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Charged with Murder! That was a Lie! Robert Paulson
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This book is based on Former Classification Officer Terry Mallenby’s recollections, supplemented by Personal Federal Court documents. Terry Mallenby, BA, BSW, MA Former Classification Officer B.C. Maximum Security Penitentiary Canadian Penitentiary Service New Westminster, Canada
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Chapter 1 Page 7 LET’S PUT THIS TRUE STORY INTO PERSPECTIVE AS A VERY APPARENT RCMP AND CANADIAN GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY Chapter 2 Page 39 UNSOLVED MURDERS ALONG THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Chapter 3 Page 46 JUST HOW SECURE IS CANADA WHEN A SERIAL KILLER CAN WRITE CHILDREN’S BOOKS IN PRISON? Chapter 4 Page 48 “IT’S ABOUT HOW THE RCMP BUNGLED THE CASE OF THE NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLER CLIFFORD OLSON” Chapter 5 Page 65 VICTORIA RCMP – HEINOUS KILLING UNDER HIS NEW IDENTITY GOES UNANSWERED Chapter 6 Page 69 THE VANCOUVER SUN LISTS MORE MURDERED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Chapter 7 Page 76 THE RCMP “DIDN’T LIKE BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO” Chapter 8 Page 78 RCMP “ARROGANCE IN BUNGLING PICTON CASE” Chapter 9 Page 94 MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Chapter 10 Page 97 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Chapter 11 Page 99 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
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Chapter 12 Page 102 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Chapter 13 Page 105 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Chapter 14 Page 108 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Chapter 15 Page 111 BEWARE POLISH IMMIGRANTS, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Chapter 16 Page 119 NO ONE BUT A MORON OVERLOOKS THE IMPORT OF THIS EMAIL IN THE TASERING DEATH OF ROBERT DZIEKANSKI Chapter 17 Page 131 BEWARE OUR NATIVE BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Chapter 18 Page 139 RAMSAY PREYED ON YOUNG ABORIGINAL WOMEN Chapter 19 Page 141 RCMP PROBE INTO RAMSAY FIZZLED Chapter 20 Page 143 WOULD THE RCMP RATHER SHOOT US DEAD Chapter 21 Page 156 BEFORE HIS DEATH HE WAS ABLE TO SAY AN RCMP OFFICER JUMPED UP AND DOWN ON HIM Chapter 22 Page 161 BEWARE MUSLIMS, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Chapter 23 Page 163 BEWARE HOMOSEXUALS, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO
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Chapter 24 Page 165 BEWARE DISABLED, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Chapter 25 Page 167 EVEN FEMALES HAVE TO BEWARE, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Chapter 26 Page 169 HOW DARE THE “LITTLE GUY” RETURN TO BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE RCMP WOULD SURELY GET HIM AND, IF NOT HIM, THEN SURELY HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN Chapter 27 Page 172 RCMP HARASS DAUGHTER OF THE “LITTLE GUY” Chapter 28 Page 182 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – THE WOMAN’S 93 YEAR OLD MOTHER WAS SLEEPING Chapter 29 Page 183 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP TASER 82 YEAR OLD MAN Chapter 30 Page 187 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP FAVORITE TACTIC SMEAR KICKED MAN Chapter 31 Page 193 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP STAFF SGT ROSS SPENARD THOUGHT HE HAD COVERED HIS TRACKS BY SHREDDING DOCUMENTS Chapter 32 Page 199 RCMP HIRE ‘PSYCHOLOGIST’ WHO HAD NO APA OR CPA APPROVED DEGREE Chapter 33 Page 208 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP PASS UP CLEAN-CUT KID BECAUSE THEY FEAR HE WILL NOT PUT UP WITH THEIR ILLEGAL ACTS Chapter 34 Page 213 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP PASS UP CLEAN-CUT KID BECAUSE HE LIKED TO CATCH BAD-GUYS 6
Chapter 35 Page 220 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP PASS UP CLEAN-CUT KID BECAUSE HE LIVES WITH HIS FAMILY Chapter 36 Page 224 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP PASS UP CLEAN-CUT KID BECAUSE HE HAD TWO UNIVERSITY DEGREES
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Chapter 1 LET’S PUT THIS TRUE STORY INTO PERSPECTIVE AS A VERY APPARENT RCMP AND CANADIAN GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY Let’s put this true story into perspective as a very apparent RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] and Canadian Government Conspiracy: 1976
Coroner’s Inquest held in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada ruled the homicide was by Person or Persons Unknown
1979
RCMP S/Sgt John Thomas Randle writes a letter saying that this “little guy” was a murderer1
1979
RCMP S/Sgt John Thomas Randle writes a letter saying that this “little guy” was a murderer is given to John Gomery2a
1979
M.J. Hauser of the Correctional Service of Canada in memo(s) says that this “little guy” was a murderer3
1979
Nicole Bomberg of the Canadian Human Rights Commission in memo(s) says that this “little guy” was a murderer4
1979
Lorisa Stein of the Canadian Human Rights Commission in memo(s) says that this “little guy” was a murderer5
1980
The “little guy” being unemployed seeks relief from his Canada Student Loans, however, the Judge turns out to be John Gomery and his request is denied2b
1980
The “little guy” being unemployed seeks a disability pension [Canada Pension Plan] using RCMP S/Sgt John Thomas Randle, M.J. Hauser of the Correctional Service of Canada memo(s), Nicole Bomberg of the Canadian Human Rights Commission memo(s) and Lorisa Stein of the Canadian Human Rights Commission memo(s) – his request for disability pension approved
1981
The “little guy” being unemployed again seeks relief from his Canada Student Loans, the Judge not being John Gomery, and his request is approved
1981
The RCMP fabricate more “bull shit” about the “little guy” to railroad him into jail
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1990
After 14 years of accumulating evidence, the “little guy” successfully sues the RCMP [see Appendix 1, cited below]
1993
The “little guy” blew the whistle on Newfoundland Social Service Minister Kay Young’s Whitbourne Centre [see Appendix 2, cited below]
1996
The “little guy” went back on his Canada Pension Plan disability pension with a psychiatrist diagnosis that the “little guy” suffered with Post Traumatic Stress – Chronic Type, Social Phobia, etc [see Appendix 3, cited below]
1990
As part of dealing with his Post Traumatic Stress – Chronic Type he took to writing about the RCMP false statements, harassment, illegal, acts: Human rights violations in Canada: Individual being denied employment with the Federal Government of Canada due to false "murder charge" statements made by M.J. Hauser of the Correctional Service of Canada (continuin case st dy from Co r s rie re en mati re de faillite, alais de stice, Montr al, File -11002290-894)OCLC Number: 29205400 – 1990 Human rights violations in Canada: Individual being denied employment with the Federal Government of Canada due to false m rder char e statements made by icole omber of the blic er ice Commission of Canada contin in case st dy from Co r s rie re en mati re de faillite, alais de stice, Montr al, File #500-11-002290-894)OCLC Number: 29205400 – 1990
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As part of dealing with his Post Traumatic Stress – Chronic Type he took to writing about the RCMP false statements, harassment, illegal, acts: R.C.M.P. Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle's legacy to Canada. ISBN: 0969594429 9780969594420 OCLC Number: 46531882 - 1996 R.C.M.P. Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle's legacy to Canada. ISBN: 0969594429 9780969594420 OCLC Number: 46531882 - 1996
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As part of dealing with his Post Traumatic Stress – Chronic Type he took to writing about the RCMP false statements, 9
harassment, illegal, acts: Human rights violations in Canada by federal agents of the Canadian Human Rights Anti-Discrimination Agency of the Public Service Commission of Canada. ISBN: 0969594453 9780969594451 OCLC Number: 46528081 - 1997 Is he Canada's example of another Mark Furman : R.C.M.P. Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle purposefully committed lies, fabricated evidence, made false statements & committed illegal acts! ISBN: 0969594437 9780969594437 OCLC Number: 43152171 - 1997 Complete discharge from bankruptcy including preferred student loans due to Royal Canadian Mounted Police harassment: a most unusual case of bankruptcy. ISBN: 0968290469 9780968290460 OCLC Number: 46563182 – 1997 1998
As part of dealing with his Post Traumatic Stress – Chronic Type he took to writing about the RCMP false statements, harassment, illegal, acts: Canadian anti-discriminate [sic] directorate and Canadian public service staff Nicole Bomberg's legacy to Canada. ISBN: 0968290469 9780968290460 OCLC Number: 46563169 - 1998 Canadian anti-discrimination directorate and Canadian public service staff Lorisa Stein's legacy to Canada. N: 096959447X 9780969594475 OCLC Number: 46563137 - 1998 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle's & Cpl. Jackett's legacy to Canada. ISBN: 0968290442 9780968290446 OCLC Number: 46563215 - 1998 Judge John Gomery's inapproprivate comments based on lies, false statements, fabricated statements & illegal acts by R.C.M.P. Sgt. John Thomas Randle. ISBN: 0968290477 9780968290477 OCLC Number: 46563154 – 1998
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Can police harassment involving illegal acts, false statements and fabricated evidence lead to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder sufficient to approve permanent disability pension? ISBN: 0969594488 9780969594482 OCLC Number: 46563102 - 1998 1998
The United Nations wasn’t interested in “the little guy”: Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations and Mary Robinson, the Human Rights Commissioner: their legacy to the world. OCLC Number: 49268248
1998
To shut the “little guy” up, the RCMP fabricate more “bull shit” about the “little guy” to railroad him into jail
2000
The Canadian Investigative Program wasn’t interested in “the little guy”: Story 'too hot' for the investigative program "The Fifth Estate"!! OCLC Number: 48670944
2005
Did apparent RCMP stooge professor Helen Brown purposefully fabricate a statement about the “little guy’s” son to interfere with his university program6 This RCMP stooge professor Helen Brown also tried the same with the “little guy’s” daughter
2006
Did the RCMP have the Canadian Military purposefully issue the “little guy’s” daughter clown sized boots so she would not make BMQ and eliminate her from a career with the Canadian military 7
2007
Did the RCMP have the Canadian Military apparently “poison” the “little guy’s” son so he would not make BMQ and eliminate him from a career with the Canadian military8
2008
The RCMP had some ruffians harass the “little guy’s” wife, daughter and son9
2009
Did the RCMP have a private security employer deny the “little guy’s” son essential emails10
2009
Did RCMP stooge Canadian Minister Diane Finley purposefully accept lies of a private security employer about the “little guy’s” son and daughter to eliminate a career in private security11 11
2010
The RCMP made up some cock-and-bull reason not to accept the “little guy’s” son as a recruit thus eliminating his potential career with the RCMP12
2010
Did RCMP stooge Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald purposefully accept lies from the “cool kids gang” to harass, isolate and discriminate against the “little guy’s” daughter13 Did RCMP stooge Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald’s “cool kids gang” also try to harass and isolate the “little guy’s” son
2011
The Canadian Government and RCMP are censoring this current author’s attempts to bring this conspiracy to light, where the Canadian Government and the RCMP are obviously censoring what appears on Amazon.com14
Footnotes 1. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago that there were “lying bastards” in the RCMP [interspersed amongst the many fine RCMP officers protecting our citizens and country] and has waited over 30 years before the rest of the country and world could read about the “lying bastards”, as cited in the current author’s recent books highlighting accounts in the media and on the web: Canada’s olice Force: Lies, fabrication, er ry ... and m ch worse? “Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at the hospital that an RCMP officer jumped up and down on him” Cry abies! A ile of “dirty tricks” and when they are re ealed – boy do they cry? Were these RCMP officers just being "BOYS"? Or was it very close to "RAPE"? The New RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson: Closes door on "sexual perverts" already in the RCMP? Let's "brow-beat" this witness and, if that doesn't work, we'll fabricate? RCMP investigative techniques? Why isn't Public Safety Minister Vic Toews doing more? Or, is it all just more political "hot air"? 2a & 2b. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what a “miserable bastard” John Gomery was and has waited over 30 years before the rest of 12
the country and world would find out, as cited in the current author’s recent book highlighting accounts in the media and on the web: A Federal Court ruling has blasted the biased musings of Judge John Gomery 3 - 5. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what “lying bastards” were employed by the Federal Government of Canada and has waited over 30 years before the rest of the country and world would find out, as cited in the current author’s recent book: There's No Such Thing as Human Rights in Canada! 6. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what “lying bastards” were employed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and here is the story about the “lying professor” as an apparent RCMP stooge who tried to interfere with the “little guy” son’s education, as cited in the current author’s recent book: The lying professor? And, the lying V.P.? 7. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what “lying bastards” were employed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and here is the story about the “lying doctor” as an apparent RCMP stooge who tried to interfere with the “little guy” daughter’s potential military career, as cited in the current author’s recent book: The lying doctor? And, the lying general? 8. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what “lying bastards” were employed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and here is the story about the apparent attempted “poisoning” of the “little guy” son’s thus eliminating his potential military career, as cited in the current author’s recent books: Canadian Go ernment Cons iracy: Was this ‘kid’ oisoned? David Langtry's Legacy to Canada?: Accepting lie, after lie, after lie? Canada Government: Why so many liars? 9. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what “lying bastards” were employed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and here is the story about the harassment of the “little guy’s” wife and daughter and son by RCMP stooges, as cited in the current author’s recent book: 13
Canada’s olice Force: Lies, fabrication, perjury ... and much worse? “Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at the hospital that an RCMP officer jumped up and down on him” 10. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what “lying bastards” were employed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and here is the story about a vindictive employer as an apparent RCMP stooge who tried to interfere with the “little guy” son’s safety, as cited in the current author’s recent books: Canada’s Very Own “Three Blind Mice”! Who concluded that antibiotics are for stress? Vindictive Employers: Nothing but poison! CANADIAN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT Umpire J.M. Bordeleau: Ignores medical certificates and antibiotic prescriptions? Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! J.M. Bordeleau's Legacy to Canada? 11. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what “lying bastards” were employed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and here is the story about a vindictive employer as an apparent RCMP stooge who tried to interfere with the “little guy” daughter’s employment, as cited in the current author’s recent books: Canada’s Very Own “Three Blind Mice”! Who concluded that antibiotics are for stress? Vindictive Employers: Nothing but poison! CANADIAN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT Umpire J.M. Bordeleau: Ignores medical certificates and antibiotic prescriptions? Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! J.M. Bordeleau's Legacy to Canada? 12. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what “lying bastards” were employed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and here is the story about the RCMP making up some cock-and-bull nonsense so they would not have to accept the “little guy’s” son as an RCMP recruit, as cited in the current author’s recent book: If Yo Like To Catch ad G ys This olice Force Doesn’t Want You? If You Live at Home This Police Force Doesn't Want You? What kind of "wacky" 14
police force is that? RCMP 'Psychologist' Neil Anderson's Legacy to 'Honesty': Don't tell the applicant our secret? 13. The “little guy” knew full-well long, long ago what “lying bastards” were employed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and here is the story about the RCMP using a provincial government department to sex-discriminate, harass, and isolate the “little guy’s” daughter, as cited in the current author’s recent book: Is slavery alive and well in Canada? There is absolutely no protection for female employees against vindictive employers! 14. The Canadian Government and RCMP are censoring this current author’s attempts to bring this conspiracy against this “little guy” and his family to light, where the Canadian Government and the RCMP are obviously censoring what appears on Amazon.com, as cited in the current author’s recent books:14 Is Canada's Police Force Filtering What the World Reads about Them? The "Crazy Canuck" apparently wrote a bogus review to help out? Has the “WetCoaster” made another fabricated statement beca se the a thor has written about the Lies, Fabrications, Perjury and much worse by Canada’s olice Force? Is the “WetCoaster” and the “Crazy Can ck” the same erson? Does Canada censor what is on Amazon.com? Especially books about Canada?
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Appendix 1a The “little guy” sued for lost wages of 1.3 million dollars [with actuarial evidence] and the first out-of-court settlement that the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP offered him was $150,000? The “little guy” told the lawyer that wasn’t enough, and the second out-ofcourt settlement that the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP offered him was $275,000? The “little guy” said that represented a moral victory over “the bastards” and said accept it! As far as the “little guy” is concerned, the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP still owe him the remaining 1 million dollars, together with a sizeable amount for his wife and children who have themselves been harassed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP! As for the current author can tell, all he can say is that there are apparently many “lying shit-heads” working for the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and that there is enough material out there in the press, in the media and via Google search he can write many, many books about them for years and years to come?
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Appendix 1b The “little guy” successfully sued RCMP!
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Appendix 1c The “little guy” successfully sued RCMP!
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Appendix 1d The “little guy” successfully sued RCMP!
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Appendix 2 The “little guy” went off his Canada Pension Plan disability pension first approved in 1979, thinking the RCMP harassment may have finished? However, he was unable to cover-up for an apparent “sleeze ball”, as cited in the current author’s new book: Whistleblower! And darn proud of it! As cited, this ‘little guy’ who lost a job after blowing the whistle on the Whitbourne Centre to Premier Clyde Wells and Social Services Minister Kay Young, had warned these two “idiot” politicians of the dangers at the Whitbourne Centre!1 However, they wouldn’t listen [just like all the Whistelblowers cited in this book and elsewhere2] and got rid of their own whistleblower only to find out a year later that a tragedy did occur at the Whitbourne Centre! With the Newfoundland there was a Whistleblower who wrote to Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells and to Newfoundland Social Services Minister Kay Young telling them that the security at the maximum security youth centre, the Whitbourne Centre, was lax and should be improved.3 What did Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells and Newfoundland Social Services Minister Kay Young do? They didn’t listen to the Whistleblower; instead they fabricated some cock-and-bull excuse and got rid of him, just like all the government ministers and managers cited in this book and elsewhere.4 And what did that “sleaze-ball” Social Services Minister Kay Young do; she even violated the violation of the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act to make sure this whistleblowers was good-and-gone! Can’t have anyone blowing the whistle on political / government incompetence can we: November 16, 1994 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS Vol. XLII No. 62 MR. FITZGERALD: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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My question is to the Minister of Social Services. I want to ask the Minister of Social Services why she released information on the employment history of a Mr. xx, the former operations manager at the Newfoundland and Labrador Youth Centre, in clear violation of the Freedom of Information Act and in violation I believe of the Privacy Act? MR. FITZGERALD: Mr. Speaker, not only did the minister violate the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act but she also gave false information, Mr. Speaker, about Mr. xx's employment history. The minister said that Mr. xx had been fired for reasons related to job performance. The official record of employment the department gave to Mr. xx and to Employment Canada says he was dismissed for breach of trust and loss of confidence. Now I ask the minister, did the minister know, Mr. Speaker, that she was giving false information in her press release? Will she now admit Mr. xx was fired because he blew the whistle and disclosed the information as to what was actually happening out at the Newfoundland and Labrador Youth Centre? Now comes that “sleaze-ball� Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells: November 17, 1994 HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS Vol. XLII No. 63 MR. W. MATTHEWS: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I have a question for the Premier, following up on the line of questioning by the member for Bonavista South yesterday dealing with the Minister of Social Services Kay Young. Now, on November 8, 1994 the Minister of Social Services Kay Young issued a public statement, a written press release, where she referred to the dismissal of one Mr. xx at the Newfoundland and Labrador Youth Center at Whitbourne. In that she talked about the reasons for dismissal, job performance and work history. I want to ask the Premier, in light of the minister's public statement that is clearly a violation of the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act, but particularly the Freedom Information Act, section 10 (1) (b): Does the Premier consider this conduct and behavior of the Minister of Social Services Kay Young to be acceptable? MR. W. MATTHEWS: - and in that written, deliberate statement pertaining to the situation, she said: Mr. xx was dismissed for work related problems, job performance. Now the record of employment belonging to Mr. xx states that he was dismissed for breach of trust and loss of confidence, so in essence, the minister in her statement, issued a false statement. The reason was inaccurate and incorrect, so I want to ask the 21
Premier: does he feel that the conduct of the Minister of Social Services Kay Young, in issuing a false, public statement is behaviour and conduct acceptable for a minister of his Administration or, is he going to allow the standards and behaviour and conduct of the ministers to sink to an all-time low in this Province, where, individual privacy will no longer be protected? What happened a year later, due to the lax security, one of the youth committed suicide and a stink was raised about Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells and Newfoundland Social Services Minister Kay Young ignoring these Whistleblower warnings! Footnotes 1. The Newfoundland Department of Social Services is the worst department this author has ever read about, AMICUS No. 16972196, National Library of Canada. 2. Some Canadian Whistleblowers Topics: Whistleblowers 3. The Newfoundland Department of Social Services is the worst department this author has ever read about, AMICUS No. 16972196, National Library of Canada. 4. Some Canadian Whistleblowers Topics: Whistleblowers
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Appendix 3a The “little guy� was diagnosed with a multitude of disorders as a consequence of RCMP and Federal Government illegal acts, harassment and other abuse. Author’s note: Anyone who has to identify a loved-one in the morgue can appreciate the horror, grief, anger one experiences?
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Appendix 3b Author’s note: Anyone who has to identify a loved-one in the morgue can appreciate the horror, grief, anger one experiences?
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Appendix 3c
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Appendix 4 The current author is becoming well aware of the “dirty tricks” the RCMP pull on people, and in an effort to close him down and keep him quiet, the RCMP sent him a corrupted email called “Subject: RCMP Contract Thread-Topic: RCMP Contract” to crash this current author’s computer so he couldn’t write any more about the RCMP or the Canadian Government: Subject: RCMP Contract Thread-Topic: RCMP Contract x-store-info:sbevkl2QZR7OXo7WID5ZcVBK1Phj2jX/ Authentication-Results: hotmail.com; sender-id=temperror (sender IP is 142.32.11.118) header.from=SG.Minister@gov.bc.ca; dkim=none header.d=gov.bc.ca; x-hmca=none X-Message-Status: n:0:n X-SID-PRA: Minister, SG SG:EX <SG.Minister@gov.bc.ca> X-DKIM-Result: None X-AUTH-Result: NONE X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTA7YT0xO0Q9MTtTQ0w9MA== X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+bysO9XD1jof/TcB48BK+yRk+EhS1f53p9bO uzE4mBEOmzDVU/L1d7OUGdlb5R6fqGyPZPBHPHP6+wJHOzOIT9G 5tyQ4PHBjoQPEfrBGsclRxuFYJhwdPpQ= Received: from leaf.itsd.gov.bc.ca ([142.32.11.118]) by col0-mc4f31.Col0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:17:48 -0700 Received: from e7hub04.idir.bcgov (e7hub04.idir.bcgov [142.32.12.52]) by leaf.itsd.gov.bc.ca (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p9SFHje0006108 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL)
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Chapter 2 UNSOLVED MURDERS ALONG THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA What the current author has noted, if one Google searches “unsolved murders in British Columbia [Canada]”, page after page of web sites are listed – but apparently not one by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police dedicated to these poor unfortunate victims? As an example, this web site seems to be maintained and up-dated by a public citizen by the name of “Tony” – apparently no input from Canada’s police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police [RCMP]? Here is a tribute to the efforts of “Tony” by one grieving family: “It is with the deepest thanks I send this note regarding all the effort you, and everyone involved, have put into your efforts to bring to light the tragedy that has befallen so many young people along highway 16. I feel that you have given the voice to the victims, and their families and friends that has been sorely missing from those that have been entrusted with the responsibility of solving these tragic, and horrible circumstances. If more attention is brought to the many mysteries that have lived and lie along this lonesome stretch of road- and the communities that live along itperhaps it will bring a long overdue spotlight to this part of our province, the crimes that beset it, and those that are PAID and ENTRUSTED to SERVE US, ultimately bringing an end to the vanishings and tears...” 1 Why aren’t all these missing [and presumed murdered] and / or actually murdered individuals on a highly publicized RCMP web site somewhere? Is the RCMP doing all they can for these grieving families? As cited on “Missing along Highway of Tears”2, here is a list as of 04 November, 2011: “Nicole Hoar, Age: 25 Last seen: June 21, 2002 in Prince George Body found: No Fact: She was hitchhiking on Hwy. 16 Age 25, 5' 9'', 130 lbs. Dark hair in a pony tail, blue eyes and glasses. Last seen heading west from Prince George hitchhiking to Smithers on June 21, 2002. Was carrying a large purple and black backpack. Was wearing beige capri pants and a long sleeve red sports shirt, with a white and yellow 40
collar, and the name "Ravens" on it. She was carrying an olive green shoulder bag with an orange appliqued Dragon on it. Anyone having seen Nicole or having any information as to her possible whereabouts please call RCMP in Prince George: (250) 561-3300 or any RCMP detachment”3 “Tamara Chipman, Age: 22 Last seen: Sept. 21, 2005 in Prince Rupert Body found: No Fact: Believed to be hitchhiking on Highway 16 Hello and thank you too everyone who has helped with Tamara's case. My name is Cory and this is my daughter Tamara. This September will be the second year that her dad and myself have been missing our girl, it has without a doubt been the worst two years of our lives. Not a day or even an hour goes by that I don't think about her. Wish that I could talk to her or even just hear her voice again. I see her face everyday but sadly only in my mind, I talk to her only from my heart now, but I am sure that God tells her we are loving her always and he has her safely with him. Tamara was born on October 11. Her Grandpa Chipman drove Tom and I too the hospital that day. I'm not sure who was more excited about her arrival? From the minute she arrived she was loved by her entire family both my side and Toms. But I must say that Toms dad grandpa John and grandma Agnes were her favorites….”4 “Lana Derrick, Age: 19 Last seen: Oct. 7, 1995 in Thornhill Body found: No Fact: Family doesn't believe she was hitchhiking Aged 19, Dark brown hair; brown eyes disappeared Oct. 7, 1995, at a service station in Thornhill while home from school or the weekend. Lana was enrolled in forestry studies at Northwest Community College. If you ha e any information concernin Lana call the nearest RCM or olice” 5 “Delphine Nikkal, Age: 16 Last seen: June 14, 1990 along Highway 16 in Smithers Body found: No Aged 16. Disappeared from Smithers, BC on June 14, 1990, hitchhiking east on Highway 16 from Smithers to her home in Telkwa. If you have any information concerning Delphine call the nearest RCM or olice” 6
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“Leah Alishia Germaine, Age: 15 Last seen: Dec. 9, 1994 in Prince George Body found: Dec. 9, 1994 near Hwy 16 Fact: She knew victim Roxanne Thiara From Leah's (Alisha) aunt Connie ........the memories came flooding back along with the heartache. It has been 11 long years since she was taken from us but it still feels like yesterday. I will never forget my sister Debbie's anguish, anger and frustration of not knowing why and who did this to her little girl. Deb died last year without the closure she really needed concerning Leah's death. She never truly got over the way Leah died.” 7 “Cecilia Anne Nikal, Age: unknown Last seen: 1989 along Highway 16 in Smithers, her family says Body found: No Fact: Police say she went missing from Vancouver I would like to add a name to your list of missing girls. My cousin Ceciia Anne Nikal. Cecilia went missing back in 1989 before my sister went missing. She was last seen in Smithers. She doesn't have much family to follow u with the olice to e en check to see if she is still ali e or not.” 8 “AieLah Saric Auger, Age: 14 Last seen: Feb. 2, 2006 in Prince George Body found: Feb. 10, 2006 on Hwy. 16 Fact: Possibly got into a black van Aielah Saric-Auger, 14, a student at D.P. Todd Secondary School in rince Geor e, was last seen by her family on Feb. 2.” 9 “Monica Ignas, Age: 14 Last seen: Dec. 13, 1974 in Thornhill. Body found: Apr. 6, 1975 east of Terrace Fact: She believed to be going home from school Monica Ignas, 15, of Thornhill, just west of Terrace, went missing Dec. 13, 1974. Her partially nude body was found in a gravel pit on April 6, 1975, about six kilometres from Terrace. She had been strangled. One area resident, Janet Hultkrans, recalls that Ignas used to hitchhike from Terrace to her home just past Thornhill, on the outskirts of town. "Maybe she was the first [to disappear]," she says. "She wasn't much older than my kids and I had picked her up once and driven her to school, so she is forever in my memory. She was a nice girl and doesn't 42
deserve to be forgotten." 10 “Alberta Williams, Age: 24 Last seen: Aug. 26, 1989 in Prince Rupert Body found: Sept. 16, 1989 on Highway 16 Fact: Family doesn't believe she was hitchhiking Aged 24, found murdered Sept. 25, 1988. She had been reported missing a month earlier. Alberta Williams was slight at five-foot-two and 115 pounds with dark brown, curly shoulder-len th hair.” 11 “Ramona Wilson, Age: 16 Last seen: June 11, 1994 in Smithers Body found: April 1995 on outskirts of town Fact: Family does not believe she was hitchhiking Aged 16, was hitchhiking to her friends home in Smithers, BC on June 11, 1994. Ramona's remains were found April 1995 near the Smithers Airport. Every year on Ramona's birthday, the Wilson family gathers at the site for a memorial, a heartbreaking ritual that she said will continue until the case is sol ed” 12 “Roxanne Thiara, Age: 15 Last seen: July 1, 2 or 3, 1994 in Prince George Body found: Aug. 17, 1994 in Burns Lake Fact: She knew victim Alisha Germaine Aged 15 disappeared from Prince George, went missing in Nov, 1994. Her body was disco ered d m ed near rns Lake.” 13 As further cited on “Tony’s” web page, “the following are 8 women who were added to the Highway of Tears Investigation after Police did profiling and found similarities to those missing along the Highway of Tears”.14 Gloria Moody, Age: 27 Last seen: Oct. 25, 1969 in Williams Lake Body found: Oct. 26, 1969 in the bush Fact: Last seen leaving a bar. Micheline Pare, Age: 18 Last seen: July 1970 along Fort St. John/Hudson's Hope highway 43
Body found: Aug. 8, 1970 near Hudson's Hope Fact: Last seen hitchhiking to a ranch Gale Ann Weys, Age: 19 Last seen: Oct. 19, 1973 in Clearwater Body found: April 6, 1974 off Yellowhead Highway Fact: She was believed to be hitchhiking to Kamloops Pamela Darlington, Age: 19 Last seen: Nov. 6, 1973 in Kamloops Body found: Nov. 7, 1973 in city park Fact: She was believed to be hitchhiking Colleen MacMillen, Age: 16 Last seen: Aug. 9, 1974 in Lac La Hache Body found: Sept. 5, 1974 near 100 Mile House Fact: She was believed to be hitchhiking Monica Jack, Age: 12 Last seen: May 6, 1978 near Nicola Lake Body found: June 1995 north of Merritt Fact: She was last seen riding her bike Maureen Mosie, Age: 33 Last seen: May 8, 1981 in Salmon Arm Body found: May 9, 1981 near Kamloops Fact: She was believed to be hitchhiking Shelly-Ann Bacsu, Age: 16 Last seen: May 3, 1983 Body found: No Fact: Walking home along Hwy 16 As further cited on “Tony’s” web page, “The Following where listed by a Vancouver Sun investigative report”15 Helen Claire Frost, Age: 17 Last seen: Oct. 13, 1970 in Prince George Body found: No Fact: Last seen leaving her apartment, near Highway16 She is not on the Highway of Tears list. Pauline Brazeau, Age: 16 Last seen: Jan. 9, 1976 in Calgary Body found: Jan. 9, 1976 in Cochrane, Alta.. Fact: Part of a 1980s "highway murders" investigation that included 5 44
victims on the Highway of Tears list Virginia Sampare, Age: 18 Last seen: Oct. 14, 1971 on Highway 16 at Gitsegukla Body found: No Fact: She may have been hitchhiking Tara Jane White, Age: 18 Last seen: July 1, 1976 in Banff, Alta.. Body found: March 24, 1981 near Morley, Alta.. Fact: Part of a 1980s "highway murders" investigation that included five victims on the Highway of Tears list Marie Goudreau, Age: 17 Last seen: Aug. 2, 1976 near Beaumont, Alta. Body found: Aug. 4, 1976 in Devon, Alta.. Fact: Part of a 1980s "highway murders" investigation that included five victims on the Highway of Tears list Melissa Rehorek, Age: 20 Last seen: Sept. 16, 1976 in Calgary Body found: Sept. 16, 1976 near the TransCanada highway Fact: Part of a 1980s "highway murders" investigation that included five victims on the Highway of Tears list Barbara MacLean, Age: 19 Last seen: Feb. 26, 1977 in Calgary Body found: Feb. 27, 1977 along a gravel road Fact: Part of a 1980s "highway murders" investigation that included five victims on the Highway of Tears list Mary Jane Hill, Age: 31 Last seen: March 26, 1978 in Prince Rupert Body found: Mar. 26, 1978 on Hwy. 16 Fact: A coroners inquest said place of death was Highway 16 Oanh Ngoc Ha, Age: 19 Last seen: Early 1981 in Banff Body found: Feb. 28, 1981 near Golden Fact: Part of a 1980s "highway murders" investigation that included five victims on the Highway of Tears list Elsie Friesen, Age: 34 Last seen: Apr. 3, 1989 in Winfield Body found: May 24, 1991 on Highway 33 near Kelowna Fact: Her remains were found near Helena Tomat's 45
Deena Lyn Braem, Age: 16 Last seen: Sept. 25, 1999 in Quesnel Body found: Dec. 10, 1999 on rural road Fact: Name associated with Highway of Tears list but left off in 2007 Here we have a tragic list of 30 disappeared and /or murdered women in British Columbia, Canada ranging from 1960 to 1999, apparently all unsolved? Just how many possible serial killers are loose in British Columbia? As one grieving family stated, “how long are we going to put up with this slaughter of our young women? We criticize countries where girls and women are killed at random but are we really so different?” 16 Footnotes 1 - 16. “Missin alon Hi hway of Tears & orthern C” Highway of Tears Missing & Murdered Prince George to Prince Rupert BC
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Chapter 3 JUST HOW SECURE IS CANADA WHEN A SERIAL KILLER CAN WRITE CHILDREN’S BOOKS IN PRISON? It’s bad enough there is a highway called “The Highway of Tears” 1 in British Columbia, Canada where so many murder victims and missing have occurred. Now we have a serial killer in British Columbia who has apparently been writing children’s books? 2 As cited by Keith Fraser in “Convicted serial killer Kembo now a children’s author selling his book from prison”3: “Usin a se donym, serial killer Charles Kembo has written a children’s book that is being offered for sale on Amazon.com.”4 “The 372-page book - The Trinity of Superkidds Book One: Quest for Water - was launched in March 2010, according to an interview Kembo, posing as a female writer named J.D. Bauer, gave to a Vancouver writer working for an online information magazine site.”5 “That la nch date was in the middle of Kembo’s trial on fo r co nts of first-degree murder, a trial which ended in June 2010 with the accused being found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 25 years.”6 “On an inside page, the book, which is being sold for $16, describes ‘A desparate empire without water; a world dying from pollution; three funloving teens rise to save the day; hypervillains out to stop them’."7 “Sources within the justice system confirmed the book was written by Kembo.”8 “Julie Burtinshaw, the writer who gave the interview, expressed shock when she was told that a serial killer had written the book.”9 “Oh my God, that’s awf l,” she said. “That st i es me the cree s beca se I’m retty s re he had contacted me for this re iew, which is how those bi online sites work anyway.”10 “I don’t know if yo know abo t my non-writing past, but my brother had been murdered in Vancouver in Woodwards in the 1970s.”11 “He was shot by a 13-year-old. So when this kind of thing comes back, it 47
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Some of those duped into buying this serial killer’s book were not amused! As one commentor said, “how do people who have been convicted of these atrocities have Facebook and Twitter accounts? Or even have access to the internet at all? How did he have the ability to make a publishing agreement from prison? It might sound harsh but when you are a monster you shouldn't have these 'rights', you should be in a cage until your time is up.”13 Good question? Sort of reminds the author of the Clifford Olson fiasco, cited in the next chapter? Footnotes 1. “Missin alon Hi hway of Tears & orthern C” Highway of Tears Missing & Murdered Prince George to Prince Rupert BC 2 - 13. “Con icted serial killer Kembo now a children’s a thor sellin his book from rison” By Keith Fraser, The ProvinceOctober 31, 2011
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Chapter 4 “IT’S ABOUT HOW THE RCMP BUNGLED THE CASE OF THE NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLER CLIFFORD OLSON” As cited, “Nick has the lead role in this Canadian TV movie, set to film in Calgary and air on CTV sometime during the 2001-2002 season. A British co-production based on the book Where Shadows Linger1, it's about how the RCMP bungled the case of notorious serial killer Clifford Olson” [see Appendix 5a to 5e, cited below]. As further cited, “RCMP Superintendent Bruce Northorp was the office in charge of the Olson hunt at the time of his arrest in 1981. His full review of the case clearly shows that the RCMP investigation of the Olson affair was plagued by its own internal problems and personalities.” As cited, “Clifford Robert Olson Jr. was born on January 1st, 1940 at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, B.C. In his teenage years, he did crimes like B&E's, robberies, theft, etc.”2 “While in B.C. Pen in 1974, sexually attacked a 17-year-old fellow inmate. After being released he indecently assaulted a 7-year-old girl in Nova Scotia. This was the beginning of his sexually deviant and murderous criminal activity.”3 “During those seven years Olson’s prison style changed. To some he was known as ‘Bobo,’ a man who viciously ‘muscled’ or buggered young inmates. To others he became knows as ‘The Senator.’ This was because he honed his cell-room lawyer’s skills, by writing incessantly to both federal and provincial politicians with a barrage of complaints about prison conditions. He was also a `stoolie’, a person who would inform on anyone for any reason. This trait made him unpopular with both inmates and guards and he eventually needed protective custody.”4 Olson was moved to the Super Maximum Unit (SMU), commonly known as the Penthouse, the “rat and rapo” unit, where the most despised cons were housed. It was here that he met accused child-killer Gary Francis Marcoux.5 “A serial killer was on the loose and the people in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley region of British Columbia were gripped with fear. In the short time span, from November 1980 to July 1981, a number of children had gone missing, and were later found dead.”6 “Parents in suburban Vancouver complained that the police were not treating reports of the missing youths seriously enough.”7 49
The apparent rationale given, “the 200 Mounties [RCMP] in the Surrey detachment processed roughly 2000 missing-person cases and investigated some 18,000 criminal code offenses in those two years. Many of the juveniles turned out to be runaways, congregating on the Granville Street area downtown, while some stayed with friends or out partying past their curfew, without informing their parents. The police figured, ‘They’d turn up’ -- and for the most part they did.”8 The only problem with this RCMP explanation was that the missing children were mere toddlers? Incredibly, it took the disappearance of nine year old Simon Partington “that was the turning point in The Case of the Missing Lower Mainland Children. The RCMP could hardly list him as a runaway, given his young age and angelic-looking face. Police were sure that the slight, 4-foot-2inch, 80-pound boy had been abducted.”9 By the time Clifford Olson’s murderous spree was over, “Olson had killed 10 children in southern British Columbia and, by the time he was finished, 11 would be dead. It was not the largest body count in the occurrence of multiple murders in Canada --- the Olson murders caused the greatest terror and horror.”10 Footnotes 1. Based on the book, Where Shadows Linger by W. Leslie Holmes & Bruce Northrop, two Mounties involved in the original case, "The Investigation" is a co-production between Muse Entertainment Enterprises and Voice Pictures, produced by Bernard Zukerman, in association with CTV. 2 – 8. Clifford Olson - Murderer and Serial Killer 9. Clifford Olson Victims - Victims of Clifford Olson 10. Clifford Olson - Murderer and Serial Killer
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Appendix 5a â&#x20AC;&#x153;It's about how the RCMP bungled the case of notorious serial killer Clifford Olsonâ&#x20AC;? Where Shadows Linger Nick has the lead role in this Canadian TV movie, set to film in Calgary and air on CTV sometime during the 2001-2002 season. A British coproduction based on the book Where Shadows Linger, it's about how the RCMP bungled the case of notorious serial killer Clifford Olson. (The movie is about the investigation, not really about Olson; you don't even see Olson's face until the very end.) Nick plays Les Forsythe, a character based on Les Holmes, the exMountie who wrote a book revealing the tragic errors that let Olson kill several more victims before being arrested. The movie is likely to prove controversial, since it pulls some skeletons out of the RCMP closet. It will air sometime in 2002. Where Shadows Linger Press Release Les Holmes knew it would not be easy, but he was determined to bring closure to an event that had scarred so many. As this respected ex-Mountie dug into the records of Canada's most horrifying serial killer case to date, he found that shadows still lingered. The culmination of the author's research came when he interviewed an ex-RCMP member who had fingered Olson weeks before his arrest but whose discovery slipped between the cracks of jurisdiction. Five more teenagers died in the meantime. RCMP Superintendent Bruce Northorp was the office in charge of the Olson hunt at the time of his arrest in 1981. He kept quiet both during and after the horrific affair out of respect for the mourning parents and because of suspicions about the media's hidden agendas. He knew that one day he would have to set the record straight, and in this book he finally speaks out. His full review of the case clearly shows that the RCMP investigation of the Olson affair was plagued by its own internal problems and personalities.
