Katey Montague, creator of dozens of pro-gun videos on Youtube, has made the just-released RCMP reports accessible without the need to sign up for another web service. The original link at the CBC, http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/08/rcmps-report-on-the-long-gun-registry-sent-to-mps.html, required anyone wanting the reports to register with Scribd.com. You can … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2010
Some RCMP Members Just Can’t Help Themselves…
Some RCMP members just can't stop themselves from behaving badly, and the entire force looks bad because of it. A story out of Kamloops, BC leaves me shaking my head. Four RCMP officers and three civilian municipal staff at a Kamloops jail are under criminal and internal code of conduct investigations for their action, or rather their inaction, and watching of two inmates … [Read more...]
RCMP Accountability in BC
Dave Eby, the executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association, held a weekend workshop in Prince George two weeks ago. It was part of his tour of northern and interior towns to educate people on their rights, how to exercise them effectively when dealing with the RCMP, and to get feedback on RCMP practices in the area. The general findings on the meeting were not … [Read more...]
communist broadcasting corp (CBC) at it again…
The CBC (aka communist broadcasting corporation) is demanding we save Canada's failed gun registry. Their reasons are simple enough... the RCMP says it's an important tool. They quote a line from the unreleased report that says: The program, as a whole, is an important tool for law enforcement. It also serves to increase accountability of firearm owners for their … [Read more...]
Katey Montague is doing a little fundraising
Katey Montague, the bright young lady whose YouTube videos helped her father raise over $250,000 in legal fees for his Constitutional Challenge, is embarking on a new venture and is looking for some financial assistance. Her new website, KateysFirearmsFacts.com, is her launchpad for educating Canadians about all their Rights and Freedoms and providing tools to more effectively … [Read more...]
Cleveland’s “Garbage Police” Are After You
Someone sent me this video clip from Fox News about Cleveland's new high-tech garbage and recycling cans. I was laughing until I realized the Cleveland City representative was 100% okay with fining you if you don't take your recycling to the curb when they say you should. Or that Cleveland's new "garbage police" would go through your garbage piece by piece and fine you if … [Read more...]
Canadian Justice — Killer Walks Free
Lucy Muthoka got off easy. She killed two men when she crashed her new car into them in a crowded intersection in Winnipeg two years ago. After pleading guilty to two charges of dangerous driving causing death, she's been handed a suspended sentence with probation. "God being my witness, I never intended to harm. Words fail to express how sorry I am," Muthoka is quoted … [Read more...]
Freedom of Expression? No Thanks, we’re Canadian…
In 2008, the township of Russell, Ontario, passed a bylaw requiring all posted signage to be bilingual. Embrun, Ontario, businessman Jean-Serge Brisson challenged the law in court, believing the law violated his Right to Freedom of Expression. For the record, I agree with Mr. Brisson. However, Ontario's Superior Court sided with the town, and upheld the bylaw, stating … [Read more...]
Positive News About the RCMP (for a change)
Grey Mountain shooting range in Whitehorse, Yukon, was the site for the longest running international shooting competition, known simply as "The Shoot". It's an annual shooting competition between the RCMP and Alaska State Police has been running for 50 years. Pretty impressive by any standards. According to the Alaska Department of Public Safety press release, The Shoot … [Read more...]
Steal Ammunition From RCMP, do NOT go to Jail
Imagine this scenario. You retired from the RCMP after 29 years of service with the rank of Staff Sergeant. You returned as a civilian firearms trainer at the RCMP Regina Depot facility. You have full access to the RCMP's ammunition and firearms lockups. You steal ammunition and take it home. You get caught. You get charged with the crime. But do yo do the time? Not if … [Read more...]
“Don’t Blame ME!” cries Jack Layton
Recently there are a lot of news reports focusing on NDP leader Jack Layton and his position on Candice Hoeppner's Bill C-391 to scrap Canada's long gun registry. Jack's primary concern is that Canadians not blame him or his party if the long gun registry is scrapped. What he's REALLY concerned about, however, is getting his urban MPs re-elected. Urban votes. He really … [Read more...]
Rural Canadians – Second Class Citizens?
While Candice Hoeppner jets around the country doing her best to convince opposition MPs to support her bill to scrap the long gun registry (Bill C-391), there is a question we as a society really need to ask ourselves. Why does Parliament show such disdain for rural Canadians? Yes, I'm speaking of Canada's stupid gun registry, but that's not all. We'll send western … [Read more...]
Canada’s (In)Effective Gun Laws
In yet another stunning example of the ineptness of Canada's Firearms Act comes a news report out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. 20-year-old Jeremy Kyle St. Germain was arrested on August 7th, after managing to get himself shot. Jeremy is a career criminal with a firearms prohibition order in place. Despite his violent criminal past, police do not check up on him, his home is not … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge in Toronto
“It was definitely an accidental shooting,” said Const. Tony Vella, a police spokesman.? It's odd how often we hear that phrase: accidental shooting. This time, it was a police officer in a training facility. Although no official source will say it, they come close: he shot himself. How? The same way a gun always "just goes off". He wasn't paying attention to what he … [Read more...]
Cerebral Palsy Woman Abused By Vancouver City Police
Wow. A Vancouver City Police constable, strolling down the street with two fellow "officers" were caught on camera pushing a woman to the ground, and then walking away. Disgusting. Truly disgusting. The VPD officer was NOT suspended, nor, as far as anyone can tell, reprimanded in any way.He wrote a letter of apology for his actions, if you can call "I thought at the time … [Read more...]
