentanyl and told her it was cocaine. This is the story on facebook:

Speaking of compulsive liars, dirtbags and police informants, Joe Siega is out in bad standing. He was a member of the Calgary Hells Angels back when the Bandidos patched over. Someone made a comment on an old blog post claiming Joe Siega was out in bad standing. Then Joe posts his own phone number for everyone including the cops to see admitting he was out but claiming he was out in good standing and started ragging on me in private e-mail demanding I apologize.

Well I checked into the story and have confirmed the allegation so I do have to apologize. I'm sorry Joe you're such an idiot and such a worthles speice of sh*t. Evidently you are out in bad standing for good reason. I respect law enforcement but they're aren't many cops I trust. Even fewer police informants. TBM accept people who rat out their friends to get a reduced prison sentence I do not. If anyone wants to know the truth about Joe Siega's standing with the club I suggest you contact the Calgary chapter themselves or someone who is associated with them. Joe Siega is a compulsive liar and is full of sh*t. Sometimes people get kicked out because they are f*ck ups. This appears to be the case. Good riddance.

Scan BC is reporting #SurreyBC home behind police tape in Ocean Park tonight. No details on why from @SurreyRCMP.

The Surrey Leader is reporting that a makeshift safe injection site has been set up in North Surrey. On Wednesday, a volunteer with a Vancouver support group for drug users set up a table on 135A Street to give people a "safe" place to commit suicide. Ann Livingston, a longtime volunteer with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), said she was motivated to bring the safe injection site to Surrey for several reasons.

This isn't just insane and criminally culpable, it is illegal, mocks taxpayers and mocks democracy. It is disgusting. Residents of Surrey oppose this. VANDU do not have the legal authority to break the law publically. VANDU are drug dealers that get tax dollars to break the law. Arrest them! The City has no right to enforce speeding or parking tickets when they allow these criminals to publically break the law. You can not enforce some laws and not the others. It is unequal enforcement of the law. That breads anarchy and contempt.

These assisted suicide technicians are fueling the gang war. As long as we bend over backwards to put tax dollars into the pockets of drug dealers, the criminals will always use public shootings and violence to fight over the drug profits. I object and I am not the only one. Local businesses and residents need to file a class action lawsuit against Bill Fordy and hold him criminally liable.

CBC is reporting that Toronto Const. James Forcillo was convicted of the attempted murder of Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old shot dead aboard a streetcar in July 2013 and sentenced to six years in prison but is appealing the decision. We talked about this case before. What He did was wrong. That's all there is to it. He pretty much emptied his clip into the kid after he was already shot lying on the ground.

In 2012 a Toronto cop was charged with second degree murder when a suspect was found shot in the back. In 2015 three Toronto police officers were charged with gang raping a female officer. Evidently forming a Regional Police Force isn't necessary the magical solution.

Thanks to the new illegal pop up lethal injection site on the Whalley Strip, the Surrey Now is reporting that a man and a woman were wounded in what police say appears to have been an accidental shooting right there at at 135A Street and 108th Avenue. Now we can charge VANDU directly for accessory to the illegal use of a firearm right at their own lethal injection site. They want to help them shoot up but they don't want to take legal responsibility for what they do when they under the influence of the poisonous drugs. Sue them!



Two weekends ago there were 43 drug overdoses because of fentanyl in crack cocaine. It had nothing to do with heroin and the criminals are exploiting the opportunity to publically break the law. Surrey has no right to bust another grow op as long as they let this illegal lethal injection site continue. The whole community suffers when the police and City Hall refuse to enforce the law. The logical solution is to arrest the drug dealers that sold the crack laced with fentanyl.

What about the fentanyl fatality at Shakerz? Doesn't anyone care about that? Are we going to set up a lethal injection tent there too? We have already established on this blog that VANDU sells drugs. They aren't a drug user support group they are a drug dealer support group.

