B.C. Mountie sues force for sexual harassment

B.C. Mountie sues force for harassment

WARNING: this story contains graphic details

CBC News

Posted: May 9, 2012

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RCMP Cpl. Catherine Galliford says she didn’t report the alleged abuse because she feared for her career. (CBC)

CBC News has learned the high-profile Mountie who first spoke out against sexual harassment in the national police force is suing her employer, alleging years of “persistent and ongoing” sexual harassment and bullying.

In a notice of claim obtained by CBC News Wednesday, Cpl. Catherine Galliford alleges she was sexually assaulted, harassed and bullied during her 16 years on the force.

The notice names Canada’s attorney general, B.C.’s justice minister, three Mounties, a civilian RCMP doctor and a Vancouver police officer.

Galliford was the face of the B.C. RCMP for years, revealing charges had been laid in the Air India bombing and announcing the arrest of serial killer Robert William Pickton.

According to the 26-page statement, the abuse began before Galliford was sworn in as an RCMP member. She alleges then RCMP Insp. Mike Bergerman groped and tried to kiss her in 1991 when she was at the RCMP’s training academy.

“[Bergerman's] misconduct was wilful, and he acted with the intent of sexual gratification which shocked and sexually humiliated [Galliford] and demeaned her value as an RCMP officer and a human being,” the document reads.

Galliford did not officially report the misconduct.

“I never complained officially about the sexual assaults and sexual harassment because I knew that if I did it would come back on me in a negative way,” she told CBC News Wednesday.

‘Culture of sexual harassment’

The document goes on to detail years of alleged harassment, including repeated sexual advances by Staff Sgt. Doug Henderson — and an alleged  attack in a hotel room while they were on a business trip.

“Henderson aggressively sexually attacked [Galliford] … removing some of his clothes and exposing [himself] to her,” the statement reads.

Galliford also alleges repeated sexual harassment at the hands of Phil Little, a Vancouver police officer she worked with on the Missing Women Task Force.

According to the document, Little made several sexually suggestive comments, including, “I don’t know what I like better, your eyes or your mouth.”

Galliford also alleges Little exposed himself to her in his car while investigating Pickton, saying “I want to show you my mole. Don’t you think it’s cute?”

According to the statement, Galliford once again did not formally complain for fear of negative repercussions.

“The culture of sexual harassment within the RCMP is so pervasive that [Galliford] was helpless to personally stop it,” the document reads.

“[Galliford] had to accept a certain level of tolerance of [sexual harassment] as complaining about it would only make matters worse.”

‘Very sick’

Galliford’s lawyer Barry Carter says his client developed a severe form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of the harassment and  the statement lays out a litany of symptoms, including agoraphobia, nightmares, alcohol dependency and significant weight loss.

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Barry Carter, Galliford’s lawyer, says his client is very sick as a result of the harassment. (CBC)

Galliford has been off duty on sick leave since 2007.

“She’s very sick,” he said. “I would think her career with the RCMP is pretty much done.”

Galliford is also suing RCMP doctor Ian MacDonald, alleging he failed to properly diagnose and treat her psychological problems and made things worse by disclosing confidential information to her estranged husband.

“It would appear from reviewing the material that we have that there was an insistence on treating her dependency problems, her alcohol dependency, and ignoring the underlying problems that led to the alcohol dependency, which was her PTSD,” Carter said.

“As I understand, if PTSD goes untreated it gets worse and so this went on for years.”

Culture of fear

The force insisted she follow a relapse prevention agreement (RPA) related to her alcohol dependency, Carter said, but refused to treat her PTSD.

“As a result of … their perceived failure of the RPA’s, they started to see her as being difficult and manipulative and being deceptive and lying and being somehow a risk to the RCMP if she returned to operational duties.”

The allegations have not been proven in court. None of the defendants have had the opportunity to respond as the case was filed recently. If served in Canada, the defendants have 21 days to file a response.