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Appendix 5b “It's about how the RCMP bungled the case of notorious serial killer Clifford Olson” Also see: Jurisdictional mishmash hindering B.C. police forces By Lindsay Kines, Katie DeRosa and Jack Knox, Victoria Times Colonist September 22, 2010 VICTORIA — Thirty years ago, Clifford Olson began his killing frenzy of 11 children in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. Oblivious to police boundaries that criss-cross the Vancouver area, he roamed the region in search of young victims, raping, murdering and disposing of bodies from Agassiz to Whistler. Police, at times unaware of what their counterparts were doing in other detachments and departments, were slow to link the disappearances before eventually arresting him in 1981. The B.C. government resisted calls for a public inquiry and police and politicians vowed to do better in the future. Today, the policing map in the Lower Mainland and across B.C. looks much as it did during Olson's rampage. Multiple agencies still patrol metropolitan areas in the Vancouver and Victoria areas, jurisdictional barriers still thwart effective communication and the tragedies continue to mount. In September 2007, Peter Lee stabbed to death his six-year-old son Christian, his wife Sunny Park, and her parents Kum Lea Chun and Moon Kyu Park before taking his own life in the leafy Victoria enclave of Oak Bay. It was later revealed that in the weeks prior to the massacre, Park bounced among three police departments while trying to get help for spousal abuse. On the night of the murders, the grandmother's 911 call was handled by a maze of dispatchers, while dozens of police officers from Victoria, Saanich and Oak Bay responded to the call. Then, last month, the Vancouver Police Department released its Missing Women Investigation Review, which concluded that police likely could have caught serial killer Robert Pickton years earlier. In findings eerily reminiscent of the Olson case, Deputy Chief Doug LePard blamed jurisdictional barriers, poor management and shoddy analysis of information.
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One of the main problems was conflicting priorities. Vancouver police were under pressure to solve the case, but it was less of a priority for the Coquitlam RCMP, in whose jurisdiction Pickton resided. As a result, the detachment allowed the file to languish for months, LePard said. Now, growing numbers of current and retired police officers, criminologists and politicians say it's time for B.C. to put public safety ahead of politics and establish regional forces in major metropolitan areas. Former solicitor general Kash Heed, a former chief of the West Vancouver department, said it would be impossible "to find a more disturbing example anywhere in the world" than the investigative failures in the Pickton case. But he warned that similar problems will keep happening unless something gets done. "The RCMP have bosses that are beholden ... to Ottawa," he said. "You have municipal bosses that have their own little kingdoms. Albeit, I was one of them and you're only concerned about your area ... You only care, really, what happens within the boundaries of your jurisdiction." On the Lower Mainland alone, there are at least 15 RCMP and municipal police jurisdictions delivering service to two million people. In Greater Victoria, four municipal departments, three RCMP detachments and three 911 dispatch centres serve just 350,000 people. By contrast, Toronto's 2.6 million population is policed by a single force, as are all other major metropolitan areas in Canada. "It mystifies me," former Ottawa police chief Vince Bevan said of B.C.'s balkanized system. "It's beyond me how they can have these series of smaller departments, and think that they're meeting standards." The B.C. government and some police leaders counter that much has changed since the days of Olson, and even Pickton. They cite, in particular, the creation of integrated units that draw officers from different police agencies in a region to tackle a particular crime or problem, such as homicides, domestic abuse, traffic enforcement or gang violence. Clayton Pecknold, president of the B.C. Association of Police Chiefs, said the integrated units have "eliminated borders" between police departments. "It's now subject-matter based as opposed to based on a geographical area," said Pecknold, who is deputy chief of Central Saanich police. "That's why the border doesn't matter anymore."
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But critics say the integrated units only highlight the problems. With so many chiefs trying to find consensus on key crime-fighting issues, the units often take months to establish. They add more layers of bureaucracy, and attempt to blend the different RCMP and municipal cultures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sometimes with mixed results. Saanich police Chief Mike Chadwick, a 35-year veteran of the force and a staunch defender of the status quo, argues that individual municipalities have the right to "direct the level of service ... from their police department" and that municipal taxpayers should have a say on the type policing they want. "I'm not so sure if you had a regional department that would be the case," he said. "In Saanich, people pay for a service that we have provided for over 100 years now and they come to expect that. "Saanich taxpayers don't expect to pay for what goes on downtown." But Victoria police Chief Jamie Graham, a strong proponent of police regionalization, thought the jurisdictional confusion around the Oak Bay murder-suicide would be the impetus needed to force regionalization on the Lower Island. Graham, who also served as chief of the Vancouver police, said it simply makes sense to have a regional force chasing and apprehending criminals that don't respect political boundaries. "This isn't about cost," he said. "This is about the ability to deploy more effectively." He said Victoria police continue to be crushed under the weight of policing a downtown core which is the destination of club-hoppers, concert or festival goers and of course, criminals, many of whom live in the surrounding municipalities. The department's 241 officers have the highest case load among municipal police officers in the region and Graham said he would have to hire 60 officers to reach the provincial standard. Graham noted that, under a regional model, a single chief would have the ability to deploy resources where they are needed most. If there were a brawl downtown or a major crime in Oak Bay, police officers, including those with specialized training, would be able to flood the area and control the situation.
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Appendix 5c Clifford Olson - Murderer and Serial Killer Clifford Olson - Murderer and Serial Killer Clifford Olson Clifford Robert Olson Jr. was born on January 1st, 1940 at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, B.C. In his teenage years, he did crimes like B&E's, robberies, theft, etc. While in B.C. Pen in 1974, sexually attacked a 17-year-old fellow inmate. After being released he indecently assaulted a 7-year-old girl in Nova Scotia. This was the beginning of his sexually deviant and murderous criminal activity. “During those seven years Olson’s prison style changed. To some he was known as ‘Bobo,’ a man who viciously ‘muscled’ or buggered young inmates. To others he became known as ‘The Senator.’ This was because he honed his cell-room lawyer’s skills, by writing incessantly to both federal and provincial politicians with a barrage of complaints about prison conditions. He was also a `stoolie’, a person who would inform on anyone for any reason. This trait made him unpopular with both inmates and guards and he eventually needed protective custody.” Olson was moved to the Super Maximum Unit (SMU), commonly known as the Penthouse, the “rat and rapo” unit, where the most despised cons were housed. It was here that he met accused child-killer Gary Francis Marcoux Olson was arrested for impaired driving and for contributing to juvenile delinquency. He crashed his car with his 16-year-old female passenger in Agassiz, a farming hamlet in the Valley about an hour from Vancouver. Olson had picked her up in the Cottonwood Avenue and North Road area of Coquitlam, Daryn Johnsrude and Olson’s neighborhood Although the young girl could not be convinced that Olson was a sex offender, she did tell the police that he had offered her a job, had bought her drinks and given her pills. She palmed one of the tiny emerald knockout pills, later giving it to the police. The laboratory identified it as chloral hydrate, commonly known as knock-out drops or a Mickey Finn A serial killer was on the loose and the people in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley region of British Columbia were gripped with fear. In the short time span, from November 1980 to July 1981, a number of children had gone missing, and were later found dead. Parents in suburban 55
Vancouver complained that the police were not treating reports of the missing youths seriously enough. The 200 Mounties in the Surrey detachment processed roughly 2000 missing-person cases and investigated some 18,000 criminal code offenses in those two years. Many of the juveniles turned out to be runaways, congregating on the Granville Street area downtown, while some stayed with friends or out partying past their curfew, without informing their parents. The police figured, “They’d turn up” -- and for the most part they did. Under surveillance, Olson was not easy to follow. The “watchers” claimed that he would stop in the middle of the street, make sudden inexplicable U-turns, and go down one-way alleys, stop, and reverse. He also had a habit of continually changing rental cars: a Pinto, a Mustang, a Bobcat, a Lynx, a Honda, a panel truck, a Citation, an Escort, an Omega, and an Acadian. Olson drove incessantly. At one point, he traveled over 20,000 kilometers in three months in 14 different rental cars. In mid-July he drove an Escort 5,569 kilometers in just two weeks. Olson took the ferry over to the Vancouver Island and, after burglarizing two Victoria residences, made his way up north towards Nanaimo, an old coal-mining town. He pulled over to the side of the road to pick up two young women hitchhiking. Hitchhiking was a popular mode of travel for the young in 1981. Roughly three hours later, writes Ian Mulgrew in Final Payoff, the car was weaving across the highway on the other, sparsely populated side of the massive island. Occasionally, it hit the soft shoulder. At the bottom of Hydro Hill, just before the turn-off for Long Beach, the car slowed. It turned onto a dirt-logging road, kicking up a cloud of dust and gravel. Moments later, two local RCMP squad cars pulled to a stop across the entrance to the road, blocking the car’s retreat and disgorging the uniformed Mounties. They had been summoned by the helicopter crew. Two police officers followed the car’s path, picking their way through the Douglas fir and spruce that lined either side of the isolated track. In the distance, they could see three people standing outside the car passing a bottle, and they could hear Olson. They moved closer. He was telling one of the women to take a walk. He began to yell. The police decided it was time to move. Olson spotted the police emerging from the undergrowth and sprinted back to the car. He threw the vehicle into gear and roared back the way he had come, but he was arrested at the roadblock. The women were confused, but safe. Olson said they had only stopped so he could relieve himself. 56
Police charged him with impaired and dangerous driving, impounded his car, and took him to local lock-up. The police searched his rented car and found a green address book with the name of the 14-year-old New Westminster girl—Judy Kozma. By now, Olson had killed 10 children in southern British Columbia and, by the time he was finished, 11 would be dead. It was not the largest body count in the occurrence of multiple murders in Canada --- in 1949, all 23 passengers aboard a Dakota were killed by Montreal jeweler Joseph Guay, for the sole purpose of killing his wife --- but the Olson murders caused the greatest terror and horror. “When he was arrested, only three bodies had been discovered and identified. The police did not yet know how many children had been murdered. August 6, 1981 “The 6th was a momentous day,” Northorp declared. “It was the beginning of the events that have probably taken Olson off the streets of Canada for the rest of his life.” It was also the beginning of several days of methodical police work. The surveillance team went into high gear. August 7 to 11, 1981 Solving a murder usually boils down to a lucky break. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, was arrested by two vice cops concerned about license plates. He was driving a car with stolen plates, was arrested, and later confessed to 13 murders --this after some 250 detectives had been deployed and almost $8 million dollars had been spent on the investigation. There was also evidence that Sutcliffe had been questioned nine times by the English police and was even arrested once with his hammer, his favorite weapon, but somehow happened to escape detection. The extensive national coverage of the missing children was likened by some members of the media to the Yorkshire Ripper case in Great Britain and the Atlanta child killings. U.S. Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy claimed: “We have our own little Atlanta going on. “I feel the police, in total, did a tremendous job,” Northrop concluded. “All you have to do is compare the length of time it took the police in other jurisdictions to solve their serial killings. Twenty-nine blacks, twenty-seven male and two female, ranging in age from seven to twentyeight years, were murdered in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 1979 until May
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1981. In 1981 only two of the cases were close to being cleared when Wayne Williams was indicted for the two latest murders, both of adults.” Also in both jurisdictions all of the victims’ bodies had been found. Not so in the Olson case, eliminating the chance of securing leads or even knowing if one person was responsible. “The fact that known and suspected victims were both male and female,” said Northorp, “was in itself most unusual and further complicated matters,” ignoring the fact that the Atlanta child murders also involved victims of both sexes and a wide range of ages, including young adults. “We didn’t interview Olson until his arrest on the 12th of August,” said Maile, “because we didn’t have anything.” August 12, 1981 “I had no idea this would be the day when the big break would come,” declared Northorp, “nor did Olson have any idea this would be his last day as a free man.” The decision was made to arrest Olson on Vancouver Island, then commence intensive interrogation. August 18, 1981 Olson was charged with the first-degree murder of Judy Kozma, which ultimately resulted in a full confession. August 21, 1981 Supt. Bruce Northorp had been heading the task force for three weeks with no real guidelines to follow. He had to assemble some 150 officers who were at that time working the case, digest all the information accumulated before he took the assignment, plan strategy, deal with the media, and a myriad of other details. He was shocked at the turn of events. “At 8:35 a.m. I got a real jolt,” said Northorp. “I learned for the first time of the $100,000 deal put forward by Olson.” The “Cash-for-bodies” Deal “I’ll give you eleven bodies for $100,000. The first one will be a freebie,” Olson offered the police. “I felt the intense pressure over the ensuing hours,” said Northorp. “We were so close [to breaking the case]. But could Olson really be so stupid as to enter into an agreement that would likely result in his spending the balance of his days in prison?” Still, there was no concrete evidence that the missing children and the murders were related. 58
The bodies of Weller, Johnsrude, King, and Kozma had been recovered. Olson proposed a schedule to recover the missing bodies of the dead children, one at a time, in a specific order and then money would be placed in an account: Chartrand at Whistler Daignault at Surrey Carson at Chilliwack Four locations where evidence would be found Court at Agassiz Wolfsteiner at Chilliwack Partington at Richmond German girl at an unspecified location “You’ll get statements with the bodies,” said Olson. “I’ll give you all the evidence, the things only the killer would know.” As Olson led police to further bodies, Northop said in his co-authored book Where Shadows Linger, “I was convinced Olson’s admission to two more murders was merely a ploy, bearing in mind his many escapes from custody, tight security was laid on. Olson was to be taken in a car with three unarmed police officers, with one handcuffed to him. The car was to be escorted by two other cars, with two officers in each, armed with revolvers, rifles, and shotguns. District Two was alerted that Olson might be taken their way, and I arranged for the use of a police aircraft. If escape was on his mind, he would not succeed.” In the year 2000, in a Vancouver Sun article called “Ex-Mounties Deny Olson Case was Botched,” two retired RCMP officers, Fred Maile and Ed Drozda, among other disclaimers, said there is no truth to allegations in Where Shadows Linger: The Untold Story of the RCMP’s Olson Murders Investigation, that flaws in the investigation may have allowed Olson to claim seven more victims before he was finally caught. Drozda said, “Hindsight plays such a large part. It is so wonderful with all the information before you to say, `Oh wow, look at this.’ At the time you are putting together a puzzle and these pieces somewhere along the way have to fit. It’s not only surfacing someone who is a suspect but also in putting the evidence together to take it to court and get a conviction.” Maile’s boss, Staff Sergeant Arnie Nylund, commented in Where Shadows Linger, “Fred seemed to know what he was doing, and I had never seen anything to indicate otherwise. It is easy to view these things in hindsight and draw conclusions. We had other suspects that looked better than Olson. Don’t forget, it was not apparent a serial killer was on the loose. Up until then the guys were busy working on a number of other 59
homicides not related to these cases at all. After Olson was in jail we had all kinds of second-guessers. We did the best we could with what we had. I have nothing but respect for the guys and how they did it. It was terrible, just terrible for those members who accompanied Olson when they were recovering those bodies. It was so bad I had to send one man home. He just couldn’t take it anymore.” “It’s not an investigation you like to talk about too much because of the nature of what he was doing. I mean he was killing children,” Maile told the Vancouver Sun. “To me, if there was ever an image of the devil, it was Clifford Olson.” The Deal Exposed The secret deal had been cut in 1981, but was exposed to the media a year later. “Olson Was Paid to Locate Bodies” was just one of the bold front-page headlines on January 14, 1982 in the Vancouver Sun. On January 15th the Sun headline read: “Olson Deal Greeted by Disgust.” The police had not disclosed the cash deal for fear of prejudicing Olson’s right to a fair trial. At some point the Attorney General of British Columbia, the federal Solicitor General, the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the RCMP in Ottawa, as well as the Prime Minister of Canada would be drawn into the controversy. Many thought it repugnant that Olson was profiting from his crimes. “I found it unthinkable he should be paid to provide evidence,” said Supt. Bruce Northorp, the head of the task force. “The proposition to pay Olson’s wife was simply splitting hairs. She was not separated from him, and Olson stood to gain even if monies were paid to his wife. The situation may have been different if she were separated and were supplying information as to past criminal activity. That was not the case.” Northorp had to admit though that he felt a tremendous sense of relief that the killings were solved and no more children would die. When asked what evidence had been found, Northorp replied, “I won’t go into detail. Essentially, they were items, which could be established as belonging to each of the four victims, whose bodies had been found without Olson’s assistance, thus establishing he was the killer. Only the killer would have knowledge of where these articles had been hidden.” The Attorney General of British Columbia, Allan Williams, also wondered how such an appalling deal had been made. Yet the good news was, in exchange for $100,000, the Attorney General could guarantee a firstdegree murder conviction, ease the anxiety of the parents of the missing 60
children, subdue the terror in British Columbia, and end an expensive police investigation. There was no hard evidence and Olson, an experienced criminal, was unlikely to talk without it. The day before Clifford Olson was charged with the death of Judy Kozma, he had a twohour visit with his wife Joan and their infant son. “I could not stop crying during those two hours,” wrote Olson in a letter February 5th, 1982, to Genevieve Westcott, a CBC television reporter in Vancouver, as to why he pleaded guilty. “I told my wife that I was responsible for the deaths of the children and that I could not live with myself nor have any peace of mind until I confess to what I had done and give back the bodies to their families for a proper Christian burial. “My wife told me that if I told police (R.C.M.P.) what I did, they would lock me up in jail for the rest of my life and I would in all probability be killed in jail. She said what would she tell our son when he grew up and everyone was teasing him at school for what his father had done. I told her it will be up to me to tell my son what has happened. I knew in my heart that I must give up my wife and son for the rest of my life. . My son will have to [sic] father to call Daddy and he will grow up knowing his father for the sins he has done. And my wife will always bear my mistake for the rest of her life. She told me that I must do what is right and that she will always love me and that someday we would be n [sic] heaven together praising the Lord together.” Olson may have been trying to bolster his own image because he also was heard to say: “If I gave a shit about the parents I wouldn’t have killed the kid.” Thursday, July 30, 1981 Meanwhile Const. Fred Maile of the RCMP Serious Crimes Unit had a simple strategy. His idea was to surreptitiously tape a conversation with Olson insinuating some kind of a reward. The idea was, if Olson was the murderer, and he thought he could make some money from that fact, he might go back to the crime scenes in order to retrieve some physical evidence. If he was not the murderer or knew who the murderer was then maybe he would tell them. Olson met Detective Tarr at a White Spot Restaurant, and then was joined by RCMP’s Corporal Maile and Corporal Drozda. The hidden microphones transmitted the conversation to a Mountie in a car in the parking lot. Final Payoff describes this tense 30 minutes:
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“Quite a few homicides around here, right?” Maile began. “And we understand that you might be able to help us. We’re prepared to compensate you for whatever you’re able to tell us or help us. But we have to know if you are able to help us. “He stopped and blew on his coffee. All eyes were on Olson. For a while he said nothing. “Finally, Olson said he wanted to be hired at a salary of $3,000 a month. In exchange, he claimed he would provide information about the disappearances.” Olson’s eyes lit up at the idea that they were coming to him for information. He spent much of the time bragging about testifying in Marcoux’s conviction of “that Jeannie,” promising to get back to them if he found out anything. With a casual, “Well, I’ll get back to you if I find out anything,” the officers watched the killer leave the restaurant and amble out into the sunshine. No one followed the man suspected of murdering several children.
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Appendix 5d The RCMP could hardly list him as a runaway Clifford Olson Victims Victims of Clifford Olson Colleen Daignault Colleen Daignault wouldn’t talk to just anybody, shy as she was. A shade over 5 feet, the 13-year-old girl, with her lovely long brown hair and fresh face, smiled sweetly in her missing person’s photo. One of the Victims of Clifford Olson Daryn Johnsrude Wednesday, April 22, 1981 -- Daryn Todd Johnsrude He had been in Vancouver for only two days. Clifford Olson Victims like Daryn Johnsrude, should not have happen. Sandra Lynn Wolfsteiner Tuesday, May 19, 1981 -- Sandra Lynn Wolfsteiner Olson murdered 16-year-old Sandra Wolfsteiner just 4 days after his wedding. Her boyfriend’s mother saw her get into a car with a man. Olson took Sandy to the bush just off Chilliwack Lake Road. Olson attacked and killed her by striking her in the head. Ada Court 5th Sunday, June 21, 1981 – Ada Court Ada Court, victim Thirteen-year-old Ada Court of Burnaby babysitting at her brother and sister-in-law’s Coquitlam apartment, the same family apartment complex where the Olsons lived and where Olson Sr. and Leona worked as caretakers. Sunday morning, Ada caught a bus to meet her boyfriend. Then, she simply vanished. Fifty-two-year-old Jim Parranto, a White Rock resident, believed he saw Olson disposing of Ada’s body. Simon Partington 6th Thursday, July 2, 1981 – Simon Partington Simon Partington, victim It was the disappearance of a nine-year-old Surrey boy, Simon Partington that was the turning point in The Case of the Missing Lower Mainland Children. The police could hardly list him as a runaway, given his young age and angelic-looking face. Police were sure that the slight, 4-foot-2inch, 80-pound boy had been abducted.
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Appendix 5e â&#x20AC;&#x153;It's about how the RCMP bungled the case of notorious serial killer Clifford Olsonâ&#x20AC;? Also cited in: Clifford Olson Clifford Robert Olson, Jr (born January 1, 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering two children and nine youths in the early 1980s.[1] Murders On November 17, 1980, 12-year-old Christine Weller of Surrey, British Columbia was abducted.[2] She was found on Christmas Day, after having been strangled with a belt and stabbed repeatedly. On April 16, 1981, Colleen Marian Daignault, 13, vanished. It was five months before her body was found. By then, Daryn Todd Johnsrude, 16, had also been abducted and killed; 16-year-old Sandra Wolfsteiner was murdered on May 19 and 13-year-old Ada Court in April. Six victims followed in quick succession in July 1981. Simon Partington, 9, was abducted, raped and strangled on the second day of the month. Judy Kozma, a 14-year old from New Westminster, was raped and strangled a week later. Her body was discovered on July 25 near Weaver Lake.[3] The next victims were: Raymond King Jr., 15, abducted on July 23, raped and bludgeoned to death; Sigrun Arnd, an 18-year old German tourist, raped and bludgeoned the following day; Terri Lyn Carson, 15, raped and strangled; Louise Chartrand, age 17, the last victim identified, died on July 30. Olson was an atypical serial killer in that he targeted both boys and girls. His victims were also of various ages. Arrest and plea bargain Olson, who had an extensive criminal history,[4] was arrested on August 12, 1981 on suspicion of attempts to abduct two girls.[2] By August 25, Olson had been charged with the murder of Judy Kozma.[3] He reached a controversial deal with authorities, agreeing to confess to the 11 murders and show police where the bodies of those not recovered were buried, in return for which he wanted $10,000 paid to his wife for each victim. His wife received $100,000 after Olson cooperated with police.[4] In January 1982, Olson pleaded guilty to 11 counts of murder and was given 11 64
concurrent life sentences to be served in Canada's super-maximum security Special Handling Unit in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec, which houses many of the country's most dangerous criminals.[1] Olson is a dangerous offender, meaning he is very unlikely to ever be released from prison. References 1. Parole hearing being planned for Clifford Olson June 21, 2006. Accessed September 2, 2007. 2. Section source. Kerr, Jan Bouchard. Clifford Olson: The Case of the Missing Lower Mainland Children Court TV. Accessed September 2, 2007. 3. "Probe of 3 slayings continues, police say". The Globe and Mail. The Canadian Press (Toronto). August 25, 1981. 4. Clifford Olson The Beast of British Columbia CBC Canada. July 19, 2006. Accessed September 2, 2007.
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Chapter 5 VICTORIA RCMP – HEINOUS KILLING UNDER HIS NEW IDENTITY GOES UNANSWERED Take for example, this debacle that led to a heinous killing. In March, 2007 “the Commons public safety committee considers probing the witness protection program and the case of Agent E8060 — a paid RCMP informant who manufactured evidence, became a protected witness and then committed a heinous killing under his new identity.”1 Mr. Young under the federally funded Witness Protection Program, “the federal government paid his debts to his landlord and his foster father -$130,000 -- and he got a new name, a new location and an opportunity to become whatever and whomever he wanted. The Victoria Mounties handed Richard Young a license to lie and sent him on his way.”2 “To the RCMP in Victoria, Richard Young was a trusted informant. In exchange for his inside information on an alleged heroin ring, information that turned out to be untrue, they paid off his debts, erased his past and gave him a new identity. And then he committed murder. None of the details of that crime can be published because the man is legally shielded as a member of the Witness Protection Program. But this much can be told.”3 The RCMP were duped! Then again would a proper police force have seen through the sham? “A story published by The Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen reports that Richard Young, an unemployed man from Victoria, B.C., was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for information about a crime that he concocted.”4 Where did it start, Richard Young approached the Victoria RCMP in the summer of 2000 -- a "walk-in," as one officer referred to him.5 An RCMP officer who was assigned to build trust with Mr. Young and extract tips about Victoria's criminal underworld. However, The RCMP officer was in unfamiliar territory, too. The RCMP officer had no formal training in handling informants: He'd once had the chance to take a course on dealing with sources, but had been too busy.6 Ah, no wonder the sham worked!
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“But three months into Mr. Young's fledgling career, he gave the RCMP a gift. At a Christmas party on Dec. 5, 2000, Mr. Young met and befriended Barry Liu.”7 “The Mounties had been after Mr. Liu for years, and had arrested him in 1999 as part of what they alleged was an international heroin smuggling ring. Mr. Liu worked as a waiter and as a grocery clerk, but was alleged to own three homes and was a part-owner in an auto detailing shop. The RCMP believed he was behind much of the heroin on the streets of Victoria and that he was an associate of a Vancouver criminal network.”8 “The accused heroin dealer and Mr. Young became close ... They were practically attached to each other. The intelligence began pouring in to the RCMP. Mr. Young paged his handler constantly with news.”9 “He was asked to draw diagrams, so the police knew exactly who was sitting where with Mr. Liu at his various meetings. Sometimes, Mr. Young spoke to his handler several times a day.”10 “Then, on Jan. 9, 2001, Mr. Young said he had come across some terrifying news. He told his handler Mr. Liu had threatened to harm an unnamed Crown attorney.”11 “The Mountie needed more information. This was serious. There was a lot at stake in the upcoming heroin smuggling trial, one of the most expensive cases in the history of the RCMP. Was it possible the accused drug lords were trying to derail it with bloodshed?”12 “The next day, the threat escalated. Mr. Young told the Mountie that Mr. Liu was talking about taking out British Columbia judge named Wayne Smith.”13 “Two days later the list of targets expanded to five, including more lawyers and officers. According to the informant, the accused heroin dealer had gone to Vancouver and paid someone $45,000 to do the deeds.”14 “The Mounties went on high alert. Security units raced across Victoria and Vancouver to protect the targets. The police discussed setting up silent alarms at their homes. Every officer in the drug squad was assigned to the case. They got authorization to tap his phone, and a surveillance team sprung into action.”15 "We'd put him to bed at night and pick up right from first thing in the morning," the handler later testified. "Wherever he went, we were with him.”16 67
However, “besides Mr. Young's stories, the Mounties had no evidence: Nothing from the wiretaps. Nothing from the surveillance.”17 Apparently, based on nothing, the RCMP arrested Mr. Liu. What was the result, his evidence was called a “cruel charade” by British Columbia Supreme Court Judge Dean Wilson.”18 Judge Dean Wilson had made up his mind about Mr. Young, "I find, on the evidence before me, the 'surveillance' activity was a cruel charade orchestrated entirely by the machinations of Mr. Young," the judge ruled on Sept. 6, 2002.”19 The Mounties' case, constructed entirely on the word of a guy who walked into their office one day, collapsed.20 And thanks to the Witness Protection Program, Mr. Young was guaranteed protection, “despite the fact that a judge had decided he was a liar.”21 Who were those comical police buffoons in the silent movie era, oh yes, the “keystone Cops.” If the consequences of this RCMP blunder weren’t so sad, one could laugh at these RCMP antics. However, “despite the exposure of his lies, Mr. Young was placed in the federal witness protection program and, under his new identity, he was convicted of killing someone.”22 Incredibly, as noted, “if the Mounties had any hopes their secret agent would transform himself into an honest and productive citizen, they were mistaken.”23 “It is a criminal offence under the Witness Protection Program Act to disclose anything about Mr. Young's new identity or who he killed.”24 “Even the victim's family cannot be told the truth.”25 In spite of demands of an inquiry into the conduct of the RCMP and their secret agent, the RCMP has never said why that request went nowhere.26 Are the RCMP immune from revealing their incompetence? Once again: “why do provinces put up with this police force, it would be less disastrous and more economically feasible to have their own 68
provincial police forces -- more control?â&#x20AC;? Footnotes 1. RCMP scandals and setbacks since 2006. Globe and Mail Update. Published on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007, Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009. 2 - 3. The many lies of an RCMP informant. By National Post March 23, 2007. 4. RCMP scandals and setbacks since 2006. Globe and Mail Update. Published on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007, Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009. 5 - 17. The many lies of an RCMP informant. By National Post March 23, 2007. 18. RCMP scandals and setbacks since 2006. Globe and Mail Update. Published on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007, Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009. 19 - 21. The many lies of an RCMP informant. By National Post March 23, 2007. 22. RCMP scandals and setbacks since 2006. Globe and Mail Update. Published on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007, Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009. 23. The many lies of an RCMP informant. By National Post March 23, 2007. 24 - 25. RCMP scandals and setbacks since 2006. Globe and Mail Update. Published on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007 26. The many lies of an RCMP informant. By National Post March 23, 2007.
