On behalf of my lovely wife Shastah and myself I want to take this moment to thank everyone who made our trip to the 24th annual George Orwell dinner in Victoria, B.C. a reality.

Travel from our relatively remote area of the province to the island is expensive and it was only due to the generosity of those who donated funds that we were able to attend this important gathering of free speech advocates from across Canada.

This was the second time that we were able to enjoy the fellowship of people on the front lines of those fighting to retain the right to speak out their truths in the face of a brutal and alarmingly dangerous force: the government of Canada and its bureaucratic agent known as the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC).

Due to time restrictions at the moment I cannot elaborate on the meeting but will do so over the next while.

Arthur Topham

Pub/Ed

RadicalPress.com

Teztan Biny/Fish Lake Petition
http://www.protectfishlake.ca/petition

Teztan Biny is part of the Tsilhqot’in homeland and the Taseko River / Fraser River watershed.

At Teztan, Nabas, and Jididzay, Tsilhqot’in families have hunted, trapped and fished, and gathered medicines in their traditional way of life for decades, just like their ancestors, the Esghaydam, did before them.

Today, Teztan is still a beautiful and powerful place where they go to practice their culture and preserve their way of life. Since settlers came into their land, they have worked hard to protect their culture and their way of life from the settlers destructive ways. Now Taseko Mines Ltd. wants to build a huge mine there. They want to cut the trees, tear up the land, and make a lake of poisoned waters there, forever destroying this lake. We do not want to see Teztan Biny/Fish Lake and the lands and waters poisoned and destroyed for short-term gain. We want to see it preserved for our lives, for our children, and for our grandchildren after them.

We all say ‘No’ to this mine and the destruction of the land and our clean water resource.

Thank you very much for signing the petition.

Please take a minute and forward this petition to your friends and family that they can sign it as well.

To comment directly to both the federal and provincial governments before midnight May 25, 2009, here’s the contact information:

Garry Alexander
B.C. Environmental Office
P.O. Box 9426, Stn Prov Govt
Victoria, B.C.
V8W 9V1
Fax: 250-356-6448
E-mail: eaoinfo@gov.bc.ca

and

Colette Spagnuolo
Panel manager, CEAA
160 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0H3
Fax:  613-957-0941
E-mail:  prosperity.review@ceaa.gc.ca

Photo credit: WCWC

BC’s Rivers: Is Anyone Listening?

by Arthur Topham

May 1, 2009

The Royal Canadian Legion in downtown Quesnel was likely the most popular spot in town on Thursday evening, April 30th and considering that the Canucks were playing at the same time it was little short of a miracle that so many local citizens would have taken the time to leave their homes.

What could possible draw a near full house of hockey enthusiasts away from the tube on a week day evening other than a national emergency? Well, as Joe Foy of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee so aptly put it, there’s another emergency happening right here in B.C. that may be as critical and important to all British Columbians as any other crisis that the nation as a whole has ever faced.

And what on earth could be so important? As Foy went on to explain to a rapt audience of concerned listeners, that biggest scam being pulled off on the people of the province; one engineered by the very people elected to represents the interests of electors of British Columbia, was what the Save Our Rivers Society was here to explain to people.

That “scam”, as former Social Credit Environment Minister, author and renowned Vancouver radio broadcaster Rafe Mair told the audience (in no uncertain terms), is the total selling off by the Liberal government of Premier Gordon Campbell of BC’s public ownership of the streams and rivers that are the lifeblood and, as Rafe summed up in his provocative talk, the “soul” of this province’s geographic and ecological treasures; ones which make British Columbia the most beautiful and prized piece of real estate on the face of the planet and upon which all our other economic and social assets, as well as the free flowing vitality of the natural ecosystems, depend for their existence.

The Save Our Rivers crew from Left: Joe Foy - Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Melissa Davis - B.C. Citizens for Public Power, Rafe Mair - Save Our Rivers Society, Mike Bruce, Union Rep & MC
Photo credit: Radical Press
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Rafe Mair, now retired from politics and broadcasting and into the 78th year of his earthly sojourn, sporting a light beard, a jolly belly and a trusty cane, has been leading a a series of public awareness meetings throughout the province to try and drum up public awareness and interest in what he feels is an upcoming provincial election whose outcome could have a devastatingly negative impact on all future generations in the province should the Liberal Campbell government be returned to power and be given free reign to fulfill their self-chosen, hidden mandate to sell off BC’s rivers to foreign corporate interests.

Over a decade ago Mair published a book called Canada: Is Anyone Listening? in which he presented his views on the state of the country. Today, he could just as easily write another one, were there enough time, titled “BC: Is Anyone Listening?” On this night in Quesnel there were people listening and to put it mildly they weren’t impressed with what they were hearing.

Representing a non-profit, publicly funded organization called the Save Our Rivers Society, see http://www.SaveOurRivers.org , the former politician and broadcaster and now elder environmentalist and contributing writer to the online news site http://www.thetyee.ca , has been traveling around the province with an entourage of other public figures in a somewhat desperate attempt to alert voters to the real situation that exists regarding the state of our publicly owned utility known as BC Hydro and how it’s being hijacked by corporate interests and aided and abetted by the Campbell Liberal government in Victoria.

Accompanying Rafe with his traveling salvation show in favour of the salmon, the streams and the environment was Joe Foy, spokesperson for the BC based Western Canada Wilderness Committee, BC’s longstanding, dedicated and trusted environmental organization noted for numerous accomplishments in the way of protecting British Columbia’s eco systems and wildlife habitat from the devastating effects of overly zealous industrial logging and mining interests who tend, at times, to put the dollar and the interests of the corporate boardroom above the natural environment.

Also included in the list of speakers was Melissa Davis from BC Citizens for Public Power see http://www.citizensforpublicpower.ca who began the evening’s discussion with an introduction to her organization’s efforts over the past few years to draw public attention to the urgency of what has been taking place behind closed doors in Victoria with respect to the Liberal agenda for privatizing BC’s publicly owned natural resources.

Of particular note were Melissa’s comments regarding the broken Liberal promise in 2001 to “not sell or privatize BC Hydro’s dams, transmission lines, water resources, or other core assets” followed by a grim reminder that Bill 30 was brought in by the Liberals to usurp any democratic rights of local regional governments to enact rules for safeguarding their resources thus allowing foreign, corporate interests to prevail over indigenous decisions of local governments in their bid to gain control of all provincial rivers and streams.

Melissa Davis’s third point, one which the audience appeared to understand almost intuitively, was that the Liberal’s willing compromises to BC’s environment and its citizens by the relinquishment of the rights of public ownership of BC Hydro and introducing a private sector model of corporate control of public assets for stockholder’s profits over and above anything else, would automatically ensure that the price people are paying for their electrical needs would dramatically increase in the years ahead. Predictions went as high as a 25% increase in one’s power bill over the next 3 years, this on top of already substantial increases. Rather shocking to say the least! Melissa recommended going to the following website to view a map showing the rivers and proposed projects: http://www.ippwatch.com .

Rafe took to the podium after Melissa’s enlightening talk and opened his remarks with a rather choice anecdote. He had served as a cabinet minister in the Bill Bennett government of the 1970s, along with the Cariboo’s own Socred MLA of the time, the well respected Alex Fraser who had been Minister of Highways for many years and after whom the Alex Fraser bridge in the lower mainland is now named in fond remembrance.

Rafe told a little story about how when in cabinet meetings theywould try to guage public approval of their policies by media comments but that when Bill Bennett really wanted to know how the public were taking to their policies he’d always turn to Alex Fraser and say, “Alex, now what are the folks in “Queznelly” saying about all of this?” Alex would then inform them that they thought if was just a “bunch of bs” and that would settle the question then and there.