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Craig Callens, the top Mountie in B.C., issued a statement to CBC News Wednesday night, saying that Galliford’s allegations remain unproven and officers had been assigned to investigate them.

Callens said two investigations were undertaken. One probe related to allegations that Callens said were linked to the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry into the police investigations of Pickton, currently underway in Vancouver.

Callens said the other set of allegations by Galliford did not pertain to the inquiry and were being investigated separately.

“The allegations relating to the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry have been fully investigated and I can tell you that we have not been able to substantiate nor corroborate any related to the alleged sexual harassment by RCMP members,” Callens said. “The remaining allegations continue to be investigated.”

Galliford is seeking unspecified damages for loss of past and future income in addition to punitive and aggravated damages.

Her high-profile case is the latest in a growing list of legal actions against the Mounties alleging a culture of harassment inside the force.

“I don’t know if my journey is going to change anything for other members who are in the force now or those who are coming after me because there is still a culture of fear,” Galliford said Wednesday.

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With files from the CBC’s Greg Rasmussen, Natalie Clancy

How Hitler defied the bankers

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How Hitler defied the bankers

Many people take joy in saying Wall Street and Jewish bankers “financed Hitler.” There is plenty of documented evidence that Wall Street and Jewish bankers did indeed help finance Hitler at first, partly because it allowed the bankers to get rich (as I will describe below) and partly in order to control Stalin. However, when Germany broke free from the bankers, the bankers declared a world war against Germany.

When we look at all the facts, the charge that “Jews financed Hitler” becomes irrelevant.  Los Angeles Attorney Ellen Brown discusses this topic in her book Web Of Debt.

When Hitler came to power, Germany was hopelessly broke. The Treaty of Versailles had imposed crushing reparations on the German people, demanding that Germans repay every nation’s costs of the war. These costs totaled three times the value of all the property in Germany.

Private currency speculators caused the German mark to plummet, precipitating one of the worst runaway inflations in modern times. A wheelbarrow full of 100 billion-mark banknotes could not buy a loaf of bread. The national treasury was empty. Countless homes and farms were lost to speculators and to private (Jewish controlled) banks. Germans lived in hovels. They were starving.

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Nothing like this had ever happened before – the total destruction of the national currency, plus the wiping out of people’s savings and businesses.  On top of this came a global depression.  Germany had no choice but to succumb to debt slavery under international (mainly Jewish) bankers until 1933, when the National Socialists came to power. At that point the German government thwarted the international banking cartels by issuing its own money.  World Jewry responded by declaring a global boycott against Germany.

Hitler began a national credit program by devising a plan of public works that included flood control, repair of public buildings and private residences, and construction of new roads, bridges, canals, and port facilities. All these were paid for with money that no longer came from the private international bankers.

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The projected cost of these various programs was fixed at one billion units of the national currency. To pay for this, the German government (not the international bankers) issued bills of exchange, called Labor Treasury Certificates. In this way the National Socialists put millions of people to work, and paid them with Treasury Certificates.

Under the National Socialists, Germany’s money wasn’t backed by gold (which was owned by the international bankers).  It was essentially a receipt for labor and materials delivered to the government.  Hitler said, “For every mark issued, we required the equivalent of a mark’s worth of work done, or goods produced.” The government paid workers in Certificates. Workers spent those Certificates on other goods and services, thus creating more jobs for more people.  In this way the German people climbed out of the crushing debt imposed on them by the international bankers.

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Within two years, the unemployment problem had been solved, and Germany was back on its feet. It had a solid, stable currency, with no debt, and no inflation, at a time when millions of people in the United States and other Western countries (controlled by international bankers) were still out of work. Within five years, Germany went from the poorest nation in Europe to the richest.