BC Civil Liberties Assn wants to hear from you
The BC Civil Liberties Association is holding a series of public workshops to gather the thoughts of rural British Columbians about the RCMP. BCCLA Executive Director, lawyer, and author of the Arrest Handbook: A Guide to Your Rights, David Eby will be visiting 14 BC interior and northern centers to hear what people have to say. The workshops will also be teaching sessions, … [Read more...]
First Deadline for Hoeppner’s Bill C-391
September 22, 2010. That's the date Parliament will vote on Liberal MP Mark Holland's motion that the Public Safety Committee "does not proceed further with Bill C-391". That is also the deadline for talking to your MP and demanding they vote AGAINST that motion, so that Bill C-391 can come to the floor of Parliament and get voted on, without more Liberal … [Read more...]
Lillooet Tries Banning Unauthorized Public Meetings
Lillooet Mayor Dennis Bontron has decided he needs a new law. Vandals are causing property damage in the parks the small municipality operates. Mayor Bontron's solution to this problem is to ban "unauthorized public meetings". Bylaw 343 would close parks and beaches overnight,and would also place a ban on "unauthorized performances, marches, meetings and formal gatherings in … [Read more...]
Preview of Canada’s Next Steps in Gun Control
Australia spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy back firearms in the mid-90's. Like all do-gooder projects, the government felt this would keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Like all do-gooder legislation that's not been properly thought through, it's been a massive failure. Never ones to give up hope, however, the current government of Queensland has decided … [Read more...]
The utter Depravity of Man (and woman ) kind
I read recently that Samantha Kematch, the Manitoba woman convicted of gruesomely beating her 5-year-old child Phoenix to death, has decided to drop her planned appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. On what grounds she was planning to appeal is unknown. News reports dating back to 2005 paint a pretty horrific picture of Phoenix's life. Apparently beaten from the time she … [Read more...]
Government Soldiers Murder More Citizens
Whenever anyone says that guns in the hands of civilians are a problem, I wonder if they live very sheltered lives. Here in North America we truly do exist in a vacuum. We think that the world's problems cannot reach us, despite 9/11 and other atrocities proving that head-in-the-sand attitude quite wrong. In Columbia some kids were getting sick from the drinking water. … [Read more...]
Waving Guns In Public (Fake Ones Too!)
On August 3rd Calgary Police got several calls about a man acting suspiciously in a Safeway parking lot. Police responded. They found and apprehended someone who was seen carrying a firearm outside the grocery store. He was arrested and "charges are pending" after police found a replica handgun on the him. What he was doing there, police a still investigating. Why he … [Read more...]
How to Ruin Your Wedding Day
You wedding day is supposed to be the happiest day of your life. I know mine was. But then I wasn't stupid enough to bring an automatic firearm to my wedding reception either. Seriously. A news report out of Ankara Turkey today blew me away. Okay, not literally, obviously, but it sure made me laugh and cry both at the same time. As I said in a post the other day about … [Read more...]
CCTV Cameras: the answer to murder?
Toronto has its share of shootings, murders, and violent crime. Like most major cities in North America it wants to ban handguns. And install more surveillance video cameras. Especially after one caught a murder as it happened. Yes, it's a very disturbing video. No question. One man murdered, the other wounded and in hospital. Not good, by any standard. Toronto … [Read more...]
Police officer accidentally shot himself… oh really
This news item from Queensland is puzzling. It states: A Queensland police officer is being treated in hospital after a service pistol accidentally discharged into his face. The 41-year-old senior constable from Metro North was at the gun safe at Albany Creek police station in Brisbane's north when the pistol discharged, causing shrapnel wounds to his face, police said … [Read more...]
Stupid Toronto Star Poll
The ever ban-happy Toronto Star now wants to ban retail sales of cats and dogs. What morons. A retail store that sells pets pretty much guarantees one thing: the person purchasing the pet, the person putting down their hard-earned and much-taxed cash for a pet isn't very likely to be the person who doesn't want said pet. But the Toronto Star has decided there is a … [Read more...]
If only there was ONE MORE LAW!!!
Apparently nobody told the current government that shooting up the streets as you're driving around on a Saturday night was illegal. Or that the crime of murder already had tons of laws on the books against it. And that they need to "expand the definition" of "serious crimes". Where's my darned barf bucket? What I find truly amusing about the latest "crackdown on crime" … [Read more...]
Britain’s Handgun Ban Fails Again
On July 31st an interesting news story came out of Britain. A college student was found with a handgun at London's Kingston College. Adamo Kizey, 18, was found with a handgun and loaded magazine. The police seized the handgun and the magazine, then took the young man back to his home, which they then proceeded to search. The search resulted in some marijuana and weigh … [Read more...]
Katey Montague and Bill C-391 to scrap Canada’s “Long Gun Registry”
Whether you like the bill or hate it, one thing is certain: it will be a very interesting vote this fall. Katey Montague, the "YouTube starlet" as she's been called, recently released another video, this time directed squarely at Liberal leader Michael Ignatief. Taking shots at Iggy isn't difficult, especially on this issue. He's waffled over this since like mad ever since … [Read more...]