In some respects that is how Rafe proceeded in describing the selling out of the province’s rivers and streams and the people’s collective ownership of public utilities such as BC Hydro. He dispensed with all the bs that CanWest media, the Liberal government and the pseudo-”green” organizations are telling the people of the province and got down to the nuts and bolts of what is really taking place. It wasn’t a pretty picture.

“The massive destruction of our environment and the slow but sure death of BC Hydro have been planned and are being implemented without any opportunity for the public to be heard.”

“Why the lack of real consultation?”

“Where’s the proof that we need more power and, if we do, are there alternatives?”

“Experts tell us — so does BC Hydro, for that matter — that with conservation, upgrading present facilities and adding generators on existing dams plus taking back the power we’re entitled to under the Columbia River Treaty, we have no need for many years for more power. So why are going down the privatization route?”

“Why is BC Hydro not permitted to create any new power?”

“Why are we giving away to large corporations the hundreds of millions of dollars BC Hydro puts into the public purse every year to help with schools, hospitals and the like?”

“Why is BC Hydro forced by the government to enter contracts for energy with private producers which cost Hydro more than they can sell it for — buy high, sell low is a strange policy especially for a capitalist government!”

“Why are we approving intermittent power, which only can be produced during the spring run-off?”

“What will be the effect of NAFTA? Will it mean that any American company with rights on a river has all rights, including the right to export it?”

“Will it mean that as long as the American company uses the river, it can ignore the time limit in the lease? The answer to each is probably “yes.””

“Why are we disabling BC Hydro so that it must go broke under the proposed policy?”

All these explosive questions and more were given to the crowd of listeners who sat attentive throughout the whole presentation.

Photo credit: WCWC

The final speaker was Joe Foy of WCWC and he proceeded to pull the plug on privatization plans of the Liberal government. Speaking clearly and forcefully and with extreme knowledge and awareness of the various projects already on the go throughout the province, Joe assured the audience that these so-called “little mom and pop” power projects as the government likes to label them are anything but little and anything but benign when it comes to the extreme destruction of the natural environment and the fish and wildlife that will result from their construction. Using examples such as the Pitt River Project in the lower mainland Foy went on to explain how this environmentally friendly little private power venture would entail constructing close to 40 kilometers of pipelines and river and stream diversions which would reduce the levels of the free flowing waterways by up to 90% and that coupled with power lines and roadways criss-crossing throughout what is now virtually pristine wilderness areas.

In graphic detail and in cogent, convincing arguments Joe went on to expose the absolute insanity and irresponsibility of the Liberal government in determining in secret, private discussions with corporate interests this monumental scheme to steal from under the nose of an otherwise ill- and mis-informed public, the fundamental sources of the province’s wealth and future. When he was finished speaking the audience acknowledged his efforts with a rousing round of sustained applause.

Following the speakers’ presentations there was ample time given over to questions from the audience. One of the first persons to speak was a Chief from the Chilcotin who used the occasion of the meeting to further enlighten listeners as to the problems the First Nations people of the Nemaiah Valley were facing with a similar project by Taseko Mines which was threatening to destroy Fish Lake one of the water bodies the water in their indigenous territories. While it was slightly off topic in terms of the purpose of the meeting the speakers listened attentively to what the Chief had to say and were in full support of his position. To the credit of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee Joe Foy publicly stated, “We’d love to join you at Fish Lake.” He told the Chief that all they had to do was invite WCWC to lend their support and the environmental group would be there within days fully committed to helping the Chilcotin people in any way possible.

Another inquisitive listen asked Rafe Mair why it was that so many of the public were unaware of the issue and how come the mainstream media wasn’t drawing more attention to the subject. That brought a rather grimaced grin to the face of the elder Mair and he proceeded to give the Asper-controlled CanWest corporation a well-deserved tongue lashing pointing out that they have done nothing in terms of bringing this issue to the public’s attention and in fact everything to keep it hush hush or else misinformed by only presenting the government and corporate propaganda and those so-called “green” environmental lobbyists who have sold out and are now capitalizing on the issue by giving their tacit consent to the Liberal’s scheme. With the Province, the Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times-Colonist all mum on the subject of selling off BCs public resources there’s little way for the public to know what is truly being implemented. That said, Rafe went on to tell the audience that they should visit the websites of those non-profit groups who were giving the rest of the story on this issue and also that they should write letters to their editors and to their MLAs and send information out to whatever lists and groups that people might be connected to on the internet. If the mainstream wasn’t going to cover the whole story then the alternative media and the people themselves could spread the word via the net.

The meeting ended at 9 pm as scheduled and the audience gave the presenters a long and hearty round of applause for having empowered them with new and vital information with which to deal with the problem. The final bonus of course for all of those who had sacrificed their time and left their televisions to attend the meeting was the announcement that the Canucks had been victorious!

Such is life in the Cariboo!
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Arthur Topham is the publisher and editor of http://www.radicalpress.com an alternative, online news site located in central BC and in operation since 1998. He can be reached at radical@radicalpress.com .

CARTOON BY GERRY HUMMEL  ghummel@telus.net
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[Editor’s Note: Big thanks to Merv Ritchie of The Terrace Daily for permission to reprint this article. Also for alerting me to the excellent work of Cartoonist Gerry Hummel of Kitimat, B.C. Gerry says please use his cartoons to help spread the word about ridding this province of the Campbell Liberals. Please credit his work and post his email if you use them. Go to The Terrace Daily to see more of Gerry’s fine cartoons.]

http://www.terracedaily.ca/show3831a/POWER__AT_WHAT_COST
POWER: AT WHAT COST?
Ken Fraser
April 17, 2009

The main speaker of the evening was John Calvert, an associate professor at Simon Fraser University, and the author of the book ” Liquid Gold”. Calvert feels that BC has one of the most reliable, secure, and low-cost electricity systems in the world. Yet despite this he sees the BC government jettisoning the public ownership approach. And why is this happening? It is difficult to look into the BC Liberal Party’s mind and find the answer, but he felt that it may be connected to privatization. Calvert also noted that hydro customers will be paying well beyond BC Hydro’s cost to produce energy if private developers have to provide that power in the future.

John Calvert of SFU and author of Liquid Gold speaking in Terrace, B.C. on the subject of the Campbell government’s selling out of BC Hydro to private corporate interests.
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Calvert felt that about a dozen companies have the major control in the hydro projects in BC today and some of these are American controlled. Lurking into the background related to this fact is NAFTA’s Chapter Eleven. Calvert said that once these American companies become entrenched in BC’s electricity system it may be almost impossible to adopt policies that affect their profit making policies without paying dearly. Another very interesting comment made by Calvert was that First Nations have almost entirely been excluded from the awarded water licenses despite that almost all projects are on territory subject to land claims. It appears that you have to be “first in line” or live on “Howe St.”.

Aaron Hill was one of the two presenters at the public information session, Liquid Gold, held at Caledonia High Sr. School Thursday evening.

Hill is an ecologist specializing in freshwater and coastal ecosystems, with an emphasis on salmon habitat and fisheries. His current project areas include Wild Salmon Policy implementation and ecological sustainability of energy development in BC for the Watershed Watch Salmon Society. Hill feels that the gutting of the Environmental Act has not been beneficial to the environment when private power projects are being developed. The vast majority of the run-of-the-river projects now no longer need to undergo a full environmental assessment. In addition these assessments and the planning approach fail to capture the overall impact of these projects on a region and watershed where the project is being developed. But he did acknowledge that there are some good projects on the go in BC. One example Hill gave was a local run-of-the-river possible project on the Dasque and Middle East Creeks near Terrace by the company Swift Power Corp. One of the company’s representatives at the session stated it has set its standards high to satisfy the environmental assessment as well as individuals/communities concerns about the project.