Letting VANDU set up a tent for people to smoke crack and shoot heroin is no different than letting the Red Scorpions or the Independent Soldiers do it. There is nothing compassionate about it. We are feeding addiction and attracting every potential drug addict to Surrey. That is not in anyone's best interest. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Watch: Dr. Colin Mangham vs Dr. Death and the Pharmaceutical Companies

Where's Snoop Dog when ya need him?

CBC reported that the B.C. government has released details of a damning audit that shows a non-profit group that looks after some of Canada's poorest citizens spent thousands of dollars on lavish hotels, limousine rides, expensive dinners and even a trip to a Disney resort. Separate financial reviews examining expenses by the Portland Hotel Society — which runs Canada's only supervised injection site — have uncovered alleged misuse of corporate credit cards, unsupported expenses and inadequate criminal record checks.

The Huffington Post reported that Jenny Kwan is back from an unpaid leave she took after government audits revealed financial irregularities at the Portland Hotel Society, including lavish travel expenses. Kwan says she believed her former husband Dan Small covered the travel expenses for herself and their two children, but audits reveal the society covered the costs. Those aren't volunteers at the Portland Hotel Society. Those are paid staff members.

Update: The Peace Arch News is confirming the fentanyl fatality at Shakers they just aren't saying where it happened or that it was cocaine not crack. Her name was Leanne Yardley.

Today Catherine Bruce delivered a landmark decision that was one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. I was there when Catherine Bruce read out her decision on the John Nuttall Entrapment case. I have a lot to say about this case but at this time I will simply say read the judge's decision. That says it all. She reviewed all the evidence. Her decision was right on the money. She nailed it. She restored my faith in the justice system and my pride in what it means to be Canadian. As the saying goes, No Justice, No Peace. Know Justice, Know Peace. The struggle is not over yet. However, this decision sparks the hope that we do indeed have a future to fight for. It's been a long day. My e-mail inbox is full.

Tonight I'm going out for dinner with my daughter and tomorrow I'm taking my motorcycle and tent for a road trip to get away from it all and enjoy nature restoring my love for this magnificent country. I will not have access to a computer or Internet so please bear with me as it will take me some time to catch up on responding to e-mail. In the meantime I can only reiterate, read the judge's decision. That says it all. Today is a good day. From every mountain and from every molehill, let freedom ring. God Bless Catherine Bruce and God Bless Civil Liberty. Peace.

It would be well worth getting a copy of the court transcript on the judge's summery of her decision as it was articulated with divince eloquence. Until that time, this is a copy of the full written decision posted on the court website and a few relevant excerpts from it.

As I previously said, without the RCMP there was no means or motive to commit this heinous crime. John and Amanda were never radialized. There is and never was any threat to public safety. The judge was very clear about that and counsel for the defence cited that fact after they were rearrested and brought before a different judge after an ex parte application. Going exparte and not notifying the other lawyers was tacky and tasteless at best. The judge was clear in that John and Amanda were genuinely afraid they would be killed by Mr. Big if they didn't do exactly as they were told. They judge said that because it was true.

Amanda is a kind polite sweetheart. She and John have a wonderful relationship. There is no threat to public safety and there never was. John's mother hit the nail on the head when she said they were conned to help promote Stephen Harper's Bill C-51 which does away with civl liberty for everyone. This CSIS scheme was a crazy plot to extort two Surrey drug addicts into doing something they never would have conceived of to justify Harper's agenda of removing civil liberty from all Canadians. That is what this case was really about.

Catherine Bruce's decision on the Nuttall entrapment case

[537] Mack remains the leading Canadian authority on entrapment.

[557] The police are not entitled to embark on an investigation into criminal activity that includes providing a person with “an opportunity” to commit an offence unless they are acting on a reasonable suspicion that this person is already engaged in the type of criminal misconduct under investigation. As explained in Mack, the absence of a reasonable suspicion may indicate that the police are engaged in random virtue-testing or, worse, acting in bad faith based on improper motives (at para. 108).