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Germany even managed to restore foreign trade, despite the international bankers’ denial of foreign credit to Germany, and despite the global boycott by Jewish-owned industries.  Germany succeeded in this by exchanging equipment and commodities directly with other countries, using a barter system that cut the bankers out of the picture.  Germany flourished, since barter eliminates national debt and trade deficits. (Venezuela does the same thing today when it trades oil for commodities, plus medical help, and so on. Hence the bankers are trying to squeeze Venezuela.)

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Germany’s economic freedom was short-lived; but it left several monuments, including the famous Autobahn, the world’s first extensive superhighway.

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Hjalmar Schacht, a Rothschild agent who was temporarily head of the German central bank, summed it up thus: An American banker had commented, “Dr. Schacht, you should come to America. We’ve lots of money and that’s real banking.” Schacht replied, “You should come to Berlin. We don’t have money. That’s real banking.”

(Schacht, the Rothschild agent, actually supported the private international bankers against Germany, and was rewarded by having all charges against him dropped at the Nuremberg trials.)

This economic freedom made Hitler extremely popular with the German people.  Germany was rescued from English economic theory, which says that all currency must be borrowed against the gold owned by a private and secretive banking cartel — such as the Federal Reserve, or the Central Bank of Europe — rather than issued by the government for the benefit of the people.

Canadian researcher Dr. Henry Makow (who is Jewish himself) says the main reason why the bankers arranged for a world war against Germany was that Hitler sidestepped the bankers by creating his own money, thereby freeing the German people. Worse, this freedom and prosperity threatened to spread to other nations. Hitler had to be stopped!

Makow quotes from the 1938 interrogation of C. G. Rakovsky, one of the founders of Soviet Bolshevism and a Trotsky intimate. Rakovsky was tried in show trials in the USSR under Stalin. According to Rakovsky, Hitler was at first funded by the international bankers, through the bankers’ agent Hjalmar Schacht. The bankers financed Hitler in order to control Stalin, who had usurped power from their agent Trotsky. Then Hitler became an even bigger threat than Stalin when Hitler started printing his own money.

(Stalin came to power in 1922, which was eleven years before Hitler came to power.)

Rakovsky said:

“Hitler took over the privilege of manufacturing money, and not only physical moneys, but also financial ones. He took over the machinery of falsification and put it to work for the benefit of the people. Can you possibly imagine what would have come if this had infected a number of other states? (Henry Makow, “Hitler Did Not Want War,” www.savethemales.com March 21, 2004).

Economist Henry C K Liu writes of Germany’s remarkable transformation:

“The Nazis came to power in 1933 when the German economy was in total collapse, with ruinous war-reparation obligations and zero prospects for foreign investment or credit. Through an independent monetary policy of sovereign credit and a full-employment public-works program, the Third Reich was able to turn a bankrupt Germany, stripped of overseas colonies, into the strongest economy in Europe within four years, even before armament spending began. (Henry C. K. Liu, “Nazism and the German Economic Miracle,” Asia Times (May 24, 2005).

In Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People (1984), Sheldon Emry commented:

“Germany issued debt-free and interest-free money from 1935 on, which accounts for Germany’s startling rise from the depression to a world power in five years. The German government financed its entire operations from 1935 to 1945 without gold, and without debt. It took the entire Capitalist and Communist world to destroy the German revolution, and bring Europe back under the heel of the Bankers.”

These facts do not appear in any textbooks today, since Jews own most publishing companies. What does appear is the disastrous runaway inflation suffered in 1923 by the Weimar Republic, which governed Germany from 1919 to 1933. Today’s textbooks use this inflation to twist truth into its opposite. They cite the radical devaluation of the German mark as an example of what goes wrong when governments print their own money, rather than borrow it from private cartels.

In reality, the Weimar financial crisis began with the impossible reparations payments imposed at the Treaty of Versailles. Hjalmar Schacht, the Rothschild agent who was currency commissioner for the Republic — opposed letting the German government print its own money… “The Treaty of Versailles is a model of ingenious measures for the economic destruction of Germany.  Germany could not find any way of holding its head above the water, other than by the inflationary expedient of printing bank notes.”