Over 50 people attended the presentation. A comment by one individual noted that it was interesting how little attention the topic, run-of-the-river hydro projects, was getting in the lower mainland news even though there is a huge number of such projects in the lower half of BC, and that these projects and the government’s moves are truly changing the hydro scene. Another individual stated that people are not against these projects, but only want to be included in the discussions and decisions to determine if the project should go ahead.

For more information, buy John Calvert’s book, ” Liquid Gold” and check the following sites:

www.watershed-watch.org

www.ippwatch.info

www.saveourrivers.ca

911 & Sec. 13(1): Coincidence or Collusion?

By Arthur Topham

April 18, 2009

“The reason men are silenced is not because they speak falsely, but because they speak the truth. This is because if men speak falsehoods, their own words can be used against them; while if they speak truly, there is nothing which can be used against them - except force.”

~ John “the Birdman” Bryant 1943 - 2009

There are important reasons why the 9/11 Truth movement must be discredited in the eyes of the still bewitched mainstream public. One of the more far-reaching ones is the connection between the Israeli Mossad (their official/unofficial spy agency), the insiders within the US administration and the resulting legislation that followed in the aftermath of the premeditated attack upon the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

For the USA, it represented the labour pains purposely induced by a traitorous element within its own government designed to birth the infamous Homeland Security legislation and justify its planned war against Afghanistan and Iraq plus the “War on Terror”. For Canada, that act of deliberate mass murder (better named a mini-holocaust considering the circumstances), had a different, although comparable direct and immediate benefit for the same criminal element now embedded within our nation’s social and political infrastructures whose similar purpose is to undermine Canada’s Constitution, Bill of Rights and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

I’m referring here of course to those Zionist Jew lobby groups within Canada who consistently and systematically seek to increase their stranglehold over the country’s judiciary and government leaders in order to fulfill their own separate, alien and seditious objectives which are to adulterate and manipulate Canada’s federal and provincial statutes in order that the courts, be they judicial or quasi-judicial, may then inhibit and pervert our traditional rights and freedoms; ones fundamental to the harmonious, peaceful functioning of our democratic way of life.

I don’t make these allegations lightly nor do I make them without reason or evidence. I make them because they are a reality in today’s world of politics not only in Canada but in the USA and throughout the vast majority of the world’s nations (if not, if fact, all of them).

In the example of Canada we are now facing the same crisis that exists in another of the former British colonies, Australia, where in the past days we’ve witnessed the blatant ruling by their supreme court which found Dr. Fredrick Toben, owner of the Adelaide Institute website, guilty of 28 counts of contempt, all connected to that country’s legal bondage to the Jewish lobbyists who have successfully infiltrated and taken over the former democratic nation’s rights to freedom of speech and expression and introduced, (better, substituted) their Talmudic Noahide “laws” for those which once were based on British Common Law. As such they’ve been deliberately deceived by these Jewish lobbyists into accepting the erroneous beliefs of the Zionist Jews that to question aspects of history, specifically the scientifically unproven, mythical 6 Million Lie about an exclusive “Jewish” holocaust committed during World War II, must constitute a criminal act, one warranting both incarceration and massive financial punishment.

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Editor’s Note:

The yahoo group Integrity BC was first started back on March 6th, 2004 by Arthur Topham and former Lawyer Jack Cram. Its purposes are outlined below. For a number of years I have been away from the site but it has, nonetheless pioneered on and persevered in its aims.

Regular contributors to the site ensure that it remains hard-hitting and controversial. A perusal of the latest posts involving former United Church Minister Kevin Annett will illustrate this comment.

Check it out and become a contributing member.

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The goals of INTEGRITY BC are:

1. To document, expose and eliminate all forms of corruption in B.C. with an emphasis on Government, Judicial and large corporations.

2. To restore faith, honour and integrity in the Rule Of Law.

3. To liaise, support and assist allied individuals, groups and coalitions.

4. To encourage proportional representation and effective accountability in government for the social, cultural, economic and healing benefit of all.

5. To create, promote, expand and share alternative communication networking via the web, newspapers, pamphlets, radio and t.v. for distribution of information, news and events reflecting IntegrityBC objectives and goals.

6. To foster and build a B.C. Peoples’ Movement as an effective independent watchdog to police ‘public’ and ‘political’ party policies and programmes.

7. To expand and to share these goals with other provinces and territories.

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Click to join IntegrityBC

Dedicated to all who value the truth, free speech and are willing to sacrifice themselves on the “Highway of Public Controversy”

Hi Everyone, 

We are very excited to launch this Hard-Hitting, Pro-Family, Pro-Truth Radio show.

Please help us to make it a hit by forwarding this email to your list and then making a date with us tonight on RoadKill Radio!!!  It’s going to be fun and ohhhh so very needed!!!

With great appreciation for all you do!

Kind Regards,

Kari Simpson

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YES TODAY!!!!!!

RoadKill Radio Launches Online!!!!!

And You Are Invited!!

Hosts Kari Simpson & Terry O’Neill

Unabashedly Canadian, BOLD with No Apologies and oh yes, one more thing - we are pleased and determined to ensure those “Politically-Incorrect” voices that have been silenced are given an opportunity to be part of the debate and to have your voices heard!!

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TOPICS:

– The naughty Pro-Lifers who dared to exercise their right to free speech and have now been charged by the  University of Calgary with trespassing!

–  Polygamy, do we need to say more?….YES!

–  Gay Politics 101 and other Social Injustices – The Corren Agreement

Foreward to the Doug Collins book Here We Go Again!
By Doug Collins
1998

“The purpose of human rights commissions is clear: it is to harass dissidence and throttle all serious attempts to fight political correctness. In other words, don’t question immigration or suggest that not all immigrants are equal, and don’t criticize the politics of the pressure groups, who have been handed a deadly weapon. Do ridicule traditional Canada and support the ills that liberal flesh is heir to. We must all subscribe to liberal thought. Or else!”

~ Doug Collins

It brings a blush to my battle-hardened hide, but frankness forces me to confess that in 1997 I became the most discussed columnist in the country, thanks to the Canadian Jewish Congress and other would-be censors. But it still puzzles me that my harmless offerings could create a national furore and, in British Columbia, a media feeding frenzy.

Such are the joys of political incorrectness. Only a few years ago, when men were men, and liberals, homosexuals and feminists did not rule the roost like so many squawking chickens, the columns in question would never have raised an eyebrow.

For such critics I was the serpent in the Garden of the Politically Correct Eden. Sleepwalkers in the major media nodded their heads like clockwork Barbie dolls as your correspondent was put through the grinder, describing me as an anti-Semite, a racist, a dork, and other terms popular with people who profess to hate hate.

The immediate cause of those fulminations was the column “Hollywood Propaganda”, published in 1994 in Vancouver’s North Shore News. It led over three years later to a five-week hearing before a “human rights” tribunal, the inquisitors believing, obviously but in this case mistakenly, that the longer a person is on the rack the louder will he repent.

In the eyes of the provincial government and the Jewish Congress the column was “hate literature”. But neither it nor anything else I have written has been, or ever could be, the subject of a criminal prosecution under the federal hate laws. That much was admitted by Lisa Mrozinski, a lawyer representing the government side. She stated that the need for proof makes it difficult to get anywhere with such complaints in the courts. The implication was that no proof is needed in the NDP’s Alice in Wonderland hearings, where words mean what the inquisitors want them to mean.

A complaint, in effect a charge, leads to a politically appointed one-person tribunal in which an “adjudicator” is judge, jury and prosecutor.