[580] In addition to entrapment, the defence argues that the police conduct in this case warrants a stay of proceedings because it amounts to an abuse of the Court’s process. The abuse of process claim includes allegations of illegal conduct by the police, violations of the defendants’ religious rights and freedoms, and overall abusive and coercive conduct during the undercover operation. The defence also argues that each aspect of the abuse of process claim forms part of its argument that the police entrapped the defendants. As a consequence, the authorities addressing these issues are relevant to the entrapment inquiry as well as the claim of abuse of process.

A. Entrapment

1. Reasonable Suspicion

[615] I find the police had very little evidence at the commencement of the undercover operation to support any reasonable suspicion that Mr. Nuttall was already engaged in criminal activity of any type. There was a tip from CSIS in the form of an advisory letter that was not corroborated by the RCMP’s investigation. The RCMP had no knowledge of the reliability of the source for the CSIS tip and thus could not assume it was accurate. General statements by CSIS representatives that Mr. Nuttall might be recruiting people for violent jihad could not raise a reasonable suspicion because the RCMP had no knowledge of the source or the reliability of the source of this information.

[616] The physical surveillance conducted by the RCMP between February 2, 2013 and February 23, 2013, revealed no evidence that the defendants were involved in criminal activity. Indeed, police surveillance indicated that the defendants did very little outside their home and generally remained within a four-block radius of their basement suite. Background checks revealed that Mr. Nuttall had a criminal record for violent offences; however, the last conviction was in 2003, some ten years prior to the commencement of Project Souvenir. Ms. Korody had no criminal record.

624] During May and early June, there was a great deal of dissent among the members of the investigative team and the undercover shop regarding the course of the investigation. Senior officers in the undercover shop believed that exit strategies should be examined to end the operation safely and that a psychological assessment of Mr. Nuttall should be pursued. There was a fear articulated that the undercover operation had become overly influential on Mr. Nuttall and that the police might be making him into a terrorist when he lacked the capacity to be one on his own.

[625] Despite these concerns, Sgt. Kalkat forged on with the operation, taking the defendants to Victoria for a recce in the hopes that they would decide upon or articulate their plan. During these scenarios Officer A’s terrorist group showed the defendants what they could provide: transportation, accommodation, meals, security, advice, friendship, and expertise. Contingent promises of assistance were again made to the defendants, but the defendants came up with nothing more than further talk of their grandiose schemes.

[626] Having failed to motivate the defendants to either decide on a specific plan or articulate how they would accomplish a plan during the Victoria recce, the investigative team decided to focus them on the one idea that Mr. Nuttall might be able to carry off and that the police could control: the pressure cooker devices. Mr. Nuttall had earlier referred to the Boston bombing and the use of pressure cookers as explosive devices during a shopping trip for a suit on April 26, 2013, but this idea took on significance for the police after June 6, 2013. During this scenario Mr. Nuttall provided Officer A with a hand drawn diagram of a rocket and an explosive device constructed with a pressure cooker container, both of which he had found on the Internet in Al Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine.

[627] There were two problems that stood in the way of the pressure cooker plan. The first problem was that Mr. Nuttall was only really keen on large-scale schemes, including the Qassam rocket plan, hijacking a nuclear submarine and storming the Esquimalt naval base. While Mr. Nuttall had made earlier comments that the Boston “brothers” had a good plan because it was simple, on June 6 he indicated that he regarded the pressure cookers as only a tester and not the real thing. While Mr. Nuttall’s rambling musings are very difficult to piece together to construct something meaningful, I infer from his statement that he wanted to see if he could actually make something that could explode.

[628] The second problem was that the defendants had no access to, or the ability to make, an explosive substance for the pressure cookers. Although Mr. Nuttall had made claims about his experimentation with explosive substances, his later statements to Officer A revealed that these had been merely bravado. Indeed, the fact that he needed to use the pressure cookers for a tester belied his earlier claims that he had already experimented successfully with explosives. I am satisfied that the evidence supports a conclusion that Mr. Nuttall knew very little about explosive substances and that the police would have known this based on Officer A’s notes and his recorded conversations with Mr. Nuttall. Ultimately, the closest Mr. Nuttall came to a plan for making an explosive substance was his expression of a desire to transform cow manure into an explosive. The police witnesses acknowledged that this was a lengthy and complicated process beyond Mr. Nuttall’s capacity, and there is no evidence that he took any positive steps towards accomplishing this objective.

