Frederik Bastiat, in his classic “The Law”, wrote: Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. How true these words are, yet they're miles and miles from our current reality. Today governments decree what we may own, … [Read more...]
Ian Thomson’s attempted murderers sentenced today… but not for the charge of attempted murder
[powerpress] In the early morning hours of August 22, 2010, Ian Thomson's home was attacked by four men screaming that they were going to kill him. They tossed Molotov cocktails at his home and dog kennel and did not back off until Ian Thomson grabbed one of his legally-owned pistols and fired a couple of warning shots over their heads. Then, … [Read more...]
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 absolutely no right to defend yourself from a violent attacker, especially if you're using a handgun to do so. Warren Kinsella … [Read more...]
A loaded pistol was found in his car, yet he’s not arrested, charged or sent off to prison
Can you imagine if you or I left a loaded handgun under the front seat of our vehicle and someone else found it? Here's roughly what would transpire next: 1. SWAT would be called in to serve a "high risk warrant", kick in our front door, arrest us, seize anything and everything even remotely related to firearms, and parade us and our personal property before the media to … [Read more...]
Gun Owners Continue to Face Criminal Charges for a Law That Doesn’t Exist
I am flipping tired of the unmitigated hubris that continues to spur Canada’s game-playing cops and court system in their indefatigable zeal to prosecute innocent gun owners with the same pesky, recycled sections of the Canadian Firearms Act. In order to demonize gun owners to the hilt, the Government of Canada saw its way clear, at the behest of the United Nations, to dump … [Read more...]
Vigilantism vs Self-Defense: Why Bob Rae is a buffoon completely out of touch with reality
Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae is the perfect Liberal. He hates his fellow citizens and believes the State should, indeed MUST be all-powerful, especially when it comes to a monopoly of force. It is the state and ONLY the state who should be able to use force to repel attackers, not mere citizens. For those of us of the lesser class, i.e. not a Liberal politician or a … [Read more...]
Everyone’s House is His Castle and Fortress
This article is intended as a companion piece to Christopher di Armani’s September 28th post titled Ontario Crown Counsel and OPP Finally Find Some Common Sense. "There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has … [Read more...]
Ontario Crown Counsel and OPP finally find some common sense
After nothing but horror story after horror story about homeowners being charged for having the audacity to defend themselves against home invaders, the latest case of an Ontario man stabbing his home invader to death has come to the correct end. Thank God! While it seems that common sense has arrived at the offices of Ontario's Justice Department too late for Ian … [Read more...]
Intruder invades a man’s home, but it’s the home owner who gets charged with aggravated assault
In what's becoming a disgusting and disturbing pattern across Canada, it's once again the law-abiding citizen that is being charged, not the criminal. Ontario police and Crown prosecutors appear to have an incredible bias against anyone actually defending themselves, their loved ones or their property. This is just the latest in a long line of legal obscenities to grace the … [Read more...]
Freedom of Speech? Not if you protested the G-20 in Toronto…
I find it "interesting" that in Canada, a nation that claims to be a defender of our God-given Rights and Freedoms, we have judges telling people they cannot exercise their Right to Freedom of Speech. It would seem that even after the largest number human rights violations in Canadian history, the affronts to our fundamental Rights and Freedoms isn't going to end any time … [Read more...]
Police are treated differently than the rest of us when they break the law
To those who say the law is applied equally to citizens and police, I've only got one word: Bullshit. I'll cite the case of Chilliwack RCMP constable Matt Wright this time to make my point. RCMP Constable Wright, according to the Ottawa Citizen article on his case, is a former military man. Generally speaking, military men comprehend honour, integrity and right from … [Read more...]
RCMP member loses his service pistol and doesn’t even know it?
Seriously? How the heck can you drop your service pistol on the bathroom floor and not even know it? That's the question of the hour today as Nova Scotia RCMP try and figure out why a civilian was the one turning in an RCMP standard issue Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol. Shall I list the charges that any "mere citizen" would face if they dropped their loaded pistol in a … [Read more...]
Bill C-60 — citizen’s arrest and defences of property and persons
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Toronto Thursday to announce the introduction of a government bill, C-60, that would, in theory, prevent honest citizens like Toronto store owner David Chen from being abused by our legal system. Officially the title of Bill C-60 is “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (citizen’s arrest and the defences of property and persons)”. … [Read more...]
Conservative Govt to introduce citizen’s arrest legislation?
The Globe and Mail reported that the Harper government was getting ready to introduce legislation making it easier for citizens to make arrests. This comes in the wake of Toronto shopkeeper David Chen’s horrific experience at the hands of the Ontario criminal justice system. What’s heartening about this announcement that, if it’s true, it could begin to put an end to … [Read more...]
It takes a special kind of cop to steal from Crime Stoppers
It takes a special kind of cop to steal from Crime Stoppers. Senior Corporal Theadora Ross of the Dallas Police is exactly that kind of special cop. For over five years Ross and another woman, identified by police as Malva Delley, [allegedly] fed bogus tips to the Crime Stoppers program and collected over $250,000 in reward money. Good work, if yo can get it, I suppose. … [Read more...]
Man defends himself, gets charged, while attempted murderers run free
Here is another case that absolutely disgusts me. Ian Thomson ran out of his house as three masked thugs were firebombing it. They were trying to kill him by burning his house down with him inside it. Any rational person would imagine that Thomson was fearing for his life as he came outside with a firearm and fired a warning shot to scare the thugs away. It worked. They … [Read more...]