It's getting harder and

It's getting harder and harder to distinguish between the Government and "organized crime". Watch out Bill, it's time for your office to be ransacked again.

Scandal of the Century

It would be erronious to lay ALL of the Liberal governments sins at the foot of CanWestGlobal. But the lack of coverage of this total fiasco by BC's daily news monopoly is solely their responsibility. One can imagine the feeding frenzy every BC resident would be subjected to if these same facts involved the NDP. But when it is Liberal government corruption, nary a peep. Yet another step towards banana republic status. Thank GOODNESS for the Mr. Tieleman and the Tyee.

Surreal

I must admit the whole Railgate scandal does give me a serious case of the surreal. That it is so poorly covered by the media, particularly the Asper controlled press, I always find amazing. But then again perhaps it is an indication of how far reaching the scandal is within the provincial and possibly federal government.

One side note Ed: actually Barnum didn't say "A sucker is born every minute." it was a competitor of Barnum's, trying to defame him, who falsely attributed the quote to Barnum. I don't recall the name of the competitor off the top of my head.

Thanks for the correction,

Thanks for the correction, not being a student of Barnum, I used a commonly accepted version.

As far the media is concerned, it is now at the censorship level of the fascist and communist regimes.

Which shows, that societies and economic systems warped by ideologies and religions always become dictatorships, as hundreds of historical precedents also prove.

Makes no difference what ideologies, or religions, the result is always the same, even if the colour of the flags and the chains are different.

Ed Deak.

Justice in Chains

BC Courts are an appendage of the Campbell regime. Whenever Don Brenner (CJ of the Supreme Court), Dave Tysoe (ex of SCBC, now of Appeals Court) and Patrick Dohm (AJ, SCBC), and other elitists take a case, private individuals lose.

Last Thursday, Carol James attacked Wally Oppal for supporting Alcan on the theft of BC power from the people of Kitimat. Young law students need to be aware that Brenner, pal Tysoe et al, void quid pro quo from the law of contract. when justice threatens corporate or government interests. Now the Court of Appeal has overthrown popular sovereignty. What about the Supreme Court of Canada? CJ Beverley McLachlin is the moron who allowed Rule 18 butchery of procedural rights in BC. Under her perverse regime, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has become a government tool.

http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/Jdb-txt/CA/08/00/2008BCCA0081.htm
http://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2007/2007bcsc429/2007bcsc429.html

Why are Brenner and Tysoe so brazen in abridging due consideration? Because they know that they are under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Judicial Council. Of 2200 judicial complaints executed before the CJC since 1990, in only 6 cases was a judge even required to produce an explanation. After a federally appointed judge - Robert Flahiff - was convicted for Money Laundering, the CJC ensured that he received over $500,000 in unearned wages. Brenner is a member of the CJC, and he has personal charge of the complaint case against Ontario Justice, Paul Cosgrove. Brenner has delayed justice in that case for no less than 10 years (!!!) Further, the CJC suppressed publication of Cosgrove's original case decision, that resulted in a court of appeal overturn. Please read the following OAC attacks on Cosgrove's integrity. It is chock full of brazen falsehoods, half truths and innuendo.
http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2003/2003canlii24447/2003canlii24447.html
We don't need politicized courts.

Budd Campbell: I pulled

Budd Campbell:

I pulled original documents from the Robert Sommers' corruption case. He had no defence to charges that he bribed Mac Blo, but proferred sham defences in hope that someone would fix the case. Politics couldn't defeat justice in that case; times have changed. For our current government, breach of trust isn't a crime: it is their job description.

Prediction: Basi-Virk won't go to trial. It will be fixed on a manufactured "Carosela" motion case.

1st propaganda, then enforcement

Harper may have made the next step. Tansportation, communication and the means of production are clearly falling into fewer hands. The only thing left is to be able to put down rightful rebellion and enforce NAFTA/NAU/SPP through having soldiers on Cnadian soil that are not answerable to Canadian laws. Check it out.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=327869

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Let's hope you're right,

Let's hope you're right, Bill. If this case is buried and the real, VIP movers and shakers behind this scam remain unnamed and unpunished, it will in itself be a crime.