[632] Having concluded that an opportunity to commit a terrorist offence was communicated to the defendants, the question remains whether the police had a reasonable suspicion that the defendants were already engaged in that type of criminal activity at that time.

[633] One of the key frustrations faced by the police during the months preceding the Kelowna scenario was the fact that the defendants were not articulating a plan and were not taking any steps towards carrying out a plan. The constant rhetoric of jihadist violence by Mr. Nuttall was disturbing and, at the same time, tiresome because nothing ever came of these expressions of belief. Underlying the dispute within the RCMP about whether the operation should continue was a divergence in views as to whether the defendants were capable of carrying out any of their grandiose schemes.

[634] In my view, there was ample evidence by June 2013 that confirmed Mr. Nuttall’s general ineptitude, his scatterbrained character, his inability to think logically, his child-like demeanour, and his inability to remain focused on a task, which would be essential to the articulation and execution of a terrorist plot. The investigative team and the undercover shop repeatedly discussed these aspects of Mr. Nuttall’s personality, or the behaviour that demonstrated these characteristics, during their briefings.

[644] The police also had the benefit of the pole camera and foot surveillance of the defendants. These investigative tools revealed that, apart from outings with Officer A, the defendants spent all of their time at home or within a four-block radius of their suite. The defendants were never associated with radical groups or individuals apart from Mr. Nuttall’s references to speeches by Bin Laden and Anwar Al-Awlaki that he found on the Internet. The police had no evidence that the defendants were communicating with terrorists on social media. The DNR produced no evidence in support of terrorist connections or associations or of communications with pharmacies or nurseries in search of potassium nitrate.

[645] Sgt. Kalkat repeatedly assured senior officers in E-INSET that there was no immediate public threat posed by the defendants. Special “O” surveillance was assigned to more pressing files and the police confidently concluded that periodic visits from Officer A were sufficient to control any real possibility that Mr. Nuttall might act out against any member of the public. Nothing that occurred during the operation before the Kelowna scenario would have led the police to reasonably suspect that the defendants were up to something criminal in nature when they were not with Officer A.

[648] It follows, in my view, that at the time the offer of C4 was made for the pressure cooker devices, there was little objective evidence to support a reasonable suspicion that Mr. Nuttall was already engaged in criminal activity related to terrorism. As Lamer J. said in Mack, there must be a temporal connection to establish reasonable suspicion; events that are too remote cannot justify the objective test. Similarly, suspicions that have been allayed by more recent events cannot be ignored. It is the sum total of the objective facts that must be scrutinized, including evidence that supports a conclusion that the defendants were not otherwise engaged in the planning or execution of terrorist acts.

[659] Ms. Korody had no criminal record to support a reasonable suspicion. Nor had she said or done things before or during the undercover operation up to that date to indicate that she was independently involved in terrorist activities. Apart from going along with Mr. Nuttall’s schemes, and demonstrating a willingness to support her husband’s plans as a foot soldier, the police had no greater suspicions about her involvement in terrorist offences than they possessed about Mr. Nuttall.

[660] Thus I am satisfied, on a balance of probabilities, that the RCMP offered both Mr. Nuttall and Ms. Korody an opportunity to commit a terrorist offence without a reasonable suspicion that the defendants were already engaged in criminal activity. On this basis alone I find that the RCMP entrapped Ms. Korody and Mr. Nuttall into committing the offences of which they were found guilty and, accordingly, I enter a stay of proceedings with regard to Counts 1 and 4 of the Indictment and I enter an unconditional stay in regard to Count 2.