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Chapter 6 THE VANCOUVER SUN LISTS MORE MURDERED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA As cited, “since 1980 in B.C., there have been 40 unsolved murders of women who either worked in the sex trade or were vulnerable to predators because they used drugs, lived on the street, hitched rides with strangers, or earned their living as exotic dancers. These are the open files” 1: SQUAMISH Oct. 29, '85: Rachel Turley, 20 Turley's body was found in a wooded area near Squamish. She had been sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled. Police say she was known to them as a Granville Mall "street person" who once worked as a prostitute.2 CAMPBELL RIVER Aug. '99: Laura Lee Banman, 23 “Banman, who worked in the sex trade, was last seen in Nanaimo in the middle of August. Two people picking ferns on an overgrown logging road north of Campbell River discovered Banman's skeletal remains the following May”.3 SHAWNIGAN LAKE June 8, '91: Melissa Maureen Nicholson, 17 “Nicholson, who worked as a prostitute in Victoria, was last seen getting into a pickup truck at the corner of Gordon and Courtney. Her body was found beside a gravel road south of Shawnigan Lake.”4 Dec. 2, 2000: Carla Slots, 29 “Slots, who was addicted to drugs and worked in Victoria's sex trade, was found murdered on a logging road in a remote area of Shawnigan Lake. She had been beaten to death.” 5 BURNS LAKE July, '94: Roxanne Thiara, 15
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“Thiara, who worked as a prostitute in Prince George, disappeared the July long weekend. Her body was found Aug. 17 in the bush along Highway 16, six kilometres east of Burns Lake.”6 PRINCE GEORGE Dec. 9, '94: Alishia Germaine, 15 “Three teenaged boys found Germaine dead of multiple stab wounds behind an elementary school in Prince George. She had worked as a prostitute, but friends claimed she stopped two weeks before her death.”7 KAMLOOPS May 8, '81: Maureen Elizabeth Mosie, 33 “Mosie's battered body was found beside a road near Kamloops. Mosie, who was from Edson, Alta., was hitchhiking between Salmon Arm and Kamloops.”8 PEMBERTON April, '97: Kari Anne Gordon, 26 “Gordon, who worked in Vancouver's sex trade, vanished in late April 1997. Her body was found on the shores of Little Lillooet Lake near Pemberton in the spring of 1998.”9 MISSION Aug. 1, '95: Victoria Younker, 35 “Younker disappeared from Vancouver, where she worked as a prostitute. Her decomposed body was discovered in October beside a logging road in a remote area northeast of Mission. Police suspect her death is linked to the murders of Tracy Olajide and others.”10 SAANICH June 4, '90: Cheri Lynn Smith, 18 “Smith was working as prostitute in Victoria at the time of her disappearance. Her decomposed body was found in a regional park in September. She had been beaten to death. Police at one time considered the possibility her murder was linked to the murders of three other women: Karen-Lee Taylor (Vancouver), Kimberley Gallup (Victoria) and 71
Melissa Nicholson (Shawnigan Lake).”11 SOOKE Dec. 3, '82: Kristie Kathleen Fowlie, 18 “Fowlie's partly clad body was found next to a logging road east of Sooke. She had worked as a prostitute, but had become a born-again Christian. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.” 12 ESQUIMALT Feb. 25, '86: Chantal Marie Venne, 21 “Venne, who worked as a prostitute, was found strangled with the belt of her coat. Her hands were bound and she had been tortured and sexually assaulted.”13 VICTORIA Nov. '83: Donna Mitchell, 31 “Mitchell, who worked as a prostitute, was found buried in a shallow grave in Beacon Hill Park. She had been missing since June and police believe she was strangled. Police had a suspect who died before being charged.” 14 Nov. 21, '90: Kimberley Gallup, 17 “Gallup was working as a prostitute and was picked up by a man wearing a neon-pink and green ski jacket. She was found at 4 a.m. in a room at the Colony Motor Inn. She had been strangled.” 15 AGASSIZ Aug. 10, '95: Tracy Olajide, 30 “Olajide, who worked as a prostitute in Vancouver, was found dead in the woods near Agassiz. Police, who believe she fell victim to a serial killer, recently cleared the prime suspect using DNA analysis.”16 Aug. 29, '95: Tammy Lee Pipe, 24 “Pipe's body was found just eight kilometres from where Olajide's was discovered. Police believe they were killed by the same person.”17
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KELOWNA Sept. 25, '94: Tina Louise Parr, 25 “Parr's partially clad body was found in the Knox Mountain Park area. Police said she had worked as a prostitute.”18 VERNON June 8, '97: Naiomi Skye, 25 “Skye disappeared from her hometown of Vernon and her remains were found near there in November. She used drugs, but did not usually work in the sex trade. Police do not believe her murder is linked to others.”19 DAWSON CREEK July 17, '90: Cindy Burk, 21 “The Yukon woman was hitchhiking south along the Alaska Highway and was last seen in Prophet River on July 17. A week later, her body was found near the Kiskatinaw ro incial ark.”20 NORTH VANCOUVER Dec. 28, '89: Bonnie Kate Whalen, 32 “Whalen, who worked the Mount Pleasant stroll, was last seen alive in the 900 - block East Broadway and reported missing a month later. Her remains were discovered near the Seymour River on April 2, 1990.”21 July 1, '95: Mary Lidguerre, 30 “Lidguerre, who worked the streets near Main and Hastings, disappeared in July. Her skeletal remains were found two years later on Mount Seymour in North Vancouver. Police suspect she may have fallen prey to the person who killed Tracy Olajide and others.”22 RICHMOND Aug. 24, '82: Heather Gloria Nelson, 19 “Nelson's decomposed body was found in a bush area near No. 5 Road. A known prostitute with the street name Wanda, she worked the corner of Bute and Davie.”23
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Nov. 3, '89: Umi Omar O'Brien, 34 “O'Brien, who worked as a prostitute in Vancouver, was last seen shortly after midnight in the 1500-block Powell Street. Her body was found the next day in a rain-filled ditch in Richmond.”24 June 1, '97: Cassandra Lailoni Antone, 20 “Antone, the mother of a five-month old baby, worked as a prostitute in the Main and Hastings area of Vancouver. Her charred body was found by a hiker in a remote area of Richmond.”25 VANCOUVER Jan. 12, '80: Anita Threlfall, 24 “Threlfall, who was working as a prostitute, was found murdered in the north lane of the 200 block West Fifth. She had been strangled.”26 Feb. 21, '85: Linda Joyce Tatrai, 18 “Tatrai, who was involved in drugs and the sex trade, was found in an underground parking lot in the 1400-block East Broadway. She was stabbed to death.”27 April 3, '88: Rose Minnie Peters, 28 “Peters, who worked as a prostitute, was found strangled, beaten and sexually assaulted in the 4900-block St. Catherines.”28 April 7, '88: Marjorie Madeline Vedan, 41 “A mother of four who worked as a prostitute near Main and Hastings, Vedan was stabbed numerous times in her apartment on East Seventh.”29 Aug. 13, '88: Lisa Marie Gavin, 21 “Worked as a prostitute in Mount Pleasant, was beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Her body was found in a lane behind 6400-block Knight.”30 Sept. 11, '88: Connie Christenson, 27 “Christenson, a prostitute, was found slain in her apartment on Kingsway. She was severely beaten and stabbed.”31
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Sept. 30, '88: Glenna Marie Sowan, 25 “A prostitute who used the street name Dusty,Sowan was found murdered in the south lane of the 700-block West 24th Avenue. A mother of an infant, she had been beaten and strangled.”32 Oct. 7, '88: Tracey Leigh Chartrand, 25 “Worked as a prostitute in Mount Pleasant, went missing in October, 1988. Her skeletal remains were found the following spring in a shallow grave on the University Endowment Lands.”33 Aug. 25, '90: Karen-Lee Violet Taylor, 19 “Taylor's body was found on a plastic sheet in the 3600-block of Pine Crescent in Shaughnessy. She had been strangled. Police at the time said there was no evidence she worked as a prostitute, but described her as having a ‘free lifestyle’." 34 Nov. 21, '91: Bernadine Standingready, 26 “Standingready's body was found in an auto-wrecking yard in the 700 block Cordova. She had been beaten to death. Police said she had a record for soliciting.”35 March 2, '93: Vicki Rosalind Black. 23 “Black's body was found in a dumpster in the south lane of the 2000-block Hastings wrapped in a grey sheet with patterned squares. She had worked as a prostitute.”36 BURNABY June 20, '87: Carol Ruby Davis, 29 “Davis, a Granville Mall regular and a known drug user, was stabbed numerous times in the neck and chest. Her partly clad body was found in a bush close to Wiggins Avenue in Burnaby. She was a mother of two.”37 MAPLE RIDGE May 31, '89: Katherine Mary Lou Daignault, 40 “Daignault had just returned from Winnipeg when her beaten body was found at a Maple Ridge construction site. Her street name was Nicky and she was known to work as a prostitute near Main and Hastings.”38 75
COQUITLAM April 1, '85: Pauline Eliza Johnson, 30 “An exotic dancer, Johnson was stabbed in the heart and her partly clad body left lying near a gravel road in Coquitlam. She was sexually assaulted, mutilated with a knife, her body cleaned up, then dumped from a car.”39 SURREY Aug. 21, '86: Donna Rose Kiss, 25 “Kiss was strangled with a tie. Her body was dumped near 56A Avenue and 136th Street. She had worked as a prostitute in Vancouver's West End until a soliciting conviction banned her from the popular stroll.”40 Jan. 18, '98: Kelly Elizabeth Parsons, 30 “Parsons, who worked as a prostitute, was last seen walking in the 13200block of King George Highway. She was found unconscious in pool of blood beside 133rd Street near 112 Avenue and died of head injuries.”41 Here’s another list of 40 women murdered in British Columbia, Canada? They deserve some attention! Or, are they like the poor women involved in the infamous Picton fiasco, as cited in the next two chapters? Footnotes 1 - 41. A 2001 Vancouver Sun article listing the missing
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Chapter 7 THE RCMP “DIDN’T LIKE BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO” As reported, the RCMP “didn’t like being told what to do. They were Canada’s national force and they considered themselves the cream of the cream. They figured they were the best of the best.”1 As this book exemplifies, they have turned out to possibly be one of the worst lending credence to the statement: “the RCMP is still, alas, horribly broken.”2 As further cited, author Paul Palango in his book “Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP” says “the public record shows that the RCMP’s collective reputation is undeserved. For more than 35 years the force has found itself mired in a seemingly unending litany of organizational, legal and political controversies.”3 As the former solicitor-general, and a former municipal chief of police, Mr. Heed said B.C. must assert more control over its police. He said he has heard too many times the RCMP promise to do better following controversy. “Somehow, mistakes continue to be made,” he said in an interview this week.4 “The Vancouver Police Department’s internal report on the Pickton case, released last month, painted an unflattering picture of competing priorities and jurisdictional squabbles that hampered the investigation into scores of missing women.”5 “It capped off a summer of bad press for the Mounties. In June, the force’s conduct in the Air India case, Canada’s worst mass murder, was condemned in an inquiry that uncovered errors, incompetence and jurisdictional bickering.”6 “Next, the commission looking into the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski, tasered at the Vancouver International Airport, concluded with a harsh denunciation of the behavior of four Mounties.”7 “One of the few communities that have elected to abandon the RCMP is, ironically, Mr. de Jong’s own hometown of Abbotsford. In 1995, when the communities of Abbotsford and Matsqui amalgamated, the Abbotsford RCMP was dumped in favour of Matsqui’s community police force.”8 Abbotsford Mayor George Peary, who was involved with the transfer, is a staunch supporter of his homegrown force. “We are not subject to the whims of a national police force,” he said proudly. Nearly all 209 77
members of the Abbotsford police live in the community, and he said that naturally means better policing. “They coach teams and go to parentteacher meetings, they attend churches, whatever it might be – they are part of the fabric of our community.”9 Footnotes 1. RCMP arrogance cited in bungling of Pickton case: Reluctance to cooperate with other police forces played a role in allowing pig farmer to go on killing, critics say Dirk Meissner, Victoria — The Canadian Press Published on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 Last updated on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 2. Globe Editorial: The RCMP is still broken From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 3. Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP By Paul Palango Press Release: October 16, 2008 4 - 9. ress re to end .C.’s 6 -year ride with the Mounties is growing Justine Hunter and Robert Matas Victoria and Vancouver — From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 Last updated on Saturday, Sep. 11, 2010
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Chapter 8 RCMP “ARROGANCE IN BUNGLING PICTON CASE” Perhaps the greatest incompetence the RCMP could have made was their “arrogance in bungling of Pickton case” where their “reluctance to cooperate with other police forces played a role in allowing pig farmer to go on killing”1 [see Appendix 6a – 6d, cited below]. As emphasized by Rob Gordon of Simon Fraser University. “The RCMP know all, cannot be told anything.”2 “The RCMP is facing criticism in the wake of a scathing Vancouver Police Department report detailing investigative missteps on the hunt for serial killer Robert Pickton.”3 “There’s ample evidence to indicate that the RCMP does not play well with others and most certainly was not playing well with others in relation to the Pickton matter,” Prof. Gordon said.4 “Thirteen women disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside after the city’s police force first forwarded information about Mr. Pickton to the RCMP, according to the police review.”5 The 400-page document said mistakes prevented police from arresting Mr. Pickton until 2002 – years after officers first started looking at him as they investigated reports of missing sex workers – and that he could have been caught earlier.6 Mr. MacKay-Dunn, now a councillor in the District of North Vancouver, said he was one of the first officers to believe a serial killer could be responsible for the disappearances of dozens of women from the Downtown Eastside.7 He said he consistently encountered resistance from RCMP brass throughout his career, but rank-and-file officers from all forces seemed to get along.8 But Mr. MacKay-Dunn and Prof. Gordon both agree that the RCMP should not have its current 20-year service contract in British Columbia renewed. The current RCMP contract in British Columbia expires in 2012. “Absolutely, don’t do it,” Mr. MacKay-Dunn said.9 As further reported, “two years after B.C. prosecutors dropped attempted murder charges against Robert Pickton, Leah Best warned that the Port Coquitlam man was a killer – but her warning was not heeded,” saying the 79
RCMP “didn’t seem like they cared.”10 “I did feel angry about it,” Ms. Best told CTV. “It didn’t seem like they cared.” Eleven years later, she is convinced that 13 women’s lives could have been saved if police had acted more aggressively on her information.11 Ms. Best, now a grandmother in her 50s living in the Fraser Valley, says she was introduced to Mr. Pickton through a friend, Lynn Ellingsen, who was getting money from him for drugs.12 “Lynn said he was a millionaire,” she said. “I said, ‘Oh, some millionaire, with gumboots and a tattered jacket.’”13 Mr. Pickton looked dirty, but didn’t appear “creepy,” she said. It wasn’t until she ran into Ms. Ellingsen at a friend’s house that a truly horrifying story came out.14 “She was staying at Willie’s the night before,” Ms. Best said. “She was out wandering and came upon Willie in the barn. She said he was gutting a woman.”15 “Ms. Best was surprised – but thought the story had a ring of truth. Ms. Best said she thought Ms. Ellingsen would go to the police with the information. A month later, Ms. Best went to the Burnaby RCMP detachment herself.”16 “She was one of three informants in 1999 who related the same story: that Ms. Ellingsen had seen a woman being butchered at the farm.”17 “I thought that they would have got a search warrant or something right away, and looked in the freezers at least,” she said.18 RCMP Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass said "the RCMP deeply regrets that we weren't able to gather the evidence necessary to lay a charge sooner.”19 As further reported, “twenty outstanding murder charges against convicted serial killer Robert Pickton have been stayed by the Crown, ending the prospect of any more trials.”20 “Pickton, a former Port Coquitlam pig farmer now serving a life sentence in prison, was found guilty on six counts of second-degree murder in December 2007 in the deaths of women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.”21
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“He was originally charged with killing 26 women, but the Crown decided first to pursue the six cases most likely to result in convictions.”22 “The victims disappeared from the troubled Vancouver neighbourhood between 1978 and 2001, and traces of their remains were found on Pickton's farm, about 25 kilometres east of the city.”23 “He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 25 years. Pickton appealed the convictions to the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled unanimously in a decision released last week that he would not a get new trial.”24 Footnotes 1 - 9. RCMP arrogance cited in bungling of Pickton case: Reluctance to co-operate with other police forces played a role in allowing pig farmer to go on killing, critics say Dirk Meissner, Victoria — The Canadian Press Published on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 Last updated on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 10 - 18. Women's lives could have been saved, Pickton informant says Jon Woodward, Vancouver — From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 19. Pickton investigation to be reviewed by B.C. Last Updated: Friday, August 20, 2010 20 – 24. Twenty Pickton murder charges not to be tried Last Updated: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 CBC News
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Appendix 6a RCMP arrogance cited in bungling of Pickton case Deadly blunders sully police reputations Robert Matas and Justine Hunter Vancouver and Victoria— From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 8:18PM EDT Last updated Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 8:20PM EDT When forces collide: Different codes of conduct, different masters and sometimes just different police channels can result in deadly blunders. An extensive review of the Vancouver Police Department’s investigation into the city’s missing women concluded that a regional police force might have led to the arrest of serial killer Robert (Willie) Pickton much earlier. Crime Stoppers received the first tip in the case on July 27, 1998. The caller described a man known as “Willie” who picked up prostitutes and reported that a recent visitor to his trailer saw at least 10 purses and women’s identification. The caller also said Willie told others he could easily dispose of bodies by putting them through a grinder which he uses to prepare food to feed his hogs. The tipster called back less than two weeks later, identifying the man as Willie Pickton and advised that Mr. Pickton killed Sarah (de Vries) and possibly all the missing women. By early 1999, some VPD officers strongly believed that further investigation of Mr. Pickton was warranted. However, VPD had to rely on the RCMP to pursue the investigation because the alleged crime scene was in Port Coquitlam and the RCMP were responsible for policing there. The investigation stalled at that point. Port Coquitlam RCMP turned to the Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit, an integrated team of RCMP and municipal officers. The integrated unit had no vested interest in the investigation and did not agree to pursue the information that was available, Deputy Chief Doug LePard says. Vancouver police made several attempts to bring the RCMP and the homicide unit into the missing women investigation. In one instance, VPD Detective Lori Shenher in May, 1999, asked the RCMP for copies of files regarding homicides of six women that could possibly be linked to Mr. Pickton. It took nine months for the RCMP to respond to her. The Missing Women Task Force first met in January, 2001. Mr. Pickton was finally arrested after a rookie cop obtained a search warrant to investigate a report of an unrelated crime. 82
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Appendix 6b RCMP arrogance cited in bungling of Pickton case Also Referenced: RCMP arrogance cited in bungling of Pickton case Dirk Meissner, Victoria— The Canadian Press Published Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010 9:53PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Sep. 09, 2010 6:50PM EDT The RCMP is facing criticism in the wake of a scathing Vancouver Police Department report detailing investigative missteps on the hunt for serial killer Robert Pickton. A British Columbia criminologist said Mounties are trained to believe they are Canada’s top cops, while considering provincial and municipal officers below standard. “There’s long been tensions between the RCMP and municipal police services,” said Rob Gordon of Simon Fraser University. “The RCMP know all, cannot be told anything, and they’re the ones who alone stand between chaos and civilized society.” He pointed to deep-rooted RCMP arrogance on the Pickton investigation, where Mounties and Vancouver police officers withheld information from each other about women who’d been reported missing from the Downtown Eastside beginning in the mid-1990s. Mr. Pickton’s crimes came to light only when a rookie Mountie showed up looking for weapons on the former pig farmer’s sprawling property in suburban Port Coquitlam in 2002. “There’s ample evidence to indicate that the RCMP does not play well with others and most certainly was not playing well with others in relation to the Pickton matter,” Prof. Gordon said. The Vancouver police report, authored by Deputy Chief Constable Doug LePard, said both its own department and the RCMP are to blame for errors made during the investigation. Thirteen women disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside after the city’s police force first forwarded information about Mr. Pickton to the RCMP, according to the police review. The 400-page document said mistakes prevented police from arresting Mr. Pickton until 2002 – years after officers first started looking at him as they
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investigated reports of missing sex workers – and that he could have been caught earlier. RCMP haven’t commented on the LePard report, saying they need to read it first, but have already stated they disagree with some of its conclusions. Prof. Gordon noted other examples of RCMP problems were highlighted in the report of the Air India inquiry, which criticized the Mounties for fighting turf wars with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service during the investigation into twin Air India bombings in 1985 that killed a total of 331 people. Prof. Gordon said the Mounties have also caused problems with the various Vancouver-area combined police teams fighting gang violence. He said a Vancouver police biker gang expert was drummed out of his post in a combined RCMP-municipal team by the Mounties. “He was a sergeant with the VPD, been a project leader, and ran into all kinds of difficulty,” he said. “The guy was an expert, but was treated very poorly by his RCMP colleagues.” Former Vancouver police officer Doug MacKay-Dunn, who served in the Downtown Eastside and retired in 2001 after 31 years of service, said he encountered difficulties working with Mounties. “At that point, the RCMP didn’t necessarily get along that well with other organizations,” he said. “They didn’t like being told what to do. They were Canada’s national force and they considered themselves the cream of the cream. They figured they were the best of the best.” Mr. MacKay-Dunn, now a councillor in the District of North Vancouver, said he was one of the first officers to believe a serial killer could be responsible for the disappearances of dozens of women from the Downtown Eastside. He said he consistently encountered resistance from RCMP brass throughout his career, but rank-and-file officers from all forces seemed to get along. But Mr. MacKay-Dunn and Prof. Gordon both agree that the RCMP should not have its current 20-year service contract in British Columbia renewed. The current RCMP contract in British Columbia expires in 2012.
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“Absolutely, don’t do it,” Mr. MacKay-Dunn said. Prof. Gordon called the RCMP a broken organization, and said trying to change the Mounties would be like “bending granite.” He warned the current Liberal government against signing any new contract with the Mounties. “If they are going for another 20 years and the province signs off on it, the current government deserves to fall,” Prof. Gordon said. The RCMP launched a massive search on Mr, Pickton’s farm in 2002, uncovering the remains or DNA of 33 women. He was charged with 27 counts of murder and eventually convicted in the murders of six women.
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Appendix 6c RCMP arrogance cited in bungling of Pickton case Also see: RCMP seeking serial killer for 1995 deaths in B.C. By Petti Fong, Western Bureau Published On Wed Nov 3 2010 VANCOUVER—A serial killer who disposed of the bodies of three women in remote areas east of Vancouver may be dead or already in jail. The RCMP confirmed this week that they are looking for a serial killer after finding similarities in the cases of three victims whose bodies were discovered within two months of each other near the same area in 1995. Staff Sergeant John Cater with the RCMP said investigators have ruled out Robert Pickton as the women’s killer but said whoever is responsible may have been convicted of other crimes. Pickton is Canada’s most prolific convicted serial killer. He was charged with killing 26 women and convicted of second degree murder in six of those charges in 2007. The Supreme Court of Canada earlier this year rejected his bid for a new trial. Pickton is serving a sentence of 25 years without possibility of parole. The three victims were all living and working in the same area as Pickton’s victims — in Vancouver’s working class Downtown Eastside. Pickton was linked to dozens of women who went missing from the area starting in the 1980s. The disappearances continued until shortly before Pickton was arrested in 2002. “Pickton has been excluded of being responsible for these murders,” said Cater Tuesday. “There is no connection whatsoever.” Cater said the three victims were killed shortly before their bodies were discovered in the fall of 1995 and police have made appeals before for information. The RCMP released photos of some of the forensic evidence they have found at the crime scene along with more details to try and get more tips coming in.
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It appears to be working. Cater said Tuesday that police have been getting tips since making a public appeal Monday. “We have been successful in tracking down all sorts of people who could be responsible. The suspect could be deceased, in jail doing long-term crime or could have left the area,” Cater said. “We’re hopeful now on the 15th anniversary that someone will come forward with information.” Tracy Fadola Olajide was the first victim to be found. The 30-year-old Olajide was working in the Downtown Eastside as a sex trade worker and was addicted to crack cocaine and the mother of one child. Her body was discovered on a logging road on Aug. 12. Two weeks later, the body of Tammy Lee Pipe, a 24-year-old who was known to give money and clothing to the poor and supported her cocaine habit by working as a sex trade worker in the Downtown Eastside, was found in a remote wooded area in the same area. One month later, the body of Victoria Lynn Younker, 35, who was also a sex trade worker and drug addict, was found laying in the embankment at the dead end of a logging road in the same area. Simon Fraser University criminologist Rob Gordon said Tuesday that since Pickton was arrested there were theories that the former pig farmer from Port Coquitlam did not commit the murders by himself. The bodies of the three victims were left out in the open likely to decompose, said Gordon. That difference with Pickton’s victims, whose bodies had been disposed of in a rendering plant on the farm, is the strongest indication that police are looking at another serial killer. Gordon said Tuesday that the RCMP are dealing with a very tough investigation. Pickton continued his killing spree until just before he was caught. With this serial killer, Gordon said police have three victims killed 15 years ago and nothing since. “The chances of the police being able to identify the person responsible is frankly zero,” said Gordon. “The trail is obviously stone cold.”
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Appendix 6d RCMP arrogance cited in bungling of Pickton case Also see: DNA clears key suspect in murders Lindsay Kines, Kim Bolan and Lori Culbert Crime: Special Report The Vancouver Sun Friday, November 23, 2001 DNA testing has cleared the prime suspect in the murders of three women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside whose bodies were discovered in the Fraser Valley in 1995, The Vancouver Sun has learned. The DNA results mean the real serial killer has gone undetected for six years and police say he could be responsible for some of Vancouver's missing women cases. "He could still be doing it and disposing of the bodies efficiently," RCMP Constable Paul McCarl confirmed in a recent interview. Police said in 1995 that they believed the same man killed Tracy Olajide, Tammy Lee Pipe and Victoria Younker, whose bodies were found that year near Agassiz and Mission. The three women -- like those who have disappeared since -- were all involved in drugs and the sex trade. During the investigation, police developed a long list of possible suspects by reviewing serious sex assaults of women, especially prostitutes. The review led them to one particular suspect, who was identified in 1995 as Ronald Richard McCauley, a roofer from Mission. One of the things that caught investigators' attention was that McCauley picked up a prostitute at Vancouver's Astoria Hotel in July of that year and drove her to Hemlock Valley, where she was beaten, raped and dumped from his truck -- just a few kilometres from where Olajide's body was later found. The woman reported the incident to police and McCauley, who had a record of similar violent offences, was arrested in September 1995, convicted of rape in 1996, declared a dangerous offender, and jailed indefinitely. "He surfaced pretty quick and he looked really, really good," said McCarl, who is the lead investigator on the Olajide and Pipe homicides.
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The things McCauley had done to the victim in the rape case, were similar to what had been done to the murder victims, McCarl said. He also lived in the area, had a vehicle consistent with the suspect's, and he was known to frequent the Downtown Eastside and hire prostitutes. In addition, McCauley once told a parole hearing that had he not been arrested for two rapes and attempted murders in the early 1980s, he "would have become a serial killer such as Clifford Olson." "I thought we had the guy," McCarl said. But despite the circumstantial evidence, police never had enough to lay murder charges against McCauley. The semen recovered at the crime scenes in 1995 had been degraded by bacteria and police were initially unable to test it, McCarl said. As the years passed and technology improved, however, the laboratory eventually used new techniques to re-test the samples and provide police with a DNA analysis. The results confirmed that one person was "associated" to at least two of the women prior to their deaths. The findings also raised the possibility that two men might have been involved in the murders. But, unfortunately for police, the results also confirmed that investigators had the wrong name at the top of their suspect list; Ronald Richard McCauley wasn't their man, after all. "He looked the best, so we pursued him," McCarl said. "And when we found out it wasn't going to be him, we were all disappointed." In fact, it was such a surprise to police, that investigators tried for a time to figure out whether McCauley might still have been involved, so convincing was the circumstantial evidence against him. "But realistically, we decided it's not him, it's somebody else," McCarl said. McCauley did not respond to requests for an interview, but his former lawyer, Susan Ludford, said she wasn't surprised by the RCMP's findings. "He volunteered that DNA sample to clear himself," Ludford said. The RCMP didn't use a warrant to get it. "So I'm glad he's cleared; I didn't think he was guilty of that in the first place."
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The DNA results were a significant turn of events for the RCMP, because investigators considered McCauley a suspect not only in the Olajide, Pipe and Younker homicides, but in the disappearances or murders of four other women as well. Mary Lidguerre, Catherine Gonzalez, Catherine Knight and Dorothy Spence all vanished from the Downtown Eastside the same year as the Valley murders. Lidguerre's remains were found two years later in North Vancouver, but the bodies of Gonzalez, Knight and Spence have never been found, and their names are currently on the list of up to 45 women who have vanished from city streets over the past two decades. The RCMP did not consider McCauley a suspect in the disappearances of women who vanished after September, 1995, because he was in custody from that point onward. But now he has been cleared, it means the real killer could be responsible for the three Valley murders, Lidguerre's death and any number of the missing women cases as well. "If you just look at some of them, you see there's some consistencies," McCarl said. "Where were they missing from? What were they doing prior to when they went missing? Who were their associates? "There's got to be a couple more ... that the same person's responsible for. "And my personal belief is that Vancouver isn't the only hunting ground. The person's probably hunting over on the Island, up in the Interior, and across the border." Given that possibility, senior investigators met in Kelowna last year to discuss cases of murdered and missing sex trade workers from around the province. The Valley murders, Vancouver's missing women, and the murders of women on Vancouver Island and in the Interior were all part of the agenda. In the end, McCarl said investigators agreed on the need for a joint forces team assigned exclusively to those files. The feeling, he says, was that "they shouldn't work on anything else and that way they can stay focused and pursue it until they conclude it." Earlier this year, the RCMP and Vancouver city police moved to set up just such a team, which now has 16 people doing a review of missing and murdered sex trade worker files from around the province.
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Interestingly, the person selected for the file coordinator's job on the task force, also has a direct link to the Valley murders; Sergeant Wayne Clary attended the scene where Younker's body was discovered in 1995 and he also attended the autopsy. Clary acknowledges the possible link between the missing women cases and the Valley murders, but said it's strictly a coincidence that he has worked both files. His involvement in the Valley murders was limited to attending the crime scene and the autopsy on the Younker case, he said. Still, McCarl said it will work to the Crown's favor if both he and Clary are still involved in the cases when they go to court. "Those are our gold cards when it comes to a prosecution." It's also helpful for the families, he said. "It's nice to have some continuity with the cop that was at the scene and found their daughters or sisters." The Sun contacted the families of Pipe and Olajide for this article, but they chose not to comment. McCarl said he continues to stay in contact with family members. "We call them, they don't call us. That makes me think that they must be satisfied in knowing that we haven't rolled over -- we never give up." After the RCMP realized McCauley wasn't their man, investigators on the Olajide, Pipe and Younker files began compiling long lists of other possible suspects, McCarl said. One of the theories is that the killer had either lived in the area, was a logger, fisherman or hunter familiar with the region, or perhaps had been incarcerated at one of the correctional facilities in the Fraser Valley and became familiar with the area while on a work-release program. McCarl said investigators hope to find a way to use computers to combine police, prison and parole records with lists of voters, hunters, fishermen and loggers in the region. "Anything electronic that we could get was going to get pulled and sorted. And then we would try and give it parameters and see whose name comes up the most frequently ... whoever comes up the most frequently gets targeted first. "And that's what we're looking at now, is basically creating a list of the best people to look at and going and finding them and trying to follow up with them."
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The problem is that a computer program has yet to be developed that could handle such massive amounts of information. RCMP Inspector Keith Davidson, a psychological profiler who helped develop the RCMP's computer system for tracking serial offenders, confirmed he is currently trying to find a way to use computers to assist in the investigations of the Valley murders and the missing women. McCarl also said the RCMP recently brought profilers from Ottawa and Winnipeg, to visit the Mission and Agassiz crime scenes. This was done to "give a better idea of what type of person we should be looking for and make sure that we have covered off all the lists of possible suspects." McCarl said he's in regular contact with the missing women task force, which has been reviewing all sexual assaults, attempted murders and murders of women in the sex trade around the province. So far, the review has turned up a list of more than 600 potential suspects. "They're doing the complete review and then they'll see who they want to target," McCarl said. "And then they'll go out and find these people or then try and eliminate them or see whose name shows up most frequently. "It's a very methodical, well-considered plan to follow up on these investigations. I think it's going to work. But it's not a quick fix and it will take lots of time and they'll have to keep those people working on that file. "They're looking at two years and, in all likelihood it probably could be more like four. Once a potential suspect is identified, then that will be the focus of the investigation." McCarl rejected criticism that has been levelled at police -- particularly in Vancouver -- that they don't care about the murders and disappearances because the victims are marginalized women involved in drugs and the sex trade. "The cops cared on this file, and the guys that really care are the ones that are on this task force right now," he said. "There's not one person down there that I don't have 100 per cent respect for ... they are generally the best in their field and that's what you need." McCarl said police recently thought they had a good suspect in the Valley murders, and the force pulled out all the stops to find the best people to handle wiretap and undercover operations. "The best people for the jobs were all identified and contacted and willing to participate and I see that happening with the group of people they've got
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[on the task force]. Anything that they identify, it'll come to pass ... they're not going to roll over until they know who is responsible." Nor, he says, will he. "Six years down the road, we're still spinning wheels, saying, 'Whodunit?' he said. "But I feel confident that, eventually, it will be successfully concluded -- that we will find out who it was."