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When Truth Becomes “Anti-Semitic”: What World Famous People Say About Jews and Zionism

Introduction by Arthur Topham
http://www.RadicalPress.com

radical@radicalpress.com
January 13, 2009

In a recent screed of January 10, 2009 (The ‘Oldest Hatred’ Lives, from Gaza to Florida http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hamas-gaza-jewish-2277487-muslims-state ) outlining a list of relatively minor examples of anti-Jewish sentiment resulting from Israel’s current butchery of the defenseless Palestinians of Gaza, Canadian journalist Mark Steyn, one of Zionism’s key literary brokers for North America’s Jewish-owned media cartel, attempts to lay the blame for the growing public outrage on the doorstep of Palestine’s democratically elected government Hamas along with other Islamic extremists, Muslims and anyone, anywhere expressing “anti-Zionist” sentiments.

After listing off his abbreviated litany of “anti-Semitic” attacks upon various Jewish individuals and groups he writes, “Forget, for the moment, Gaza. Forget that the Palestinian people are the most comprehensively wrecked people on the face of the earth. For the past sixty years they have been entrusted to the care of the United Nations, the Arab League, the PLO, Hamas and the “global community” — and the results are pretty much what you’d expect” all the while conveniently leaving out of his deceptively narrative description the blatant historic fact that it was the newly-formed Israeli government itself who, via mendacity and sheer ill-will and bloody terror, drove the legal inhabitants of Palestine out of their homes and villages and into that hideous concentration camp we now know as Gaza.

This simplistic and transparent ploy by Steyn to high jack the legitimate concerns of people around the world via jingoist sophistry and twisted argument in favour of the worn canard of “anti-Semitism” falls flat in the face of an abundance of gross images of mutilated, dead and dying Palestinian children, women and elderly, yet this doesn’t deter him in his vainglorious denial of the truth from continuing to ride his blood-steyned steed further into the fray of unabashed Zionist media propaganda, thrashing about with his sword of lies and brandishing his bullet-ridden “anti-Semite” banner – one flapping madly about in the righteous winds of vehement feelings of horror expressed by decent people around the planet incensed and ashamed that such despicable acts of cruel and wanton bloodshed could still be committed against the human family at the beginning of the 21 Century.

But let’s, as Steyn says, “forget Gaza” “and instead ponder the reaction to Gaza in Scandinavia, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and golly, even Florida. As the delegitimization of Israel has metastasized, we are assured that criticism of the Jewish state is not the same as anti-Semitism. We are further assured that anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism, which is a wee bit more of a stretch. Only Israel attracts an intellectually respectable movement querying its very existence.”

In a token of submission to the Zionist god of cunning and perfidy Steyn tries comparing Israel with the state of Pakistan as part of recent political machinations and Mossad false flag operations by the Zionist-controlled US government to vilify Pakistan before eventually attacking it as yet another rogue, “terrorist” state. Of Pakistan, and with obvious intent to deflect attention from Israel, Steyn sardonically states, “I happen to think the creation of Pakistan was the greatest failure of post-war British imperial policy.”

Steyn’s culminating and rather crass attempt to convince his western readers that all who reject Zionism are in fact Jew-hating bigots, hypocrites and “anti-Semites” is eventually steeped in a feeble flourish of anti-Muslim artistry, punctuated with an excerpt from the Syrian poet, Nizar Qabbani, suggesting that the people of Gaza are all “mad”. And why are they mad? Why because, as Steyn so lucidly tells us, they exhibit “the enthusiastic adoption of the same pathologies” that mainstream Europe is now expressing in their “anti-Semitic” attacks but of course the Palestinians are even “more deranged — and in the end” their resistance to the phosphorus bombs and DU bullets of Israeli justice “will prove just as self-destructive.”

Such is the ethereal substance of the Zionist media’s #1 propaganda broker Mark Steyn. If you don’t approve of the butcher’s banquet that Israel and its pro-Zionist supporters around the world are feasting upon then by definition you are “anti-Semitic” and a Jew-hater.

Which brings me now to the list of world famous people, who by Steyn’s and Zionism’s definition, fit the description of “anti-Semite”. It was one of these people listed, H.H. Beamish who, in a New York address in October 1937 made the following observation:

“In 1848 the word “anti-Semitic” was invented by the Jews to prevent the use of the word “Jew.” The right word for them is “Jew” …”

Like gemstones and special treats of food I would guess that almost everybody loves reading quotes. The ones that follow are the most comprehensive list related to the issue of “anti-Semitism” that I am aware of. They are offered here to the internet community as one small token of respect for the inhumane suffering of the Palestinian people of all of Palestine and the Arab world in general. They are also dedicated to those brave truth-seeking men and women who now languish in German prisons because they had the fortitude, the fore-knowledge and the courage to question the Zionist Lie. God bless and keep them all safe from any further harm.

If readers of these quotes feel they are being wrongly accused by the likes of Mark Steyn and the Zionist warlords I am certain that by the time they complete reading them they will not feel alone in their gut reaction to what is going on in Gaza today.
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“In the beginning was the word and the word was that the Talmudic Jews were anathema to universal justice and peace for all non-Jewish peoples of the earth.“
~ Arthur Topham, January 13, 2009

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[Editor’s Note: This article is dated and appears here simply because the forum on which it was originally posted was destroyed by the malicious machinations of the Zionist B’nai Brith Canada censors. I’m posting it here for posterity and for future reference.]

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The Gitxsan: Betrayal of a Nation
by Arthur Topham
Jan. 27/2004

“We know that justice and generosity can flourish only in an atmosphere of trust. For if individuals and minorities do not feel protected against the possibility of the tyranny of the majority, if French-speaking Canadians or native peoples or new Canadians do not feel they will be treated with justice, it is useless to ask them to open their hearts and minds to their fellow Canadians.” - Pierre Trudeau, April 17, 1982

The irony contained in the Globe & Mail’s January 27, 04 front page story “PM’s Throne Speech has native focus”, I’m sure was not lost on the 50 Hereditary Chiefs of the Gitxsan Nation and their 5000 band members living in the north-western region of central British Columbia.

Just weeks ago, on the 14th of January, this same group of frustrated, disillusioned, yet determined people, filed a lengthy and controversial Complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) and the federal Minister of Justice, Mr. Irwin Cotler citing a shocking list of grievances against an array of highly prominent B.C. judges, lawyers, law firms, politicians and corporations all linked to a host of crimes ranging from misconduct to deceit, bribery, corruption, obstruction of justice and complicity, the sum of which has devastated and endangered the 33,000 square kilometre area of their traditional lands.

First and foremost of the complaints is the conduct of B.C.’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald J. Brenner while presiding over the “restructuring” proceedings related to a large forest products company in Prince Rupert, B.C.; one in which the provincial government held controlling interest and declining revenues. That initial example, shown in great detail within the lengthy submission, exemplified at the onset the serious nature of the many other accusations of fault contained within the document, illustrating once again the seemingly endless challenges which have plagued the treaty process in B.C. for decades.

Readers may recall that it was this same First Nation that captured headlines across the country during the latter part of the Mulroney era when what the Claimants describe as “arguably the most important case in Canadian jurisprudence” the Gitxsan Wet’suwet’en land claims trial, known as Delgamuukw, finally concluded with judgment on March 8, 1991, after 374 protracted court days stretching over a three year period.

According to Ron Jackson and Robert Jackson, the two signatories of the Complaint representing the 50 Hereditary Gitxsan Chiefs and their people, the original Delgamuukw trial was a staggeringly complex and insidious deception that saw figures from all levels of government, the judiciary, industry and the media conspiring to foist upon the general public, and specifically the Gitxsan people themselves, a horrendous ‘legal’ hoax which would allow the B.C. government to further augment its power over the traditional territories of the Gitxsan Wet’suwet’en for the benefit of all vested interests except the indigenous inhabitants of the region themselves.
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SMEAR JOB!!! : The Zionist Media’s Mendacious Battle to Control Canada’s Election Agenda

By Arthur Topham

September 29, 2008

Midway into Canada’s federal election the battle lines are clearly taking shape as voters across the country witness in anger and sad disbelief the Asper Media cartel’s unabashed smear campaign now being orchestrated against any and all candidates who don’t espouse views acceptable to the Zionist agenda for globalization, endless war, and the suppression of free speech.