Schacht echoes the textbook lie that Weimar inflation was caused when the German government printed its own money.  However, in his 1967 book The Magic of Money, Schacht let the cat out of the bag by revealing that it was the PRIVATELY-OWNED Reichsbank, not the German government, that was pumping new currency into the economy.  Thus, the PRIVATE BANK caused the Weimar hyper-inflation.

Like the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Reichsbank was overseen by appointed government officials, but was operated for private gain. What drove the wartime inflation into hyperinflation was speculation by foreign investors, who sold the mark short, betting on its decreasing value. In the manipulative device known as the short sale, speculators borrow something they don’t own, sell it, and then “cover” by buying it back at the lower price.

Speculation in the German mark was made possible because the PRIVATELY OWNED Reichsbank (not yet under Nazi control) made massive amounts of currency available for borrowing. This currency, like U.S. currency today, was created with accounting entries on the bank’s books. Then the funny-money was lent at compound interest. When the Reichsbank could not keep up with the voracious demand for marks, other private banks were allowed to create marks out of nothing, and to lend them at interest. The result was runaway debt and inflation.

Thus, according to Schacht himself, the German government did not cause the Weimar hyperinflation.  On the contrary, the government (under the National Socialists) got hyperinflation under control. The National Socialists put the Reichsbank under strict government regulation, and took prompt corrective measures to eliminate foreign speculation. One of those measures was to eliminate easy access to funny-money loans from private banks. Then Hitler got Germany back on its feet by having the public government issue Treasury Certificates.

Schacht , the Rothschild agent, disapproved of this government fiat money, and wound up getting fired as head of the Reichsbank when he refused to issue it.  Nonetheless, he acknowledged in his later memoirs that allowing the government to issue the money it needed did not produce the price inflation predicted by classical economic theory, which says that currency must be borrowed from private cartels.

What causes hyper-inflation is uncontrolled speculation. When speculation is coupled with debt (owed to private banking cartels) the result is disaster. On the other hand, when a government issues currency in carefully measured ways, it causes supply and demand to increase together, leaving prices unaffected. Hence there is no inflation, no debt, no unemployment, and no need for income taxes.

Naturally this terrifies the bankers, since it eliminates their powers. It also terrifies Jews, since their control of banking allows them to buy the media, the government, and everything else.

Therefore, to those who delight in saying “Jews financed Hitler,” I ask that they please look at all the facts.

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Christianity around the World Is under Assault… but not from Muslims

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Christianity around the World Is under Assault, but not from Muslims


by Wayne MADSEN

The neo-conservative cabal entwined in Western governments and media is fond of stating that “Judeo-Christianity,” itself a loaded term, is under assault from “Islamo-fascists” around the world. The record, however, is clear.

From Moscow to Cairo and Damascus to east Jerusalem, Christianity is under assault, not from main stream Islam but from a nexus of Jewish and “Christian” Zionists allied with the disruptive forces of non-governmental organizations financed by global troublemaker George Soros, alias Gyorgy Schwartz.

In Moscow, a feminist rock band called “Pussy Riot” has used trademark Soros disruption tactics against the Russian Orthodox Church.  Prior to the recent Russian presidential election, Pussy Rioters staged a sacrilegious, intolerant, and insensitive “concert” during worship services at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. After they were imprisoned for hooliganism, the Pussy Riot punkers instantly received support from all the usual suspects that kow-tow to the anti-Gentile line of the Zionists and their deep-pocketed Soros allies: The Washington Post, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Bloomberg News, and Forbes magazine.

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British Columbians have least confidence in their police among Canadians: poll

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British Columbians have least confidence in their police among Canadians: poll

Just 27 per cent of British Columbians have faith in the RCMP

By PETER O’NEIL, Vancouver Sun April 26, 2012
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OTTAWA — Canadians’ faith in their police has plunged by more than half in the past 15 years, and British Columbians have by far the least confidence among Canadians in local and provincial policing, according to a new poll.