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Chapter 9 MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Again, here is a list of murdered and missing persons in British Columbia, Canada whose identity has been registered by private citizens1: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Subject / Started by Ashley Machiskinic thrown from building from drug debt Started by jessica Maple Batalia murdered Simon Fraser University Started by solvy Angeline Pete | 28 | Missing | North Vancouver | May 2011 Started by Concerned James Barr | 44 | Grouse Mountain | Missing | May 25, 2011 Started by Concerned Barry Carl Hinchcliffe - 44 - Missing - September 20, 2011 - Vancouver, BC Started by debbiec Missing Adam Myers Started by Hailee. Leah Nestegard & Sarah Strachan- Feb 2004 Coquitlam BC Started by kindheart John Fadden missing UBC area Started by stephanie Omid Bayani, 36, Missing Sept. 5th 2011 Started by SAP Anita Richard AKA "Raven" Missing in Downtown Eastside Vancouver Started by LoneLion Melanie Alexis O'Neill 37 murdered July 26 2011 Started by Trouble445 Help solve 2009 murder of Kimberly Hallgarth - Burnaby, BC Started by Chrissy Moore 95
Yating (Lancy) Hu 27 yrs old - missing since July 16, 2011 from Coquitlam, B.C. Started by Trouble445 Body Found | Male | Port Coquitlam | September 6, 2011 Started by Concerned UNKNOWN - May 3, 2006 - Murdered - New Brighton Park â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Vancouver Started by Desespere Pauls family- June 11, 1958 - murder (unconfirmed) Started by BCID Willene Wah Chong Started by stephanie Vahid MAHANIAN - 35 - Missing - June 27, 2011 - North Vancouver, BC Started by debbiec Diane Lynn Buckley | April 17, 1979 | Age 18 | Missing | Vancouver Started by Desespere Alexander Takara 10 & Manami Sheona 6 Maniwa-Wood | 10 | Vancouver | 12 09 04 Started by Concerned Andrea Lena Huth | Child | Missing Vancouver BC | March 21, 1997 Started by Concerned Elena Moise-Hanover | 36 | Missing North Vancouver | July 4, 2011 Started by Concerned Orlando Graham | 16 | Missing ornby Island near Tribune Bay BC | June 27, 2011 Started by Concerned Karen Batke Missing | February 2007, Surrey BC Started by kindheart Yoo Chung Choi | Missing | Vancouver | June 17, 2011 Started by Concerned
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Tyeshia Jones (18) | Murdered (jan 21/11) Started by solvy« 1 2 3 4» Human Remains Found | Male Mid 30s | April 26, 2011 Started by Concerned Humphrey Wilkinson - Missing - January 29, 1957 Started by BCID Human Remains Found | Richmond | June 7, 2011 Started by Concerned Rachel Miller | 52 | Vancouver Island | Missing | May 2, 2011 Started by Concerned« 1 2» Missing - Ying Ying (Mizuki) - 15 - April 21, 2011 - North Vancouver, BC Started by debbiec”2 Who is looking into all of these cases? Footnotes 1 - 2. Directory Of Unsolved Murders & Missing people in British Columbia, Canada
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Chapter 10 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Once again, here is a list of murdered and missing persons in British Columbia, Canada whose identity has been registered by private citizens1: “
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Natasha Lynn Montgomery Missing August 2010 Prince George / Quesnel BC Started by gumpslou« 1 2 3» Deena Lyn BRAEM - Unsolved Murder (Quesnel 1999) Started by Chris« 1 2 3 ... 9» Ian Sutherland | Murdered | 1997 Started by higramma27« 1 2» Julie Oakley-Parker - August 3, 2006 - 33 - Missing - Quesnel Started by Desespere « 1 2 3 ... 8» Looking for some info on murders near baker creek community Started by Tellis Amanda Gore March 2005 suspicious death? Started by solvy Greywolf Dancingman ILDZI - 32 - Missing - April 26, 2011 - Quesnel, BC Started by debbiec Darlene Preteau missing Started by solvy Jason Robert Timms-- missing Started by solvy Ruth Hjorth missing Sept 16, 2010 Started by solvy Brian Mirl CHAFFEE - Unsolved Murder (Quesnel 1990) Started by Chris
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Janice Ellisabeth HACKH - Suspicious Missing Person (Quesnel 1979) Started by Chris Wayne Albert TAYLOR - Suspicious Missing Person (Quesnel 1976) Started by Chris Duncan HARRIS - Unsolved Murder (Quesnel 1988) Started by Chris Mary Jane JIMMIE - Unsolved Murder (Quesnel 1987) Started by Chris Laurie Joseph BLANCHARD - Unsolved Murder (Quesnel 1972) Started by Chris Santokh Kaur JOHAL - Suspicious Missing Person (Quesnel - 1978) Started by Chris Mary Agnes THOMAS - Missing Person (Quesnel 1971) Started by Chris 1952-09-14, BAKER nee (LEBOURDAIS), Eva Eileen - missing Started by BC Ident Barbara Anne LANES - Missing Person (Quesnel - NOv 2005) Started by Chris Herman ALEC - Suspicious Missing Person (Quesnel BC 1977) Started by Chris Dale Melvin JOHNSON - Missing Person (Quesnel 1992) Started by Chrisâ&#x20AC;?2 Who is looking into all of these cases? Footnotes 1 - 2. Directory Of Unsolved Murders & Missing people in British Columbia, Canada
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Chapter 11 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Once again, here is a list of murdered and missing persons in British Columbia, Canada whose identity has been registered by private citizens1: “
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Kathryn Mary Kliewer, age 26 - Vernon, BC May 18, 1976 Started by Kathi's Sister« 1 2 3 4» Crystal Ricki COSMANO- May 8, 2004. Kamloops BC Started by kindheart Aaron Derbyshire | missing (September 30, 2006) Started by Mamaraine« 1 2» Justin Craik, 19, Missing from Kelowna BC Since April 1 2011 Started by Mikesmom VIVIAN MORZACH (15) | Murder | Steelhead Provincial Park | 200007-30 Started by Chris Sherri McLaughlin Kamloops 1993. Started by D1 Jennifer CUSWORTH - Unsolved Murder Kelowna BC 1993 Started by Chris« 1 2 3 4» Tabitha Lynn Weatherbee | 27 | Vernon Kelowna areas | November 9, 2010 Started by Concerned Lynn Kalmring | 55 | Murdered Penticton | August 16, 2011 Started by Concerned Dale DISIMONE - 41 - Missing - August 3, 2011 - Kelowna, BC Started by debbiec Pamela Darlington - Nov 6, 1973 - 19 - Murdered - Kamloops - HOT Probe Started by Desespere « 1 2 3 4»
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Mindy Tran solved or unsolved? Started by D1« 1 2 3 ... 5» Human remains found in Vernon Started by solvy David Kenneth Bonell age 48 missing since may 10 2007 Started by Davesson« 1 2 3» Ted Tree - 67 - Missing - October 5, 2010 - Kamloops, BC Started by debbiec« 1 2 3 ... 8» Darren JANSEN - 17 - Missing - April 6, 2011 - Kamloops, BC Started by debbiec 'Charles' karoly john HORVATH (aged 20 in 1989) Missing | Kelowna (May 1989) Started by search4charleshorvath« 1 2 3» Tanaya BINGHAM - 15 - Missing - May 12, 2011 - Kelowna, BC Started by debbiec Sally Winter murdered 1985 kelowna Started by solvy Leah Rochelle Dawn Johnson | 31 | Missing Kamloops |Last Heard frmApril 19, 2011 Started by Concerned Jessica Charlie & Suzanne Adams missing Merritt Started by solvy Samantha Roberts : Missing teen : Kelowna Started by SAP Miguel Goncalves | 49 | Missing Keremeos | November 2007 Started by Concerned Infant girls found in Princeton Outhouse Started by houseofmetal ELIZABETH WHO? Started by D1 « 1 2 3» MISSING – Two Young Men Started by CraftyGal 101
Circle route: Gale Weys, Pamela Darlington, Jane Doe, Colleen McMillan Started by bushmanpi Missing: Geoffrey Gordon Meisner/Kelowna, BC Started by SAP Brittney Lee Irving | 24 | Kelowna | Missing Car Found | April 7, 2010 Started by Concerned
Diane Mary Stewart - December 31, 1996 - Murdered - Penticton Started by Desespere SHANA LEE LABATTE | MURDER | Murder | MARCH 2004 Started by Chris Maureen May, MURDERED 1991, 05/03 Kelowna, BC Started by beepeawee1 Nov 2008 - Unsolved Murder - 22 year old Tyler Myers Started by Annastaisha Geoffrey John Dowding - Unsolved Murder - Knox Mountain, Kelowna B.C. (1983 ) Started by Adrian« 1 2 3»”2 Again, who is looking into all of these cases? Footnotes 1 - 2. Directory Of Unsolved Murders & Missing people in British Columbia, Canada
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Chapter 12 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Once again, here is a list of murdered and missing persons in British Columbia, Canada whose identity has been registered by private citizens1: “
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Marcus Simonson 15 missing Oct 9 2011 Started by solvy Joanne Marie PEDERSON - Missing Child - Chilliwack - 1983 Started by Chris« 1 2 3 ... 23» Kathryn-Mary Herbert - Unsolved Murder - Abbotsford BC (1975) Started by Chris« 1 2 3 ... 6» Cyril Williams - 78 - Missing - October 3, 2011 - Chilliwack, BC Started by debbiec Found Male HR-April 4th 2007 Abbotsford BC Started by kindheart Tracy Fadola OLAJIDE - Unsolved Murder - Agassiz - 1995 Started by Chris Erica Dawson | 23 | Chilliwack | Missing | February 17, 2010 Started by Concerned Darlene Steeves 46 missing Chilliwack Started by solvy Roberta Marie FERGUSON - Missing Cultus Lake, BC - 1988 Started by Chris Wesley Craig Foulds | Missing (march 4, 2009) Started by Chris KASSIDY GREGOIRE - MISSING (RUN AWAY) Started by MSprenkels Robert-Jan Planje | 64 | Missing | Chilliwack | December 13, 2010 Started by Concerned
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JEFFREY STUART SURTEL | Missing | MISSION B.C (April 2007) Started by Chris
Michael COUTINHO (CO TEE NOH) -61-Missing-May-10-2010Chilliwack - B.C. Started by Carol-Lynn Human Remains Found | Base of Chilliwack Mountain | Nov 25, 2010 Started by Concerned Victoria Lynn YOUNKER - Unsolved Murder - Mission BC 1995 Started by Chris Josh Bowe missing Started by solvy Missing: Vicki Chan/ Chilliwack Started by SAP Missing: Michael Coutinho/ Chilliwack, BC Started by SAP Missing: Douglas Renz/ Chilliwack, BC Started by SAP Candace Shpeley - Mother of 3 still missing (Abbotsford BC) March 31 Started by Chris« 1 2 3 4» Sonia Thomas | 41 | Surrey | Missing | March 3, 2010 Started by Concerned Josh Hedrick - Murdered - January 11th, 2009 - Maple Ridge, B.C. Started by chet Anne Rose PETERS-Mission BC Started by CraftyGal 1980-05-17, TUTE, Velvetia "Velvet" P. - missing Started by BC Ident Michelle Choiniere | Suspicious Death | Vedder Ridge, BC | Dec 2007 Started by Chris Tammy Lee PIPE (aka: Starr) - Unsolved Murder - Agassiz BC - 1995 Started by Chris 104
Jennifer Lee-Anne Andrews-June 15th, 2006 Abbotsford BC Started by kindheart Sarah BUI- July 21, 2006 Abbotsford BC Started by kindheart Deborah Lynn ISAAC - May 8, 2006 Aggasiz BC Started by kindheart Olimpia Lucia Mikszan- June 21, 1996 Abbotsford BC Started by kindheart Ashley Dean Kristina CLAYPOOL-Chilliwack April 13th, 2007 Started by kindheartâ&#x20AC;?2 Again, who is looking into all of these cases? Footnotes 1 - 2. Directory Of Unsolved Murders & Missing people in British Columbia, Canada
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Chapter 13 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Once again, here is a list of murdered and missing persons in British Columbia, Canada whose identity has been registered by private citizens1: “
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Marguerite Nicole Telesford - 18 JAN 1987 - Victoria - murdered Started by victorian Lindsay Buziak - 24 - Murdered - February 2, 2008 - Victoria, BC Started by victorian« 1 2 3 ... 9» ROBINSON, Carmen - missing (1973-12-08) Started by BC Ident« 1 2 3» Michael Wayne Dunahee - Abducted - Victoria BC 1991 Started by Chris« 1 2 3 ... 7» Chantall Marie Venne - February 25, 1986 - Age 21 - Murdered – Esquimalt Started by Desespere Melissa Maureen Nicholson - June 11, 1991 - Murdered - Victoria Started by Desespere Kimberley Gallup - Novmber 21, 1990 - Age 17 - Murdered - Victoria Started by Desespere « 1 2» Shannon Rogers | Victoria | Murdered | Found June 12, 2011 Started by Concerned Roberta Jean Elders Started by R1966 Kimberly Proctor - Missing- March 18/10 Colwood/Langford Started by victorian« 1 2 3 4» Lilith Bentley missing Nanaimo Mar 7 2011 Started by solvy Christian andrew Francis 17 missing Nanaimo Mar 6/2011 Started by solvy 106
Not Releasing Name | 44 | Male Missing | January 15, 2011 Started by Concerned William Norman Lumley | 50 | Central Saanich | January 5, 2011 Started by Concerned Jesokah Adkens | September 26, 2001 | Age 17 | Missing | Sooke Started by Desespere Nancy Greek ? August 23, 1991 ? Age 25 ? Missing ? Victoria Started by Desespere Chris Kelly Murdered in early 80s (Kristie Fowlie) Started by oldfriendbill« 1 2» Murdered female - late 90's, early 2000's Started by BC Ident Lori Senger missing since July 29, 2010 Started by hopefulT« 1 2» Molly Justice - January 18, 1943 - Age 15 - Murdered - Saanich Started by Desespere Missing elderly male - circa 1990's Started by BC Ident 1959-00-00, HAMILTON, William "Bill" James Lawrence - missing Started by BC Ident Cheri Lynn Smith | June 4, 1990 | Age 18 | Murdered | Victoria Started by Desespere Bill Osland Started by rose Robert Slaughter~age45~missing April 4/09~Esquimalt Started by victorian Molly Justice - Jan 18 1943- age 15 - murdered Started by victorian Jay Cook & Tanya Van Cuylenbourg- Nov '87 - murdered Started by victorian
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2003-02-16, NEILL, Marilynne "M.J." Judith - missing Started by BC Ident ERIK THOR CHRISTIANSEN | MISSING | Victoria | 2007 Started by skdjonesâ&#x20AC;? 2 Again, who is looking into all of these cases?
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Chapter 14 EVEN MORE UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MISSING PERSONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA Once again, here is a list of murdered and missing persons in British Columbia, Canada whose identity has been registered by private citizens1: “
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Natasha Lynn MONTGOMERY 23 Missing late August Prince George Started by Carol-Lynn « 1 2 3 ... 5» Jaffar Imanpour Missing from POCO sept 25 2011 Started by stephanie Taylor Van Diest 18 murdered Oct 2011 Started by solvy 1982 murder near Golden B.C. What was the outcome of the case? Started by Alder« 1 2 3» Madison SCOTT- 20 - Missing - May 27, 2011 - Vanderhoof - BC Started by debbiec« 1 2 3 ... 14» Abigail Andrews | 28 | Missing | Pregnant | Fort. St. John | April 7, 2010 Started by Concerned« 1 2 3 ... 7» David Robert Cox - 27 - Missing April 7, 2011 - Cranbrook, BC Started by kimmeh Brandy Lee FELIX - 14 - Missing - October 7th, 2011 - Prince George, BC Started by kimmeh Loren Leslie 15 years old found murdered, Fort St. James, BC Started by Livvy« 1 2 3» Christopher Dennis HANNAFORD - 27 - Missing - Sept 3, 2011 – Agassiz, BC Started by debbiec Angeline Eileen Pete from Quatsino Village Started by stephanie
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Wanda FOSS - 60 - Missing - Princeton, BC Started by debbiec Lorraine Mitchell - 54 -Missing -June-15-2010 - White Rock BC Started by Carol-Lynn Owen Rooney (24) | Missing | Grand Forks (August 14, 2010) Started by SAP« 1 2 3 ... 5» Amber Alert Issued - Kienan Hebert age 3 - Sparwood, BC Started by debbiec« 1 2 3 ... 12» Tyler Walton | Williams Lake, BC | Missing (nov 9, 2009) Started by Chris« 1 2 3» Ian McFadden 35, James McFadden 9, Missing - Oct 8, 2011 - West Shore, BC Started by debbiec Kevin Kennedy, 59, Missing Elk Valley, BC Started by SAP AMBER ALERT ISSUED - Jacob McBeath - 4 - Surrey, BC Started by debbiec Samantha Rachel Lange: Missing Surrey BC Started by SAP Eli Goldstein Started by SAP Pamela Jones - Murdered - Aug 11, 2011 - Salmon Arm Started by Annastaisha« 1 2» Darcy TUCKER - 55 - Missing - June 20, 2011 - Lytton, BC Started by debbiec Sharon Gayle Dawson | 61 | Missing | Qualicum Beach BC | December 28, 2010 Started by Concerned Brianne Wolgram | September 5th, 1998 | Age 19 | Missing | Revelstoke Started by Desespere « 1 2 3 ... 30»
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Darlene Anita AKSIDAN - 37 - Missing - August 30, 2011 - Prince George, BC Started by debbiec Gavin PETTY - 15 - Missing - June 21, 2011 - Surrey, BC Started by debbiec Tom Gaudreau | murdered | Maple Ridge BC (1991) Started by stephanie Dietmar Joseph FAETH, Prince George BC Last seen mid October 2010 Started by TalentsUnlimited So Huy TRAN - 59 - Missing for two months - Port McNeill, BC Started by debbiec Cordula THIELKE - 42 - Missing - June 01, 2011 - Port Coquitlam, BC Started by debbiec Shirley Clethroe | Missing | Fort St. John RCMP | June 9, 2006 Started by Concerned Charlotte BURCH - 68 - Missing - July 25, 2011 - Wardner, BC Started by debbiec Missing 1 year: Yashpal MEHAY/Surrey, BC Started by SAPâ&#x20AC;? 2 Again, who is looking into all of these cases? Just how many serial killers do they have in British Columbia, Canada? Footnotes 1 - 2. Directory Of Unsolved Murders & Missing people in British Columbia, Canada
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Chapter 15 BEWARE POLISH IMMIGRANTS, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Let’s change direction and see why the Royal Canadian Police do not apparently have a dedicated web site to all the missing and unsolved murders in British Columbia, Canada? Remember readers that Canada is made up of 10 provinces and three territories. British Columbia is only one of those ten provinces? If the above noted chapters list page after page of missing and / or murdered individuals just in BritishColumbia, why doesn’t the Royal Canadian Police have a dedicated web site to all the missing and unsolved murders in Canada? Is it because they are just too busy defending their stupid and very often deadly actions? Let’s look at this tragic case: Did the RCMP get away with murder? Some appear to think yes! "Nothing will happen to them, still they are on the job, the four RCMP officers who caused Robert's death by what they did, and then they lie," said Cisowski [see Appendix 7, cited below].1 The case involved the vicious tasering to death of 40-year-old Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. The RCMP lies start immediately. Richmond RCMP Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre said officers struggled to subdue the man: 'Even though he had received what they call pulses, two pulses from Taser, he was still out of control.'2 The man actually died after 4 Taser jolts, witness alleges.3 In fact, one witness said she offered to tell the RCMP officers what she witnessed, and that one officer said, "'I'll be with you in a few minutes.'" But the officers did not take a statement from her, she alleges.4 As reported, “within seconds, he had been Tasered. Dziekanski, even after 112
falling to the ground, shrieking in pain, was Tasered repeatedly.”5 The cover-up begins! “After the event, the Mounties all gave similar statements about how Dziekanski had come at them, yelling and wildly swinging the stapler, and how several officers had to wrestle the man to the ground.”6 However, a video proves the RCMP officers outright lied! A witness’s video of the event showed none of that happened ... if not for the video, might have got away with whitewashing what the judge called the force’s "shameful" conduct in the events that led to an innocent man’s death.7 As further reported, “I saw more RCMP officers lie to cover up this cowardly crime.”8 Incredibly, “on Dec. 12, 2008, B.C. Criminal Justice branch spokesman Stan Lowe "cleared" the four officers of any wrongdoing and portrayed Dziekanski as a violent and agitated alcoholic whose irrational behavior contributed to his own death.”9 However, even this Stan Lowe was put in his place when Cisowski had the satisfaction of hearing Thomas Braidwood call the four Mounties "inapproprivately aggressive" and "patently unbelievable," while emphasizing Dziekanski did nothing wrong nor in any way caused his own death.10 Caught in their lies thanks to videotape of the “cowardly” crime, as it has been described. Braidwood called the bystander video by Paul Pritchard of Dziekanski's Tasering death "invaluable" evidence that "couldn't be cross-examined."11 “Onlookers were incredulous when RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said Friday he wouldn't be announcing any disciplinary measures for any of the four Mounties for their role in Dziekanski's death.”12 Get away with murder and no consequences? Even the apology to Robert Dziekanski’s mother was a bunch of RCMP bunk? “A raft of internal RCMP emails was released through an Access to Information Act request showing that the April 1 apology was a carefully113
crafted script designed not to blame any RCMP member.”13 “On the day before the staging of the apology, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass reassured RCMP staff relations supervisor Brian Roach that their "apology" to Cisowski did not mean they were apologizing for anything specific that any of their officers had done.”14 "Essentially, even though the word ‘apology’ worries some, we are not apologizing for the actions of specific members or saying anything about specific actions.”15 Cisowski said yesterday "this just shows that the RCMP even when they apologize to me, they coverup.”16 Actually tasered five times! “The e-mail, sent by RCMP Chief Supt. Dick Bent to Assistant Commissioner Al Macintyre suggested for the first time that the four Mounties who responded to a call at Vancouver's airport planned to use a Taser on Robert Dziekanski, who died at the airport on Oct. 14, 2007, after he was Tasered five times.”17 Finally: “why do provinces put up with this police force, it would be less disastrous and more economically feasible to have their own provincial police forces -- more control?” Footnotes 1. Still they get no consequences. By Suzanne Fournier, The Province, June 20, 2010. 2 - 3. RCMP say deceased man was 40-year-old Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2007. CBC News. 4. One witness said she offered to tell the RCMP officers what she witnessed. 5 - 7. Inquiry deservedly hammers RCMP in Dziekanski death. By Paul Schneiderit, The Chronicle Herald, Tue. Jun 22. 8. I saw more RCMP officers lie to cover up this cowardly crime. 9 - 12. Still they get no consequences. By Suzanne Fournier, The Province, June 20, 2010. 13 - 16. RCMP's apology grudging, evasive. By Suzanne Fournier, The 114
Province, June 17, 2010. 17. E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury While Senior Officers Sat Silent. Contributed on Sun, 2009/06/21 - 2:30pm. Also see: Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. Also see: Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun.
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Appendix 7 'Still they get no consequences' 'Still they get no consequences' Four Mounties involved should not get off scot-free, says Dziekanski's mother By Suzanne Fournier, The Province June 20, 2010 Zofia Cisowski's "darkest hour" after learning that her son Robert Dziekanski was dead came when B.C. criminal justice officials declared that the RCMP had done nothing wrong -- and that it was her son's own fault that he died. Now that she has been vindicated by the Braidwood Inquiry report castigating the officers and ruling her son did nothing wrong, Cisowski still carries with her a news clipping containing the earlier blaming, hurtful words. On Dec. 12, 2008, B.C. Criminal Justice branch spokesman Stan Lowe "cleared" the four officers of any wrongdoing and portrayed Dziekanski as a violent and agitated alcoholic whose irrational behaviour contributed to his own death. Last week, Walter Kosteckyj, Cisowski's lawyer, said "that was Zofia's darkest hour, after losing her son, and that's why she still carries that news clipping with her." So far, Cisowski notes, none of the four Mounties "has ever got any consequences." On Friday, Cisowski had the satisfaction of hearing Thomas Braidwood call the four Mounties "inapproprivately aggressive" and "patently unbelievable," while emphasizing Dziekanski did nothing wrong nor in any way caused his own death. "This tragic case is at its heart the story of shameful conduct by a few officers," Braidwood said. "It ought not to reflect unfairly on the many thousands of RCMP and other police officers who have protected our communities and earned a welldeserved reputation in doing so." Cisowski heard B.C. Attorney-General Mike de Jong promise to appoint a special prosecutor and commit to a citizen-led Independent Investigation
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Office to conduct criminal investigations into RCMP or municipal police incidents causing death or harm. Friday was an exhausting day after a night in which Cisowski slept little, coming at the end of years of hearings in which a video of her son's death was screened repeatedly -- although it helped a kind and patient former judge get to the truth. Braidwood called the bystandervideo by Paul Pritchard of Dziekanski's Tasering death "invaluable" evidence that "couldn't be cross-examined." Cisowski received an apology Friday from the RCMP's top cop, Commissioner William Elliott. Yet as a mother, Cisowski did not hear from Elliott -- the first lawyer and non-cop to head the national RCMP -- the words she has waited so long to hear, she said. "Nothing will happen to them, still they are on the job, the four policemen who caused Robert's death by what they did, and then they lie," said Cisowski. Listening to Elliott say the RCMP has reformed its training and Taser policies, Cisowski whispered: "Still they get no consequences for causing my son's death." Braidwood's 460-page report, entitled simply Why? The Robert Dziekanski Tragedy, is a blistering denunciation of the four Mounties who Tasered and restrained Dziekanski face down, then left him unattended until he died. Onlookers were incredulous when Elliott said Friday he wouldn't be announcing any disciplinary measures for any of the four Mounties for their role in Dziekanski's death. He said he would await the special prosecutor's report. Elliott acknowledged that Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson is suspended with pay, but only in connection with the unrelated traffic death of a motorcyclist. That matter doesn't go to trial until April 2011. The other three -- Const. Gerry Rundel, Const. Bill Bentley and Const. Kwesi Millington -- are "on the job but not in front-line policing," said Elliott, who couldn't explain why the four officers could be criticized about an unjustified death and yet remain on the RCMP payroll.
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Elliott hinted it might even be too late to mete out internal punishment, but admitted: "We recognize there needs to be fairly fundamental changes in our discipline system." Braidwood said the four Mounties behaved as if they were responding to a "barroom brawl," and senior officer Robinson "intervened in an inapproprivately aggressive manner." "I found that Mr. Dziekanski had been compliant, was not defiant or resistant, did not brandish the stapler and did not move toward any of the officers," Braidwood said. "I concluded the constable [Millington] was not justified in deploying the weapon and neither the constable nor the corporal honestly perceived that Mr. Dziekanski was intending to attack any of the officers." Braidwood said the other two officers also "offered patently unbelievable after-the-fact rationalizations of their police notes and statements to [the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team]." As for Robinson's claim that the Mounties made a point to check if Dziekanski was alive, Braidwood was dismissive. "I can place little reliance on the testimony of Cpl. Robinson that he constantly monitored Mr. Dziekanski's breathing until the firefighters arrived. Similarly, I find unpersuasive the testimony of Const. Rundel that . . . he knelt down near Mr. Dziekanski and heard him breathing and snoring. "I am satisfied that Mr. Dziekanski went into cardiac arrest first, then went unconscious, and finally showed signs of cyanosis, all within 75 seconds of being handcuffed." De Jong was prompt to appoint special prosecutor Richard Peck to look into possible criminal charges against the four Mounties. "There was misconduct here and that reflects badly [on the RCMP]," said de Jong. "The human dimension in this is staggering, that someone would be lost within an airport for hours, separated by a glass door forever from one of his loved ones." The stark images on the Pritchard film, of the police behaviour and a man's death, had enormous impact, said De Jong.
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Chapter 16 NO ONE BUT A MORON OVERLOOKS THE IMPORT OF THIS EMAIL IN THE TASERING DEATH OF ROBERT DZIEKANSKI The case involving the vicious tasering to death of 40-year-old Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski warrants an additional chapter to see the extent of the lies by the RCMP to cover-up. As noted, “we have seen often-quoted Mountie mouthpiece Cpl. Dale Carr tell the Braidwood inquiry that top RCMP brass made a deliberate decision not to correct misinformation RCMP had given to the media about Dziekanski’s death.”1 In fact, “e-mail suggests four RCMP Officers committed perjury while senior officers sat silent,”2 specifically suggests Mounties planned to deploy Taser before they arrived at YVR, contrary to their testimony.3 As reported, “after months of outrage about the conduct of the four Mounties who responded to Vancouver Airport Oct. 14, 2007, who can believe that at the last minute, a federal lawyer would produce what many would consider a smoking gun -- an e-mail saying the officers decided to use the Taser before confronting the Polish immigrant?”4 “If true, the Nov. 5, 2007, e-mail titled "Media strategy -- release of the YVR video," from RCMP Chief Supt. Dick Bent to assistant commissioner Al McIntyre, establishes the four have been lying through their teeth. This critical document suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did so.”5 "The documents that have just come to our attention include a critical email from very high up in the RCMP chain of command, disclosing that the officers decided in a premeditated way, en route to the scene.”6 Even the RCMP lawyers apparently lie? “Lawyer Helen Roberts, who represents the RCMP at the inquiry, offered a tearful apology to inquiry commissioner Thomas Braidwood, a retired judge, for not disclosing the e-mail sooner.”7 “Helen Roberts had every reason to be in tears Friday as she apologized to the public inquiry into Dziekanski's death for failing to disclose what appears to be not just germane but also startlingly important evidence.”8 Robert’s crocodile tears don’t wash!
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Incredibly, Commissioner William Elliott's carefully parsed press release was equally unbelievable: "This was simply an oversight. Unfortunately in an exercise of this magnitude, such an oversight can occur."20 Elliott a moron, as cited, “no one but a moron overlooks the import of an e-mail like this” [see Appendix 8a – 8c, cited below].21 That was not an "oversight." It was professional incompetence or a coverup.22 Paul Kennedy, the chairman of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, using a news conference in Vancouver, took some well-aimed verbal shots at stagnant RCMP culture, especially its notorious, self-destructive resistance to change. It is a “massively inert” organization, he said, and that must not stand.23 Footnotes 1. RCMP admissions in Dziekanski Taser death are troubling. By Damian Inwood, Wed, Apr 22 2009. 2. E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury While Senior Officers Sat Silent. Contributed on Sun, 2009/06/21 - 2:30pm. 3. Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. 4 - 5. Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. 6 - 7. Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. 8 - 9. Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. 10 - 19. Startling New Email Halts Inquiry. By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. 20 - 22. Damning e-mail suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did. By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun. Also see Appendix 10a – 10c about RCMP Commissioner William Elliott 122
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Appendix 8a Damning e-mail suggests the four RCMP officers committed perjury and that senior RCMP officers sat silent while they did Column: Mounties in Tasering should face prosecution: Damning e-mail suggests the four RCMP officers committed perjury and that senior RCMP officers sat silent while they did By Ian Mulgrew; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun The Braidwood Inquiry into the Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski has been blown up and left in ruins by the revelation a key RCMP e-mail was withheld from the commission. After months of outrage about the conduct of the four Mounties who responded to Vancouver Airport Oct. 14, 2007, who can believe that at the last minute, a federal lawyer would produce what many would consider a smoking gun -- an e-mail saying the officers decided to use the Taser before confronting the Polish immigrant? If true, the Nov. 5, 2007, e-mail titled "Media strategy -- release of the YVR video," from RCMP Chief Supt. Dick Bent to assistant commissioner Al McIntyre, establishes the four have been lying through their teeth. This critical document suggests the four officers committed perjury and that senior officers sat silent while they did so. Worse, it seems there are many other documents that have not been turned over that may be relevant. This e-mail was one of 260 documents on a CD sent by the RCMP to the justice department last April, yet the federal lawyers didn't open the CD until last week. Last week? Evidence delivered in April didn't get opened until last week? What? Helen Roberts had every reason to be in tears Friday as she apologized to the public inquiry into Dziekanski's death for failing to disclose what appears to be not just germane but also startlingly important evidence. If Roberts had cried over Dziekanski mother's pain, I would be moved -but a veteran lawyer wet-eyed over another screw-up in this case? I think they were crocodile tears.
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Commissioner William Elliott's carefully parsed press release was equally unbelievable: "This was simply an oversight. Unfortunately in an exercise of this magnitude, such an oversight can occur." Bollocks. No one but a moron overlooks the import of an e-mail like this. The officers deny the explosive content is true and Roberts says Bent was wrong in what he said. But their protestations ring hollow after almost 18 months of bluster and denial. So does Elliott's threadbare these-thingshappen excuse. The situation is as bad as the most virulent critics of the Mounties feared. This is no longer about four officers who made mistakes in judgment: It's about an organization that thinks it is above the law. "I find this delay in disclosing it to the commission appalling," an upset Braidwood said. "The contents of this e-mail goes to the heart of this inquiry's work." Exactly. Braidwood says his inquiry will resume on Sept. 22 after commission lawyers have time to review the e-mail, conduct an investigation and perhaps call the senior Mounties to testify about the document. I think not. There was a time when I thought Oct. 14, 2007 was the day that would live in the annals of RCMP infamy, but June 19, 2009 has eclipsed the tragedy of Dziekanski's death. On Friday, a country's faith in a once proud, once revered institution died. We have left the realm of how to regulate Taser use and the circumstances of Dziekanski's death and entered the world of criminal conduct -- which is beyond Braidwood's provincially rooted authority to investigate. If we needed any prod to reopen the decision not to prosecute these officers, we now have been given it. It is time to thank commissioner Braidwood for his excellent work in bringing these unsettling facts to light and it's time to appoint a special prosecutor.
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The B.C. Law Society should also begin an investigation into the conduct of Roberts and any other federal lawyer involved in this staggering lack of disclosure. That was not an "oversight." It was professional incompetence or a coverup.
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Appendix 8b E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury E-mail Suggests Four RCMP Officers Committed Perjury While Senior Officers Sat Silent By Neal Hall and Lori Culbert; June 20, 2009 - Vancouver Sun Contributed by blackandred on Sun, 2009/06/21 - 2:30pm. In sections: British Columbia Canada Accountability Rights Security apparatus Startling New Email Halts Inquiry Suggests Mounties planned to deploy Taser before they arrived at YVR, contrary to their testimony A shocking e-mail found last week brought the Braidwood inquiry to a sudden halt Friday and may result in the most senior RCMP officers in B.C. being required to testify. The e-mail, sent by RCMP Chief Supt. Dick Bent to Assistant Commissioner Al Macintyre suggested for the first time that the four Mounties who responded to a call at Vancouver's airport planned to use a Taser on Robert Dziekanski, who died at the airport on Oct. 14, 2007, after he was Tasered five times. Under the subject line "Media Strategy - Release of YVR video," the email, dated Nov. 5, 2007, said: "Finally spoke to [Supt.] Wayne [Rideout] and he indicated that the members did not articulate that they saw the symptoms of excited delirium, but instead had discussed the response en route and decided that if he did not comply that they would go to CEW [conducted energy weapon]." Lawyers for the four RCMP officers involved in the fatal incident said Friday their clients deny they formulated a plan to use a Taser on Dziekanski. The officers testified at the inquiry they arrived in separate police cars and had no discussion beforehand. Alex Pringle, a lawyer representing Rideout, who was in charge of investigating Dziekanski's death, appeared at the inquiry Friday and read a statement from his client, which said Bent's e-mail was in error. Pringle said it was a "misunderstanding of a conversation I had with him."
