After the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arbitrarily manufactured over 13,000 “gun criminals” last week by reclassifying Swiss Arms and CZ 858 rifles from non-restricted to prohibited, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney announced a 5-year amnesty protecting those formerly law-abiding gun owners from prosecution. Gun owners across the country are understandably ups … [Read more...]
Why Government Despises Liberty… Thoughts on Bastiat’s classic “The Law”
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...]
Was Ireneusz Janiszewski Exercising His Charter Rights or Obstructing Justice?
I've been meaning to write about this for a few days, but other things just get in the way sometimes. That's unfortunate, because this is an important case that deserves attention. On May 30th, 2011 Ireneusz Janiszewski photographed police arresting a man who was allegedly drunk in public and causing a disturbance. It is a fact that you are allowed to photograph and/or … [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...]
New York is screwed up. What else do you call threatening to charge the man who saved a cop’s life?
I read this story a while back about the school safety agent who helped save a cop's life in New York. The part where they were threatening to charge the guy who picked up the wounded cop's gun and shot back at the attackers is what caught my eye. Imagine that... It takes a pretty sick prosecutor to threaten charges against someone who's actually one of the heroes of the s … [Read more...]