Whether you are Green or Red or Blue the colour doesn’t matter. What is critical is that you must not come into this election bearing any present or past grievances toward either the Bush Regime, the Zionist state of Israel, the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or the draconian federal laws prohibiting citizens from cultivating or enjoying a puff of that magic dragon cannabis.

Spearheaded by CanWest’s Asper media monopoly and its most zealous rag the National (Zionist) Post and aided and abetted by the persistent collusion of a motley hoard of rabid, pro-Zionist cyber hounds concealing themselves behind various “Christian”, “Conservative” and “Liberal” blogkades, the search for the non-believers in the official lies of 9/11, the heathen apostates who have yet to prostrate themselves before the Zionist Israeli lobby now controlling Ottawa and the freaks who once, or still, smoke the cursed marijuana herb are all fair game in this Armageddon to control the mind-fields of Canada’s volatile electors.

Astonishing as it may appear to many voters the realization that Canada’s media is dominated by one small faction of Zionist extremists still remains a mystery yet is thee perennial problem that Canadians face in terms of discerning truth from lies when it comes to our so-called “independent”, mainstream media.

When Joe or Jane reader in British Columbia pick up their “news” paper from their front step or the supermarket or corner grocery they basically have four choices: The Province, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post or The Globe and Mail. Of these four the first three are part of a monopoly that Vancouver writer and political commentator Robin Mathews once described as being one of the “sleaziest media concentration monsters in Canadian history: CanWest Global Communications”.

CanWest is owned by the Asper family, admittedly pro-Israel and thus, by definition, Zionist in terms of its political perspective.

Mathews also stated that Sociologist Larry Patriquin, after studying The National Post (2004), said of the Post’s material that it fits “’the classic definition of propaganda’. It was, he said, ‘a discourse in which incomplete information is presented to people with the purpose of distorting their view….’”

In fact a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in an analysis of CanWest’s propaganda machine, once commented that it was so slanted and biased in its political coverage that  “Vancouver’s daily papers should be read at a 45-degree angle”!

The fourth choice, The Globe & Mail, while not apparently owned by the Zionists, might as well be for it follows suit with the former three in its editorial policies and is thus basically a clone of the Zionist cartel of the Aspers. In tandem they all work together to give a one-sided, pro-Zionist perspective on national issues and global politics, one that favours the US/Israel/UK agenda as well as the Harper government’s Conservative perspective on political issues.

In addition to the aforementioned, CanWest also owns Southam Publications whose daily papers include: the Halifax Daily News, the St. John’s Telegram, the Charlottetown Guardian, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen, the Windsor Star, the St. Catharines Standard, the Regina Leader Post, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal, and the Victoria Times-Colonist.

As well, the Asper cartel owns 126 other daily and weekly papers across Canada. Here In BC these papers include: the Abbotsford Times, the Alberni Valley Times, the Burnaby Now, the Campbell River Courier-Islander, the Chilliwack Times, the Coquitlam Times Now, the Comox Valley Echo(partnership interest), the Cowichan Valley Citizen (Duncan), the Delta Optimist, the Harbour City Star, the Kamloops Daily News, the Lake Cowichan News, the Langley Advance, the Maple Ridge Times, the Monthly Star Homes, the Nanaimo Daily News, the New Westminster Record, the North Shore News, the Now Community, the Parksville/Qualicum Beach Morning Sun, the Pennyworth Shopper, the Prince George Citizen, the Real Estate Weekly, the Richmond News, the TV Scene, the Vancouver Courier, and the Westerly News.

This same Asper/Zionist media monopoly extends to television as well where the vast majority of Canadians get their political perspective on national and world events and includes the following televised media sources: Global Television Network (8 regional channels including Edmonton’s ITV and Vancouver’s VTV), Fox Sportsworld Canada, Lone Star, Deja View, Mystery Channel, CHEK Victoria, CHTV Hamilton, and CHBC Okanagan. They also own Fireworks Entertainment and 8 other foreign channels and numerous radio stations across the globe.

Now when you consider that an identical editorial (propaganda) perspective, such as the recent poison-penned hit attack upon Liberal candidate Leslie Hughes and the NDP’s Bev Collins by Jonathan Kay of the National Post is instantly peddled throughout this vast media network is it that surprising so many Canadians are overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the Zionist propaganda machine and find themselves thrown into cognizant disarray?

Those additional forces within the fabric of Canadian society who are pushing this pro-Zionist agenda, either wittingly or unwittingly, consists in the main of the following: Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, the Canadian Jewish Congress headed by Bernie Farber, the Simon Weisenthal Center and an assortment of pro-Israeli websites and bloggers such as http://www.FreeDominion.com , http://www.EzraLevant.com , the Liberal’s http://www.teambc.ca , http://www.liblogs.ca , http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com , Kathy Shaidle http://www.fivefeetoffury.com , http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com , http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com and so on.

Voters are being assailed on all quarters by a concerted effort on the part of a biased media monopoly to thwart the right of Canadians to choose their representatives without interference from an obviously parisan Fourth Estate.

As Dylan once prophetically wrote, “The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast”. Canadians, whether they wish it or not, are being forced to either suspend their disbelief in the freedom and independence of Canada’s media or else come to terms with the obvious.

There is only one reasonable solution and that is for all those political parties currently being affected to realize the trap they’ve fallen into and to then confront this mendacious media attack upon their candidates and expose the true agenda of the Asper empire. It will take courage and the will power to stand up for one’s beliefs but if our parties don’t confront this Trojan Horse now and expose it for what it truly is then the results will only be that much worse for the country in the long run.
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Arthur Topham is the publisher and editor of the RadicalPress.com http://www.radicalpress.com and lives in central British Columbia, Canada.
He can be reached at radical@radicalpress.com

January 31, 2008

German Citizens Protest Logging of Mountain Caribou Habitat at Canadian Embassy in Berlin

British Columbia, Canada -  The BC government’s failure to stop logging in mountain caribou habitat sparked protest at the Canadian embassy in Berlin today. German citizens gathered in front of the embassy carrying a banner with the slogan “Save the Inland Rainforest of Canada” and two life-sized effigies of the mountain caribou.  The environmental organization Robin Wood delivered a letter to the embassy addressed to BC Premier Gordon Campbell. It was signed by 4,835 people.  The letter declares support for a petition that was sent to the BC government last year by fifty Canadian and US biologists.  It called for an end to logging all old-growth mountain caribou forest older than 140 years.

Last year several German environmental groups including Koordinationszentrum Natur und Umwelt, Naturschatz, Regenwald Kanada, and Urgewald wrote letters of concern to the BC government.  The government has now announced its new plan to save the mountain caribou. However, the plan did not reduce the allowable annual cut in mountain caribou habitat. It did not create one real protected area. With the kind of protection that’s being granted, if the caribou disappear because too little habitat has been protected, the logging can commence, continuing to send numerous other old-growth species into extinction. Today’s protest demonstrates growing concern in Germany.

“For the last 47 years the nations of the world have had the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to ensure that trade did not make species go extinct,” says Anne Sherrod, a director of Valhalla Wilderness Watch based in New Denver, BC. Canada is a signatory. But suppose what’s being traded is wood products, and it’s the logging of the wood that’s causing species to go extinct? This is happening in Canada’s Inland Rainforest. Many kinds of old-growth dependent lichens, plants and animals are endangered.