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Lawyer Helen Roberts, who represents the RCMP at the inquiry, offered a tearful apology to inquiry commissioner Thomas Braidwood, a retired judge, for not disclosing the e-mail sooner. She also said Bent was mistaken in his e-mail and that the officers did not plan to use the Taser. She offered to have senior Mounties testify. "I find this delay in disclosing it to the commission appalling," Braidwood said. "The contents of this e-mail goes to the heart of this inquiry's work." The e-mail will have to be investigated and further hearings may be required, the commissioner said. He ordered the inquiry adjourned until Sept. 22. The delay was due to summer plans already made by many of the lawyers involved in the inquiry, he added. Friday was supposed to be the start of final submissions by lawyers representing various parties, including the four Mounties involved in the in-custody death. Commission counsel Art Vertlieb told the inquiry that the new e-mail was disclosed Tuesday by lawyers for the federal justice department, which represents the RCMP. "It should have been disclosed much, much sooner ... months and months ago," Vertlieb later told reporters, adding he was "upset and frustrated" by the last-minute disclosure. He said he didn't know whether the RCMP disclosed the e-mail to Crown counsel before a decision was made that no criminal charges were warranted against the four officers. Vertlieb told the inquiry that the Bent e-mail was among 260 documents on a CD sent by the RCMP to the justice department in April, just before RCMP media relations officers testified at the inquiry about the botched handling of information released to the media in the days after Dziekanski's death. He said the federal lawyers didn't open the CD until last week, discovering the Bent e-mail and other documents. "It's a stunning turn of events," Don Rosenbloom, the lawyer representing the government of Poland at the inquiry, told reporters after the commissioner ordered the three-month adjournment.
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"The possibility that new evidence may be emerging at this late date is troubling, and I'm sure very troubling for the commission itself," he said. "Commissions of this sort, and really our system of justice, rely on all witnesses who give evidence under oath to provide truthful and honest answers." Whether the testimony in the Dziekanski inquiry has been truthful will be up to Braidwood to decide, de Jong said. It will be up to Braidwood to assess the new evidence and determine its relevance before making his findings, he said, adding that it was too early to comment on the possible fallout from Friday's events. The attorney-general said it would be premature to comment on whether criminal charges against the four officers should be reconsidered. "I'm not going to rule anything in or out. I am going to wait with keen interest for Mr. Braidwood's report." Dziekanski, who spoke no English, had travelled for 24 hours from Poland and spent about 10 hours at the airport, unable to find his mother, who went home to Kamloops after being told by officials that her son couldn't be found. The 40-year-old man eventually started throwing around furniture, prompting a bystander to call 911. Seconds after four Mounties arrived, Dziekanski was Tasered. He died at the scene.
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Appendix 8c The RCMP had decided to electrocute him before they even saw him They had decided to electrocute him before they even saw him 19.06.09.18:24:00 Rusty Idols,New Democrats Online In the car on the way to the airport as revealed in an email the government finally revealed on what was supposed to be the last day of the Braidwood Commission. And you thought the RCMP's behavior couldn't look any worse. This e-mail was one of 260 documents on a CD sent by the RCMP to the justice department last April, yet the federal lawyers didn’t open the CD until last week. Last week? Evidence delivered in April didn’t get opened until last week? What? Helen Roberts had every reason to be in tears Friday as she apologized to the public inquiry into Dziekanski’s death for failing to disclose what appears to be not just germane but also startlingly important evidence. If Roberts had cried over Dziekanski mother’s pain, I would be moved — but a veteran lawyer wet-eyed over another screw-up in this case? I think they were crocodile tears. Commissioner William Elliott’s carefully parsed press release was equally unbelievable: “This was simply an oversight. Unfortunately in an exercise of this magnitude, such an oversight can occur.” Bollocks. No one but a moron overlooks the import of an e-mail like this. The officers deny the explosive content is true and Roberts says Bent was wrong in what he said. But their protestations ring hollow after almost 18 months of bluster and denial. So does Elliott’s threadbare these-thingshappen excuse. The situation is as bad as the most virulent critics of the Mounties feared. This is no longer about four officers who made mistakes in judgment: It’s about an organization that thinks it is above the law.
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Chapter 17 BEWARE OUR NATIVE BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Let’s look at some other cases where the RCMP have not actually shined? As cited, “during the early 1990s serial killer John Martin Crawford went on a raping and murdering rampage, his victims were First Nation women.”1 “His case is a testament to the extent that systemic racism still rules in this country.”2 “This is witnessed by the fact that at the time of his trial two other killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, were on trail for murdering two Caucasian girls, they are held in notoriety by Canadians, Martin is unknown.”3 “Goulding's book reveals that Crawford had already been to prison for manslaughter for brutally killing 35-year-old Mary Jane Serloin in Lethbridge, Alta. in 1981 when he was tried for the 1992 murders of Shelley Napope, Eva Taysup and Calinda Waterhen in Saskatoon.”4 In the Serloin case, Goulding said the judge found that "one of the most troubling aspects of the attack was Crawford's callous disregard" for his victim. After killing Mary Jane, Crawford immediately returned to the tavern for pizza and beer.5 In addition, "the state of the victim's body told the police they were looking for a special breed of criminal," yet Crawford was sentenced to just 10 years and served five before beginning a string of new assaults and murders.6 Crawford may not have been the only one without a heart.7 Mary Jane's family in Brocket, Alta. told Goulding they were ignored by investigating authorities up to and including Crawford's June 16, 1982 sentencing. Her sister Justine English said, "They didn't even have the decency to let me know what was going on. I really would have wanted to see him, to see what the guy that killed my sister looked like."8 “Crawford was let out of prison in 1989. His almost nightly habit was to cruise the dilapidated areas of town in his mother's car looking for prostitutes. He was frequently in the company of drinking companion and
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former fellow inmate Bill Corrigan who witnessed or participated in some of Crawford's crimes.”9 “On May 9, 1992, Janet Sylvestre reported to police that Crawford had raped her across the street from the group home for men that Crawford's mother operated. The next day, police found Crawford all but dead on a beach, apparently from a combination of sunstroke and substance abuse. Crawford was put in remand until June 18, when his mother put up $4,000 bail for his release into her custody.”10 “Yet another woman came forward in 1995 after Crawford was arrested for the murders of Napope, Waterhen and Taysup. The young prostitute told police that in the spring of 1992 she was taken to a remote place by Crawford and Corrigan and nearly choked to death. A similar tale in the summer of 1992 emerged from yet another woman.”11 “When the first set of human remains were discovered southwest of Saskatoon, Crawford became a suspect. For four months in 1994, the RCMP tagged him everywhere he went. It was during this period of intense surveillance that Crawford picked up Theresa Kematch, beat and raped her and left her on the street.”12 What? Under so-called intense RCMP surveillance yet Crawford was able to pick “up Theresa Kematch, beat and raped her and left her on the street.” Is that what the RCMP call instense? "Testimony given . . . suggests that two officers in particular may have been close to the Crawford vehicle while the attack took place."13 What ‘to hell’ goes on here with the RCMP? “What is known for sure is that when the police picked up the injured woman later, she was arrested.”14 What? Are these RCMP stupid? Don’t answer that! The ‘idiot’ RCMP arrest the victim? What? 134
As further cited, “at Crawford's preliminary hearing in the summer of 1995, two of the officers gave conflicting evidence about whether Theresa had been injured or not.”15 What? Nearly six years later, after receiving psychiatric help, Theresa got a lawyer to file a claim "alleging that the RCMP was negligent in its duty to protect [her] from a man it knew to be a sexual offender and who had been convicted of manslaughter."16 The RCMP maintained they did not know?17 What? What other ‘stupidity’ are the RCMP capable? Just let’s see? As cited, “in the case of Calinda Waterhen, her father, Steve Morningchild, brought her lengthy absence to the attention of the RCMP in May 1993 and again in October 1994.”18 “Twice he was assured she was living in Saskatchewan and that her health card was being used. Because she was over 18, though, they would not reveal her whereabouts. The facts were, however, that Calinda's remains were discovered in October 1994 and in January 1995 the RCMP finally said so.”19 What? “John Crawford is serving three concurrent life sentences with no chance of parole for 20 years in the penitentiary at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.”20 Only "child-killer Clifford Olson has been more deadly in the ranks of Canadian serial killers," Goulding tells us.21 Crown prosecutor Terry Hinz goes even further. "There is no reason why the Paul Bernardo case should have received more publicity than the John Martin Crawford case."22 “The author of Just Another Indian thinks he knows why, and the police don't get all the blame: Despite a history of rape, stabbing, strangling and
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dismembering, Crawford's crime spree has largely been ignored by mediaâ&#x20AC;?23 [See Appendix 9, cited below]. Footnotes 1 - 23. Serial Killer - John Martin Crawford His Helpless Victims - Left to Right Also see: Just Another Indian - A Serial Killer and Canada's Indifference Warren Goulding, Fifth House Publishing.
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Appendix 9 Unsolved Aboriginal Murders Protested for 20th Year in B.C. Unsolved Aboriginal Murders Protested for 20th Year in B.C. By Valerie TalimanFebruary 14, 2011 VANCOUVER—For 20 years now on Valentine’s Day, the families of murdered and missing Native women have marched to police headquarters through the streets of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) seeking justice for their daughters. The Feb. 14 Memorial March for Murdered and Missing Women started with a handful of family and friends, and last year grew to more than 5,000 people who shut down Main Street as they gathered in front of the Vancouver Police Department for speeches, prayers and a unified call to end the carnage. “The march gives families, friends, and community members an opportunity to come together to grieve and remember these beloved sisters, and to remind the powers that be that we have not forgotten those who are still missing,” said Marlene George, one of the organizers. Although there have been a few advances, advocates are not satisfied given that many of the crimes remain unsolved. “We’ll do whatever it takes,” said Angela Marie MacDougall, director of Battered Women’s Support Services in Vancouver. “After 20 years, we have finally made some progress, but it’s not enough. But we’re in this for the long haul because that’s what it takes to change institutionalized racism and injustice. We do this for our women and girls who are gone, but never forgotten.” This year’s February 14 march begins at the Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main St., where family members will share their personal stories. At 1 p.m. the march will begin making stops throughout the DTES at points where women were last seen or found, and holding cedar ceremonies at those sites. Community activists will speak in front of the Vancouver Police Station, followed by a healing circle and candlelight vigil at Oppenheimer Park. The day will end with a community feast at the Japanese Language Hall. The march, and dozens of events leading up to it, is organized annually by women working to change the attitudes and actions of perpetrators who view the rough DTES as a place where they can drug, beat, rape, mutilate and murder women with impunity. As of March 2010, more than 582 aboriginal women are now on the official list of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada, according to a 2010 report issued by the Native Women’s Association of Canada. 137
Of the 582 cases, 115 involve missing women and girls, 393 involve women or girls who died as the result of homicide or negligence, and 21 cases were categorized as suspicious deaths. Sadly, more names are being added weekly, including 18-year-old Tyeshia Jones of Duncan, B.C. who disappeared Jan. 29 and was found dead a few days later. As with many cases involving Native women, no suspects have been arrested. This year’s march is especially painful for those who lost their daughters, sisters, and mothers to serial killer Robert Pickton, who later confessed to the horrific murders and dismemberment of 49 women on his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C. Though Pickton was tried and eventually convicted on six counts of second-degree murder, he was never prosecuted for 33 other cases for which there was evidence against him. In July 2010, the Vancouver Police Department released an internal investigation into the Pickton case that confirmed what women’s groups had been saying all along: The investigation was marred by countless mistakes that led to the deaths of additional women after police took Pickton into custody, then released him. “We’re sorry from the bottom of our hearts that we did not catch him sooner and protect more women from being harmed,” said Deputy Chief Doug LePard of the Vancouver Police Department at an unprecedented news conference. “I wish from the bottom of my heart that we would have caught him sooner. I wish that we could have done better in so many ways. I wish that all the mistakes that were made, we could undo. And I wish that more lives would have been saved. So on my behalf and behalf of the Vancouver Police Department and all the men and women that worked on this investigation, I would say to the families how sorry we all are for your losses and because we did not catch this monster sooner.” MacDougall was outraged by the admission, chiding police for ignoring efforts of Native families over two decades to bring attention to the disappearances and deaths. “Sorry isn’t good enough. We know that 14 more women died because the police did not take these crimes against women seriously. They arrested him years ago after a half-naked woman covered in blood escaped from his farm and told her story. But they doubted her and let him go—now they have the blood of those women on their hands.” MacDougall and others insist the police did not take reports or investigate the disappearances of hundreds of Native women who were reported missing. Police routinely dismissed pleas from families and told them that the missing women probably ran away, or were partying, or purposely avoided being found. The attitude is eerily and sadly similar to the attitudes of Mexican authorities responding (or not) to the disappearances and murders of hundreds of young mestizo women in Ciudad 138
Juarez, just across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas, that started in the 1990s and continue to this day. “They literally blamed the victims for their own disappearances,” said MacDougall. “It’s the same pattern of excuses that we’ve seen for 20 years. The reality is that racist and sexist stereotypes deny the dignity and worth of indigenous women, and encourage some men to feel they can get away with acts of hatred against them.” A public inquiry into the death of Pickton’s first six victims is now underway by the Canadian government, but many are disappointed that it will only focus on a small group. “Over the years, we witnessed the system’s gross negligence as well as racism and sexism in investigating these disappearances and murders,” said Alice Kendall, coordinator of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. “The inaction of the police, the criminal justice branch’s decision not to pursue charges against Pickton in 1998, the Crown’s decision not to pursue the 20 additional murders charges, and the coroner’s office still holding the remains of the women are all horrific examples of lack of accountability. We know that if women in any other neighborhood were going missing at such high rates, there would have been a notable response.” The Pickton public inquiry and a spate of violent deaths spurred a collective of women’s groups into action to organize two weeks of events leading up to this year’s memorial march. In September 2010, Ashley Machisknic, a 22 year-old First Nations woman was thrown from a fifth-floor hotel room window into an alley where she was found. She died shortly after Carol Martin, a staff member of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, ran to help her. By 6 p.m. that day, police ruled it a suicide and closed the case, sparking an uproar by community leaders who remain convinced that Machisknic did not take her own life. “She was the latest to be killed or punished by drug dealers who were sending a message to women about what will happen to them if they don’t pay off their drug debts. Women get their heads shaved for a $30 drug debt, they’re killed for $50,” said Martin. “Our women are the mules, they are sex-trade workers, they’re drugaddicted, they’re holding or selling drugs for dealers and they’re paying with their lives, now more than ever.” There’s been a few women thrown out of windows, women missing fingers, and wearing wigs because their heads have been shaved,” said Radek, organizer of the annual Walk 4 Justice. “Whoever threw Ashley out chose the busiest time when the alley was full of people buying drugs, to make a point — don’t rip us off.”
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Machisknic’s alleged murder was preceded by the tragic deaths of two more First Nations teens who were drugged at the home of Martin Tremblay, 45, a convicted sex offender with a history of stalking and exploiting young girls. In March 2010, Kayla LaLonde, 16, and Martha Hernandez, 17, died hours after they had partied at Tremblay’s home. Autopsies revealed they died as a result of overdosing on a combination of drugs and alcohol. Lalonde was found dead on a Burnaby street after witnesses said she had been dumped from a van. Hernandez died later after being rushed by ambulance from Tremblay’s Richmond home. When questioned, Tremblay denied any involvement and was not arrested, though he was convicted in 2003 for raping five Native girls between ages 13 and 15, most of them in foster care. Tremblay not only drugged and raped young girls but he also made pornographic videos of them while they were unconscious. Witnesses told police he had given the girls a mixture of morphine, ecstasy, codeine and alcohol. Tremblay pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault but was only sentenced to three and a half years in custody and 18 months of probation—and released after serving little more than a year in prison. Tremblay was recently arrested on drug charges and is in jail after persistent efforts of women’s organizations to demand that he be taken off the streets, where he is widely known to be involved in drug and sex trafficking. “The lack of action by the Crown to prosecute a convicted sex offender who has multiple counts of assaulting Native girls on his record is too much like the Pickton case,” said MacDougall. “Haven’t they learned anything?” Machisknic’s death was a catalyst for MacDougall and six other women to hand deliver a letter to Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu demanding a thorough investigation into her death, during a candlelight vigil held to memorialize her. They wanted an explanation for the decision to close her case and rule it a suicide when evidence points to something far more sinister. They were told they had to leave, but insisted on waiting for the chief while hundreds of stood outside the police department. Eventually they were arrested, cuffed, forced to the floor and jailed for six hours until they were suddenly released with no charges pending.
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Chapter 18 RAMSAY PREYED ON YOUNG ABORIGINAL WOMEN Let’s look at some other cases where the RCMP have not actually shined? In this case, as cited “a Kamloops RCMP constable is suing top-ranking members of his own police force, prosecutors and several cabinet ministers for $1 million in damages.”1 As noted, “in a writ filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Const. Joseph Dale Kohut seeks damages for a "malicious" investigation by the RCMP, who were looking into allegations that some Prince George police officers were complicitous or involved in abuse of prostitutes.”2 David Ramsay, a former provincial court judge, was sentenced in 2004 to seven years in jail after he was charged with preying on young aboriginal women, ranging in age from 12 to 17, over an eight-year period beginning in 1992. Ramsay pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault causing bodily harm, three counts of obtaining sexual services from someone under 18 and breach of trust by a public officer.3 After his conviction, B.C. aboriginal leaders demanded an inquiry into allegations that surfaced at Ramsay's trial that at least 10 police officers knew about Ramsay's conduct and either looked the other way or got involved. The RCMP created a special task force called Project E Prevails to look into the stories about its officers.4 Kohut was stationed in Prince George from April 1991 to June 2004 and had to "deal with, and reveal his identity to, individuals involved in prostitution and the drug trade," the writ states. It says Kohut was told Jan. 31, 2005, that he was the subject of a criminal and internal investigation.5 In March 2005, RCMP went to the home of Kohut's ex-wife Sandi Quayle and told her "he had engaged in violent sexual relations with child prostitutes," the writ says. The investigators knew Kohut and Quayle were separated and "engaged in a spirited custody battle" over their daughter. "As a result . . . Const. Kohut lost custody of his daughter," the writ claims.6 It also alleges that RCMP investigators then went to Kohut's current wife Lisa, told her Kohut "had engaged in violent sexual relations with child prostitutes . . . and inquired as to whether Lisa Kohut was infected with a sexually transmitted disease."7 Bob Sandbach of Prince George, whose late daughter Celynn was just 13 141
when she was attacked by Ramsay, was outraged to hear of Kohut's lawsuit against the RCMP. "This is why we're demanding a public inquiry into how a prominent and well-known judge could have openly picked up and abused all these underage girls, like my daughter, without the police knowing," said Sandbach.8 "My daughter told me by name about several police officers who abused her or were regular dates paying for sex." Sandbach said the allegations in Kohut's writ, which he read yesterday, "prove this whole thing just stinks."9 He said he is "outraged" that Kohut considers himself a victim. His daughter, Celynn, 22, who had been battling drugs died in hospital April 1.10 On Oct. 3, 2006, Kohut's writ alleges, RCMP internal investigator Sgt. Armin Teitz disclosed Kohut's "identity to the mass media" and said Kohut had been "suspended on the basis of reliable evidence that he had engaged in sexual relations with minors involved in prostitution."11 Kohut says he suffered "pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, embarrassment and loss of reputation, loss of opportunity for advancement, loss of the opportunity to earn income and extensive legal expenses."12 Again, the question must be asked: why do provinces put up with this police force, it would be less disastrous and more economically feasible to have their own provincial police forces -- more control and less costly if one as to pay out such lawsuits for RCMP mis-actions? Footnotes 1 - 12. Cop sues RCMP over sex probe By The Vancouver Province November 27, 2007
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Chapter 19 RCMP PROBE INTO RAMSAY FIZZLED As cited, “for an eight-year period in Prince George starting in 1992, former provincial court judge David Ramsay openly preyed on young, often underage aboriginal girls. Ramsay was charged with several sexabuse counts in 2003.” 1 “Ramsay was charged and, after a lengthy trial, sentenced June 1, 2004, to seven years in jail. In September of this year, he was denied early day parole.” 2 “In 2004, the RCMP launched its own internal investigation, Project E Prevails, after allegations surfaced during and after the Ramsay case that approximately 12 of the complainants alleged they had engaged in paid sexual encounters with members of the RCMP." 3 What? “Then-assistant RCMP commissioner Gary Bass, who is also named in Kohut's suit, said police didn't do anything about it at the time because so many officers ‘in a small town’ like Prince George had been named by prostitutes.” 4 What? “The RCMP decided to proceed against Const. Justin Harris in 2005. The RCMP eventually alleged that Harris, who was at one time Const. Joseph Kohut's partner, behaved in ‘disgraceful manner’ while he worked in Prince George, sexually touched an underage prostitute during an improper search, and on another occasion paid her for sex.” 5 “But the force lost its internal case due to the delay in proceeding with the case.” 6 What? “Kohut, who Prince George Const. Gary Godwin described as ‘a very fine, fit constable when I worked with him briefly several years ago’ is still working in Kamloops.” 7 Was it another example of RCMP justice for none?
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Chapter 20 WOULD THE RCMP RATHER SHOOT US DEAD Does it appear that, given RCMP indifference to the plight of our Native brothers and sisters, if they have their way, it’s apparent the RCMP may rather shoot you dead? As cited, “later in the summer of 1995, Secwepemc traditionalists at Gustafsen Lake (Ts’Peten) mounted an armed defence of a sun dance cermony from racist White ranchers who were threatening and intimidating those at the Sun Dance camp”1 [see Appendix 10a & 10b, cited below]. “This conflict spiraled into a month long siege of the camp by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).”2 “With military assistance and equipment, including land mines and nine armoured personnel carriers, 450 RCMP followed shoot-to-kill orders, using 70,000 rounds of ammunition against the Secwepemc defenders.”3 “A significant element of the RCMP’s strategy was tight control over the media to facilitate a “smear campaign” against the defenders, as described in RCMP training videos.”4 “The Gustafsen Lake standoff was particularly important because of the defenders strong stance on asserting their indigenous sovereignty, their control of their territory and their independence from the bureaucracy of the Canadian state and its Indian Act band councils.”5 Footnotes 1 – 5. Secwepemc History of Resistance By Wii’nimkiikaa Wii’nimkiikaa, Issue 2, 2005 Also see: There are videos on this site, if they are still there: RCM ’s Terrorist at the Olym ics Olym ics’ To Co Hel ed low Tr ck at G stafsen tand-off By Geoff Dembicki and Bob Mackin, Vancouver 24 hours, October 20, 2009, TheTyee.ca
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Appendix 10a 450 RCMP followed shoot-to-kill orders, using 70,000 rounds of ammunition against the Secwepemc defenders Secwepemc History of Resistance By Wii’nimkiikaa Wii’nimkiikaa, Issue 2, 2005 The Secwepemc people’s resistance to colonization is rooted in their spirituality, which is based on the balance brought by the Creator and his helper, Coyote. The lessons handed down by the Coyote discouraged greed and disrespectful behaviour amongst the Secwepemc and reinforced the Secwepemc people’s connection to their land. But the invasion of European fur traders disrupted the balance of Secwepemc life, as it took time away from hunting, fishing and food gathering. In 1812, David Stuart of the American Pacific Fur Company built Fort Shuswap at the site of the present-day town of Kamloops. That same year, Joseph Laroque of the Montreal-based North West Company established a trading post across the river from the fort, where the Kamloops reserve would later be established. These were the first colonial outposts within the territory of the Secwepemc Nation. The North West Company bought out American Pacific in 1813, and Fort Shuswap was renamed Fort Kamloops. By 1821, the North West Company was absorbed by the British Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). The HBC further consolidated their control of Secwepemc territory with Fort Alexandria, opened in 1821, and Little Fort, built in 1851. Under a Royal Charter, the HBC was responsible for trade regulations, settlement and governance. The company had the military backing of Royal Navy gunboats, while also maintaining its own security force. The wealthy businessmen of the HBC quickly established private enterprises such as mines, sawmills, and canneries, and sold land to settlers to pay for the construction of roads, ports and other infrastructure. As animal populations declined, many Secwepemc became dependant on the fur trade for survival. Periods of starvation hit the Secwepemc in 1822, 1827, and throughout the 1840s and 1850s. Many Secwepemc children died in a 1927 whooping cough outbreak. Throughout this phase of colonization, the HBC sent annual “gifts” of tobacco to Secwepemc chiefs to dissuade them from waging war on the company. These chiefs often became businessmen themselves. At least two Secwepemc chiefs saw the damage the fur trade was doing and urged a boycott. Secwepemc warriors took a direct approach, regularly attacking 146
fur traders’ property and robbing Hudson’s Bay employees. In 1826, Fort Kamloops was burned to the ground by indigenous insurgents. It was rebuilt with a fence by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1843, only to come under renewed attacks. In 1841, Samuel Black, the chief factor of Fort Kamloops, was killed by a Secwepemc named Kikoskin, who blamed Black for the death of his uncle, Chief Tranquille. The HBC then sought to impose British law on the Secwepemc by punishing Kikoskin, going so far as to steal Secwepemc horses and kidnap one of Kikoskin’s children, and attempting to persuade his fellow Secwepemc to turn him in. One person did eventually betray Kikoskin, leading to his capture, but Kikoskin somehow drowned before he was “brought to justice”. This incident lead to widespread Secwepemc resentment towards the Hudson’s Bay Company, since the Secwepemc considered themselves a free and independent people who were not subject to the laws of a foreign nation and occupying power. John Tod (who took Samuel Black’s place as chief factor) reported that his men were afraid to leave Fort Kamloops because Secwepemc warriors were shooting their horses. Secwepemc rebels also continued to rob HBC traders found on their territory. In 1843, William Norwich, the chief factor of Fort Alexandria, was shot and killed by an indigenous insurgent, who was himself killed before he could escape. A Christian missionary arrived that same year, after the Secwepemc had suffered from three waves of disease epidemics (most likely diptheria). With starvation setting in again, the missionary found fertile ground for his work of assimilation. But Secwepemc resistance continued. Fur traders’ property was pillaged in 1851 and an HBC agent was killed the following year. The Gold Rush of 1858 brought 30,000 American prospectors into the territories of the Secwepemc and other neighbouring indigenous peoples. The mainland of British Columbia was established as a colony that same year to solidify British control of the area. The Secwepemc clashed with gold miners, leading to deaths on both sides. At first, the Secwepemc were able to expel prospectors from areas along the Thompson River, but in 1859, some 400 British soldiers were brought in to crush the resistance. Some Secwepemc became miners, while others became capitalists, employing and exploiting other Natives. It was at this time that Secwepemc reserve boundaries were outlined by the colonial governor, James Douglas. In 1862, a smallpox epidemic decimated the indigenous population of British Columbia. This came at a perfect time for the Hudson’s Bay Company, since it worked to quell indigenous insurgency just as settlement and capitalist industry was expanding. The company, in fact, 147
actively promoted the spread of the disease by burning Native villages on Vancouver Island, forcing the survivors to flee to Native communities throughout the province. John Tod refused to vaccinate more then 70 Secwepemc until they delivered him a year’s supply of salmon. Smallpox was followed by epidemics of measles, influenza, whooping cough and tuberculosis, wiping out 70-75% of the Secwepemc population. Only 17 of the original 30 bands survived. In 1864, the construction of a road for mining purposes in Tsilhqot’in territory provoked warriors to kill the road construction crew, along with five or six settlers. Five Tsilhqot’in chiefs were tricked into being captured, and were then sentenced to death. Chief William of the Secwepemc discouraged his people from supporting the Tsilhqot’in insurgency. Also that year, Joseph Trutch became BC’s Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, and reduced reserve sizes by 92%. “The Indians have really no rights to the lands they claim, nor are they of any actual value or utility to them” said Trutch. “I cannot see why they should retain these lands to the prejudice of the general interests of the Colony, or be allowed to make a market of them either to Government or to individuals.” Christian missionaries increasingly traveled through Secwepemc territory during this time, gathering converts, translating Christian songs into the Secwepemc language and building chapels and missions. In 1871, Christian day schools were established at Kamloops and St. Jospeh’s, south of Williams Lake. The colony of British Columbia became a province of Canada the same year. With the Indian Act of 1876, the Canadian government came to control all aspects of Secwepemc life. Band council governments were imposed and Christian residential schools became official colonial policy. A residential school was built on the Kamloops reservation in 1890, while another was set up at St. Joseph’s the following year. The Kamloops residential school operated until 1978. By 1877, young Secwepemc and Okanagan rebels were arguing to band councils that armed warfare against the colonizers was once again necessary. Some had recently spent time amongst Nez Perce insurgents in the United States and had been inspired by their struggle. The rebels met in Okanagan territory to organize a confederacy and discuss tactics and strategy, but were undermined by the efforts of a Christian missionary who convinced the Adams Lake Band to not attend. Settlers feared an Indian uprising that never materialized. A resurgence of resistance took place in the 1970s, including the occupation of the Department of Indian Affairs office in Kamloops and the armed highway blockade against poor housing conditions on the 148
Bonaparte Indian Band reservation at Cache Creek in 1974. This time period was characterized by a rebirth of indigenous struggle all across North America, influenced by the American Indian Movement and the Lakota Nation’s stand at Wounded Knee. In 1990, Secwepemc people blocked a road at Adams Lake and set up an informational roadblock on the Trans-Canada highway at Chase in solidarity with the armed Mohawk warriors defending Kanehsatake from a golf course expansion. Another blockade at Adams Lake in the summer of 1995 stopped the development of a 60-unit Recreational Vehicle park development over a burial ground. The Adams River bridge was burned during the conflict. Later in the summer of 1995, Secwepemc traditionalists at Gustafsen Lake (Ts’Peten) mounted an armed defence of a sun dance cermony from racist White ranchers who were threatening and intimidating those at the Sun Dance camp. This conflict spiraled into a month long siege of the camp by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). With military assistance and equipment, including land mines and nine armoured personnel carriers, 450 RCMP followed shoot-to-kill orders, using 70,000 rounds of ammunition against the Secwepemc defenders. A significant element of the RCMP’s strategy was tight control over the media to facilitate a “smear campaign” against the defenders, as described in RCMP training videos. Despite this, Mohawks in eastern Canada staged solidarity actions for the Secwepemc, including an occupation of the Department of Indian Affairs office in Brantford, Ontario. The Gustafsen Lake standoff was particularly important because of the defenders strong stance on asserting their indigenous sovereignty, their control of their territory and their independence from the bureaucracy of the Canadian state and its Indian Act band councils. The standoff was followed by the year-long trial of the rebels, which exposed the RCMP’s media manipulation and inspired the Vancouver Native Youth Movement chapter to begin organizing against the BC Treaty Process. The trial ended in convictions for 13 defenders, with Wolverine receiving the longest sentence of four-and-a-half years. In August of 2000, Secwepemc people held a demonstration at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) office in Kamloops to support the Mi’kmaq of Burnt Church who were then struggling against White fishermen, (DFO) officers and the RCMP. The demonstration was also attended by Natives from Cheam and Penticton. In September, Adams Lake and Neskonlith band members blocked the Canadian Pacific Railway for three hours in solidarity with the Mi’kmaq.
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October of 2000 marked the beginning of the campaign against the Sun Peaks ski resort, which encompasses three mountains and several lakes. This sacred territory is known as Skelkwek’welt and has always provided the Secwepemc with a variety of plant and animal food sources. Many Secwepemc ancestors are buried in the area. The campaign against the destruction caused by Sun Peaks has included the building of homes and cultural structures at the site, roadblocks, and occuppations of government offices. More than 50 arrests were made over the course of four years, and several Secwepemc homes and structures were bulldozed or burnt down by Sun Peaks employees and supporters, with the complicity of the RCMP. Throughout this time, various solidarity demonstrations for the Secwepemc held in Vancouver and Toronto targeted the Delta Hotels chain, which is a major player in the Sun Peaks resort. In 1997, the Indian Act chiefs of eight Secwepemc bands signed a Protocol Agreement with thge Sun Peaks resort. In 2001, Felix Arnouse, chief of the Little Shuswap band, and Richard LeBourdais, chief of the Whispering Pines band, signed a joint venture agreement with Sun Peaks for an $8 million dollar housing development. “We have to seize every opportunity to work with Sun Peaks if we want to succeed as a band and as a business,” said Arnouse, who also complained during the 1995 Adams Lake blockade that the action was costing him business. An RCMP Emergency Response Team raided the homes of Native Youth Movement members on the Secwepemc Neskonlith reserve and at Bella Coola in Nuxalk territory in 2003, seizing computers and files. In August of 2004, traditional Secwepemc built a new re-occupation camp at the Sun Peaks Resort, after a march through the resort village by about 200 Natives and non-Native supporters of the Secwepemc struggle. A court injuction against the camp occupants was enforced on September 21, resulting in three arrests. One Skwelkwek’welt defender gave his name and was released. Two others refused to give their names and began fasting, but another prisoner recognized one of them and gave his name to the police. Crown counsel eventually decided to not proceed with the contempt charges against the three defenders. Solidarity pickets were held on September 23 at Delta and Fairmont Hotels (Delta is owned by Fairmont) in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Montreal The Sun Peaks Resort is in the midst of its $285 million dollar Phase 2 development, which will add 6,000 bed units. Darcy Alexander, vice president of Sun Peaks, also sits on the BC government’s Resorts Taskforce, which is working to advertise BC’s existing resorts and promote new development throughout the province.