The survey of just over 1,000 Canadians done in late March by Angus Reid Public Opinion found that roughly four of 10 Canadians have confidence in the RCMP, municipal forces, and the provincial police forces in Ontario and Quebec.

That compares to more than 80 per cent of Canadians who expressed confidence in police in 1997 when pollster Angus Reid first posed the question.

The national figures have been dragged down by respondents in B.C., where the Mounties have experienced a string of public relations disasters in recent years.

Just 27 per cent of British Columbians have faith in the RCMP, while only 28 per cent have confidence in their municipal police forces. Both figures are the lowest in the country.

Simon Fraser University criminologist Neil Boyd cited a string of RCMP failures in B.C. – the bungling over several years of the Robert Pickton serial murder investigation, the accidental Tasering death in 2007 of Robert Dziekanski, and more recent sexual harassment allegations by female Mounties against their male counterparts – for the collapse in public faith in police.

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Who the hell is Regina and why is she keeping Harry James Townsend in jail without a trial? by Arthur Topham

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Who the hell is Regina and why is she keeping Harry James Townsend in jail without a trial?

by Arthur Topham
Radical Press reporter

May 1st, 2012

On Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 I attended a SUPREME TRIAL DIVISION “APN-REVIEW BAIL” hearing in Courtroom 1 at the Kelowna Law Courts in Kelowna, B.C. presided over by MR. JUSTICE BETTON. The Supreme Court List stated that it was “R.V TOWNSEND”. Reading that bold and ominous phrase was the beginning of yet another unraveling tale of judicial incompetence and outright criminal activity on the part of what is considered to be the Canadian Justice System.

My initial thought was, “Who the hell is ‘R’ and why is ‘R’ trying to keep Jim Townsend in jail for months and not allowing him out on bail?”

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Well, I decided to go to the lawyer’s bible, better known as Black’s Law Dictionary, to find out who “R” was. I figured that seeing as how “R” was doing their damnedest to keep Jim Townsend incarcerated since last February 16th without giving him his legal right to a day in court, (which, coincidentally, by Canadian ‘law’ ought to have taken place within 72 hours of his arrest) they must be a pretty powerful and influential Canadian.

Well lo and behold if I didn’t discover that “R” is but an abbreviation for the Latin word, “Regina” which, when translated into the English language, means “The queen”!

The queen? What queen? Did I miss something along the way? The queen? Not a queen with a capital Q even, just “the queen”. Now I had heard of a former rock band called “Queen” but for some reason I couldn’t conceive of them as having the ability to persuade the Canadian courts to arrest and jail a man who in his 56th year of life and having absolutely no previous criminal record was suddenly deemed to be such a dire threat to the Canadian public that he had to be torn away from his family and friends and placed in a jail cell without the Canadian court system first proving that he had actually done anything wrong. Of course I quickly came to the realization that it couldn’t have been those raunchy rockers called Queen because they weren’t even Canadians and how in God’s name would they therefore be able to commandeer the services of our supreme court?

My next logical conclusion was that it must be the city of Regina, Saskatchewan who was after Jim for some major traffic violation or something of that nature but again it just didn’t make sense that a city would go to such inordinate lengths to keep an innocent man in jail for failing to pay his traffic tickets.

Finally the light broke through and it dawned on me that it was in fact the Queen of that foreign nation known as England who was responsible for keeping Harry James Townsend in jail. The frickin’ Queen of England?!! What in hell has she got to do with my independent and sovereign nation called Canada? I thought we got rid of her and her crown jewels back during the heady days of the early 1980′s when former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the Liberals brought the Canadian “Constitution” home along with our independence. Apparently not. It appears that the “Crown” is still in control of Canada and by extension all of the people who live here and that if we don’t abide by the law then “the queen” will see to it that we are severely punished.