“The last intact old-growth Inland Temperate Rainforests are being destroyed for profiteering at any cost,” says Eric Schindler of Pro Terra, based in Argenta, BC. “Yet the huge crown volume of one of those majestic trees produces more oxygen, filters more dust from the air, transpires more moisture, gives more protective shade to the ground, regulates the climate better than a thousand young plantation trees. These are astounding ecosystems and world-unique assets which only fools would allow to be harmed and destroyed.”

The mountain caribou and its habitat, the Interior Wetbelt, extend into the northern US, where there has been a large effort to get BC to protect its part of the habitat. The following are a few of the BC and US environmental groups that also support the scientists’ mountain caribou petition.  “We cannot support a plan for recovering mountain caribou that does not stop the logging of forest critical to their survival. Thousands of Canadians have written letters to the BC government begging for an end to logging the old-growth caribou forests, especially Inland Rainforest.  But the new plan ignores their pleas just as it ignores the main cause of the mountain caribou’s decline: logging.  This is an ecosystem of global significance, and now the international community is starting to speak out.  We hope the governments of BC and Canada will listen.”

Signatures:

Anne Sherrod, Valhalla Wilderness Watch
Dr. Rick Zammuto, Save the Cedar League,
Eric Schindler, ProTerra
Judy Stratton, Northern Ecology Watch¬
Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Marilyn Burgoon, Perry Ridge Water Users
Pat Rasmussen, World Temperate Rainforest Network
Elizabeth von Ah, Kids for Caribou
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Contact person:  Anne Sherrod, 358-2610

Email: wildernesswatch@netidea.com

PLEASE come out and support Betty this Friday!!!! I will be away on business so please help make sure that she has the support she needs!
-Monika

Vancouver, Wednesday, January 9th, 2007
Betty Krawczyk

Kevin Falcon, the Minister of Transportation, is quick on the draw.  Oh, yes.  Mr. Falcon is in the process of shooting down my law suit against him for collusion and malfeasance of public office stemming from his role at creating and guiding the destruction of an intact eco system at Eagleridge to build an ugly, unneeded, destructive four lane highway over the bluffs and wetlands and enchanting us all with his witty remarks about China’s method of dealing with protesters.  But Mr. Falcon has his own methods.

He has surprised me with a demand that I be in the Supreme Court Building at 9:45 on Friday morning (Jan. 11) so he (and/or his lawyer) can shoot down my case against him from close range without the documents he refuses to reveal.  It’s a catch 22.  Or sawed off shotgun.  The Minister refused to give the documents I need to prove my case, then will ask the judge to strike my claims, as I don’t have the documents to prove them.

Clever, these guys.  It looks hopeless but please come witness the shoot out at the OK corral!  I will be representing myself.  Who knows, maybe the sky will fall.  Remember.  Friday morning.  9:45.  Supreme Court building, 800 Smithe Street.
Thank you.

Betty Krawczyk

Blog: http://bettysearlyedition.blogspot.com/

Books: http://www.booksofbettyk.com/

For more information contact
betty_krawczyk@shaw.ca  x-msg://1441/betty_krawczyk@shaw.ca
or
Monika Sheardown
778.865.0664

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE WAY IT WORKS

By Betty Krawczyk

betty_krawczyk@shaw.ca

There is an old adage that says one gets what one pays for. But not in British Columbia. Taxpayers here pay a lot for a justice system that like a cow, gives steady streams of the sweet milk of justice to posh people (Gordon Campbell’s friends of privatization) but decreasing dribbles to poor people (and that includes just about everyone else in Vancouver (except old money) who are trying to survive the drug trade ratcheted up rents and mortgages and eat at the same time) while forcing the people to bring in the hay and of course, clean out the barn to boot. A In fact, if I remember clearly even the law society of BC was aggravated with Wally Oppal for his part in the trashing of legal services and wrote a letter of non-confidence in him.

Gordon Campbell’s privatizing policies are working through the system and showing up in the courtroom What does a citizen do if s/he can’t afford high priced lawyers and can’t get legal aid? Forget the whole thing or do it yourself. Which is what I’m doing. Doing it myself. While I have a great lawyer for my appeal, one who is helping me pro bono, I’m also trying to sue Kevin Falcon, The Minister of Transportation, and Peter Kiewit Sons. Co., the West Vancouver Police and the City of West Vancouver for Collusion and Malfeasance in civil court and as I have no money to speak of I have to do this myself. And I would like to take as many citizens as possible with me through the process.

It’s important. Not only are the issues I raise important in the sense that they concern everyone, the process itself is important. We as citizens must try to understand the legal process in British Columbia or else remain helpless before it. Either we make it work for us, or it will continue to work for them, the posh agencies of government and corporations that puzzle and stifle us with legalize language and processes that not only hide their ideologies but their actions. I’m for making it work for us.

So I want to take those interested with me step by step as I negotiate the legal process of trying to sue the agencies of government and corporations that destroyed the eco integrity of Eagleridge Bluffs and caused the untimely death of Harriet Nahanee. In my next missile I will tackle my first step in filing a law suit and applying for a jury trial and I will post these on my blog:
http://bettysearlyedition.blogspot.com

Betty K.

NOTE from Monika:
Betty K served court papers on Tuesday December 3rd to Peter Kiewit Sons. Co, Kevin Falcon, the West Vancouver Police and their employer, the City of West Vancouver. These offices have 7 days to reply to Betty’s Writ of Summons. We’ll keep you posted.

Books: http://www.booksofbettyk.com/

For more information contact
betty_krawczyk@shaw.ca

for vivelecanada.ca

By Robin Mathews
rmathews@sfu.ca

In a news release of June 12, 2007, Monika Sheardown wrote of Betty Krawczyk and her case. Environmental protester with many others, Krawczyk defied Supreme Court judge Brenda Brown who was, incidentally, using a highly dubious, almost “made in B.C.” criminal contempt charge to shut up protesters exposing the Private Corporate/Campbell government/Vancouver Olympic Committee rape of the Province on behalf of wealthy interests - called “the 2010 Olympics”. Justice Brown sent Krawczyk, a 78 year old woman (clearly a huge threat to the peace and security of Canadians), to ten months in prison.

Brown also sentenced ailing and aged Harriett Nahanee (against strong advice) to days in a prison “hell hole” which - in fact - Nahanee did not live out. Justice. The Complaint against Brown in that last matter, made to the Canadian Judicial Council from a body of ordinary Canadians has been treated, I suggest, with contempt from the Canadian Judicial Council.

Very clearly the more than 40 people who lodged the Complaint with the Canadian Judicial Council were complaining of the conduct of Madam Justice Brenda Brown. They wrote: “Our complaint concerns the treatment by Madam Justice Brenda Brown of a Native protester, Harriet Nahanee-Tseboilt (hereafter named Harriett Nahanee) whom Madam Justice Brenda Brown caused to be incarcerated in a detention place known to be unsuitable after being directly informed of the Native woman’s age and perilous ill-health. After some days imprisonment in what was described in court to Madam Justice Brown as a “hell hole”, Harriett Nahanee had to be rushed to hospital with life-threatening illness from which she died”.

In fact, Justice Brown sentenced Harriett Nahanee to an apparently nasty jail. She was informed of Nahanee’s perilous condition and asked to conduct herself differently - to retain the sentence, the decision that Nahanee was in Contempt of Court if she wished, but to have her live out that sentence in a form and in a place from which she might come out alive. Brown was asked to conduct herself differently than she did in the matter.