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“Getting in on the ground floor is always a little adventurous. It means you see something that others initially overlook. And we believe that this pioneering spirit should be celebrated.” – Sun Peaks Resort real estate advertisement, January, 2004 Sources: A Century of Change, by Annabel Cropped Eared Wolf (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society) The First Hundred Years of Contact, by John Coffey (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society) Coyote U (Theytus Books)
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Appendix 10b ‘Now they’re gonna kill us’ There are videos on this site, if they are still there: RCM ’s Terrorist at the Olym ics Olym ics’ To Co Hel ed low Tr ck at G stafsen tand-off By Geoff Dembicki and Bob Mackin, Vancouver 24 hours, October 20, 2009, TheTyee.ca RCMP’s Bud Mercer was in the thick of several famous clashes with dissenters. This story, with video of the exploding truck, is first in a series. Bud Mercer pictured rifles aimed at him as he pushed deeper into the forest. A short run behind him, past mid-sized poplars and aspens and scraggly bush, lay the smoking remains of a red pick-up truck, destroyed minutes earlier by RCMP explosives. A yellow Labrador retriever was slumped close to it. Two police bullets had cut the dog down as it fled on the rutted gravel road. Mercer feared an ambush in the sparse forest. He strained the leash to keep Lukar, his German shepherd police dog, from running too fast. He was flanked by three other officers. The team squatted close to the forest floor every 12 metres, muscles tense. Within minutes, they broke through the bushes and onto the grassy shoreline of Gustafsen Lake. Mercer saw the two fugitives, stripped to their waists, wading into the water. He went to unclip Lukar, knowing the police dog would attack. But before he could do it, buzzing, whining bullets ripped through the air above him. He hesitated. On Sept. 11, 1995, up to 7,000 police gunshots climaxed a month-long standoff with natives in the backwoods of interior B.C. Fifteen people were convicted for their armed defence of sacred land they said was never ceded to Canadian settlers. Mercer now commands a $491.9 million RCMP-led force, tasked with securing the 2010 Winter Olympics. He’s a central figure in the biggest peace-time security operation in Canada’s history. When athletes and officials arrive next February, many observers wonder if — and how — he’ll unleash that force.* Gustafsen Lake isn’t the only high profile clash of law enforcement with dissenters where Bud Mercer played a key role. He was on the frontlines when APEC protesters were pepper-sprayed in 1997. And when treesitters tried to stop logging in the Elaho Valley in 2000, Mercer led a team 152
to roust them from their perches. The Tyee and 24 Hours have researched these incidents, interviewing Mercer and many people involved, in order to provide a multi-part, in-depth portrait of the top cop of the 2010 Olympics — his present duties and past controversies. The story starts 14 years ago, as a rebellion brewed in the Shuswap. ‘Now they’re gonna kill us’ On Aug. 18, 1995, Percy Rosette woke to the stamps and grunts of horses stirring in the morning mist. Normally that meant a wolf was nearby. He grabbed a hunting rifle, and went to see what was wrong. Rosette was a Shuswap faithkeeper. That made him the caretaker of sorts for a few acres of sacred land at Gustafsen Lake, a remote piece of wilderness near 100 Mile House. Each year, Shuswap natives gathered there for a holy ceremony called the Sundance. A 70-year-old rancher named Lyle James owned the land, but an agreement with Rosette kept the peace. Yet the relationship collapsed early in the summer of 1995. The Sundancers were sick of cleaning up manure left by James’ cattle, so they built a fence around the holy site. On June 14, 1995, James and 12 ranch hands served a trespass notice. They pulled up to the native encampment on horseback and 4X4’s, threatening to hang a “red nigger,” Gustafsen defence lawyer George Wool alleged. One cracked a bull whip. Another had a 30-30 Winchester rifle. When they left, the natives surrounded their camp with defensive walls, made from hundreds of logs stacked about a metre and half high. More than two months passed in a standoff as native constables met with James and camp occupants to broker a deal. Neither side would back down. Such was the state of affairs when Rosette rose early on August 18 to check on the camp horses. Rifle in hand, he scanned the forest carefully, trying to make out shapes in the low fog. He saw movement: Men dressed in camouflage, crawling on their stomachs through the woods. They were carrying big guns. “You have to sort of think that through,” Wool said. “Because a few weeks earlier these redneck cowboys had been threatening the camp occupants. It appears the people in the camp interpreted this as being ‘the rednecks are coming back and now they’re gonna kill us.’” Rosette aimed at the intruders, and fired. ‘We see this as an act of terrorism’ The camouflaged men weren’t cowboys, but an RCMP reconnaissance team, dressed in combat boots, camouflage pants and green vests. Four of 153
them carried M-16 semi-automatics and one had a sniper rifle. The team fled, frightened, when a bullet whizzed over Constable Ray Wilby’s head. Days later, 400 heavily armed RCMP officers laid siege to the native camp. Military helicopters criss-crossed the sky. Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) roughly double the height of an average person cruised the perimeter. It would become the largest paramilitary operation in B.C. history, a $5.5 million display of state-sanctioned might. “We won’t just sit back and do nothing,” Inspector Len Olfert of the Kamloops RCMP subdivision said at the time. “There has been an escalation; the threat is serious. We see this as an act of terrorism.” Bud Mercer arrived at Gustafsen Lake that August with almost 20 years experience on the force. He was accompanied by Lukar, a German shepherd trained to track the scent of people through city streets and forest. Mercer was a veteran dog handler on the Vancouver Emergency Response Team (ERT). He’d trained with Lukar since the dog was an 11month-old puppy. In six years together, they’d responded to as many as 1,600 police calls. Mercer liked being a dog handler — it put him right in the middle of the action. On Sept. 10, 1995, he and Lukar were posted to a deeply rutted backcountry road just south of Gustafsen Lake. Mercer stood guard as his fellow ERT members sunk shovels and picks into the gravel road. His colleagues laid thin, rectangular sheets of explosives, which Mercer later compared to fruit rollups, in the hollow. The team shovelled gravel onto the ditch and stretched a wire from the buried explosives to the west side of the road. They had orders to disable a red pick-up truck — used to shuttle firewood and water into the camp — the next day. (Beyond identifying the truck as a “target of opportunity,” it’s not entirely clear why the RCMP gave the order to blow it up, though court documents suggest police knew it was used primarily to transport water.) The ERT was expected to apprehend anyone inside the truck. Mercer and Lukar spent the night outdoors. Police lay in wait During the month-long standoff, the camp defendants expected the worst. They performed elaborate sweat lodge ceremonies to purify their bodies, minds and spirits. They fanned sticks of smouldering sage to rid themselves of negative energy. “The people in the camp wanted to prepare for the eventuality that something happened — if there was an all-out shoot-out and maybe someone got killed,” said Splitting the Sky (aka John Boncore), a Mohawk native who communicated often with his friends inside.
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Food came from supporters on horseback, who knew how to enter the area undetected through secret backwoods trails. The natives also relied on a red pickup truck to get safe drinking water into their camp. At noon on Sept. 11, 1995, James Pitawanakwat and non-native supporter Suniva Bronson were spotted by the RCMP’s “Eye in the Sky” — a videoequipped airplane — as they loaded water bottles into the back of the truck. They’d brought the camp dog along for the ride, a well-liked yellow Labrador retriever from the Kamloops SPCA. When the truck-bed was full, they drove the pickup along a grassy track and turned left onto the main road. It was an older vehicle, and pretty banged up. Frequent trips in and out of the bush on bad country roads had chipped paint and left scratches across its red exterior. Mercer was crouched behind a log, about 30 paces from the buried explosives, when he got the “heads-up” over the police radio. Lukar was lying down beside him. He could hear the rumble of rubber tires on gravel as the truck approached the RCMP position. The truck explodes With a crushing boom that could be heard in the native encampment, the explosives went off. (Video below.) A cloud of dust, dirt and black smoke mushroomed dozens of metres above the poplars and aspens that fringed the road. On instructions from the explosives unit, Mercer lay on the ground for two seconds to let the air clear. But when he stood up, the air was so thick from dust and dirt he couldn’t see. In that time, a dark-green APC the size of a tank rammed the disabled pickup, sending the terrified camp dog sprinting for safety. RCMP officers fired two bullets into the yellow retriever’s side, killing it by the side of the road. Mercer would later replay his memory of the explosion and the events that followed about a hundred times. The police radio buzzing like crazy. Two gunshots cracking somewhere in the cloud. The confusion of grey dust blending with bush and tree. After 30 seconds, the forest became visible again. Mercer heard over the radio that the truck had been found empty, so he set off with Lukar and three ERT members into the woods. The sparse forest presented ideal tracking conditions. It was the kind of place where the RCMP would train a young dog. But wary of an ambush, Mercer didn’t let Lukar run too fast, keeping a firm grip on his six-metre tracking line. The team soon stumbled upon a loaded banana clip, and then a set of gloves. Mercer felt as if they’d travelled a kilometre, but it was only a couple hundred metres. When the radio crackled that two weapons had been found in the red truck, the team went full tilt, breaking through the bushes and into a clearing on the shores of Gustafsen Lake. Mercer hesitates 155
Mercer could see Pitawanakwat and Bronson wading out into the water. They had somehow survived the blast and escaped the destroyed truck alive. He knew if he unclipped Lukar, the dog would attack one of them. He decided to do it. But as bullets began to land all around him, he dropped to the ground with the rest of the RCMP team. They were in swampy terrain, patched with knee-high grass and not adequate cover for the hunting rifles pointed at them from across the lake. Mercer sensed their lives were in danger. He kept Lukar clipped to the leash while the team retreated back to the tree-line and crouched behind some logs. From there, they saw an APC pull onto the shoreline directly behind the two fugitives. The hatch opened and Corporal George Preston emerged, aiming his rifle at Pitawanakwat and Bronson, then firing two shots into the water beside them. He ordered them to put their hands up and move towards the shore. But when bullets started slamming into the APC, Preston ducked back inside. Mercer was some 23 metres west of the shore. He carried a 9mm handgun yet stayed out of the action because he was too busy keeping a handle on Lukar.* The dog was so agitated from all the gunfire it was trying to attack fellow ERT members. During the next three hours, RCMP forces fired up to 7,000 shots, according to their own estimates. The battle ended in stalemate. Suniva Bronson suffered the only injury, a bullet in her arm. Six days later, the camp occupants surrendered. ‘A very legally volatile situation’ During the ensuing 10 month trial, the 18 defendants — and their supporters — invoked the 1763 Royal Proclamation, an elusive piece of legislation meant to protect native lands from settler encroachment. They claimed the Shuswap nation had never negotiated binding treaties. The rancher James said the Sundance site was his, because he’d paid for it. The ramifications of the native position were huge. “In terms of what motivated government and RCMP action, the decision-making on those things was driven by trying to keep control of a very legally volatile situation,” said Janice Switlo, a legal advisor who wrote a comprehensive account of the standoff. As the trial came to a close, 15 defendants were convicted of charges ranging from mischief to property to weapons possession, but many of the more serious accusations were dropped. Not long after the standoff, Mercer had to retire Lukar. In 1991, the dog had suffered a severe injury while on assignment in northern Alberta. Mercer had sent Lukar after an armed man who’d just murdered his wife. 156
The man smashed his rifle on Lukar’s head so hard the gun broke in half, each piece dangling from its sling. The German Shepherd’s neck cracked in several places. He survived, but would never fully recover from a damaged spinal cord. As the wound calcified over the years, Lukar began to limp on both front paws. Mercer forced him into early retirement after Gustafsen Lake. Yet the two didn’t part. “I kept Lukar as a pet, which was a little different,” the Olympics security boss told The Tyee and 24 hours. “I couldn’t give him up. He stayed with the family until he was 11 or 12.” Gustafsen Lake ‘the worst case scenario’ Fourteen years after the standoff at Gustafsen Lake, the events of Sept. 11, 1995 still resonate deeply for some members of B.C.’s native community. United Native Nations president-elect David Dennis pointed fingers at Mercer last month during an Olympics and civil liberties forum in Vancouver. It’s concerning, he said, that the same RCMP officer who stood by as a red truck exploded now leads Games security. Those fears hold strong for Splitting the Sky. He hurled invectives at Mercer during a recent Tyee interview, claiming the Gustafsen Lake connection is becoming well-known in B.C.’s native community. “Word is going around, that’s for sure,” he said. Defence lawyer Wool also views the events of summer 1995 as an injustice. But he doesn’t think individual officers such as Mercer should be singled out. “He was a dog handler back in 1995,” Wool said. “He was there because he was told to be there.” Switlo agreed. Yet Canadians must still remember the standoff as an alarming misuse of RCMP force, she said. “It’s the worst case scenario: How not to handle matters that become difficult between indigenous nations and Canadians.” The kind of situation that can be a learning experience for the law enforcement officials who were there. What lessons they take away aren’t revealed until the next time they find themselves in similar circumstances.
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Chapter 21 BEFORE HIS DEATH HE WAS ABLE TO SAY AN RCMP OFFICER JUMPED UP AND DOWN ON HIM Here’s the ultimate proof of the RCMP indifference to our Native brothers and sisters! As cited, “the Fred Quilt Affair was a media scandal involving the November 28, 1971 beating death of Fred Quilt a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation at the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the British Columbia Interior”1 [see Appendix 11, cited below]. “Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at a the hospital that a RCMP officer jumped up and down on him”.2 “Quilt's wife, Christine and sister-in-law, Agnes, later confirmed his account”.3 An autopsy performed by Han Choo Lee found that Quilt died from a peritonitis as a result of, "complete severance of the small bowel.3 As further cited, “Indians rotest Indians held province-wide demonstrations on Friday and Saturday to protest the death of Williams Lake Indian, Fred Q ilt.”4 Three Chilcotin witnesses testified that Quilt had been beaten by police; and a nurse stated Quilt told, her before he died that an RCM “ m ed and down on him.”5 Howe er, the coroner’s ry stated that the death was “ nnat ral” b t “accidental” and wo ld “attach no blame to any erson in connection with the death.” 6 During the demonstrations many held signs reading: HELP KILL INDIANS. JOIN THE RCMP.7 All the author can say, in conclusion, it appears the only thing “unnatural” seems to be some of the RCMP, as per their crimes and behavior, as cited in this book? It’s apparent the RCMP have been abusing our Native brothers and sisters for decades … Today, the RCMP have added vulnerable children, Polish immigrants, and elderly women to their “hit list” … 158
And any poor sap on the road when the RCMP drunks are behind the wheel … And don’t believe the excuse that the RCMP is a big outfit and there’s bound to be a few bad apples … There’s a lot more than a bad few apples, the culture is “corrupt” and “broken”! Footnotes 1 – 3. Fred Quilt inquiry Also see: 'Help kill Indians, Join the RCMP' Broadcast Date: July 15, 1972 4 – 7. Indians Protest RCMP Killing Also see: Fred Quilt Committee
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Appendix 11 “Before his death he was able to tell a nurse at the hospital that a RCMP officer jumped up and down on him” As cited in: 'Help kill Indians, Join the RCMP' Broadcast Date: July 15, 1972 "Indians feel there's too much law and order and not enough protection for the people," says host Johnny Yesno, introducing a special Our Native Land show on the RCMP. Ex-RCMP corporal, Jack Ramsay, slams the Mounties poor treatment and "attitude" towards Native people. The second half of the show looks at the results of inquest into the death of Fred Quilt, a Chilcotin Indian who died from injuries after an alleged beating by RCMP officers in 1971. As cited in: Fred Quilt inquiry The Fred Quilt Affair was a media scandal involving the November 28, 1971 beating death of Fred Quilt a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation at the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the British Columbia Interior. Later inquests into the beating would clear the RCMP but First Nations groups have consistently seen this as a cover up. “ efore his death he was able to tell a n rse at a the hos ital that a RCM officer m ed and down on him”. “Q ilt's wife, Christine and sister-in-law, Agnes, later confirmed his acco nt”. An autopsy performed by Han Choo Lee found that Quilt died from a peritonitis as a result of, "complete severance of the small bowel. As cited in: Indians Protest RCMP Killing Indians Protest Indians held province-wide demonstrations on Friday and Saturday to protest the death of Williams Lake Indian, Fred Quilt. The, demonstrations were supported by both the Union of B.C. Indians Chiefs and the National Indian Brotherhood. Indian Leaders do not accept the verdict of coroner’s ry which inq ired into the death of Fredrick Quilt who died in hospital on November 30, 1971, following an alleged beating by Alexis Creek RCMP;
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Three Chilcotin witnesses testified that Quilt had been beaten by police; and a n rse stated Q ilt told, her before he died that an RCM “ m ed and down on him.” Howe er, the coroner’s ry stated that the death was “ nnat ral” b t “accidental” and wo ld “attach no blame to any erson in connection with the death.” Tony elco rt, resident of the ati e Co ncil of Canada said, “There are too many discrepancies in the testimonies of the two RCMP constables, Daryl akewell and eter Eakins. We aren’t oing to drop the iss e here.” esides q estionin the alidity of the ry’s erdict, Indian leaders question the legal procedures involved in the inquiry itself. Points of legality are involved in the RCMP selection of an all white, allmale jury which was sworn in the ni ht of Q ilt’s death - and before allegations were made against the RCMP. Also q estions concernin the ‘admission of testimony ha e been raised.
Furthermore, although the witnesses at the inquest included both Indians and white people; the 8 only ones subpoenaed were white. UBCIC member and Saanich Peninsula chief, Philip Paul, stated Monday night that UBCIC now has a transcript of the inquest and with the national organization will have questions concerning its legal procedures brought before the courts. Speaking to a gathering sponsored by the Victoria Voice of Women in the Provincial Museum, Philip Paul suggested the Quilt case was just a symptom of a larger issue of Indian human rights. I see nothing new about this case. It happens all the time, only some cases et more blicity than others.” “Last year twenty-fi e Indian irls died ‘ nnat ral’ deaths in Vanco er’s skid row alone!” During the demonstrations many held signs reading: HELP KILL INDIANS. JOIN THE RCMP. Groups s ch as Vanco er’s ati e Alliance for Red ower, ha e o enly declared the RCMP a racist police force. 161
Also see: 1. Reference to: Metisnation NEW BREED, 1970 - 1972 2. Reference to: University of Victoria Martlet 1972
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Chapter 22 BEWARE MUSLIMS, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Let’s look at another deplorable example of RCMP racism. In this suit, as cited, “the RCMP engaged in racial and religious discrimination when it expelled a Muslim man from its cadet academy, the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled, paving the way for the man’s return to training 11 years after his dismissal.”1 “The decision upholds a finding by a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2008 that Ali Tahmourpour, 37, faced verbal abuse and hostility from instructors, ridicule over his wearing of religious jewellery, and poor performance evaluations while enrolled in the RCMP’s Regina cadet academy (known as the Depot).”2 “I finally have vindication,” Tahmourpour said from his Mississauga home, saying he intends to return to the academy to fulfill his dream of becoming a member of the RCMP.3 “My great-grandfather was a mounted police chief in the western mountains of Persia, so it runs in the family.”4 The Iranian-born Tahmourpour says his troubles began on the first day of training when he was singled out by his instructors for asking to wear a religious pendant during physical education class. He testified that one officer, Corporal Dan Boyer, head instructor of the firearms unit, was particularly hostile and verbally abusive towards him, often screaming in his ears at the firing range that he was a “loser,” a “coward,” and “f—ing useless.”5 On one occasion, Boyer watched Tahmourpour sign his name on an evaluation form in the “Persian” style of right to left and is alleged to have stated: “What kind of f—ing language is that, or is it something that you’ve made up?”6 What a boob this Boyer was … didn’t have a clue about other cultures! Justice Karen Sharlow this week upheld the tribunal’s 2008 ruling, stating the RCMP’s “discriminatory treatment of Mr. Tahmourpour denied him the opportunity to complete his training at the Depot and to make his living as an RCMP officer.”7 The Court of Appeal noted in its ruling this week that the RCMP did not challenge these claims, nor other findings of the tribunal that racist jokes 163
during sensitivity training were condoned by instructors and that Tahmourpour’s performance evaluations were fabricated and influenced by “discriminatory attitudes.”8 “The most troubling aspect of the case is the way the RCMP fought it for so many years,” he said. “The test for an organization is how it responds to these kinds of incidents. The actions of those instructors definitely does not reflect the RCMP as a whole, but what does reflect the RCMP as a whole is how they respond. And they definitely failed on that front.”9 Footnotes 1 - 9. RCMP discriminated against Muslim cadet, court rules By Kenyon Wallace, Postmedia News July 21, 2010
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Chapter 23 BEWARE HOMOSEXUALS, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Let’s have another look at more RCMP discrimination. In a suit against the RCMP, “a senior RCMP investigator in Toronto, who is gay, claims in a lawsuit that a "homophobic culture" within the force and unfounded child sex-assault allegations led to a very public arrest on a golf course and lengthy suspension that ruined his reputation.”1 “In late 2004, four B.C. men came forward with accusations that Donald Cooke sexually assaulted them when he coached them in minor hockey in the 1980s in that province. According to the lawsuit, B.C. Crown prosecutors reviewed the evidence and recommended against charges.”2 But in May 2005, investigators from B.C., with the help of Ontario authorities, arrested Cooke. According to the suit, a procession of officers in golf carts approached Cooke on the third green of a private golf course in Aurora, Ont., "for the purpose of maximizing the embarrassment and humiliation of Cooke."3 “The force suspended Cooke while the investigation continued. Cooke, meanwhile, went on indefinite sick leave.”4 “After reviewing the case a second time, B.C. prosecutors concluded there was still not enough evidence to charge him. Yet, Cooke's suspension stretched on for four years, according to the suit.”5 The suit, filed in March, seeks more than $13 million in damages.6 Insp. Tim Shields, a B.C. RCMP spokesman, denied Thursday that the intent of investigators was to humiliate Cooke.7 In an e-mailed statement from RCMP headquarters in Ottawa, a spokesman said: "The RCMP strives to preserve and share in the cultural diversity presence across the country by providing a police service which is culturally sensitive to the many people who make Canada their home.”8 Really, now? What about, “B.C. aboriginal leaders demanded an inquiry into allegations that surfaced at Ramsay's trial that at least 10 [RCMP] police officers knew about Ramsay's conduct and either looked the other way or got involved”?
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Or maybe, “Nancy Sulz, a former RCMP constable in B.C. who was harassed by her supervising officer, successfully fought a decade-long battle against the federal government and the RCMP and won $950,000 damages last year”? Yep, sounds like the RCMP accepts everyone into their ranks, with open arms, doesn’t it? However, as further cited by this RCMP ‘mouth-piece’: "the RCMP is committed to promoting and supporting equity within its employment practices. RCMP policy reflects all laws prohibiting discrimination on any grounds as defined by the Canadian Human Rights Act."9 “At the time of his arrest in 2005, Cooke had been with the force for 23 years and was a sergeant in the organized crime unit.”10 What? This guy was with the RCMP for 23 years? Footnotes 1 - 10. Gay Mountie's $13M lawsuit says RCMP ruined his reputation By Douglas Quan, Canwest News Service June 10, 2010
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Chapter 24 BEWARE DISABLED, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO Let’s again look at deplorable discrimination by the RCMP. As reported, “a former spokesman for the Kamloops RCMP is suing the force for systematic harassment while on the job in 2004 and 2005.”1 Brian Leigh Flanagan claims he was a victim of “continued and pointed harassment” by his fellow officers. 2 “In a writ of summons filed in court, he alleges derogatory comments were made about his disability and job performance.” 3 “He further alleges that defendant Ian MacDonald, an RCMP member, made false statements about him to the public.” 4 “Flanagan, who resigned from Kamloops RCMP in September 2005, is unemployed.”5 There was this Comment: Brian, Please contact me at I can completely relate to your story as many others can as well. This is illegal activity that members must be held accountable for. The RCMP denies it is happening, but many know it goes on all the time. I am trying to build cases to present to the House of Commons.6 Ah, a lone individual trying to correct the RCMP – wow, what a job! One must ask: Where are the ‘concerned’ politicians to help this person out? If you expect anything from the Canadian Human Rights Commission, if you’re a “little guy”, don’t expect much.7 Footnotes 1 – 6. Ex-Mo ntie s es o er ‘ ointed harassment’ Nov 18, 2007, Vancouver Province
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Chapter 25 EVEN FEMALES HAVE TO BEWARE, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO The little guy met a nice RCMP couple that lived down the road when the “little guy” was working for that “idiotic” Newfoundland Social Services department run by that “moron” Kay Young [as the little guy calls it and her]. The female RCMP related she was injured during a scuffle because her big, brave male fellow RCMP officers were [purposefully] slow in backing her up? The complaint seems quite reasonale, given these other examples of female abuse by the RCMP. As noted, “a serious gender gap exists within the RCMP in B.C., with female officers far less likely than their male colleagues to believe they are treated fairly and that their rights are respected, according to an internal survey obtained by CanWest News Service.”1 “It is ... a traditional organization that prides itself on spit-and-polish as opposed to more modern forms of policing.”2 “The RCMP in B.C. has also experienced its share of sexual-harassment scandals.”3 In January 2006, RCMP Const. Nancy Sulz won a $950,000 lawsuit for long-term harassment she suffered under her former detachment commander at the Merritt, B.C. detachment.4 The B.C. Supreme Court found her superior officer, Staff Sgt. Donald Smith, began harassing her after she got pregnant.”5 The judge in that case, Justice George Lamperson, ruled that Smith’s actions, while “abrupt, demanding and unfeeling ... were consistent with his experience of the paramilitary command structure of the RCMP,” a style the judge found “was no longer approprivate in the modern RCMP.”6 Footnotes 1 - 3. Female RCMP officers in B.C. say they're not treated fairly: report By CanWest News Service October 28, 2007 4. RCMP scandals and setbacks since 2006 Globe and Mail Update Published on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007 12:39PM EDT 169
Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009 10:28PM EDT 5 - 6. Female RCMP officers in B.C. say they're not treated fairly: report By CanWest News Service October 28, 2007 Also see: Were these RCMP officers just being "BOYS"? Or was it very close to "RAPE"? The New RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson: Closes door on "sexual perverts" already in the RCMP? Volume 1: Will RCMP Bob Paulson be singing "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts"? Or, I'm stuck with a bunch of "fruit cakes"? Volume 2: Will RCMP Bob Paulson be singing "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts": Or, I'm stuck with a bunch of "fruit cakes"? Why isn't Public Safety Minister Vic Toews doing more? Or, is it all just more political "hot air"? What Can This Guy Offer Interpol? Former RCMP Commissioner William Elliott?
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Chapter 26 HOW DARE THE “LITTLE GUY” RETURN TO BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE RCMP WOULD SURELY GET HIM AND, IF NOT HIM, THEN SURELY HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN Let’s see who the RCMP sent after the “little guy” when he returned to British Columbia for his children’s education. Let’s start this Chapter with the fact that this elderly hard-working woman who you will see was mercilessly harassed had always worked – her whole life [she was the wife of the “little guy” cited in Chapter 1 of this book]. She went to work, came home, and went to work the next day, day after day, year after year and she tried to mind her own business! However, the harassment started when an apparent RCMP stooge [a single mother with three children from apparently three different fathers] moved into this elderly woman’s condo complex. You know the type of woman? You see them on Maury Povick or the Jerry Springer show ever day? Single mothers with three children from apparently three different fathers? On 09 July another of her “kids” from Unit 42 was throwing stones at my car. When the elderly woman approached the woman at Unit 42 to do something about it, she basically said “get lost” so the elderly woman phoned the Police [R.C.M.P. Complaint File # 2007 - 24724]. On 11 August, this woman from Unit 42 was making degenerate comments about the elderly woman’s children and saying that the elderly woman was a pedophile / pervert. The elderly woman again complained to the RCMP [R.C.M.P. Complaint File # 2007 - 31803] Nothing was actually done by the Nanaimo RCMP to stop the harassment? This elderly hard-working woman thought the Nanaimo RCMP were utterly useless?
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In fact, one of these “Rocket Scientists” from the Nanaimo RCMP by the name of Constable Jeff Wall incredibly told this hard working woman “about provoking arguments”. What? Let’s see if there is a reason for the miserable treatment of this hardworking elderly woman by the Nanaimo RCMP and in particular Nanaimo RCMP Constable Jeff Wall who told this hard working woman “about provoking arguments”. Let’s see now? Could it be because of this? You see, the Nanaimo RCMP not helping this elderly woman becomes quite clear when you factor in the small detail that her husband had spent 14 years gaining evidence against the RCMP for their fabricated statements about him and successfully sued the RCMP in Federal Court.1 Footnotes 1. Part of that 14 year process was trying to find a lawyer in Canada that would take on the task of suing the RCMP. Near impossible in Canada to find such a lawyer. R.C.M.P. Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle's legacy to Canada, AMICUS No. 16972353, National Library of Canada. -- 1996 Also cited in: Is he Canada's example of another Mark Furman : R.C.M.P. Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle purposefully committed lies, fabricated evidence, made false statements & committed illegal acts, AMICUS No. 16972168, National Library of Canada. -- 1997 Also note, the RCMP kept this elderly woman’s husband unemployed with their fabricated statements, where he was successful in limiting his debt: Complete discharge from bankruptcy including preferred student loans due to Royal Canadian Mounted Police harassment: a most unusual case of bankruptcy, AMICUS No. 17576560, National Library of Canada. -- 1997 In fact the RCMP harassment of this elderly woman’s husband was so severe, it was determined: Can police harassment involving illegal acts, false statements and fabricated evidence lead to a diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder sufficient to approve permanent disability pension? AMICUS No. 18458679, National Library of Canada. -- 1998
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Although not a lot by today’s standards, this elderly woman’s husband gained a victory over the “lying RCMP bastards”, as he called them in 1990 with an out-of-court settlement: $275,000 of taxpayer's money wasn't enough! AMICUS No. 23489520, National Library of Canada. -- 1998 Does the treatment of this hard-working elderly woman by the RCMP become a little more clear with this additional information? You bet it does! One can also read the current author’s new book entitled: Nanaimo RCMP Officer M.R.W. Picard's Legacy to Canada! Threaten the victims?
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Chapter 27 RCMP HARASS DAUGHTER OF THE “LITTLE GUY” Let’s start this chapter with the fact that the daughter of this hard-working elderly woman, at the tender age of 22 [with 2 university degrees] was already out-there slogging to work day after day? Like her mother she tried to mind her own business. However, as you will see, she too became the brunt of harsssment by an RCMP stooge? Incredibly when this elderly woman’s daughter tried to protect her mother from the harassment cited in the previous chapter, the Nanaimo RCMP again still did nothing? What? What are these Nanaimo RCMP, idiots? Oh, yes, maybe they are – just see Appendix 12a and 12b [cited below] where one “idiot” Nanaimo RCMP officer was stupid enough to put on the internet “How come every chick I arrest lately refuses to put clothes on and they’re the ones you never want to see naked”! As cited in the daughter’s complaint to the Nanaimo RCMP: On 22nd August we heard a number of loud bangs on the side of our Unit 13. When we went out to see what to heck was going on, Jered the son-in-law from Unit 12 was leaning against Unit 14 and his wife [Ashley??] was with him. From observing this Jered, it was apparent he was having some sort of “tantrum“ or “fit.” When this Jered passed by somewhat later, he muttered “why don’t you just die,” “drop dead.” On 23rd August this Jered the son-in-law was again banging on the walls of our Unit at approximately 2:45 p.m. When we went out to ask what was going on, we saw Jered and his wife there, and this Jered then got up into our faces and said “I would like to 174
punch your f----ing faces in.” We immediately called the R.C.M.P., and the Nanaimo RCMP again did nothing about it? As further reported, this RCMP stooge came back again! Ironically, while the “little guy’s” daughter was speaking to an MLA Leonard Krog], she heard a loud “bang” on the side of my Unit again? My brother looked out and saw this Jered and his wife going to / at Unit 12? At 6:45 a.m. on 1st September I found the side of the car I use to go to work covered in vomit. At approximately noon, this Jered made a threat against my mother [“you are going to pay”]. Jered’s wife say that my R.C.M.P. complaint was a joke and that because her husband Jered was not charged by the R.C.M.P. her implication was that Jered was free to do as he pleased? We won’t go into the incident where this Jered was out front of this elderly woman’s unit smoking a crack pipe? Incredibly the daughter of this hard working elderly woman recorded other activity for the Nanaimo RCMP: The adult male [Dan / George] staying with the tenant Christine Sheppard at Unit 12 passes by me and says to me “your time is coming soon” At approximately 6:08 p.m. my mother was sitting out front of our Unit when this Jered guy [Unit 12] came right up into my mother’s face threatening her with the false statement “did yo call my wife a f---ing whore” In any event, the daughter of this hard-working elderly woman kept the card of the attending RCMP officer and the MLA [see Appendix 13, cited below]. Nothing was actually done by the Nanaimo RCMP to stop the harassment? The daughter of this elderly hard-working woman also thought the Nanaimo RCMP were utterly useless?
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As mentioned, the inaction by the Nanaimo RCMP was due to their “pay back” because the father had successfully sued the RCMP? The Nanaimo RCMP not helping this elderly woman and not helping her daughter becomes quite clear when you factor in the small detail that the woman’s husband and her daughter’s father had spent 14 years gaining evidence against the RCMP for their fabricated statements about him and successfully sued the RCMP in Federal Court.1 The non-action to help this elderly woman and her daughter by the Nanaimo RCMP was simply “pay-back”! Continuing, as addressed to Staff Sergeant Doug Chisolm of the Nanaimo RCMP, this young daughter of this elderly woman listed the following incidents: 9th September This bastard Jered came onto my work site at 11:00 am and as he passed by me he called me “a f---in bitch” a e me “the fin er” and walked off. It’s great to see this spunky young female say it as it is, with this comment: “It sho ld be noted that, altho h this ‘chicken-shit’ Jered knows where my brother works, this chicken-shit does not isit my brother’s work site”. Good for her! What did this “shit-head” Staff Sergeant Doug Chisolm do for this young woman, absolutely nothing! No! Nothing? In fact the Nanaimo RCMP officer [M.R.W. Picard] who was in charge of this young daughter’s complaints tried to threaten the daughter and her brother? He went on their work sites and warned both of them of harassing this Jered creep? What?