Why this is so of course is extremely pertinent to the case of “REGINA VERSUS TOWNSEND” and it is my personal contention that “the queen” is pissed big time with Harry James Townsend because Mr. Townsend, many years ago, also came to the realization that something was sorely amiss with Canada’s justice system and had set out to educate the Canadian public about what a supremely farcical foundation our whole judiciary is based upon.

“Why does the Canadian Court refer to itself as ‘R’ and not the Canadian Supreme Court?” and “Why is this ‘R’ being used at all when it comes to Canada’s justice system?” were the thoughts running through my mind as I proceeded to walk up the stairs to the second floor of the Kelowna Law Courts to where Jim’s bail hearing was to take place.

In the foyer outside Court Room One I met up with Jim Townsend’s wife Judith and members of her family who were there for the hearing. Seated next to Judith was Jim’s lawyer, Doug Christie, who had flown up from Victoria in the morning to attend the bail hearing. Doug was going over his papers while we waited for the 2 p.m. session to commence. Doug asked about the presiding judge and I jokingly remarked that given his name he wasn’t likely someone we could “bet on” to release Jim on bail.

Jim of course was not present for his bail hearing for he was still being held in the lower mainland at the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Coquitlam but it was expected that he would be virtually in attendance via video from his jail cell which in fact did happen after some preliminary hassles with connecting up.

Mr. Justice Betton, a relatively young man who appeared to be in his early 40s and sporting a Leninesque goatee which, coincidentally befitted both his character and his later actions, presided over the court.

Doug Christie began his presentation to Justice Betton while “The queen’s” prosecutor, Crown council Wong from Kamloops, stood next to him. Mr. Christie proceeded to outline the facts surrounding Jim’s case in an attempt to provide the court with valid reasons for why Jim had been forced to breach one of his bail conditions which was the basis for him being incarcerated back in February of 2012. The breach of bail was a result of the extreme machinations on the part of courts themselves which literally broke the laws of Canada as they are contained in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by making it a crime for Jim to use the internet for personal communications or to post any YouTubes online. Given the fact that Jim and his wife Judith lived miles away from Vernon out in the wilderness of the Monashee Mountains east of the city where they had no telephone service or other means of normal communication they were being forced into complete isolation while at the same time the Ministry of Social Services was continually withholding both of their disability cheques and forcing them into circumstances that were not only untenable but extreme to the point of being sadistic in nature. And as if all of that were not enough the Townsends were also being continually harassed by Canada Revenue Services and any monies they were able to earn were immediately garnisheed by that other agency of “The queen”.

On top of this was an onerous curfew placed on Jim which basically disallowed him enough time to travel into Vernon to work on his defense and then make it back to his home before the severe time limit expired.

On top of these arguments for why Jim had posted a YouTube online in order to draw attention to the valid and horrendous injustice of the courts and the government ministries as they pertained to their stolen pension cheques Doug Christie also brought up the fact that Jim Townsend was a peaceful man who throughout his 56 years of living in Canada had not been convicted of any criminal offenses and therefore the court should not be concerned that he was a threat in any way to the public. He further went on to state to the judge that apart from the moral and legitimate reasons for why Jim had been forced to post an appeal to the public via the use of YouTube Mr. Townsend had already served more than enough time in jail to suffice for whatever possible consequences might occur for having committed such an infraction, this on top of the fact that he was a peaceful man who never advocated violence as a means of resolving problems.

It must be pointed out here that throughout Mr. Christie’s presentation to Justice Betton the judge continually reverted to arguing with Christie over practically each and every point that was brought up. As I observed his behaviour my first thoughts were that this supposed judge was not being impartial in the least and, in fact, was behaving more like what one would expect from the crown council Mr. Wong who, throughout the whole of the proceedings which extended for close to an hour and a half, hardly opened his mouth at all and only did so when prompted by justice Betton. What I witnessed was this young commissar of the court attempting an ego battle with the famed free speech lawyer Doug Christie and trying at every turn to challenge him, a job I presume which ought to have been left to the crown prosecutor. It quickly became apparent that Justice Betton was, in truth, not the judge to ‘bet on’ as I had humorously foretold out in the foyer.