The reply from Norman Sabourin on behalf of the CJC reported that we were not complaining of the conduct of Justice Brown. But (stupid, ordinary people that we are), we were, according to Associate Chief Justice Robert Pidgeon of the Superior Court of Quebec, complaining about the sentence, the decision of Justice Brown. And so… And so, of course, the Canadian Judicial Council couldn’t possibly look at our Complaint. Smoke and mirrors. Hide and seek. Prestidigitation. At no place in his letter, by the way, did Norman Sabourin acknowledge the Complaint came from a large number of people. He addressed me and MY Complaint.

I wrote back a stern letter, requesting that another judge review the matter and that it be reopened as a Complaint against the conduct of Madam Justice Brenda Brown, as it was intended. I made clear I thought the matter had been wrongly dealt with.
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Politics in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Secrecy. Bias, Protection of Wrong-Doers.

By Robin Mathews

Madam Justice Elizabeth Bennett presides, and hearings resume, after recess, on June 4. They are the hearings in the Supreme Court of B.C. on the way (?) to the criminal trial of Dave Basi, Bob Virk, and Aneal Basi. The men are accused of various (fraud and breach of trust) charges related to the dirty sale by the Gordon Campbell government of B.C. Rail four years ago.

The sale was publicly attacked by the CPR as being the result of a compromised bidding process. CPR withdrew from the bidding, dissatisfied, alleging the Campbell government made a “clear breach” of fairness and had given CN an unfair advantage in the bidding. To fake a real competition, moreover, government representatives are alleged to have promised benefits to the U.S. company Omnitrax to pretend to stay in the race, and…and…. In fact, the sale of B.C. Rail is very probably illegitimate.

On June 4, 2007, the hearings resume as Madam Justice Bennett rules on requests Defence has made for further disclosure of evidence so far denied. Evidence, it seems, has been denied or delayed by the Special Crown Prosecutor and his Crown team because of apparent oversight, apparent neglect, apparent disorganization, absent-mindedness, RCMP obstruction, apparent forgetfulness, cabinet obtuseness, RCMP inefficiency, computer failure, claims of irrelevance, and…and…and….

Justice Bennett has presided over months and months of delay and obstruction which now are shouting from every nook and cranny of Courtroom 54 in the B.C. Supreme Court building. The question which is forced upon the serious observer is this: is Justice Bennett a part of the forces wanting to “de-rail” (pun intended) the proceedings against Basi, Basi, and Virk?
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Robin Mathews
520 Salsbury Drive,
Vancouver, B.C., V5L 3Z7,
May 20, 2007

Dear Madam Justice Bennett:

I am writing to you this formal request to have permission for myself, and for any other Canadian who asks, to view the daily court transcripts in the Basi, Virk and Basi matter since the original filing of the Application for Disclosure of materials on February 26, 2007, and to have copies made of any I wish (or any other Canadian wishes) to take away for further examination.

In addition I request permission to examine and to have copies supplied to me - if I wish them - of the 14 affidavits the Special Crown Prosecutor acquired from people - largely RCMP officers - in recent weeks in (part) answer to the allegations of the Defence. They are, I take it, sworn documents, unchanging in character, fixed, and not open to recasting. And they are court documents which any Canadian has a right to examine. I want to examine them.

I have already addressed the Chief Justice on the general question, asking permission to have access to documents and asking for a reply. The Chief Justice has not extended me the courtesy of a response on the question. I consider his refusal an abuse of the trust placed in him by British Columbians. I will contact him again.
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Hi Arthur,
Thanks for your support for Betty.
Here’s the info on the shirts.. i don’t have any info on bumper stickers…
Very best wishes!
-Monika

Free Betty shirts have arrived, hot off the presses!

With an award winning photo of Betty by Ron Watts of Saltspring Island, hand silkscreening by Andy Sinats in Victoria, creative input from Damian Kettlewell and design by yours truly, these 70% Bamboo and 30% Organic Cotton Tee’s from HT Naturals have binding on the neck and a cap sleeve. This shirt is a must have staple that isn’t just a fashion statement!

But seriously folks, all proceeds from the sale of these T-shirts will go Betty’s Appeal funds, which will be sorely needed. The date for the appeal may be approaching faster than we think…

ORDER YOUR LIMITED EDITION SHIRTS NOW!
Prices, including tax, and delivery: $25 for all Bamboo T’s. Some cotton shirts are available at a price of $20. Women’s long sleeved Bamboo T’s: $35

To order, please send a cheque for the T’s, plus any donation you wish to add, made out to “Betty K Fund”, and a note with:

1. the number of shirts you want to order
2. Men/Women’s for each one
3. Size: S, M, L, XL for each one
4. Specify Cotton ($20) or Bamboo ($25)
5. For Womens, specify red sleeve T (cotton) , black sleeve T (bamboo), or long sleeve Bamboo (not pictured here yet!)

and mail to:

Betty K Fund
Attention: Monika Sheardown
1945 Creelman Avenue
Vancouver BC
V6J 1B8

and we will send your T-shirt(s) to you promptly!

Best wishes,
-Monika

“We have more possibilities available in each moment that we realize”
Thick Nhat Hanh

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Politics in the Supreme Court of B.C.? The Basi, Basi,Virk charges and the role of the Supreme Court. Part One: Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm.

By Robin Mathews
rmathews@sfu.ca

For http://www.vivelecanada.ca

The questions asked here about Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm are disturbing ones. Are there political motivations guiding the actions of some B.C. Supreme Court judges - a highly dangerous development if the answers to the questions asked here are Yes instead of No. The subject is generally shied away from, as if people are afraid to confront what may be a dangerous development.

As an ordinary and average Canadian I have been influenced by simple experience to have deep concern about the actions of Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm. Attending court hearings moving towards (?) a trial of the three men variously charged with fraud and corruption arising from alleged events connected to the dirty sale of BC Rail, I went to the Criminal Trial Registry to obtain documents on public record. I was rudely refused them because - I was informed - a so-called Practice Direction of Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm denies to Canadians almost all documents generated by criminal trials and placed on public record. I managed by other means to get some documents, and then I complained to presiding judge Madam Justice Elizabeth Bennett about the system which categorically denies documents on public record to Canadians.

The excuse given for Dohm’s alarming “gag order” is that it is intended to protect the accused. That excuse seems to me to be obvious and demonstrable nonsense. I have gained access to several documents which in no way asperse or endanger the accused. In fact, the opposite. They provide evidence and argue for the legitimacy of the accused in the process of opening up the terms of trial processes. What is really going on?
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[Editor’s Note: The following formal complaint by the Board of the Save Our Rivers Society to the Canadian Judicial Council regarding the Kitimat judgment on the Nechako River is a graphic presentation of the degree of blatant corruption that exists within the B.C. Supreme Court. This letter was also sent out to every NDP member of the provincial legistature so that they, as the Official Opposition, might get off their complacent asses and bring this vital concern regarding the sell-out of our natural resources to the attention of the general public. Will they? Thus far the lackluster performances by the so-called socialists gives little hope that they’ll raise this issue to any great degree.

Save Our Rivers Society,
113 – 3195 Granville Street,
Vancouver, B.C., V6H 3K2,
April 17, 2007

Canadian Judicial Council,
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1A 0W8

The Board of the Save Our Rivers Society in British Columbia make – with this letter – a formal complaint against Donald J. Brenner, Chief Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court. Our complaint concerns only the conduct not the argument, the findings, or the judgement of Chief Justice Brenner in the matter of “District of Kitimat and Wozney v. Minister of Energy and Mines, the Attorney General of British Columbia and Alcan Inc.”, 2007 BCSC 49; Date 2007, 03, 28; Docket L0500918; Registry: Vancouver. If and when we refer to the judgement made by Chief Justice Brenner, we do so as it is instrumentally a part of his conduct against which we are making this complaint.