No wonder the real, screwed owners, the public, is not permitted to see the contracts and conditions of this giveaway.

Ed Deak.

BT: Unfortunately, "public

BT:

Unfortunately, "public interest" isn't Oppal's forte. Notwithstanding AG' Order in Council admissions that the Frank Paul Inquiry was in the public interest, Oppal has directed Inquiry counsel to invoke privilege, as a means to conceal Crown Counsel interactions with the Frank Paul cops.

Further, at the Inquiry, a VPD executive admitted that charge reccommendations are excluded from investigation reports on in-custody deaths. Otherwise Form 1 reports always include said recommendations. Favouritism is plain and obvious. Given that BC cops cannot register criminal charges, reports are given to Crown Counsel for assessment. If prosecutors find that information is insufficient, they feed reports back to police for "more information" (over 30% of cases are so handled; informations are always floated for the statutorily allowed 6 months, even if the elements of an offence are not present).

There is no record of Crown Counsel EVER initiating an investigation of a cop for falsifcation of an arrest or investigation report. Yet, falsification is frequently fleshed out in trial courts. In the Frank Paul case, VPD deceived Paul's family, by telling them that his death was caused by his being struck by a car. Crown Counsel could have taken measures to incorporate evidence of that falsification into their treatment of the Information; instead, they acceded to negligent homocide.

Of course, there is the "Crown Counsel: Policy Manual" (Available at the Smithe library). Policy directives order prosecutors to report knowledge of police crime; they NEVER comply. Why? They are parties to the results-orientation of BC police. They could care less about false arrests and wrongful prosecutions. Oppal's record as a judge was slavishly pro-cop. Concealment of their dirty games is his agenda.

If...............

........ the Basi/Virk case is thrown out, then I can honestly say the rule of law has ceased to exist in BC and Canada. If the public looses faith in the law, then anarchy reigns.

Campbell and his mob, want one law for themselves and one law for the others. Campbell has also shattered civil or contract law in BC, where the courts have tried to reverse this.

If contract law is null and void, then any legal document has no meaning in law! If criminal law can be subverted by the powerful, for their own ends, then revolution takes place.

Campbell is plying a very dangerous game in BC, he may win the battle, but loose the war.

We are living in evil days, where the Prince of Darkness and his court now rule BC. The mainstream media have embarrassed themselves by ignoring the truth, which again, little by little, erodes our foundation of society. In the end big Brother rules supreme.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

George Orwell

Justice in Chains

Grumpy:

These are strange days in BC justice. In the Walls-Millard case, which led to the resignation of a Liberal Party Cabinet Minister, the accused were found in civil court to have kited $1 million in funds. They were charged after a criminal complaint arose from a civil case. Strangely, the civil case above was operated under Rule 18A, which can only proceed after a plaintiff declares that a defendent has no defence, and a judge is presented with no cause for indulging a summary trial. Rule 18 - inserted by Beverly McLachlin (now CJ of the Supreme Court of Canada) has all but sandbagged suits against government parties. How? It is used by Crown attornies to claim vexatious or insufficiency cause. Government Motions rarely fail in BC courts, even where perverse conduct is defended.
http://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2001/2001bcsc982/2001bcsc982.html

The Supreme Court chose to retain jurisdiction in Walls-Millard, although the case assigner - Donald Brenner (CJ, Supreme Court of BC) somehow chose to have Pat Dohm, his business friendly Associate Justice take the case. Brenner wanted jurisdiction because of involvement by a Special Prosecutor. In an atmosphere of innuendo, Dohm chose to spare Walls-Millard jail time.
http://www.opinion250.com/blog/view/5148/3/doug+walls+and+millard+sentenced

Strangely, Brenner chose not to publish the case. Strangely, Brenner also chose not to publish the case where he squelched a law suit against 2 Supreme Court justices (Garson and Williams). The plaintiff (John Ruiz-Dempsey: I don't know him) was later jailed for 30 days violating Brenner's court order against him. That suit was based on Garson's refusal to recuse, based on her contacts with defendent parties. Further, she entered a judgment after she stormed out of proceedings, without giving hearing to pleadings. A judgment issued on that basis is: a criminal falsification. Even though the lawsuit is bizarre, parties had a right to pursue it. Brenner decided otherwise.
http://www.natural-person.ca/People_vs_Banks.html

