Rehabilitating The Monster

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 14 September 2012 22:30

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp317.net/z94klg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rehabilitating The Monster ( http://cic.sondages-surveys.ca/s/immigration2013/ ) Is there any sphere of human endeavour the UN must not control? "Canada is withdrawing from a United Nations body over the appointment of Robert Mugabe as a special tourism ambassador. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the appointment of the Zimbabwean leader as international tourism ambassador symbolizes what is wrong with the UN. Mugabe is currently under a European travel ban because of human rights abuses in his own country. His appointment is being made by the United Nations World Tourism Office. In the House of Commons Wednesday, Baird called the move outrageous, and announced that Canada will be withdrawing from the tourism office next month. Mugabe has been in power for more than three decades and has been blamed for his country's economic ruin, resulting in food and fuel shortages, rampant inflation, high poverty and unemployment." (CBC, May 31, 2012) ( http://cic.sondages-surveys.ca/s/immigration2013/ ) Mugabe's "tourism minister, Walter Mzembi, was quoted as brushing off Canada's snub as an inconsequential move by a 'small player in the global tourism industry.' 'It is not a player in the sector. It wants to leverage on the Mugabe brand. They want to take advantage of the Mugabe brand to be on the global map,' Mzembi was quoted as saying on NewZimbabwe.com. 'If they want to withdraw, let's go ahead.'" (The Guardian, June 1, 2012) That's gratitude for you. Canada would continue to underpin Mugabe's genocidal regime long after other deluded Western nations got wise. One of the dictator's most blatantly corrupt elections was vigorously defended by national embarrassment and then-prime minister Jean Chretien. Still, given the UN's uniquely debased standards, Mugabe is a pretty good choice. He's personally responsible for large numbers of people seeing the world: In the 1960s, Rhodesia's population consisted of 270,000 Whites. Just 46,743 remained by the time of the 2002 census. More than 10,000 of these were elderly and fewer than 9,000 were under the age of 15. [This article appears in the September issue of the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE. Published monthly, the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.] _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp317.net/ugmjhqsqgsgbbqgbujgguewwmw Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

Political Prisoner Brad Love Released on $222,000 Bail Pending Appeal of Breach of Pr