However deep our concern may be that the argument, the findings, and the judgement made by Chief Justice Brenner constitute an open assault upon judicial objectivity and suggest political partisanship of an ugly and dangerous kind, that concern is in no way whatever involved in our formal complaint. Let that be absolutely clear.

Our complaint deals wholly with the conduct of Chief Justice Brenner. We hold that Chief Justice Brenner chose to sit as presiding judge in the case already cited, called hereafter “the Kitimat case”, when he should not have done so. His conduct in choosing to preside brought him, prima facie, into direct relation with a recent long-time colleague, a major respondent in the case – the present Attorney General of British Columbia - who had strong, active political, partisan ends he wished the Chief Justice to serve.
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[Editor’s Note: The following letter by Robin Mathews to the Chief Justice of the B.C. Supreme Court is a courageous and finely worded challenge to the person in charge of justice for all British Columbians. It’s essential that the questions which Mr. Mathews asks of the Chief Justice are forwarded to as many citizens as possible throughout this province to insure that the courts are made aware of the extent of the general dissatisfaction with the questionable processes and decisions that Mr. Mathews alludes to in his letter. Please pass this letter on to as many of your associates as you possibly can. For the sake of those still living in prison under false charges i.e. Betty Krawczyk and for justice concerning the unnecessary death of Harriet Nahanee consider this request of an urgent nature. Thank you. Arthur Topham, Editor and Publisher, The Radical Press]
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My Lord:

Law Officer of the Supreme Court of British Columbia H.L. McBride, replying (March 30) to a letter of mine to Madam Justice Elizabeth Bennett concerning “public access to documents filed” in the Basi, Basi, and Virk matter, repeated the objectionable terms of the general restriction of documents from public examination imposed by Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm - obviously imposed with the approval or consent of judges involved and with your support. That so-called “Practice Direction” has been explained as a device employed to insure the protection of the accused. In my own experience the substance of such documents does not bear negatively upon the accused; rather the denial of those public documents to the public appears to protect those who may be corrupt members of the present and past Gordon Campbell government and other highly placed people possessing political power in the province.

With respect, I submit to you that the so-called “Practice Direction” - which is in fact an illegitimate universal gag order - is intolerable and is a violation of the freedoms of Canadians to know. I believe an address to the Supreme Court of Canada would see the so-called “Practice Direction” struck down as illegitimate. I believe a process by writ of mandamus might have the same effect. With respect, I believe that any fair-minded person concerned with justice and the freedoms of Canadians would see the present so-called “Practice Direction” as an intolerable, dictatorial, and repressive invasion of the freedoms and the tranquility of Canadians. If you do not see it as that, would you explain to me why you do not?
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FROM:
J.A. Wade 2/25/07 1:07 PM
jawade@infoserve.net

Arthur

Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007

Subject: PRAYER AND RALLY for HARRIET NAHANEE
Friday 6pm

This is DISGRACEFUL!!!! Elders are dying because they risked their lives for the hope of
the mountains, the rivers, the streams, the cedars…their children.

Please pray for Harriet.

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AS you may know, Harriet Nahanee, an Elder of the Pacheedaht Nation, Port Renfrew, BC (now called) was tried and sentenced for standing up for her rights to protect part of the Coast Salish territory, thus our environment, from being bulldozed thus destroying natural habitat. Because she refused to say, ‘I’M SORRY…” to Madam “Justice” Brown… because she refused to apologize for her part in the protest she was jailed and now her health is deteriorating in hospital.

I received a call this morning by two concerned friends of hers. Harriet is now in critical condition at St Pauls Hospital and has lost much weight and is not doing well. Part of the problem she dealt with in the courtroom was that she is hard of hearing and this caused issues for the judge and now in the hospital. Her hearing loss was as a result of abusive treatment in residential school as a child.

She needs our prayers!! She needs to know she has support.

The Indigenous Action Movement is organizing a prayer vigil on Friday, February 23 2007 beginning at 6:00 outside of St. Paul’s Hospital.
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[Editor’s Note: Right on Robin! This is one of your more hard-hitting pieces and a welcome relief to all the continuous mind-control (damage-control?) drivel that the Zionist-owned and controlled media are spoon feeding the B.C. electorate.

Thanks again for an incisive work and thanks for permission to reprint it here at Radicalpress.com. Thanks too to www.vivelecanada.ca for their kind permission to reprint Robin’s articles.]
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Criminal Government in B.C. – Growing … and Growing Resistance To It

by Robin Mathews
January 25, 2007

The real face of British Columbia is hard to see because the normal reflectors are absent. Press and media are servants of the same forces that the premier, Gordon Campbell, serves - as I will show here. Polling in the Province is a joke, probably for the same reason. Boards of Trade and like “professional” organizations are blatant servants of the Campbell government. “Independent” arbitrators and commissions have been bought, defeated by budget cuts, castrated by appointment machinery, and subverted by forms of regulation and restructuring. The present Auditor General, for instance, whose office’s budget has been slashed, reports as if he is reporting to Josef Stalin and not to the B.C. legislature and people. (It just happens the former Auditor General left claiming underfunding, and with a few unfinished hot potato issues before him. Isn’t it true that no one with any self-respect would have taken on the job without restoration of budget and firm public commitments of non-interference from the Gordon Campbell cabinet?)

At a time when opposition is most necessary, it is least evident. But that is no surprise. Fear, the desire for anonymity amidst shady operation, the employment of dependable hacks, the desire of some to “climb” at any price, payment of what I have called in an earlier column “bribery level” salaries, and other methods to encourage “cooperation” are effective.

The NDP of Carole James is providing opposition to a government that is a figment of her imagination. The NDP bumps against the real forces only occasionally and by accident. The unions, mostly, share the Carole James view, or – worse – are rumoured to be investing in some of the ugliest of the corporate schemes to rob British Columbians of public wealth and public power. Or they are curling up in a warm corner saying: “this isn’t really a UNION concern”.
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[Editor’s Note: Thanks to Robin Mathews and www.vivelecanada.ca for their kind permission to reprint this article]
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by Robin Mathews
January 7, 2007

The headline doesn’t read: “B.C. Utilities Commission blocks attempted breach of trust”. The Globe and Mail supports big corporations, not the democratic population. So the headline reads: “Ruling puts smelter in limbo”.

The story of the Gordon Campbell/Alcan attempt to hi-jack the Nechako River for pure profit and rape B.C. electricity users with costs that are almost incredible is disguised as much as the Globe can disguise it. And what about reports for CanWest, owner of the Vancouver Sun, the Province and a lot more? The Robert Gibbons “report” for CanWest News Service on January 3, has the following lead-in.

“MONTREAL – A long-simmering dispute over power is threatening to delay the launch of Alcan Inc.’s $1.8 billion U.S. project to modernize and expand the capacity of its Kititmat aluminum smelter in northern British Columbia.”

Back up a little.

The “long-simmering dispute” is really the Alcan intention to dismantle its 1950 agreement with the people of B.C. and to grab the whole Nechako River for itself, for its power, for Alcan to sell at kidnapper prices (with the active support of Gordon Campbell).

In 2002 Alcan presented a Province wide river energy plan to Gordon Campbell, a planned privatization – in fact a suggested policy of theft of every hydro capable river. And in this case – of the Nechako River - it wanted the people’s ownership delivered to it before New Year.

Working as he does for Private Corporations and not for the B.C. people, Gordon Campbell used the Alcan presentation as a model for all B.C. rivers being transferred into private hands under “his own” new energy policy. He has been wrenching rivers from public ownership and guardianship as fast as he can, delivering them to private, often foreign corporations.

Campbell is doing that in an active breach of trust, lying, deceiving, using secret deals, and gag-legislation, hiding all that he can from British Columbians (with the active support of the Private Corporate Press and Media in Canada).
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