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" nils carborundum illigitimus "

" don't let the bastards grind you down "


Bad Cops, Blind Courts, Weak Government:







Police, courts and government function only with the consent of the people, and the people are getting fed up.* The legal system from top to bottom is squandering the good will of the people as if there were no limit. Drunk driving offenders and even repeat drunk driving offenders in police departments, cover-ups, lies* and bogus internal investigations* into what amounts to murders committed by police, weak-kneed judges and inappropriate sentences, and a federal government that has simply opted out. A federal government that won't create an office with effective teeth to wade in and fix things. If we- you and I- don't correct the legal system soon, we may find it will be too late. " Every man for himself."



Is that going to be the future Status of the Status Quo?



Boycott the RCMP:



If you live on RCMP turf, call your nearest non- RCMP municipal police force if you need help from decent police or if you have information decent police should have. Let them relay it to the RCMP if they insist. This may help increase accountability for the RCMP thugs.

You could also contact investigate@cbc.ca and perhaps get public attention.

Delta Police, BC Phone: 604.946.4411Fax: 604.946.3729 Hours: 24 hours/day, 7 days/week Twassen Branch of the Delta Police 1108-56 StreetDelta, BC V4L 2A3Phone: 604.948.0199Fax: 604.943.9857Hours: Mon - Thur, 9 a.m - 5 p.m



Sun News : Mounties can't retaliate for negative coverage, BCCLA says

Sun News : Mounties can't retaliate for negative coverage, BCCLA says
Credits: MARCO VIGLIOTTI/ HIGH RIVER TIMES/ QMI AGENCY


BYRON CHU
QMI AGENCY



VANCOUVER -- The RCMP are coming under more fire in B.C. over what critics say are ongoing attempts to squash media commentary that is critical of the force and its members.



The B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) is demanding the Terrace RCMP detachment resume sending press releases to the Terrace Daily News, after delivery ceased in June.

Publisher Merv Ritchie said the media outlet was blacklisted after publishing a story and BCCLA letter critical of RCMP Inspector Dana Hart, and after two other articles critiqued and spoofed the Mounties.



Terrace RCMP spokesperson Angela Rabut wrote to Ritchie explaining, "The Terrace RCMP issues news releases to credible media outlets. The Terrace Daily does not fall in this category."



"She said we have to change the way we do our website," Ritchie said, adding she told him to take satirical pieces off the front home page.



"But that's the way we run our website. Everything goes on the front page. And that's not going to change."

Rabut did not return calls for comment on Friday. Calls to the provincial RCMP media relations department also went unreturned.



"Retaliation for negative coverage by withholding public information is not acceptable," BCCLA president Lindsay Lyster said in a media release.



Lyster also criticized Hart, a former member of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's security team, for writing a letter to the CRTC on official RCMP letterhead supporting Bell Communications acquisition of Astral Media.



In the letter dated July 27, Hart wrote, "Terrace RCMP rely on our local Astral Media extensively to inform the public about issues affecting public safety "¦ BCE's acquisition will "¦ also help to ensure the production of new Canadian content."



Lyster said it's unacceptable for Hart "to advocate for the private interests of media outlets that provide favourable coverage."



Controversy has dogged the RCMP in B.C. this year over its reactions and responses to critics.



A week ago, the force raided the home of a man connected to the Re-Sergeance Alliance blog, which aimed to publish stories of corruption inside the force. The BCCLA has criticized the RCMP for obtaining the search warrant using the rare charge of defamatory libel, which the rights group said has been struck down as unconstitutional in at least three provinces.



In February, Osoyoos Times editor Keith Lacey apologized for publishing a "slanderous" editorial about the behaviour of an RCMP officer when he was pulled over while driving, after the force threatened to release video of the incident.



Simon Fraser University criminal psychology professor Ehor Boyanowsky, who is also a member of the Canadian Constitution Federation, said it's important to protect the public's democratic right to criticize the police, "even if the criticism turns out ultimately not to be true."





Defamatory libel



Courts in several provinces have ruled that S.301 of the Criminal Code is unconstitutional as it says anyone who publishes defamatory material, whether truthful or not, is committing defamatory libel, an indictable offence with a maximum penalty of two years in jail.



In 1996, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal upheld a ruling in the case of John and Johanna Lucas, who had carried placards and posted flyers criticizing a child sexual abuse investigation. The court ruled that S.301 was not a justified limit on the freedom of expression.



Also in 1996, the Ontario Court of Justice also struck down S.301, used to charge Bradley Waugh and Ravin Gill who put up wanted posters of six Kingston Penitentiary guards implicated in the suspicious death of an inmate. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association intervened, and the judge ruled S.301 of no force and effect in Ontario.



In 2008, the Newfoundland Supreme Court ruled S.301 unconstitutional when it was used to charge Byron Prior for distributing flyers alleging a public justice official raped and impregnated his 12-year-old sister some 40 years before. The court ruled S.301 could not stand because it prevents the publishing of material even if it is truthful.



In May of this year, prosecutors in New Brunswick dropped libel charges against Charles LeBlanc for posting comments on his blog about a police officer. Director of public prosecutions Luc Labonte said that with the previous rulings striking down S.301 in other jurisdictions, "we really didn't think that any court in this province would rule against those other cases." Fredericton police had obtained a warrant for defamatory libel to search LeBlanc's house and seize his computer.



Section 300 of the Criminal Code also addresses defamatory libel with a maximum penalty of up to five years' prison, but civil liberty groups say it is much more difficult for prosecutors to achieve a conviction under that charge. Prosecutors must prove that a suspect is fully aware his statement is false, and that he published his statement with the specific intent to defame.



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