c) Conclusion

[769] Based on the evidence before me, I am satisfied that the RCMP knowingly exploited the demonstrated vulnerabilities of the defendants in order to induce them to commit the offences. They adopted a multi-faceted approach that included most of the factors in favour of a finding of entrapment articulated in Mack, including the use of trickery, fraud and reward; the use of persistent direction to become more organized, focused and realistic in their jihadist ideas; the use of persistent veiled threats to adopt the pressure cooker plan as their own and to abandon the grandiose ideas that the police knew the defendants could never accomplish; the exploitation of the defendants’ social isolation and desperation for friendship with Officer A, as well as their ongoing search for spiritual meaning in their lives; the creation of an elaborate ruse that led the defendants to fear for their lives if they failed to satisfy this sophisticated international terrorist organization; the repeated angry encounters with undercover officers who played roles as terrorists; and the decision to play the role of the defendants’ spiritual advisor and exploit the influence Officer A had secured over them to direct their actions towards the use of violence to accomplish religious and political objectives.

[770] In addition, the police involvement in the offence was overwhelming compared to the insignificant part played by the defendants, and the constant direction and prodding they needed to accomplish their assigned tasks showed that it was the police who were the leaders of this plot. Not only did the police take over the leadership, but they committed illegal acts to enable the defendants to play their small part in the plan. Throughout the undercover operation Mr. Nuttall repeatedly demonstrated that he lacked the focus required to make the arrangements that were necessary before the pressure cooker plan could be carried out even if they had secured the financial resources required for the mission. The investigative team was exasperated with Mr. Nuttall’s failure to follow through with any of the jihadist objectives he talked about. Instead of viewing the project as a success because they had discovered the targets were incapable of taking any concrete steps towards accomplishing the objectives they verbalized, the police decided they had to aggressively engineer a plan for Mr. Nuttall and Ms. Korody and make them think it was their own.

[775] This is truly a case where the RCMP manufactured the crime; this is not a situation where the police simply “instigated, originated or brought about” the offence. The police took two people who held terrorist beliefs but no apparent capacity or means to plan, act on or carry through with their religiously motivated objectives and they counselled, directed, urged, instructed and moulded them into people who could, with significant and continuous supervision and direction by the police, play a small role in a terrorist offence. The police did not first identify the idea of exploding pressure cookers; however, Mr. Nuttall regarded this device as a tester and the closest he got to an explosive substance for this test was talk about using cow manure to make an explosive substance. Mr. Nuttall never brought up pressure cookers after the June 6 scenario. The police seized on this idea and it became their plan.

[776] The RCMP had to provide the explosive substance; they had to take the defendants shopping for the bomb parts and give them continuous instructions and direction until they finally bought most of what they needed; they had to construct the devices and left only the gluing of nails to the pots and the construction of timers, which were never part of the RCMP’s plan, to the defendants. The police had to arrange for a location for the defendants to work on the devices and provide constant supervision and direction until their small part was completed. Each day the police had to “babysit” the defendants to ensure they had their methadone. The police chose the date for the explosion and they made all of the arrangements for the necessary accommodation and travel to Victoria. The police essentially chose where the devices would be planted.

[781] I therefore enter a stay of proceedings on Counts 1 and 4 of the Indictment and an unconditional stay on Count 2 based on a finding of entrapment.

[837] Accordingly, I find this is one of the rare cases where a stay of proceedings is warranted due to an abuse of process. I thus enter a stay of proceedings with regard to Counts 1 and 4 of the Indictment and I enter an unconditional stay in regard to Count 2.

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Change in plans. I was all set to hit the road and take my bike and tent out to Lake Louise on Saturday. Then I checked the weather forecast at it was calling for severe thunderstorms in Lake Louise so I decided to postpone that trip for another day. Somewhat disappointing since Friday was so awesome. We ended up seeing the latest Jason Bourne movie last night instead.

Like the riveting Netflix series American Odyssey, the Bourne Identity series is fiction but very plausible. Aside from the car chases of course. I'm referring to the plot when I cite it's plausibility. It is remotely similar to the lighter Netflix series Covert Affairs. Covert Affairs is a corporate spin trying to sell the CIA despite all the generations of documented corruption.