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In addition, the Crown Prosecutor Ron Parsons in a letter dated 12 October, 2007 tried to blame this elderly woman and her children for the conflict? What? What an “arse”! It’s very interesting that when the daughter of this elderly mother asked to speak with this Ron Parsons in person, he steadfastly refused to see her? Again, what an “arse”! As mentioned, the inaction by the Nanaimo RCMP and by this Ron Parsons was simply “pay back” because the father had successfully sued the RCMP! Footnotes 1. Part of that 14 year process was trying to find a lawyer in Canada that would take on the task of suing the RCMP. Near impossible in Canada to find such a lawyer. Reference to: R.C.M.P. Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle's legacy to Canada, AMICUS No. 16972353, National Library of Canada. -- 1996 Also cited in: Is he Canada's example of another Mark Furman : R.C.M.P. Sgt. John ("Jack") Thomas Randle purposefully committed lies, fabricated evidence, made false statements & committed illegal acts, AMICUS No. 16972168, National Library of Canada. -- 1997 Also note, the RCMP kept this elderly woman’s husband unemployed with their fabricated statements, where he was successful in limiting his debt: Complete discharge from bankruptcy including preferred student loans due to Royal Canadian Mounted Police harassment: a most unusual case of bankruptcy, AMICUS No. 17576560, National Library of Canada. -- 1997 In fact the RCMP harassment of this elderly woman’s husband was so severe, it was determined: Can police harassment involving illegal acts, false statements and fabricated evidence lead to a diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder sufficient to approve permanent disability pension? AMICUS No. 18458679, National Library of Canada. -- 1998 Although not a lot by today’s standards, this elderly woman’s husband gained a victory over the “lying RCMP bastards”, as he called them in 177
1990 with an out-of-court settlement: $275,000 of taxpayer's money wasn't enough! AMICUS No. 23489520, National Library of Canada. -- 1998 Does the treatment of this hard-working elderly woman by the RCMP become a little more clear with this additional information? You bet it does! Does the treatment of this hard-working elderly womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter by the RCMP become a little more clear with this additional information? Again, you bet it does! One can also read the current authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new book entitled: Nanaimo RCMP Officer M.R.W. Picard's Legacy to Canada! Threaten the victims?
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Appendix 12a Nanaimo RCMP – Nanaimo RCMP officer says “How come every chick I arrest lately refuses to put clothes on and they’re the ones you never want to see naked” RCMP officers are allowed to use online blogs and sites but there are guidelines. Police must conduct themselves in a professional manner that does not violate a code of ethics and values.1 However, as cited, A Nanaimo RCMP officer may face disciplinary action because of comments he posted on his public Facebook page that the force calls “troubling”.2 “The online social networking site of a Nanaimo RCMP constable is being reviewed by an RCMP professional standards unit. The Facebook musings of the Mountie, 26, could also trigger an internal RCMP code of conduct investigation.”3 Public posts on the Facebook page by this Nanaimo RCMP officer include: “Night shift and St. Paddy’s Day, can’t wait to drop kick all the drunk idiots”.4 Other postings by this Nanaimo RCMP officer include: “Bar watch shift tonight, I’m gonna catch me a ginger”.5 Other postings by this Nanaimo RCMP officer include: “How come every chick I arrest lately refuses to put clothes on and they’re the ones you never want to see naked”.6 “Obviously, from what I have seen, the conduct does fall short of what we would expect,” said RCMP E Division spokeswoman Cpl. Annie Linteau on Friday. “If there’s a perception you’re a police officer, you have to conduct yourself in a way that’s respectful and professional.”7 No kidding? One must ask: are these RCMP officers properly ‘psychologically’ assessed before becoming RCMP officers?8 As far as the author is concerned, nothing but an “idiot” would put this stuff on face book – especially someone holding a responsible position as an RCMP officer? What this guy should have possibly put on Facebook is “I’m an RCMP officer and I’m a moron for putting this crap on Facebook”? 179
As cited, “this officer is now working in B.C., but you have to remember that every single RCMP officer once lived in Regina, even the unprofessional ones.”9 One has to ask: What kind of people are in the RCMP recruitment departments when such people are approved to be an RCMP officer?10 One should also note that although his superiors told this Nanaimo to remove the “crap” from Facebook, he did not – instead he locked his Facebook page to his “friends” only? In other words, he still has these bizarre feelings – and he still works for the RCMP? Give us a break? Footnotes 1 - 7. Nanaimo RCMP officer in trouble over Facebook posts Danielle Bell, Nanaimo, B.C. (Nanaimo Daily News) 8. Such a question was asked in: If You Like “To Catch Bad Guys” This Police Force Doesn’t Want You? What kind of “wacky” police force is that? 9. RCMP officer in hot water over Facebook postings By Kevin Blevins Sun, Mar 28 2010 Best from the Newsroom 10. Such a question was asked in: If You Like “To Catch Bad Guys” This Police Force Doesn’t Want You? What kind of “wacky” police force is that?
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Appendix 12b B.C. RCMP officer in trouble over Facebook posts RCMP Watch Who is keeping them accountable? B.C. RCMP officer in trouble over Facebook posts Danielle Bell, Nanaimo, B.C. (Nanaimo Daily News) A Nanaimo RCMP officer may face disciplinary action because of comments he posted on his public Facebook page that the force calls “troubling.” The online social networking site of a Nanaimo RCMP constable is being reviewed by an RCMP professional standards unit. The Facebook musings of the Mountie, 26, could also trigger an internal RCMP code of conduct investigation, but police officials said it is too early to speculate. The Nanaimo Daily News has chosen not to reveal the officer’s name. Public posts on the Facebook page include: “Night shift and St. Paddy’s Day, can’t wait to drop kick all the drunk idiots”; “Bar watch shift tonight, I’m gonna catch me a ginger”; and “How come every chick I arrest lately refuses to put clothes on and they’re the ones you never want to see naked.” The officer has since locked his Facebook page to anyone but his “friends” when advised by his superiors to remove the offensive content. RCMP officers are allowed to use online blogs and sites but there are guidelines. Police must conduct themselves in a professional manner that does not violate a code of ethics and values. “Obviously, from what I have seen, the conduct does fall short of what we would expect,” said RCMP E Division spokeswoman Cpl. Annie Linteau on Friday. “If there’s a perception you’re a police officer, you have to conduct yourself in a way that’s respectful and professional.” Sanctions imposed after an internal code of conduct review could range from a written reprimand to dismissal. The officer says he knows his posts were in poor judgment. He said he was joking among friends and did not mean to offend anyone. “I’ve got a stressful job and the way I deal with it is I use humour,” said the constable. “It’s obviously pretty stupid to post that stuff on there. I didn’t intend it to go out in the public.” 181
The widespread use of online social networking sites has raised issues around public and private personas, especially when those may clash with professional roles. Reports of job-seekers being dismissed over content on their Facebook pages have surfaced several times. “It’s disappointing to hear if a police officer wouldn’t have the judgment to understand the impacts of their statements. Joking or not joking,” said Randall Craig, author of Online PR and Social Media for Experts. “There’s no problem with police officers or anyone using these tools. Recognize it’s public, transparent and everyone’s accountable.”
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Chapter 28 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – THE WOMAN’S 93 YEAR OLD MOTHER WAS SLEEPING Let’s look at some other “little guys” the RCMP have screwed over! As cited, “a Surrey, B.C., couple were asleep in their bed when heavily armed masked men burst into their house in January, 1996.”1 “The couple thought they were the victims of a home invasion but the intruders were members of an RCMP tactical team.”2 “Looking for cocaine and guns, they also kicked in the door to a bedroom where the woman’s ninety-three-year-old mother was sleeping.”3 “The suspected drug dealers the police thought lived there had moved out six months earlier.”4 Need anyone say anything else about this RCMP blunder? The ‘idiocy’ speaks for itself? Too stupid to check their ‘intel’ before they “kicked in the door to a bedroom where the woman’s ninety-three-year-old mother was sleeping.” Does that sum it up? Footnotes 1 – 4. Chronology of the October Crisis, 1970, and its Aftermath Claude Bélanger, Department of History, Marianopolis College.
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Chapter 29 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP TASER 82 YEAR OLD MAN As cited, “in May 2008, at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, an RCMP officer used a taser on 82 year old Frank Lasser while he was in his hospital bed. He was reportedly ‘delirious’ and wielding a knife.”1 Yep, there’s the RCMP they’ve got this 82 year old guy “dead-to-rights” he can’t move! Way to go RCMP, you’ve got your man! Job well done ‘eh’ boys? This is something you can sure brag about over your next donut run? As further cited, “according to CBC News, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), responded to a call at the Royal Inland Hospital after a delirious patient pulled a knife on a nurse. The man was back in bed when the RCMP arrived and they tasered him in his bed.”2 “Frank Lasser, 82, was in the hospital with pneumonia. Because of a previous heart surgery, he is required to carry oxygen at all times and Lasser told CBC News that he becomes delusional when he cannot breathe properly, which is what he says happened on Saturday.”3 "I was laying on the bed by then and the corporal came in, or the sergeant, I forget which it was, and said to the guys, 'OK, get him because we got more important work to do on the street tonight,'" Lasser said.4 "And then, bang, bang, bang, three times with the taser, and I tell you, I never want that again."5 If this wasn’t so sad – it would be comical? What is that comic police force called – oh, yes – the “Keystone Cops”? That what these “idiot” RCMP officers were in this situation -- “Keystone Cops”? Lasser, who is an ex-prison guard, believes that the three RCMP Mounties could have "easily" handled him without the taser and he asserts, "They could have gone in there and taken an old man without any trouble at all."6
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As further emphasized, “Frank Lasser, 82, says RCMP officers could have subdued him without resorting to using a Taser gun.”7 “Frank Lasser, 82, appeared fragile Thursday when he showed the Taser marks on his body and talked about the ordeal he went through Saturday.”8 "They [police] should have known I had bypass surgery," Lasser told CBC News.9 Here’s a couple more stories about these big, brave RCMP? As cited in B.C. police charged after Taser used on man 73, “a Taser was used on a 73-year-old man, resulting in charges against … a Mountie from Surrey … in connection with a 73-year-old man who was jolted with a Taser after being arrested under the Mental Health Act.”10 “The incident happened in April when police responded to a call of a man with a knife causing a disturbance at a home. The man was taken to hospital, where he was stunned once by an RCMP Taser and suffered facial injuries, police said.”11 That’s it, wait till the guy is restrained in hospital and then taser him? In another incident, as ited in Coquitlam RCMP officers charged with assault, “the incident allegedly occurred last June 17, when Const. Marko Duran, 38, and Const. Trevor Doylend, 33, were conducting a radar speed trap on Prairie Avenue in Port Coquitlam.”12 “ The officers flagged a vehicle over and were issuing a ticket when an altercation ensued. The driver was removed from his vehicle by Duran, with assistance by Doylend, police said.”13 “ In reviewing the file, the officers' supervisor had some concerns about the arrest and reviewed an audio/videotape of the incident from the camera inside the police cruiser.”14 “ A criminal investigation was then launched, resulting in an assault charge being laid against both officers.”15 “No charges were recommended against the driver, who did not file a complaint with police.”16 In other words, the driver did nothing?
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Incredibly, “Doylend, who has four years of service, remains on duty with Coquitlam RCMP Traffic Services.”17 Why? So he can assault another motorist? In one more incident, B.C. RCMP officer charged with assault, “a B.C. Mountie appears in court next month to face a charge stemming from an alleged 2008 assault.”18 “Const. Mike Cardinal, of the Ridge-Meadows RCMP detachment, is alleged to have assaulted a male during an arrest after several officers responded to a report of a noisy party in the Metro Vancouver city of Coquitlam Feb 21, 2008.”19 “ The complainant claims Cardinal hit him on the face with a flashlight. The man was treated at the scene by paramedics and then taken to police cells where he was later released without charge.”20 Another case of the man doing nothing? “Cardinal, who has remained on active duty since the alleged assault, is scheduled to appear in court June 14.”21 “He's the second B.C. Mountie to face assault charges in a month after Const. Imran Saeed of Surrey was hit with a third assault charge related to two incidents three months apart last year.”22 “They occurred while he was on duty and involve an accusation that Saeed assaulted a woman after he stopped her for a traffic violation.”23 What about this nonsense? As cited in RCMP will not probe allegations in B.C., although “the RCMP in Terrace, B.C. face serious allegations from community members, according to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, the RCMP says it cannot investigate allegations outlined in a B.C. Civil Liberties Association report released Wednesday.”24 Although “the report cites numerous allegations of excessive force, racial profiling, and abuse of authority by RCMP in Terrace … accounts of false arrest, assaults, illegal seizures and the use of "stress positions" on people accused of being drunk ... the RCMP said it will not investigate the claims.”25
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That’s it, don’t look into any allegations that could make the RCMP look even worse than they are? As if that’s possible? Footnotes 1. Royal Inland Hospital Taser Incident: Chronology of the October Crisis, 1970, and its Aftermath Claude Bélanger, Department of History, Marianopolis College. 2 - 6. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Taser Hospitalized 82-Year-Old Man By Susan Duclos. 7 - 9. RCMP subdue hospitalized man, 82, with Taser Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 CBC News 10 - 11. B.C. police charged after Taser used on man, 73 CBC News Last Updated: Monday, October 25, 2010 12 - 17. Coquitlam RCMP officers charged with assault Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun: Tuesday, January 4, 2011 18 - 23. B.C. RCMP officer charged with assault CBC News Last Updated: Friday, May 28, 2010 24 - 25. RCMP will not probe allegations in B.C. CBC News Last Updated: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
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Chapter 30 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP FAVORITE TACTIC SMEAR KICKED MAN In addition to harsssing old women and her children, here’s another example of a favorite RCMP tactic – smear! As cited in Kelowna RCMP officer under investigation: Video of man's arrest prompts excessive-force probe, “a Kelowna RCMP officer has been placed on administrative duties and will be subject to criminal and internal investigations after an allegedly violent arrest Friday, police say.”1 “A freelance member of the media following the story made a video recording of the arrest, and a copy of it was given to McKinnon.”2 “The video shows the suspect being ordered to his hands and knees by police and after he assumes the position, an officer appears to step up and kick him in the face.”3 "I have reviewed that video, and I have ordered a statutory investigation of excessive force as well as a code of conduct investigation in relation to the manner in which the officer executed his duties," McKinnon told a news conference.4 The officer, who has not been identified, joined the Kelowna RCMP immediately after graduation from the force's academy in July 2007, McKinnon said.5 As further reported in Criminal probe ordered after Mountie taped kicking a suspect in head, “the suspect, whom police have identified as Buddy Tavares, was on leave from work with a brain injury from a recent motorcycle accident.”6 That’s it RCMP, pick on another handicapped person? “In an iPhone video shot by a local reporter and posted on the Internet, a man can be seen getting out of the truck at gunpoint. He has just gotten onto his hands and knees when a plainclothes officer kicks him in the head, causing the man to fall forward.”7 “When he is later led away in handcuffs, his face is bloodied while a bloodstain is visible on the pavement.”8 “Kelowna RCMP Superintendent Bill McKinnon received an unedited copy of the video Friday afternoon.”9 189
“After reviewing it, I ordered a criminal investigation,” he said in an interview. He said he also placed the officer on administrative duties.10 “The man who shot the video, Castanet Media’s Kelly Hayes, said Mr. Tavares appeared to be doing as he was told, though perhaps not as quickly as the officer wanted.”11 “Mr. Hayes said the kick “looked like a full swing” and that Mr. Tavares was bleeding severely from his face.”12 “My reaction was I immediately felt sorry for the alleged suspect because I knew of the pain he was going through,” Mr. Hayes said.13 At the Bunkhouse Bar and Grill next door to the golf club where Mr. Tavares is a regular, Al Body described him as a “very hard-working man” with a talent for refurbishing pianos.14 When he first saw the video, Mr. Body said he was “quite taken aback by it.”15 “Buddy was doing what the police were asking him to do and the next thing you see is an officer kick him in the face.”16 Ken Albert, who described himself as Mr. Tavares’s best friend, called the kick “a cheap shot.”17 “That could have actually killed him or put him in a coma. It was unbelievable,” he said. “It was just sickening for that cop to do it and I can’t see why Buddy’s in jail and the cop is still behind a desk getting paid. It bugs me to no end.”18 Here`s the rub! As cited in No reference to domestic violence in B.C. kicking victim court filings, “the RCMP have said the arrest of a Kelowna man who was kicked in the head by a Mountie is connected to a domestic violence situation, but the man is not facing domestic violence charges and information sworn in court by police makes no mention of such an incident.”19 What? The RCMP fabricated something against the guy? No kidding?
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Kelowna RCMP Superintendent Bill McKinnon told reporters Monday that the charge against Mr. Tavares was “in relation to a domestic violence situation.” He refused to elaborate.20 Could it be that this RCMP Superintendent was going along with the fabriucation? Surprise, surprise – no kidding? “Mr. Tavares's ex-wife, Trudi Tavares, also works at the Harvest Golf Club but has said the domestic violence accusation has nothing to do with her.”21 “Mr. Tavares's sister, Angela Behiels, said her brother was spending Tuesday attending medical appointments and would not be giving interviews. But she said she has discussed the domestic violence accusation with him and that he has no idea what it is about.”22 “We're not sure what the RCMP are doing,” she said. “I think they're just grasping at straws. It seems that way, anyhow.”23 Continuing in RCMP tried to 'smear' kicked man: advocate, where “the B.C. Civil Liberties Association wants Kelowna RCMP to explain their actions in the wake of an excessive force scandal involving one of their officers … [where] unsubstantiated allegations were made in the media against Buddy Tavares after video became public showing the Kelowna man being kicked in the face by an arresting RCMP officer on Jan. 7, said association executive director David Eby.”24 'I don't think this does anything to improve their reputation.' Criminologist David MacAlister on the RCMPEby said the association wants RCMP Supt. Bill McKinnon and spokesman Const. Steve Holmes to explain why comments were made after the arrest alleging that it was somehow linked to domestic violence between Tavares and his wife.25 Domestic violence denied - "The only reason we can think they would release it is would be to make Mr. Tavares look bad and the RCMP look good," Eby said.26 Eby said the RCMP don't seem to have learned from the death of Robert Dziekanski more than three years ago.27 You remember the RCMP “scum” in that incident don’t you?
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“The Polish immigrant died after being repeatedly stunned with a Taser and held down by a group of officers at Vancouver International Airport.”28 “RCMP initially portrayed Dziekanski as a violent alcoholic.”29 Is this Kelowna RCMP Superintendent Bill McKinnon any different in trying to fabricate against this guy in Kelowna? No, not really? Another “scum-bucket” – you decide? As further noted, “McKinnon's comments come amidst growing public outrage in Kelowna over the incident, which was caught on tape.” 30 B.C. Liberal leadership candidate George Abbott said the incident shows it is time for the province to look seriously at civilian oversight for the RCMP. "This is, I think, fortuitous in some way," he said.31 “A B.C. criminologist says recent examples of alleged excessive use of force by police are an indication that officers have become too quick to resort to violence.”32 “After viewing a video of an apprehended man on his hands and knees being kicked in the face by Kelowna RCMP Const. Geoff Mantler Jan. 7, Simon Fraser University criminologist Rob Gordon said police training and attitudes are failing the public.”33 "This seems to be increasingly a problem across the board," said Gordon. "And [it's] something that has to be addressed … in this province."34 “Gordon, also a former police inspector, said another problem is a lack of mentoring by senior officers, who should encourage verbal de-escalation, not violence.”35 "What appears to be happening — is that we're generating a whole breed of cowboys."36 “Mantler has also been named in another complaint by a Kelowna man who alleges the officer repeatedly punched him in the face without provocation during an arrest in August.”37 “Jeremy Packer said he was stopped by Mantler and another officer who suspected him of stealing a boat. Packer said that, with guns drawn, the
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officers ordered him out of his truck but that Mantler started punching him before he could exit the vehicle and after he'd gotten out of it.”38 "You got your hands up, you're on the ground, and the guy has to get a blow in," said Packer. "It's just ridiculous, I think."39 “When asked why Mantler wasn't pulled off active duty after the first complaint, RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Annie Linteau said the first incident was crucially different from the second, in that there was no visual recording available.”40 That’s right – no video – so the RCMP can create any fabrication they want! What a bunch of “arses”! Jeremy Packer has filed a complaint with RCMP, alleging he was punched repeatedly by the same officer accused in another Kelowna incident Jan. 7 "What's happened is right there," Linteau said of the Jan. 7 incident. "There's no question — the video is a valuable piece of evidence."41 "People are sick and tired of that type of thing going on," said organizer John Hewitson. "And people are sick and tired and don't want to tolerate police being paid while they're under investigation."42 Footnotes 1 - 5. Kelowna RCMP officer under investigation Video of man's arrest prompts excessive-force probe CBC News Last Updated: Friday, January 7, 2011 6 - 18. Criminal probe ordered after Mountie taped kicking a suspect in head Adrian Nieoczym Kelowna, B.C.— From Monday's Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jan. 10, 2011 Last updated Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 19 - 23. No reference to domestic violence in B.C. kicking victim court filings Adrian Nieoczym Kelowna, B.C.— From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 Last updated Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011
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Chapter 31 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP STAFF SGT ROSS SPENARD THOUGHT HE HAD COVERED HIS TRACKS BY SHREDDING DOCUMENTS In addition to harsssing old women and her children, here’s another example of a favorite RCMP tactic – lie! smear! Incredibly, in another high profile case, another senior RCMP officer lied again and again. The so-called RCMP expert witness, classed an expert witness on bloodpattern analyses, was “accused of perjury and exposed in B.C. Supreme Court as the author of a flawed forensic report that got basic biology wrong.”1 Who was this RCMP Officer? “Staff Sgt. Ross Spenard’s credibility was shredded during the recent second-degree murder trial of Charlie Rae Lincoln, an aboriginal woman convicted of stabbing to death her own two-year-old. He acknowledged misleading the court and failing to send a letter to the Crown in the case revealing the concerns about the report and his errors.”2 RCMP Spenard thought he covered his tracks by shredding documents [see Appendix 14, cited below]. He was wrong. As noted, “armed with a copy of documents that Spenard thought were destroyed, defense lawyer Matthew Nathanson forced him to make a series of devastating admissions.”3 The document was riddled with so many DNA misinterpretations and errors that the top experts in the field were flown in from Edmonton and Halifax to correct it. Some conclusions were “not scientifically sound,” they said.4 “You were not being truthful, right?” the lawyer said, confronting the Mountie with a transcript of his earlier testimony.5 “Yes, I agree” Spenard admitted.6 As emphasized, “the performance was as bad as any at the Braidwood 195
inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski, which has also featured RCMP officers seemingly uncomfortable with the truth.”7 “You will recall the Staff Sgt. Spenard gave some evidence of blood found in... [a] house at different places,” the justice said before sending the jurors to deliberate. “You have heard the Crown totally ignore his evidence, and I suggest to you that you do ignore his evidence completely.8 “Staff. Sgt. Spenard is the perfect example of a person who clearly lied under oath, and violated his oath to tell the truth, and he even agreed to this. That conclusion is so clear and convincing, and so serious, that I suggest you should consider his evidence to be completely tainted, and without any value whatsoever.”9 As further cited in Retired B.C. Mountie charged with perjury, “a retired RCMP officer has been charged with one count of perjury for his testimony at the 2009 trial of a B.C. woman convicted of killing her own child.”10 What a “scum bucket”? Only one charge? Pretty lenient, wouldn’t you say? “Former staff sergeant Ross Spenard, a 32-year veteran of the RCMP, is accused of lying while testifying in B.C. Supreme Court in May 2009. He was testifying as an expert witness in bloodstain pattern analysis during the second-degree murder trial of Charlie Rae Lincoln.”11 “During cross-examination by defence council at the 2009 trial, Spenard admitted he did not tell the whole truth in his earlier testimony.”12 “Justice John Truscott then advised the jury to ignore Spenard's evidence.”13 "Staff Sgt. Spenard is the perfect example of a person who clearly lied under oath and violated his oath to tell the truth and he even agreed to this," Trustcott said. "That conclusion is so clear and convincing, and so serious, that I suggest you should consider his evidence to be completely tainted, and without any value whatsoever."14 Is this “scum bucket” getting a full pension at taxpayers’ expense?
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Footnotes 1 - 9. Caught in a web of documents he thought had been destroyed: Blood-splatter expert admits to misleading court and failing to send a letter to the Crown revealing concerns about the forensic report. Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun, June 29, 2009. 10 - 14. Retired B.C. Mountie charged with perjury Last Updated: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 | 1:24 PM PT Comments63Recommend34. CBC News
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Appendix 14 RCMP Staff Sgt. Ross Spenard caught in a web of documents he thought had been destroyed Caught in a web of documents he thought had been destroyed Blood-splatter expert admits to misleading court and failing to send a letter to the Crown revealing concerns about the forensic report Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun, June 29, 2009 An RCMP blood-spatter expert has been accused of perjury and exposed in B.C. Supreme Court as the author of a flawed forensic report that got basic biology wrong. Staff Sgt. Ross Spenard’s credibility was shredded during the recent second-degree murder trial of Charlie Rae Lincoln, an aboriginal woman convicted of stabbing to death her own two-year-old. He acknowledged misleading the court and failing to send a letter to the Crown in the case revealing the concerns about the report and his errors. Until now, Spenard testified, no one outside of the RCMP had been told about the doubt cast upon other cases, some of which have been reviewed by other specialists. The officer has been a blood-pattern analyst for five years and giving evidence on the basis of his work as a recognized expert witness. In this case, he claimed to have “peer-reviewed” a report he actually helped author that was based on the mistaken assumption that if someone was a possible contributor of a DNA profile, or if a person couldn’t be excluded as contributing to a DNA profile, then you could say the blood came from that person. What’s wrong with that logic is obvious: Anyone with a white car may be in the pool of suspects for a hit-and-run, but being potentially responsible is not the same as being culpable. Armed with a copy of documents that Spenard thought were destroyed, defence lawyer Matthew Nathanson forced him to make a series of devastating admissions, none thankfully that affected the outcome of the trial. The officer was at pains to try and mask the rewriting and review process that led to the creation of the impugned forensic report on blood spatter and DNA evidence in the brutal child-killing. 198
The document was riddled with so many DNA misinterpretations and errors that the top experts in the field were flown in from Edmonton and Halifax to correct it. Some conclusions were “not scientifically sound,” they said. Spenard was ordered to submit future reports for review and told to send an explanatory letter to the Crown. But he hid that from the judge until he withered under Nathanson’s crossexamination. “You were not being truthful, right?” the lawyer said, confronting the Mountie with a transcript of his earlier testimony. “I was splitting hairs,” the staff sergeant conceded. “Officer,” Nathanson pressed brandishing the transcript, “do you agree that by splitting hairs, you were not being completely truthful?” “Yes, I agree.” Spenard admitted he wrote the report supposedly authored by Sgt. James Gallant. “That was an untrue answer that you gave to this jury in this case, right?” Nathanson said. “Not correct,” the Mountie replied. “No, it was not.” “Untrue, right?” Nathanson continued. “You said that he authored the report, right? You told the jury last week that [Sgt. Gallant] authored the report, right?” “And I was in error.” “That was untrue, was it not?” Nathanson insisted. “No, it was not untrue,” the officer dissembled. “I was in error. I was mistaken.” “You were confused about who had written the report?” the lawyer scoffed. “The circumstances, yes,” said the Mountie. “I realized I had written the report.” 199
The performance was as bad as any at the Braidwood inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski, which has also featured RCMP officers seemingly uncomfortable with the truth. The force has conducted a review of other cases coming before the court in which Gallant was involved. But no review of completed cases in which he gave evidence has been done. Spenard also misled the court during earlier proceedings into believing Gallant was no longer doing blood-spatter work because he was seconded to an RCMP Olympic unit. He is not doing any policing at the moment. The Mountie said he lied under oath to protect his colleague’s “privacy.” Justice John Truscott has not specifically addressed Spenard’s misconduct, but he was savage in his charge to the jury. “You will recall the Staff Sgt. Spenard gave some evidence of blood found in... [a] house at different places,” the justice said before sending the jurors to deliberate. “You have heard the Crown totally ignore his evidence, and I suggest to you that you do ignore his evidence completely. “Staff. Sgt. Spenard is the perfect example of a person who clearly lied under oath, and violated his oath to tell the truth, and he even agreed to this. That conclusion is so clear and convincing, and so serious, that I suggest you should consider his evidence to be completely tainted, and without any value whatsoever.” After two days of deliberation, on June 17, the jury found the 23-year-old mom guilty of second-degree murder in the slaying of her toddler in July 2006 in the remote coastal town of Bella Bella. Nathanson had argued for a verdict of manslaughter because Lincoln suffers from the effects of fetal-alcohol syndrome and associated psychiatric problems.
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Chapter 32 RCMP HIRE ‘PSYCHOLOGIST’ WHO HAD NO APA OR CPA APPROVED DEGREE Where on earth do they get some of these “scummy” RCMP from? Doesn’t anyone assess them psychologically? Does this answer the question? The RCMP don’t seem to care who they hire? An example of the RCMP hiring an unqualified company came, of all things, during the G8 and G20 conference in Toronto, Canada where a good number of powerful world leaders and representatives were gathered. Who did the RCMP hire to supply security? As reported by Toronto Star reporter Jesse McLean, the G8-G20 security firm chosen by the RCMP “doesn’t have license to work in Ontario”, the province in Canada where the conference was being held.1 This lack of qualification may also be true for some of the ‘psychologists’ working for the RCMP. Everyone knows that if they want to make psychology a career goal, one has to obtain a recognized degree from a properly approved university. The standard for America is a degree program that has been approved by the American Psychological Association and in Canada the degree program has to be approved by the Canadian Psychological Association. In terms of at least one ‘psychologist’ employed by the RCMP2, his diploma when he received it had neither approval.3 In other words, this RCMP ‘psychologist‘ who is accessing RCMP applicants in terms of their suitability has a diploma that is neither approved by the American Psychological Association nor by the Canadian Psychological Association. One young clean-cut RCMP applicant4 actually questioned this guy’s credentials: RECEIVED MAY 3 1 2010 201
D Division HSO 25 May, 2010 Neil Anderson Newly contracted RCMP Psychologist Health Services Offices D Division Headquarters: 1091 Portage Avenue P.O. Box 5650 Winnipeg, MB R3C 3K2 Mr. Anderson, I noticed that you are cited as having a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (Carpinteria, California), however, aren't their programs not approved by the APA because of the distance component in them and their programs are definitely not CP A approved and if not APA or CP A approved are their degrees up to par? Given this, I will have to question your interview with myself that occurred on 7 May at R.C.M.P., 754 Dominion, Winnipeg, MB. Thank you The young recruit did not receive a reply to his 25 May, 2010 letter from this guy, Neal Anderson! No wonder there seem to be so many way-ward, messed up RCMP officers if this is the standard of RCMP psychologists? You would think the RCMP with the image problems they are having, they would have chosen someone with an APA or CPA approved degree?? What kind of decisions does such a ‘psychologist' make about RCMP applicants? In this case, for example, this clean cut kid told this RCMP ‘psychologist’ that he likes to catch bad guys [a seemingly worthwhile attitude if one wants to join the police] to which this ‘psychologist’ said he was unsuitable although the senior RCMP officers who interviewed the kid said he was just the type of guy they were looking for?4 As the young applicant recalled, this was the nature of his conversation with Anderson:
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Anderson: Would you be able to use force, arrest an individual suspected of a crime? Me: Yes. I have already arrested a number of criminals for different offences and have assisted others, Loss Prevention Officers, and police officers in arresting others. Anderson: If a mayor or family member committed a crime would you be able to arrest them. Me: Yes absolutely, I dislike anyone who has committed a crime, no matter what the crime is, and will not hesitate to arrest them or see that corrective action be taken for their criminal behavior. For instance, if my folks broke traffic laws I have informed them I would have to ticket them. I do not like associating with people who have admitted to crimes or been convicted of crimes. Anderson: Have you been a victim of a crime? Me: No. My parents raised me correctly in believing right from wrong, that is why I have never done anything wrong in my life. Anderson: Do you see everything in black and white, with regards to bad guys and good guys? Me: No there are areas of gray. For instance in my Loss Prevention, I detained people but did not call the police as there was no need to call the police, as the amount of merchandise was small or the person was cooperative, but if one has committed a crime they will need to be detain. Anderson: Is there any reason for someone to break the law? Me: Police forces and police officers operating in under-cover incidents should be allowed to break the law if it can crack down on organized crime or terrorist groups, but there is no reason for an ordinary civilian to break the law. As the young clean-cut recruit also mentioned, apparently this Anderson became more “disturbed” or “agitated” after each answer given? Maybe, it’s this Anderson who should be assessed? After all, the answers given by this clean-cut kid are very similar to those given by a ‘hero’ cop This clean-cut kid tells Anderson he would enjoy getting the bad guy off 203
the street as a police officer and this Anderson says he is unqualified to be an RCMP officer? What kind of stupid logic is that? Has this Anderson heard of people like Daril Cinquanta? Daril Cinquanta is a former Denver Police Officer, with about 200 commendations, as well as the Medal of Honor -- his favorite phrase: "I like to chase bad guys" … “The thing I liked most was the chase, catching bad guys …”. He also goes on to say: “as a 24-hour-a-day cop, Cinquanta made his mark by building a vast network of informants. He studied thousands of criminals. He learned their nicknames and the names of their brothers, sisters and girlfriends.” Is this Anderson ‘out to lunch’? Police “serve and protect”! That’s what this clean-cut kid wanted to do? However, maybe the most important aspect of this case was the fact that this RCMP ‘psychologist’ concocted a story with two other RCMP employees to tell the young recruit instead of being up-front with him: From: To: Date:
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Neal, Stacey and I discussed that exact plan a few days ago. Forgot to mention it today. Barb This Neal Anderson went along and concocted a story to tell the young recruit instead of being up-front with him: —Original Message— From: Neal ANDERSON To: Balcaen, Stacey <Stacey.D.Balcaen@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> To: SCHMALZ, Bairbara <Barbara.Schmalz@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> Sent: 04/30/2010 18:22:19 204
Barb and Stacey, Sounds like we need to have this applicant back in. I don't know him or about others' hesitancy, or what follow-up was done at this end. I suggest that, unless there's any administrative problem with our doing so, Stacey ask for the file back from Regina, and when we have it here, call the applicant in for an MCMI-III, and then to meet with me. If the applicant wonders why he's being asked back (assuming he's been informed he's been medically cleared), Stacey can acknowledge that I've been asked to meet with him after suitability review in Regina, and reassure him that! will be able to provide more information when he meets with me. Stacey, does that sound do-able? Barb, does that sound all right from your end? Neal Neal D. Anderson, Ph .D., C.Psych. Divisional Psychologist RCMP, "D7"V": Division Health Services 1091 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3K2 tel: (204) 984-2007 fax: (204) 984-5580 email: neal.d.anderson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca What kind of person is this RCMP ‘psychologist’? Is it going to bite the RCMP on the rear end, when people like this guy approves an RCMP applicant and that applicant freaks out later as an RCMP officer and the media find out that it was a guy with an apparent “distance/correspondence” [not APA or CPA approved] “psych degree” that approved that RCMP officer? A little late, but apparently the Psychological Association of Manitoba has now closed down applications from those with on-line distance programs, with “PAM no longer automatically accepts APA-accredited program graduates as meeting our educational requirements as APA now accredits on-line/distance education programs and PAM does not accept graduates from those programs.”6
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The RCMP goes along with the apparent charade that this Neal Anderson is an ‘experienced’ RCMP psychologist. In a letter dated 22 June, 2010 to this young clean-cut recruit, Warren Dufour said that Neal Anderson was an experienced RCMP ‘psychologist’: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Gendarmerie royale du Canada Date: June 22. 2010 Your File Votre reference A00184954 From: RCMP Health Services Depot Division P.O Box 6500 5600-11th Avenue Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 3J7 Dear Mr. [Clean-cut kid]: This letter is in response to your correspondence dated May 25, 2010 to Neal Anderson. A review of your medical file documentation, which is inclusive of both physical and psychological assessments, reveals that you were determined "not fit for engagement with the RCMP." In this regard, on the basis of the psychological assessment undertaken at that time by an experienced police psychologist, a 2-year deferral was recommended. This recommendation was provided to RCMP Recruiting. Sincerely, Warren Dufour, M.D. Health Services Officer RCMP "Depot" Division Canada Another RCMP fib? Apparently so, this young clean-cut recruit said that when he saw RCMP employee Neal Anderson on 7 May, 2010 this Neal Anderson said he was not experienced … his contract with the RCMP had just started? After the mistreatment by this so-called RCMP ‘psychologist’, Neal Anderson, and the obvious misinformation by RCMP employee Warren Dufour, this clean-cut applicant decided he wanted nothing more to do 206
with the RCMP. You can’t get a straight answer out of the RCMP he said? He implied the RCMP were quite devious and wanted nothing further to do with them! Footnotes 1. G8-G2 sec rity firm doesn’t ha e license to work in Ontario Published On Tue Jun 8 2010Email Print Share Rss Article Jesse McLean, Staff Reporter, Toronto Star. 2. Reference to: RCMP Contracts Over $10,000 Dr. Neal D. Anderson (Ph.D., C. Psych.) is a registered clinical psychologist in private practice in Manitoba. He has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (Carpinteria, California). 3. This ‘psychologist’ has his diploma from Pacifica Graduate Institute which is neither approved by the American Psychological Association nor by the Canadian Psychological Association. PACIFICA: are yo a ro ed?? From: Wendy Overend (WOverend@pacifica.edu) Sent: May 13, 2010 10:55:59 AM To: thegoodones@ Pacifica has applied to APA for consideration. Please keep an eye on our website for news and updates on the APA application process. Thanks, Wendy WOverend@pacifica.edu Again, as of 15 August, 2010 Pacifica Graduate Institute confirms again that they are not APA approved, with the statement “the acifica continues to update its Self-Study for application to the American sycholo ical Association for accreditation.” In other words, Pacifica Graduate Institute is not APA approved. 4. Reference to RCMP Application # A00184954 obtained under Privacy Access.