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 14 September 2012 22:27

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp317.net/zoK3BU -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Political Prisoner Brad Love Released on $222,000 Bail Pending Appeal of Breach of Probation Conviction & 18 Month Sentence PORT CREDIT. Political prisoner Brad Love, convicted in 2003 under Canada’s notorious “hate law” for writing non-violent letters to elected officials, was released on August 29 on an astronomic $222,000 bail pending an appeal on both his conviction and further 18 month sentence for breach of probation. The appeal is set for April 29, 2013. Mr. Love was under a draconic bail condition imposed by one Judge Hogg that forbade him from writing to anyone, without their consent; in other words, a complete gag order. In 2009, he wrote letters to several Jewish groups in Toronto in support of Stop Israel Apartheid Week, having previously obtained their oral permission by phone. On July 13, Judge Kelly Wright sentenced him to 18 months in prison having rejected his defence saying the groups had not given “informed consent.” In sentencing the prolific letter writer (more than 10,000 over a 20 year period), the Judge entirely endorsed the Crown’s submissions as she had all through the protracted proceedings. The Crown, in her arguments, made it clear that the political gagging of Mr. Love was her goal: "Mr. Love, in the Crown's submission, in a unique offender." She indicated that her goal was "to prevent" Mr. Love's "views from hurting other people. We need to protect the public from hateful, scurrilous material." And, so, he must be silenced. July and August were bad months for political prisoner Brad Love. Sentenced to jail on Friday, July 13, he expected his lawyer to make an application for bail in the Ontario Court of Appeals and secure his speedy release. That was not to be. Apparently, there was a delay in transferring papers within the ponderous bureaucracy. The next weekend, his lawyer visited him at the Lindsay Provincial prison. The following week, lawyer Patrick Leckie quit because of family problems. However, Mr. Love did not learn for some days that he was lawyerless. It took some time to retain another lawyer and still more time for the new lawyer, Peter Lindsay, who represented Brad earlier on another aspect of the “breach of probation” case, to get up to speed. Mr. Love continued to keep in touch with his employer who, understandably, kept wanting to know when he would be free to resume his job. On regaining his freedom, Mr. Love learned that he was now jobless. Thus, when he headed back to Albertashortly after Labour Day, Mr. Love was unemployed and facing at least $25,000 in legal fees over the next eight months. When Mr. Love was released on August 29, at 8:00 p.m. at night, he was sent off with only $100. He had a further $1,900 in his account at the prison. As it was after hours, the bureaucrats wouldn’t open the office to get it. He took a cab that cost $300 back to Toronto. The next day, he went back to the prison in a rented car to get the rest of his money, but not before being made to wait further and having to put up with many fish-eyed looks to determine his identity. In an exclusive interview with CAFÉ, Mr. Love explained further: “On August 22, Peter Lindsay was in Osgoode Hall trying for my appeal bail. The decision for that was put off until Friday, August 24th. On the 24th, I called his office at 3:30 p.m. and they still had received no word. It would take another five days. When I first got to Lindsay, I was asked what I was there for. I said 18 months for breach of probation. ‘What did you do?’ I was asked. I wrote letters, I replied. This was met with universal disbelief and scoffing. One man came up to me aggressively and said, ‘You must be lying.’ Im in for breach of probation. I was to keep away from my old lady. I went around to her place and beat the shit out of the bitch and put her in the hospital. I got 90 days. Other prisoners were amazed at the sentence. They found it hard to understand that thought crimes are treated far more harshly in Ontario courts than crimes of violence. As for this Spartan, badly run superjail (Lindsay), it sucks– particularly for a hard-working, keep busy, thinking person like myself. They turned me down for work because of my supposed threat group associates. Say what? I have not seen a newspaper in five weeks. I was reading some National Geographic Magazines of this year. The May issue talks about the Arab Spring in Egypt and their free speech concerns, The June issue talks aboutHong Kong-China relations and their free speech concerns. As I read this from where I was, I realized how naïve, corrupt and apathetic my own country is. It’s odd, there were 32 guys in my pod. About half lined up for meds three times a day. So, you just know the prison was spending more on dope than they were on food rations for the prisoners. And since most here already have drug problems, you’d think the boss here would wean them off the drugs. No, provide them with more! In the six weeks I was there, I requested to see the barber, librarian and social worker (so I could make an outside phone call) but no one ever responded to my repeated formal requests. What a nation of misfits! You’d think that someone in the media, especially the anti-crime rightwing Sun, would pick up on this shipwreck of a jail/court system, but maybe even they are too afraid to rock [Premier] McGuinty’s‘Ain’t multiculturalism and Israel wonderful’ boondoggle that robs every hardworking taxpayer out there. This three year [breach of probation] trial has taken a great toll on my family and me. Two costly lawyers. The media ignored me. Solid legal/Charter arguments were cast aside.. The Judge and Crown mocked my support for‘free expression,’ and my glib and provocative ways.’ The Crown called for the public to be protected from my private letters to them, but no one from this ‘public’ bothered to attend sessions of this three year long trial. And here am I a 53-year old man who works 84 hours a week, far from his home base, alone, unapologetic, bleeding money and hope and completely disenfranchised.” _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp317.net/ugmjhqsqgsgbbqgbumgguewwmw Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

Political Prisoner Brad Love Released on $222,000 Bail Pending Appeal of Breach of Pr