Similarly, the latest Jason Bourne installment appears to illustrate the ongoing struggle of good versus evil within the CIA just like Covert Affairs did. They rationalize all the bad by implying that it was the work of a handful of bad guys that infiltrated the agency. If that was true, it would simply reinforce the need for greater public accountability within the agency. However, it is pure fiction. I don't believe there is any good within the CIA because an evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit. If it's roots are evil the entire tree is evil and it is good for nothing other than to be cut down and cast into the fire. Peace.

As I mentioned, I was there when Catherine Bruce read out her divinely inspired decision on the John Nuttall Entrapment case. I was also there during the SWAT takedown after John and Amanda were released. There was no need for that. It was yet another dirty deed done dirt cheap.

We went out for lunch on Commercial Drive to celebrate. After lunch we left the restaurant and started driving around looking for an address. I pulled over slightly on a side street so John's mother could check her phone for directions when a big black undercover police SUV pulled in front of us with it's lights on. I pointed to John's mother and said we just stopped to use the phone. I thought they were trying to nap me for using a cell while driving when I wasn't.

Another SUV had boxed us in from behind. All these cops with vests on get out and swarm us telling us to all get out of the vehicle. Then they changed their command and said everyone out of the vehicle but me. I was driving. I pull out my cell phone to turn on the camera to start taking pictures and the cop by my window ordered me to turn off my phone. I responded by saying Oh I suppose you don't want me to take pictures then. He replied no.

I repeatedly asked them what was going on and they repeatedly refused to tell me. I pointed to John's mother and said his mother has a right to know where you're taking them. The Canadian Charter of Rights states you can't just kidnap people at random, If you are going to arrest someone you have to charge them with an offence. What are they charged with? Still no answer. Finally they said something about a peace bond. They did not say a warrant has been issued for their arrest related to a peace bond application. They just said it's about a peace bond.

I simply said why didn't you do this at the courthouse before we left as we were half expecting they would want some kind of terms and conditions placed on their release. No answer. I said we are on the way to the lock up to pick up their belongings. Why didn't you do this there instead of traumatizing them all over again and handcuffing them on the sidewalk? I called out to John's mother and said Lawyer. Call their lawyer.

It turns out lawyers for the Crown made an ex parte application in Provincial Court in the DTES for a peace bond so they could put terms and conditions on their release. As I previously said, given the nature of the case we half expected this.

However, making an ex parte application without even notifying the other lawyers was a dirty trick. In court there are certain professional courtesies opposing lawyers extend to each other. In court lawyers refer to each other as my friend short for my learned friend meaning someone who is also learned in law and respects the legal process. Going exparte without notifying the other lawyers after they had been dealing with them in trial for over three years was unprofessional and unethical. Normally a complaint would be filed with the bar.

The judge was very clear in her verdict. There is no threat to public safety and there never was. The judge said: "The spectre of the defendants serving a life sentence for a crime that the police manufactured by exploiting their vulnerabilities, by instilling fear that they would be killed if they backed out, and by quashing all doubts they had in the religious justifications for the crime, is offensive to our concept of fundamental justice. Simply put, the world has enough terrorists. We do not need the police to create more out of marginalized people who have neither the capacity nor sufficient motivation to do it themselves. "

It is obvious lawyers for the Crown pulled this dirty trick because they wanted to get the terms and conditions before a different judge than one who had seen the evidence and knew the truth. They wanted to instill fear in a new judge by repeating the same lies they continue to tell the media. That by the way constitutes defamation. Normally judges become seized on a matter because they know the case and the process doesn't have to start all over again in front of a new judge. This was one in a long list of dirty tricks that apply to this case.

Outside the courthouse after they were finally released on terms and conditions the media repeatedly asked John what are his plans? He repeatedly said I don't know reinforcing the defense's argument that he didn't nor was capable of planning the absurd and heinous crime he was accused of. The media asked him if they planned to file civil action for the abuse of process the judge convicted the RCMP of. He replied. No. I just want them to leave us alone. This is a wonderful couple that were completely screwed over and despite that are in no way vindictive. They just want to be left alone.