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A search of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s security and intelligence agency [CSIS] found no criminal record or any record about the young 22 year old applicant: Applicant Security Form Page 1 of 1 Personnel Security (RCMP) > Personnel Security > CSIS Response Applicant |D;A00184954 Application Status: Active Location: D0026 Security Screening Request No.: 170067878 CSIS Result Code: 1 No Reportable Traces Comments CASE CONCLUDED WITHOUT FIELD INVESTIGATION. 2010-02-24 5. Eighty-one cases of misconduct by Mounties By The Vancouver Sun, October 15, 2006 Also see: RCMP scandals and setbacks since 2006. Globe and Mail Update, Published on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007, Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009. Also see: Two Yukon Mounties charged with sexually assaulting woman: Police force brings in observers to ensure impartial investigation. Last Updated: Wednesday, March 11, 2009. CBC News. Also see: Yukon Mountie charged with sexual assault is brother of NHL player. Last Updated: Thursday, March 12, 2009. CBC News. Also see: Exclusive: Mounties ordered to resign. By The Vancouver Sun May 1, 2006. Also see: Ex-Mountie facing prison for sex crime Last Updated: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 CBC News 6. RE: re From: Sent: To:
istration q estion? Psychological Association of Manitoba (pam@mts.net) May 14, 2010 11:03:25 AM thegoodones@l
Dear , The section you quote is from the reciprocity portion of our application, and in fact is no longer correct (thank you for bringing it to my attention).
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PAM no longer automatically accepts APA-accredited program graduates as meeting our educational requirements as APA now accredits online/distance education programs and PAM does not accept graduates from those programs. CPA-accredited programs graduates however do automatically meet these training requirements. In MB one must have a Ph.D. to utilize the title Psychologist, unless he/she is employed in an exempt setting (school. Jail. Govt.). Alan Slusky Dr. Alan Slusky, C. Psych., Registrar Psychological Association of Manitoba 162-2025 Corydon Ave. #253, Wpg., MB R3P 0N5 Ph: 204-487-0784 Fax: 204-489-8688 E-mail: pam@mts.net One can also read the current authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new books: RCMP 'Psychologist' Neil Anderson's Legacy to 'Honesty': Don't tell the applicant our secret? If You Like To Catch Bad Guys This Police Force Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Want Yo ? If You Live at Home This Police Force Doesn't Want You? What kind of "wacky" police force is that? A Good Cop doesn't have to be a "Blow-hard"
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Chapter 33 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP PASS UP CLEAN-CUT KID BECAUSE THEY FEAR HE WILL NOT PUT UP WITH THEIR ILLEGAL ACTS One young clean-cut RCMP applicant said he liked to catch bad guys?1 In fact, he was quite good at it. Apparently, he would make a “good cop”? He had perseverance! He was goal directed, with two university degrees by age 19? He worked well with the RCMP? This incident, which occurred on April 13th, 2008 is a pretty good one to describe this young male RCMP applicant’s perseverance. It involved his solo arrest of a shoplifting suspect. At 1220 the Sportsmart store at 3200 North Island Highway in Nanaimo this young fellow observed two people, one male and a female steal two lacrosse men/children sets and a Hellycross black jacket. This young fellow pursued the two of them following the man across the Island highway (four lane highway), along with a civilian where they successfully caught ‘the perp’. On the way back to the mall, the man attempted to escape where the young fellow had to tackle the man, sitting on him until the police arrived [R.C.M.P. File # 2008-10228]. The most comical aspect of this solo arrest was that this young male RCMP applicant ran so fast after the shoplifter that he lost both shoes, but kept on chasing the guy. The shoplifter was charged with theft under 5000, he was found guilty, received a suspended sentence, and was banned from the mall till January, 2009 [R.C.M.P. File # 2008-10228]. As cited, in an incident on June 15th, 2008 this young male RCMP applicant received a call at 1053 from Starbucks concerning a male individual who had gone into their washroom with a cup. Apparently the day before he had reportedly gone into Starbucks washroom and had drunk alcohol and smoked in the washroom, and the 210
staff wanted security to remove the man. This young fellow arrived onsite at 1058, going into the bathroom and was able to evict the man from washroom. While escorting the man outside, he became incoherent and started to lapse in and out of consciousness. The young fellow called 911, with the paramedics and police arriving quickly at 1115. The man admitted that he had overdosed on heroin earlier in the day and had been brought into Nanaimo General Hospital by police but had checked himself out. The young fellow responded calmly to this medical emergency. The man had been still in the effects of the drug when the young fellow dealt with him on the trespass issue at Starbucks [R.C.M.P. File # 2008-17378]. In another incident on September 12th, 2008 this young male RCMP applicant while patrolling observed an ambulance parked nearby with lights flashing, where a public disturbance had occurred. A young 20-year-old Aboriginal male was on the ground after being assaulted by three Caucasian males. He was complaining of head and neck pain. At the request of the ambulance paramedics, helped them with three other security officers putting ‘victim’ on a stretcher and into the ambulance [R.C.M.P. File # 2008-28279]. In another incident which is a pretty good one to describe this young male RCMP applicant’s perseverance, it occurred on November 4th, 2008 and again involved a solo arrest. At 1238 p.m this young fellow observed a man set off the sensors at a local drug retail store and observed the man refusing to stop for staff members. The young fellow chased after the man, ordering him to stop, resulting in the man tossing one of the stolen items back. The young fellow pursued him, around a bus stop twice, and up a second flight of stairs, catching him in the process. The young fellow ordered the man to meet with the store manager and she would decide his fate. Before this could occur, ‘the perp’ broke custody and escaped, with the young fellow chasing after him for three blocks before capturing him again. A passing RCMP officer slapped the handcuffs on him. As he had dumped most of the stolen items, except for tea bags, it was decided that a life-time ban from store was sufficient [R.C.M.P. File # 2008-33884]. In another incident on November 22nd, 2008 this young male RCMP applicant while working in security discovered a drug-deal occurring onsite, discovering one ‘crack needle, calling in RCMP. With nearby security support they chased the two suspected drug cars and a drug dealer 211
on foot to a nearby hospital where they escaped [R.C.M.P. File # 200835832]. In another incident on December 11th, 2008 this young male RCMP applicant captured a shoplifting suspect on video surveillance. RCMP arrived and reviewed the surveillance with this young fellow and store managers [R.C.M.P. File # 2008-37596]. In another incident on the same date December 11th, 2008 this young male RCMP applicant came to the assistance of a mentally-challenged male individual from local General Hospital who was being threatened by five teenagers, two female, three male, and was going to be dragged out of a coffee shop and assaulted. This young fellow and his security partner chased the three male suspects later identifying them to police [R.C.M.P. File # 2008-37611]. In another incident on January 22nd, 2009 this young male RCMP applicant observed an older male by the local bus stop with a large hard liquor bottle open to his right. Alerted the local RCMP as this young fellow wanted back-up just in case the man became physical. He updated the RCMP at 1825, 1905 and at 1930 when the man finally passed out. This young fellow woke the man up when the man complained of medical problems and wanted to go to the hospital. As a precaution, this young fellow called an ambulance which arrived at 1949 and took the intoxicated gent to the hospital [R.C.M.P. File # 2009-1944]. In another incident on March 16th, 2009 this young male RCMP applicant heard yelling at 0152, where he saw a man punch a second male individual knocking him to the ground. The aggressive male then proceeded to kick the man on the ground. At 0154 this young fellow called RCMP dispatch to report the fight, and give their descriptions. The RCMP arrived on scene at 0201 and detained both males until a second unit arrived. The two males had also seriously damaged a Red Ford Truck out front of a local bar. Both men were arrested by 0206 for Damaging Private Property and Public Intoxication [R.C.M.P. File # 2009-6778]. While in security, this young male RCMP applicant had experience at major events, such as the B.C Sports Hall of fame event including such notables as Trevor Linden and Roberto Luongo on September 20th, 2008 at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre. As well as the MISA Western Canada Fall Conference with about 400 delegates from across the country, the theme being "The Nature of 212
Technology," with such notables as Dr. David Suzuki as keynote speaker on September 23-26, 2008 at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre. In speaking with the young fellow, the author found that he enjoyed “the chase” and the satisfaction of completing the task. As an example, the incident which occurred on November 4th, 2008 where this young fellow “ran so fast after the shoplifter that he lost both shoes, but kept on chasing the guy” came to mind [R.C.M.P. File # 2008-10228]. Seems like a worthwhile attribute for an RCMP applicant? Doesn’t it? Perseverance? Determination? Seeing a task through to the finish? Not according to the RCMP to the so-called RCMP ‘psychologist’ Neal Anderson, see previous chapter. Remember, this so-called RCMP psychologist had a “degree” that was neither APA or CPA approved! Footnotes 1. Reference to RCMP Application # A00184954 obtained under Privacy Access. Also note: All incidents reported above appear in this young male RCMP applicant’s evidence books and also appearing in his application documents to the RCMP. One can also read the current author’s new books: RCMP 'Psychologist' Neil Anderson's Legacy to 'Honesty': Don't tell the applicant our secret? If Yo Like To Catch ad G ys This olice Force Doesn’t Want Yo ? If You Live at Home This Police Force Doesn't Want You? What kind of "wacky" police force is that? A Good Cop doesn't have to be a "Blow-hard" 213
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Chapter 34 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP PASS UP CLEAN-CUT KID BECAUSE HE LIKED TO CATCH BAD-GUYS It’s important to look at this material again. Everyone knows that if they want to make psychology a career goal, one has to obtain a recognized degree from a properly approved university. The standard for America is a degree program that has been approved by the American Psychological Association and in Canada the degree program has to be approved by the Canadian Psychological Association.1 In terms of at least one ‘psychologist’ employed by the RCMP2, his diploma when he received it had neither approval.3 In other words, this RCMP ‘psychologist‘ who is accessing RCMP applicants in terms of their suitability has a diploma that is neither approved by the American Psychological Association nor by the Canadian Psychological Association. One young clean-cut RCMP applicant4 actually questioned this guy’s credentials: RECEIVED MAY 3 1 2010 D Division HSO 25 May, 2010 Neil Anderson Newly contracted RCMP Psychologist Health Services Offices D Division Headquarters: 1091 Portage Avenue P.O. Box 5650 Winnipeg, MB R3C 3K2 Mr. Anderson, I noticed that you are cited as having a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (Carpinteria, California), however, aren't their programs not approved by the APA because of the distance component in them and their programs are definitely not CP A approved 215
and if not APA or CP A approved are their degrees up to par? Given this, I will have to question your interview with myself that occurred on 7 May at R.C.M.P., 754 Dominion, Winnipeg, MB. Thank you The young recruit did not receive a reply to his 25 May, 2010 letter from this guy, Neal Anderson! In this case, for example, this clean cut kid told this RCMP ‘psychologist’ that he likes to catch bad guys [a seemingly worthwhile attitude if one wants to join the police] to which this ‘psychologist’ said he was unsuitable although the senior RCMP officers who interviewed the kid said he was just the type of guy they were looking for?4 As the young applicant recalled, this was the nature of his conversation with Anderson: Anderson: Would you be able to use force, arrest an individual suspected of a crime? Me: Yes. I have already arrested a number of criminals for different offences and have assisted others, Loss Prevention Officers, and police officers in arresting others. Anderson: If a mayor or family member committed a crime would you be able to arrest them. Me: Yes absolutely, I dislike anyone who has committed a crime, no matter what the crime is, and will not hesitate to arrest them or see that corrective action be taken for their criminal behavior. For instance, if my folks broke traffic laws I have informed them I would have to ticket them. I do not like associating with people who have admitted to crimes or been convicted of crimes. Anderson: Have you been a victim of a crime? Me: No. My parents raised me correctly in believing right from wrong, that is why I have never done anything wrong in my life. Anderson: Do you see everything in black and white, with regards to bad guys and good guys? Me: No there are areas of gray. For instance in my Loss Prevention, I detained people but did not call the police as there was no need to call the 216
police, as the amount of merchandise was small or the person was cooperative, but if one has committed a crime they will need to be detain. Anderson: Is there any reason for someone to break the law? Me: Police forces and police officers operating in under-cover incidents should be allowed to break the law if it can crack down on organized crime or terrorist groups, but there is no reason for an ordinary civilian to break the law. As the young clean-cut recruit also mentioned, apparently this Anderson became more “disturbed” or “agitated” after each answer given? Maybe, it’s this Anderson who should be assessed? After all, the answers given by this clean-cut kid are very similar to those given by a ‘hero’ cop This clean-cut kid tells Anderson he would enjoy getting the bad guy off the street as a police officer and this Anderson says he is unqualified to be an RCMP officer? Has this Anderson heard of people like Daril Cinquanta? Daril Cinquanta is a former Denver Police Officer, with about 200 commendations, as well as the Medal of Honor -- his favorite phrase: "I like to chase bad guys" … “The thing I liked most was the chase, catching bad guys …”. He also goes on to say: “as a 24-hour-a-day cop, Cinquanta made his mark by building a vast network of informants. He studied thousands of criminals. He learned their nicknames and the names of their brothers, sisters and girlfriends.” Police “serve and protect”! That’s what this clean-cut kid wanted to do? However, maybe the most important aspect of this case was the fact that this RCMP ‘psychologist’ concocted a story with two other RCMP employees to tell the young recruit instead of being up-front with him: From: To: Date:
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Neal, Stacey and I discussed that exact plan a few days ago. Forgot to mention it today. Barb This Neal Anderson went along and concocted a story to tell the young recruit instead of being up-front with him: â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Original Messageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; From: Neal ANDERSON To: Balcaen, Stacey <Stacey.D.Balcaen@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> To: SCHMALZ, Bairbara <Barbara.Schmalz@rcmp-grc.gc.ca> Sent: 04/30/2010 18:22:19 Barb and Stacey, Sounds like we need to have this applicant back in. I don't know him or about others' hesitancy, or what follow-up was done at this end. I suggest that, unless there's any administrative problem with our doing so, Stacey ask for the file back from Regina, and when we have it here, call the applicant in for an MCMI-III, and then to meet with me. If the applicant wonders why he's being asked back (assuming he's been informed he's been medically cleared), Stacey can acknowledge that I've been asked to meet with him after suitability review in Regina, and reassure him that! will be able to provide more information when he meets with me. Stacey, does that sound do-able? Barb, does that sound all right from your end? Neal Neal D. Anderson, Ph .D., C.Psych. Divisional Psychologist RCMP, "D7"V": Division Health Services 1091 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3K2 tel: (204) 984-2007 fax: (204) 984-5580 email: neal.d.anderson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
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As this young fellow said, “you can’t get a straight answer out of the RCMP?” He implied the RCMP were quite devious and wanted nothing further to do with them! One thought, however, came to mind. Could it be, because this young clean-cut RCMP applicant made it very clear that he liked to catch bad guys – the RCMP didn’t want him on their force because he would probably have his hands full catching his fellow officers? After all, look at the multitude of crimes committed by the RCMP, only a few mentioned in this book? Also, look at the attempts to cover-up crimes by the RCMP? Did this RCMP ‘psychologist’ want to rule this kid out for fear that he wouldn’t “turn a blind eye” to the shenanigans of some RCMP officers, including some high-up in the organization? This young clean-cut RCMP applicant also made it very clear to their socalled ‘psychologist’ that he would arrest anyone committing a crime – it appears that it became doubly important to the RCMP to rule the kid out? Surely don’t want a kid blowing the whistle on such crimes? Footnotes 1. How to Become a Psychologist If your school, at the time you attended it, was nationally accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA), then you shouldn’t have any problems. But if your school had only a regional accreditation, then the board of psychology in the state to which you move may declare that your academic training was deficient by its standards, and you would therefore have to retake some courses, or take additional courses, or receive additional training, that fulfill(s) the state’s requirements for a psychologist license. Also refer to: “The CPA has been accrediting doctoral and internship programmes in professional psychology since 1984.” Accreditation is governed by a set of Standards and Procedures to ensure that psychologists in Canada are trained for competent practice. The 219
Standards require the completion of a doctoral degree programme offered, in an area of professional psychology, under the direction of and delivered by a psychology faculty at a provincially or territorially charted Canadian university. Also refer to: “Frequently Asked Questions About Clinical Psychology” Prepared by Keith Dobson, Ph.D., University of Calgary A major distinction is made in clinical psychology between accredited and non-accredited programs. The Canadian and American Psychological Associations (CPA and APA) have established criteria for high-quality training. Programs that believe they meet these criteria can apply to CPA and/or APA, and have their program reviewed. If they are judged to pass the criteria, the program is said to be "accredited". 2. Reference to: RCMP Contracts Over $10,000 Dr. Neal D. Anderson (Ph.D., C. Psych.) is a registered clinical psychologist in private practice in Manitoba. He has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (Carpinteria, California). 3. This ‘psychologist’ has his diploma from Pacifica Graduate Institute which is neither approved by the American Psychological Association nor by the Canadian Psychological Association. ACIFICA: are yo a ro ed?? From: Wendy Overend (WOverend@pacifica.edu) Sent: May 13, 2010 10:55:59 AM To: thegoodones@ Pacifica has applied to APA for consideration. Please keep an eye on our website for news and updates on the APA application process. APA is only applicable to the Ph.D. Clinical Psychology program... which is full-time low residency and NOT a hybrid distance learning program. Please sign up online if you are interested in receiving our materials! Thanks, Wendy WOverend@pacifica.edu Again, as of 15 August, 2010 Pacifica Graduate Institute confirms again that they are not APA approved, with the statement “the acifica continues to update its Self-Study for application to the American sycholo ical Association for accreditation.” In other words, Pacifica Graduate Institute is not APA approved. 4. Reference to RCMP Application # A00184954 obtained under Privacy Access. 220
A search of Canada’s security and intelligence agency [CSIS] found no criminal record or any record about the young 22 year old applicant: Applicant Security Form Page 1 of 1 Personnel Security (RCMP) > Personnel Security > CSIS Response Applicant |D;A00184954 Application Status: Active Location: D0026 Security Screening Request No.: 170067878 CSIS Result Code: 1 No Reportable Traces Comments CASE CONCLUDED WITHOUT FIELD INVESTIGATION. 2010-02-24 One can also read the current author’s new books: RCMP 'Psychologist' Neil Anderson's Legacy to 'Honesty': Don't tell the applicant our secret? If Yo Like To Catch ad G ys This olice Force Doesn’t Want Yo ? If You Live at Home This Police Force Doesn't Want You? What kind of "wacky" police force is that? A Good Cop doesn't have to be a "Blow-hard"
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Chapter 35 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP PASS UP CLEAN-CUT KID BECAUSE HE LIVES WITH HIS FAMILY Let’s look at these whack-jacks some more? Although the RCMP recruitment was in full swing, and “even missteps in the past are not necessarily a barrier to employment”, 1 the RCMP wish to reject this clean-cut kid because he wasn’t dressed properly? What dastardly reason could there be that this clean-cut kid was not suitable for the RCMP? 2 RCMP Employee Stacey Balcaen said: (2010-05-03) Stacey Balcaen - Re: Fwd: Cadet Applicant The above noted applicant had been cleared medically from our office 2010-02-17 and the file is in Regina. There was some hesitance to clear him for all that met him, but at the time the MMPI was clear, no red flags noted from Regina Recruiting, he cleared the medical after a follow up... .so we had to continue on. I know that some people felt the same way in Regina, but there was nothing substantial at that time to red flag him for us or to conclude him on their end either. Let me know if I should re call back the medical file from Regina and have the applicant come in to talk to Neal. Thank you, Stacey What was the problem? RCMP Cpl. R.W.S. (Ron) O'Neill had this to say: Ron O'Neill 2010-04-28 14:36 Barbara J. Schmalz, Ph.D., R. Psych. Regional Psychologist -NWR 7575-8th St. N.E. Calgary, Alberta T2E 8A2 222
403-699-2453 403-699-2403 (fax) s.26 barbara.schmalz@rcmp-grc.gc.ca Hello Dr. Schmalz, Below is a list of concerns identified by Suitability Coordinator Kathleen Gibney with NWR Recruiting. This file has stood out as being particularly peculiar in history and behavior of the applicant. The applicant appears to have never lived independently and without the close monitoring, guidance and influence of his family. It is questionable as to whether this applicant possesses the qualities to fulfill duties of the general duty task bank. I am requesting assistance as to whether this file may warrant a further psychological evaluation for the applicant. Please feel free to call to discuss this applicant. Thanks. Ron Cpl.R.W.S. (Ron) O'Neill. NCO NWR Recruiting Services Office: (306) 780-7198 Fax: (306) 780-6105 email: Ron.O'Neill@rcmp-grc.gc.ca Oh, my God, does that seem stupid to you? Refuse a clean-cut 22 year old applicant because he lives with his family? Then again, maybe the family was a bad influence -- wrong again! As cited by RCMP Field Investigator Dave Sherstone “all enquiries garnered feedback indicative of strong parental influence in some areas with quite favorable feedback in other areas”: INVESTIGATION REPORT RAPPORT D'ENQUETE Protected A SECURITY CLASSIFICATION / DESIGNATION CLASSIFICATION/DESIGNATION SECURITAIRE R/M Applicant - Field Investigation
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8. Conclusion: All enquiries garnered feedback indicative of strong parental influence in some areas with quite favorable feedback in other areas. Dave Sherstone Field Investigator Oh, by the way, Dave Sherstone is actually the coroner in Nanaimo, British Columbia … and an RCMP Officer and should have a pretty good idea of what he has concluded about this applicant. What was NCO NWR Recruiting Services Cpl.R.W.S. (Ron) O'Neill ulterior motive in trying to rule this clean cut applicant out? As mentioned, could it be instead, because this young clean-cut RCMP applicant made it very clear that he liked to catch bad guys – the RCMP didn’t want him on their force because he would probably have his hands full catching his fellow officers? After all, look at the multitude of crimes committed by the RCMP, only a few mentioned in this book? Also, look at the attempts to cover-up crimes by the RCMP, as cited in this book? Did the RCMP want to rule this kid out for fear that he wouldn’t “turn a blind eye” to the shenanigans of some RCMP officers, including some high-up in the organization? This young clean-cut RCMP applicant also made it very clear to their socalled ‘psychologist’ that he would arrest anyone committing a crime – it appears that it became doubly important to the RCMP to rule the kid out? Surely don’t want a kid blowing the whistle on such RCMP crimes? Does the RCMP? Not on your life? Footnotes 1. Wanted: thousands of new police officers: Its image perhaps near a record low, the RCMP swings into hiring mode Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau Published On Sat Feb 10 2007 224
2. Reference to RCMP Application # A00184954. All these citation are in this file obtained through Privacy Access. One can also read the current authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new books: RCMP 'Psychologist' Neil Anderson's Legacy to 'Honesty': Don't tell the applicant our secret? If Yo Like To Catch ad G ys This olice Force Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Want Yo ? If You Live at Home This Police Force Doesn't Want You? What kind of "wacky" police force is that? A Good Cop doesn't have to be a "Blow-hard"
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Chapter 36 BEWARE ALL “LITTLE GUYS”, THE RCMP WILL GET YOU TOO – RCMP PASS UP CLEAN-CUT KID BECAUSE HE HAD TWO UNIVERSITY DEGREES Another interesting point to this young recruit’s case was the reference by RCMP employee Neal Anderson again to “I don't know him or about others' hesitancy” -- so a little more digging and low and behold the hesitancy by the RCMP to accept him as a recruit.1 What other dastardly reason could there be that this clean-cut kid was not suitable for the RCMP? RCMP Employee Kathleen Gibney incredibly raised the following: Kathleen Gibney 2010-04-28 13:52 Hi Ron, As per our conversation, here are some issue. that arose from backgrounds concerning the a/n applicant. The applicant always signs his correspondence with "B.A., B.Sc", no matter how informal the correspondence is. Various sources indicated that they had no issues with the applicant, Thank you, Kathleen Gibney Suitability Coordinator NWR Recruiting Unit "F" Division Tel. 306-780-6900 Fax. 306-780-6105 kathleen.gibney@rcmp-grc.gc.ca Oh, my God, the young 22 year old applicant had two university degrees [one as a degree completion and one on-campus studies]. Oh, definitely this is a reasonable reason not to employ him as an RCMP officer? Isn’t it?
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Does anyone else find this a most idiotic reason for this RCMP Suitability Coordinator Kathleen Gibney to rule him out as an applicant -- having two university degrees? Maybe the RCMP prefer people with drug convictions -- guess what, they do. What was RCMP Suitability Coordinator Kathleen Gibney’s ulterior motive in trying to rule this clean cut applicant out? As mentioned, could it be instead, because this young clean-cut RCMP applicant made it very clear that he liked to catch bad guys – the RCMP didn’t want him on their force because he would probably have his hands full catching his fellow officers? After all, look at the multitude of crimes committed by the RCMP, only a few mentioned in this book? Also, look at the attempts to cover-up crimes by the RCMP? Did the RCMP want to rule this kid out for fear that he wouldn’t “turn a blind eye” to the shenanigans of some RCMP officers, including some high-up in the organization? This young clean-cut RCMP applicant also made it very clear to their socalled ‘psychologist’ that he would arrest anyone committing a crime – it appears that it became doubly important to the RCMP to rule the kid out? Surely don’t want a kid blowing the whistle on such RCMP crimes? Then again, the RCMP don’t want to hire the son odf a “little guy” that successfully sued them [see Appendix 15a to 15d, cited below] Footnotes 1. Reference to RCMP Application # A00184954. All these citation are in this file obtained through Privacy Access. One can also read the current author’s new books: RCMP 'Psychologist' Neil Anderson's Legacy to 'Honesty': Don't tell the applicant our secret? If Yo Like To Catch ad G ys This olice Force Doesn’t Want Yo ? If You Live at Home This Police Force Doesn't Want You? 227
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Appendix 15a The “little guy” sued for lost wages of 1.3 million dollars [with actuarial evidence] and the first out-of-court settlement that the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP offered him was $150,000? The “little guy” told the lawyer that wasn’t enough, and the second out-ofcourt settlement that the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP offered him was $275,000? The “little guy” said that represented a moral victory over “the bastards” and said accept it! As far as the “little guy” is concerned, the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP still owe him the remaining 1 million dollars, together with a sizeable amount for his wife and children who have themselves been harassed by the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP! As for the current author can tell, all he can say is that there are apparently many “lying shit-heads” working for the Federal Government of Canada and the RCMP and that there is enough material out there in the press, in the media and via Google search he can write many, many books about them for years and years to come?
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Other Work Cognitive development: the functional aspect of symbolization and language, by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 1206866 Publisher: Winnipeg, S. Evans, ©1973. A bibliography of research on spatial and social behaviour by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 1188853 Publisher: Winnipeg : Thomas Todd Press, 1973. A bibliography of research on spatial behaviour. by Terry W Mallenby; Ruth G Roberts OCLC Number: 123780236 Publisher: Winnipeg : Thomas Todd Press, ©1973. A note on perceived self-acceptance of institutionalized mentally retarded (IMR) children. by TW Mallenby ISSN: 0022-1325 OCLC Number: 105523657 Article Language: English Publication: The Journal of genetic psychology, 1973 Sep; 123(1st Half): 171-2 Database: From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Personal space : direct measurement techniques with hard-of-hearing children by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 8686052 From: Environment and behavior ; v. 6, no. 1 (March 1974). Publisher: [Beverly Hills, CA] : Sage Publications, 1974. Effect of discussion on reduction of magnitude of Poggendorff illusion. by TW Mallenby ISSN: 0031-5125 OCLC Number: 107527338 Publication: Perceptual and motor skills, 1974 Oct; 39(2): 787-91 Database: From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Personal space: projective and direct measures with institutionalized mentally retarded children. by TW Mallenby ISSN: 0022-3891 OCLC Number: 105929976 Publication: Journal of personality assessment, 1974 Feb; 38(1): 28-31 Database: From MEDLINE速/PubMed速, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Personal Space: Projective and Direct Measures with Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Children by Terry Mallenby ISSN: 0022-3891 OCLC Number: 4631503689 Publication: Journal of Personality Assessment, v38 n1 (19740201): 28-31 Database: ERIC The ERIC database is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education. Personal Space: Direct Measurement Techniques with Hard-of-Hearing Children by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 424960945 Accession No: EJ098610 Publication: Environment and Behavior, 6, 1, 117-122, Mar 74 Database: ERIC The ERIC database is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education. MALLENBY, TERRY W., Personal Space: Direct Measurement Techniques with Hardof-Hearing Children: Environment and Behavior 6(1) p. 117 N: 0013-9165 OCLC Number: 4647243973 Publication: Environment and Behavior, v6 n1 (19740301): 127-127 Database: ERIC The ERIC database is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education. The effect of extended contact with "normals" on the social behavior of hard-of-hearing children. by TW Mallenby ISSN: 0022-4545 OCLC Number: 107863896 Publication: The Journal of social psychology, 1975 Feb; 95(First Half): 137-8 Database: From MEDLINE速/PubMed速, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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The personal space of hard-of-hearing children after extended contact with 'normals'. by TW Mallenby; RG Mallenby ISSN: 0007-1293 OCLC Number: 113775903 Publication: The British journal of social and clinical psychology, 1975 Sep; 14(3): 253-7 Database: From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The Effect of Extended Contact with "Normals" on the Social Behavior of Hard-ofHearing Children by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 427052930 Accession No: EJ118344 Publication: Journal of Social Psychology, 95, 137-8, Feb 75 Database: ERIC The ERIC database is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education. The personal space of hard-of-hearing children after extended contact with "normals" by Terry W Mallenby; Ruth G Mallenby OCLC Number: 14151807 Notes: Caption title. From: British journal of social and clinical psychology ; v. 14, no. 3 (Sept. 1975) Description: p. 253-257. Publisher: [Great Britain : s.n., 1975] The missing person in measurement techniques of interpersonal distance. by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 678920246 Thesis/dissertation : Document : eBook Computer File Publisher: [Burnaby, B.C.] : [s.n.], ©1975. The Effect of Extended Contact with “Normals” on the Social Behavior of Hard-ofHearing Children by Terry Mallenby ISSN: 0022-4545 OCLC Number: 4653399646 Publication: The Journal of Social Psychology, v95 n1 (19750201): 137-138 Database: ERIC The ERIC database is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education. Facilitating the disappearance of perceptual error to the Poggendorff illusion. by TW Mallenby ISSN: 0023-8309 OCLC Number: 112913792 Publication: Language and speech, 1976 Apr-Jun; 19(2): 193-9 Database: From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Incidents of physical assault against child-abuse investigation workers : the nature of child-abuse protection legislation as possible reason for such incidents : some Canadian provincial examples of internal policies attempting to deal with such incidents : placing the trend of such incidents into a theoretical perspective by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 44178037 Thesis/dissertation : Manuscript Archival Material Publisher: 1994. Teach your child to read : a simple method for parents and educators by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 61554932 - 1984 The relative effectiveness of whole- and part-task simulators OCLC Number: 222728551 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1984 Quality assurance in medical/health care utilizing and incorporating three methods of evaluation: process, setting and outcome : an introduction to assessing medical/health care by means of a conceptual "process matrix" : with special reference to acute care and chronic care hospitals by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 184866019 - 1986. When the "baby-boom" cohort reaches 65 : will it be social chaos or a carefully planned transition? : an introductory research proposal by Terry W Mallenby OCLC Number: 184861481 - 1986. Child abuse : a beginning social worker's understanding and use of the DSM-III-R and three reactive mental disorders following child abuse : reactive attachment disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and adjustment disorder by Terry Wallice Mallenby; Institute of Psychometric Assessment (Bay Roberts, Newfoundland) OCLC Number: 40533667 - 1994 Dealing with a violent work environment : internal policies and legislation dealing with physical assault and other threats against child protective social workers by Terry W Mallenby; Institute of Psychometric Assessment, Applied Studies & Investigative Research. ISBN: 0969594402 9780969594406 OCLC Number: 35875995 - 1994 Notes: Revision of author's thesis. Description: vii, 473 leaves ; 29 cm. Series Title: Employee assistance program series.
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How to make staff safe : how to reduce labour-management conflict : how to reduce staff grievances by Terry W Mallenby ISBN: 0969594402 9780969594406 OCLC Number: 62920434 - 1997 Other Titles: How to reduce labor-management conflict, How to reduce staff grievances
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