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 14 September 2012 22:15

*Political Prisoner Brad Love Released on $222,000 Bail Pending Appeal of Breach of Probation Conviction & 18 Month Sentence * *PORT CREDIT*. Political prisoner Brad Love, convicted in 2003 under Canada’s notorious “hate law” for writing non-violent letters to elected officials, was released on August 29 on an astronomic $222,000 bail pending an appeal on both his conviction and further 18 month sentence for breach of probation. The appeal is set for April 29, 2013. Mr. Love was under a draconic bail condition imposed by one Judge Hogg that forbade him from writing to *anyone*, without their consent; in other words, a complete gag order. In 2009, he wrote letters to several Jewish groups in Toronto in support of Stop Israel Apartheid Week, having previously obtained their oral permission by phone. On July 13, Judge Kelly Wright sentenced him to 18 months in prison having rejected his defence saying the groups had not given “informed consent.” In sentencing the prolific letter writer (more than 10,000 over a 20 year period), the Judge entirely endorsed the Crown’s submissions as she had all through the protracted proceedings. The Crown, in her arguments, made it clear that the political gagging of Mr. Love was her goal: "Mr. Love, in the Crown's submission, in a unique offender." She indicated that her goal was "to prevent" Mr. Love's "views from hurting other people. We need to protect the public from hateful, scurrilous material." And, so, he must be silenced. July and August were bad months for political prisoner Brad Love. Sentenced to jail on Friday, July 13, he expected his lawyer to make an application for bail in the Ontario Court of Appeals and secure his speedy release. That was not to be. Apparently, there was a delay in transferring papers within the ponderous bureaucracy. The next weekend, his lawyer visited him at the Lindsay Provincial prison. The following week, lawyer Patrick Leckie quit because of family problems. However, Mr. Love did not learn for some days that he was lawyerless. It took some time to retain another lawyer and still more time for the new lawyer, Peter Lindsay, who represented Brad earlier on another aspect of the “breach of probation” case, to get up to speed. Mr. Love continued to keep in touch with his employer who, understandably, kept wanting to know when he would be free to resume his job. On regaining his freedom, Mr. Love learned that he was now jobless. Thus, when he headed back to Albertashortly after Labour Day, Mr. Love was unemployed and facing at least $25,000 in legal fees over the next eight months. When Mr. Love was released on August 29, at 8:00 p.m. at night, he was sent off with only $100. He had a further $1,900 in his account at the prison. As it was after hours, the bureaucrats wouldn’t open the office to get it. He took a cab that cost $300 back to Toronto. The next day, he went back to the prison in a rented car to get the rest of his money, but not before being made to wait further and having to put up with many fish-eyed looks to determine his identity. In an exclusive interview with CAFÉ, Mr. Love explained further: “On August 22, Peter Lindsay was in Osgoode Hall trying for my appeal bail. The decision for that was put off until Friday, August 24th. On the 24th, I called his office at 3:30 p.m. and they still had received no word. It would take another five days. When I first got to Lindsay, I was asked what I was there for. I said 18 months for breach of probation. ‘What did you do?’ I was asked. I wrote letters, I replied. This was met with universal disbelief and scoffing. One man came up to me aggressively and said, ‘You must be lying.’ Im in for breach of probation. I was to keep away from my old lady. I went around to her place and beat the shit out of the bitch and put her in the hospital. I got 90 days. Other prisoners were amazed at the sentence. They found it hard to understand that thought crimes are treated far more harshly in Ontariocourts than crimes of violence. As for this Spartan, badly run superjail (Lindsay), it sucks– particularly for a hard-working, keep busy, thinking person like myself. They turned me down for work because of my supposed threat group associates. Say what? I have not seen a newspaper in five weeks. I was reading some *National Geographic Magazines* of this year. The May issue talks about the Arab Spring in Egypt and their free speech concerns, The June issue talks aboutHong Kong-China relations and their free speech concerns. As I read this from where I was, I realized how naïve, corrupt and apathetic my own country is. It’s odd, there were 32 guys in my pod. About half lined up for meds three times a day. So, you just know the prison was spending more on dope than they were on food rations for the prisoners. And since most here already have drug problems, you’d think the boss here would wean them off the drugs. No, provide them with more! In the six weeks I was there, I requested to see the barber, librarian and social worker (so I could make an outside phone call) but no one ever responded to my repeated formal requests. What a nation of misfits! You’d think that someone in the media, especially the anti-crime rightwing *Sun*, would pick up on this shipwreck of a jail/court system, but maybe even they are too afraid to rock [Premier] McGuinty’s‘Ain’t multiculturalism and Israel wonderful’ boondoggle that robs every hardworking taxpayer out there. This three year [breach of probation] trial has taken a great toll on my family and me. Two costly lawyers. The media ignored me. Solid legal/Charter arguments were cast aside.. The Judge and Crown mocked my support for‘free expression,’ and my glib and provocative ways.’ The Crown called for the public to be protected from my private letters to them, but no one from this ‘public’ bothered to attend sessions of this three year long trial. And here am I a 53-year old man who works 84 hours a week, far from his home base, alone, unapologetic, bleeding money and hope and completely disenfranchised.”