Setting aside the Appeal

It comes as no surprise that the Crown has appealed the decision so they don't get sued civilly for their misconduct and abuse of process. However, since it is clear the couple do not intend on launching a civl lawsuit and just want to be left alone, I submit that the Crown's Appeal be set aside until CSIS complies with the court order for them to produce documents they are in contempt of court for not providing. In reality, an application to have CSIS arrested for contempt of court would be far more appropriate then continuing this facade any longer.

In the timeline of events, CSIS was found in contempt of court before John and Amanda were released so that matter needs to be heard before the Appeal. It would be offensive to Natural Justice to proceed with the appeal until CSIS obeys the court order to disclose those documents which directly relate to the Entrapment case.

In addition, it would be clearly offensive to proceed with the Entrapment Appeal until CSIS is charged with murder for providing the explosives in the Air India bombing. That fact was reported by the RCMP and the CBC. Failing to charge CSIS in that murder but proceeding with the Appeal on this manufactured entrapment case would be offensive to justice and a misappropriation of tax dollars. They have wasted far too many tax dollars on this case. Instead of spending tax dollars on this bogus appeal, it would be far more fiscally responsible to investigate what happened to the $3.1 billion they lost from their anti terrorism budget. Losing not using that much money from their budget is a far great act of organized crime then two marginalized addicts from Surrey who were threatened and extorted to assist them in a fake attack.

Global is reporting that a man has died after being shot in the 13900-block of Antrim Road on Sunday night in Surrey. One person died in a double shooting last Saturday night in Surrey. Two more people were shot outside the illegal lethal injection site on the Whalley Strip early Thursday morning on welfare night. That marked Surrey's 50th shooting of the year.

Amazing article by Bill Tieleman on the police misconduct related to the John Nuttall Entrapment Case. The Vancouver 24 hours is reporting that"Why did the RCMP create the July 1, 2013 BC Legislature bomb plot, and train and equip a hapless, methadone-addicted, developmentally-challenged couple to undertake terrorist actions? And why did the RCMP also break Canada’s laws in doing so? Money - lots and lots of money - is the answer."

"$2.8 billion annually and over 29,000 employees. The RCMP depends on the federal government for its funding - and counterterrorism dollars depend on results, as I wrote in 24 Hours in 2013 after covering Nuttall and Korody’s first court appearances. And in the RCMP’s Departmental Performance Report, their goal is to achieve six targets of: Terrorist criminal activity is prevented, detected, responded to and denied. In their 2013-14 report - the year Nuttall and Korody were disrupted - the RCMP claim 14 successful operations - that no doubt being one of them. That’s why it’s so reprehensible that the RCMP wasted precious resources creating an illegal terrorism plot using the hapless Nuttall and Korody instead of countering real terrorists - and why this ruling demands action to stop RCMP recklessness."

God Bless Bill Tieleman. He was one of the brave few mainstream reporters that stepped up to the plate in the wake of Dan Rather and told the truth during this case. He cited a case in the US where “James Cromitie (was) a low-level ex-drug dealer who converted to Islam. A well-paid FBI informant befriended the Walmart worker and promised him $250,000 and a new BMW car to fire Stinger surface-to-air missiles at U.S. military planes and plant bombs at Jewish targets in New York.” That case went well beyond entrapment.

If you give a drug addict weapons and offer him $250,000 and a new BMW to use those weapons, you haven't saved the world from a terrorist, you just created one. As he recently pointed out Bill Tieleman subsequently put out another award winning article exposing the fact that the RCMP now have terrorist quotas to bolster their budget like traffic tickets. That insane policy needs to end. That' like setting a quota on catching bank robbers by creating them.

We are all very fortunate this couple wasn't shot dead during the takedown like in a similar case in Australia. If that had happened we would never have found out about the abuse of process and the real motivation behind the fraud. Bill Tieleman is right. This ruling demands action to stop RCMP recklessness and fiscal irresponsibility.