Of course you can complain to the Canadian Judicial Council. But in only 6 of 2200 complaints against judges, executed since 1990, have judges even been asked to explain conduct. And Brenner has personally floated a complaint against Ontario Justice Paul Cosgrove (former federal Liberal Party Cabinet Minister) for 10 years. Then there was the case where the CJC ensured that ("The Honourable")justice Robert Flahiff was allowed to collect over $500,000 in unearned wages, after he was collected for Money Laundering for a mob member.

When you read the daily hero cop garbage in the Canwest Daily-Vomits, remember that there is an ugly underbelly to the society that they portray as plagued only by dypsos and druggies.

Same as it ever was.

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Bears Repeating

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A brilliant piece of analysis, Bailey.

Yes, the behavior and approach of this government in regards to disclosure and privilege is quite revealing in itself.

The perceptive observation you make in your final paragraph bears repeating:

I guess

it`s business as usual then for the traitors that run Canada if no one has the balls to call them out, Section 46 Criminal Code of Canada sets out what treason is and I believe Harper fits the crime

demotto

I think that you will find tha BC Railwas sold and the transaction was closed on July 15, 2004.

Stephen Harper became Prime Minister a year and a half later in February 2006.

This renders your previous comment moot on this subject.

Realisticman

The winning "bid" (in quotation marks for obvious reasons) for the freight operations of BC Rail was accepted and announced on November 28, 2003.

I have no comment on what exactly demotto is referring to relative to Stephen Harper...

The pertinent note from the BCRail financial statements reads as follows:

On July 14, 2004, BCRC and BCR Properties Ltd. completed a transaction with Canadian National Railway Company (CN) pursuant to an agreement signed between the parties on November 25, 2003 (the “CN Transaction”). Under the terms of the agreement, CN assumed the Company’s
industrial freight railway business by purchasing the shares of BC Rail Ltd., the partnership interests of BC Rail Partnership and railcars from a related entity (collectively “BC Rail”) for cash proceeds of $1.0 billion. The 2004 gain on the CN Transaction included in the financial statements is $198.6 million.

Withal, one of the darkest days, biggest rip-offs and most bold-faced examples of a blatant political lie in the long and sordid history of right-wing governemnt in this province. Something every British Columbian should hang his or her head over and something that ought to have made the premier of this place a pariah.

From this morning's Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080227.BCHAWTHORN27/TPStory/?query=THE+LEGISLATURE+RAID+

Baily

You raise excellent points in your comment. In the interest of "factuality" (in case we get some fact police like John who has been pointing out what may be factual lapses, no matter how unimportant or irrelevant over at Bill T's blog) I must correct the following.

I think you will find that it was Justice Bennett who found "that the evidence witheld is relevent to guilt or innocence."

Justice Bennett stated in court, from the bench, that certain e-mails met that criteria. Venturing from the world of fact into the realm of opinion if Patrick Dohm had his druthers, from what I've seen this trial would be redacted from the universe.

As I said, this was just an inoculation against those who may try to turn an debate about facts/issues into a quarrel about "type fonts ala Dan Rather." No intent to impugn your opinion or say nyaa, nyaa, nyaa.

Thanks

Kootkoot; You're right, of course. Sometimes I just type too fast. I really need to proofread, don't always have time.

Justice Bennet made the ruling, not Justice Dohm. The ruling itself, however, was as described, from what I read.

From the same article, I had the impression that after such a ruling, the evidence in question was available to the defence for use, regardless of the fact that it would ordinarily be excluded out of hand. Maybe not, since it seems to be still in limbo.

I would think that the very fact that the thing and the ruling have been publicised quite widely means there would be little advantage in defending it further, unless it might lead to jail time for some high provincial officials.

That would be the only possible inference to draw, should the thing never come out at all.