When Doug Christie brought up the fact that Jim was a peaceful,  non-violent man with no criminal record Justice Betton immediately pounced on excerpts from the document that obviously were cherry picked out of context by the crown prosecutor in order to justify their own false charges laid against Mr. Townsend. These out of context excerpts were extracted from the formal complaint which Jim had submitted to BC Ombudsman wherein he had outlined all the crimes against both himself and his wife, including an attempted murder case which the RCMP refused to investigate thoroughly which had prompted him to eventually file the complaint in the first place. In that Complaint to the Ombudsman Jim had laid out all the facts surrounding the endless harassment and persecution that he and his family had undergone since 1996 when he first got involved with the RCMP while trying to assist them in tracking online purveyors of child pornography. At one point in the lengthy complaint Jim outlined what had happened to him physically when, because of the machinations of the Ministry of Social Services, he ended up having to vacate a rental property and because he had no truck was forced to move his family belongings with a tractor. In the course of doing so an accident occurred that could easily have proven fatal. Jim described in the Complaint and elsewhere all of the assorted crushing consequences that occurred to his body when the tractor came down upon him and then later in the document he voiced his abject disapproval for Pat Clemens and the Ministry of Social Service’s behaviour toward himself and his wife Judith by stating that he would like to see Clemens suffer the same fate and  then possibly he would understand why Jim felt so strongly about the way he and his family were being treated.

Throughout all this repartee back and forth between Christie and Betton the justice continually insisted that Christie was not providing him with enough evidence to counter the dislocated comments that he himself was offering to the debate; one which he continually initiated whenever Doug would make a point in Jim’s favour. And where was Prosecutor Wong throughout all of this? Standing there, mute like, as if he had been silenced in advance. It was clear to all of those present in the court room observing the charade that Betton was abusing not only his position as an impartial arbitrator of the case but also obviously overlooking the overall context within which the whole of fallacious his side of the argument was skewed.

Then, to add additional insult to injury, just prior to taking a break midway through the session, Justice Betton suddenly produced a whole new document presumably containing additional evidence that Jim Townsend presented a clear and present danger to society and thus should remain incarcerated until such time as a trial was set. Lawyer Doug Christie objected to the fact that this sudden appearance of an unseen document midway through the arguments was not kosher but consented to attempting to review it during his break.

As the 4 p.m. deadline approached it was clear that all of Betton’s obfuscating and inappropriate, abstruse argumentation, mainly on behalf of the prosecutor from Kamloops, had produced the desired effect of curtailing the possibility of any impartial judgment and the case had to be rescheduled for a later date. A decision as to precisely when the hearing would continue was adjourned until May 7th at which time a new date would be set.

And so this is how Regina treats her subjects I reflected to myself

As I wended my way homeward to the Cariboo I reflected upon what had gone down in that red brick fortress in Kelowna owned and operated by Regina. It harkened me back to my own legal battles with Canadian Human Rights Commission and its attendant CHR Tribunal over the Section 13 “hate crimes” complaint that B’nai Brith Canada had laid against me and my website back in 2007. Just how different this supposed ‘Canadian supreme’ court room scenario differed from the Stalinist style Bolshevik structure of these ‘Human Rights’ tribunals was beginning to grow less and less discernible and I again was forced to entertain the growing realization that Canada is not really a sovereign and independent country with a real constitution but actually a closet-style fascist dictatorship wherein the courts and the media and the institutions of the nation are all, in one form or another, still controlled by Regina and her corporate banksters.

Jim Townsend is in jail because of this reality. He symbolizes for all of us what the fascist state will do when you question its authority.

Will I be next? Will you?

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Arthur Topham can be reached at radical@radicalpress.com Feedback is always welcome.