As for the kid in Australia that was shot, his family is a friend of my family. The man I know was a cop in Afghanistan. He was shot by the Taliban and had to leave Afghanistan with his family. Why on earth would a kid join a terrorist organization that shot a member of his own family and were the reason they had to leave Afghanistan? The answer is simple. He didn't. He was not a terrorist. They set up and shot an innocent man.

Update: The Tyee ran a more indepth version of Bill Tieleman's article called BC Terror Trial Verdict a Scathing Indictment of RCMP Management. In this article he declares "The reference to planning news conferences in advance of a “terrorist bomb attack” shows the importance senior RCMP officers placed on the case. There was no thwarting of a deadly attack – merely a public relations exercise concocted to secure funding."

"The RCMP spent over $900,000 in overtime on this case. More than 240 officers worked on the investigation. The final bill to taxpayers will be in the multi-millions." There are better ways to spend tax dollars. Stop the Appeal and stop the fiscal insanity.

"Are there real terrorist threats in Canada that require RCMP intervention? Absolutely. That’s why it’s so reprehensible that the RCMP wasted precious resources creating an illegal terrorism plot using the hapless Nuttall and Korody instead of countering real terrorists - and why this ruling demands action to stop RCMP recklessness."

Catherine Bruce Achieves Sainthood

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

On a more posative note and on a distant tangent, I just finished watching the movie High Strung. As one review said, it may well have an oversued story line but the movie portrays the passion one glimpses when people find and share their art with the world. Not all of us are dancers or musicians yet all of us can appreciate music and art. I think the key to life is to find your passion whatever that may be and follow it. That's what it's all about.

I can't play, but I enjoy music. It is indeed an expression of the heart. I like old school and I like to see it remixed with contemporary. Bringing two worlds together and creating something new. As I said before it can take us to that magical place where blind men see. It can take us to infinity where we can ponder the solemnities of eternity. I love New York. Respect the City yo.

Lindsey Stirling - Transcendence. Now that's one Fiddler on the Roof.



The Touch of the Master's Hand: "You know there's many a man with his life out of tune, Battered and scared with sin and he's auctioned cheap, To a thankless world much like that old violin, Oh, but then the Master comes, And that old foolish crowd they never understand, The worth of a soul and the change that is rought, Just by one touch of the Masters hand." Peace.

Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix - Radioactive. Ghetto Gospel what?!

CBC is reporting that"The people of Whitefish Lake First Nation, along with friends and family from across Alberta and across the country, have come together this week to mourn two teenagers shot to death on their remote reserve north of Lesser Slave Lake. Cory Grey and Dylan Laboucan both had graduated Grade 12 and planned to leave the reserve this week for Slave Lake, where they had rented an apartment and had been accepted to attend Northern Lakes College."

"Grey lived with Laboucan and his parents in a trailer on the reserve. On Saturday, July 23, Laboucan, 17, was found unconscious in front of that trailer by a cousin who lived nearby. The cousin drove to a nearby home to call 911, and when he returned Laboucan's body was gone. Grey was nowhere to be found. The community mobilized within hours to search for the teens. Laboucan was found on Monday, and Grey on Tuesday - their bodies dumped on well sites a few kilometres apart. RCMP are investigating their deaths as a double homicide."

CBC is reporting that Five new commissioners have been chosen for a new Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Inquiry and that B.C.'s 1st female First Nations judge will lead the national inquiry. Let's hope it's better than the last one and not more smoke and mirrors.

I'm not sure how this relates to the Dianne Rock story and the Pickton Farm since many of those murdered women weren't First Nations. Many were. I certainly hope non native women won't be excluded from this inquiry. I don't know if Janice Shore was First Nations but I do know the First Nation Elders held a vigil for her on the site in Whalley she was found brutally beaten into a coma.

We need to reexamine the Pickton Farm since Willy was convicted based on the fact that he was not the only participant nor was he the prime suspect, just a willing participant. Dianne Rock being gang raped on the Pickton farm clearly implicates more than one suspect. I wonder if this inquiry will tell us which off duty police officers attended parties at Piggy's Palace. It would be very interesting to hear how Jim Brown fits into that picture.

Finian Commission uncovers the Pickton cover up