Hi Charles, from a fellow Frederictonian now in Belgrade, Serbia...
Regarding your video above of the "arrest" by the police from Edmundston, New Brunswick...
1. What are their legal grounds for making the arrest in public rather than at your home? Where you in the act of committing the "crime" that they accused you of on the street at that time... "defamatory libel"? Is your alleged past commission of that crime of such a current threat to public safety that such an incident needs to be played out on Fredericton's streets... in the opinion of the Fredericton mayor and police chief?
2. Specifically, what was the crime that they were attempting to lay a charge on you for? And why did delivering the charge sheet on that crime require taking you to a police station in "Oromocto"? And if it was a federal matter requiring RCMP involvement, why was it not a uniformed RCMP officer making the arrest?
3. Why were police from a far corner of the province attempting to make the arrest in the capital city? Do police from any town in New Brunswick have universal jurisdiction to make arrests everywhere else in New Brunswick, ie. outside their home town of Edmunston? Does their power of arrest extend, for example into other provinces, such as Quebec? When the police officer whom you recognized from Fredericton showed up, why did he not assume responsibility for the arrest and take you to the nearest police station? If two city/town police from New Brunswick meet you on the street at the same time in Fredericton, does the Fredericton police officer have priority authority?
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4. If you were not in the act of committing the alleged crime at the instant of this attempted arrest, why were you stopped on a public street in a shaming manner that could damage your reputation and cause you personal distress? Was this intentional?
5. Do you have a competent lawyer? I think you need his/her number on "speed dial" given the way you are being treated in Fredericton by the local authorities.
I leave you with a few appropriate quotes:
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do NOT want to hear.” ― George Orwell
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” ― United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." ― Harry Truman
And most appropriate for friendly little Fredericton, from my late friend Abbie:
“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.” ― Abbie Hoffman
Charles, you have the overwhelming support of the educated citizens of Fredericton who are equipped with a solid understanding of the meaning of living in a democracy with a charter of human rights. The settlement that you should seek for the harassment you have endured over these years could reach well into six figures, and certainly more than the third of a million that the local Irving apparatchiks have wasted on their armored car (a glorified green-painted pickup truck) to protect a pipeline that will never, ever be built.
Thank you for your sacrifices in protection of the freedoms of the people of New Brunswick and for keeping attention focussed on the tin pot dictatorship of the Irving oligarch family of New Brunswick, whose total control over New Brunswick makes even the most powerful oligarchs of Eastern Europe green with envy. I can just hear them now: "How in the world can one oligarch family drain so many tens of billions of dollars (tax-free!) out of the pockets of the people of a single jurisdiction as poor as that province?!"
Good luck and may God be with you!
John Bosnitch jbosnitch@gmail.com SKYPE: johnbosnitch
As for buying an armored vehicle, the amateurish approach of the Fredericton keystone cops reminds me of the movie "Crocodile Dundee" when a man brandishes a knife at the hero... and Crocodile Dundee responds "you call that a 'knife'?".... So Fredericton City Council calls that souped-up pickup truck a safe way to transport bystanders out of harm's way for over a third of a million dollars??
How about getting serious... the attached image is a Czech Armored Personnel Carrier on sale now starting from about $17,000... it has eight wheels, goes underwater up to 6 meters, carries up to eight people, can resist any weapons available in Canada and cannot be burned or rolled. You can buy twenty (20!) of these for the price of that childish pickup truck, paint them all psychedelic pink (to let the suspect know the end is near) and use them to evacuate a whole town, drive right over a suspect's barricade or through the front wall of his home and even give a 20-tank escort to the next Gay Parade...
The $17,000 better choice: http://www.mortarinvestments.eu/products/armoured-vehicles-4/btr-60-8#currency=USD
The wastefulness of the council in not either buying a superior used vehicle like this, or simply seeking backup from Base Gagetown (the biggest army base in the Commonwealth, 30 minutes away) or adding reasonable armor to an existing 4WD police vehicle, boggles the mind... but then again, who cares? It's not Irving's sacred money we're talking about... it's just a matter of pickpocketing the defenseless taxpayer yet once again! ;-)
Hi Charles, from a fellow Frederictonian now in Belgrade, Serbia...
ReplyDeleteRegarding your video above of the "arrest" by the police from Edmundston, New Brunswick...
1. What are their legal grounds for making the arrest in public rather than at your home? Where you in the act of committing the "crime" that they accused you of on the street at that time... "defamatory libel"? Is your alleged past commission of that crime of such a current threat to public safety that such an incident needs to be played out on Fredericton's streets... in the opinion of the Fredericton mayor and police chief?
2. Specifically, what was the crime that they were attempting to lay a charge on you for? And why did delivering the charge sheet on that crime require taking you to a police station in "Oromocto"? And if it was a federal matter requiring RCMP involvement, why was it not a uniformed RCMP officer making the arrest?
3. Why were police from a far corner of the province attempting to make the arrest in the capital city? Do police from any town in New Brunswick have universal jurisdiction to make arrests everywhere else in New Brunswick, ie. outside their home town of Edmunston? Does their power of arrest extend, for example into other provinces, such as Quebec? When the police officer whom you recognized from Fredericton showed up, why did he not assume responsibility for the arrest and take you to the nearest police station? If two city/town police from New Brunswick meet you on the street at the same time in Fredericton, does the Fredericton police officer have priority authority?
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ReplyDelete4. If you were not in the act of committing the alleged crime at the instant of this attempted arrest, why were you stopped on a public street in a shaming manner that could damage your reputation and cause you personal distress? Was this intentional?
5. Do you have a competent lawyer? I think you need his/her number on "speed dial" given the way you are being treated in Fredericton by the local authorities.
I leave you with a few appropriate quotes:
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do NOT want to hear.” ― George Orwell
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
― United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." ― Harry Truman
And most appropriate for friendly little Fredericton, from my late friend Abbie:
“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.” ― Abbie Hoffman
Charles, you have the overwhelming support of the educated citizens of Fredericton who are equipped with a solid understanding of the meaning of living in a democracy with a charter of human rights. The settlement that you should seek for the harassment you have endured over these years could reach well into six figures, and certainly more than the third of a million that the local Irving apparatchiks have wasted on their armored car (a glorified green-painted pickup truck) to protect a pipeline that will never, ever be built.
Thank you for your sacrifices in protection of the freedoms of the people of New Brunswick and for keeping attention focussed on the tin pot dictatorship of the Irving oligarch family of New Brunswick, whose total control over New Brunswick makes even the most powerful oligarchs of Eastern Europe green with envy. I can just hear them now: "How in the world can one oligarch family drain so many tens of billions of dollars (tax-free!) out of the pockets of the people of a single jurisdiction as poor as that province?!"
Good luck and may God be with you!
John Bosnitch
jbosnitch@gmail.com
SKYPE: johnbosnitch
As for buying an armored vehicle, the amateurish approach of the Fredericton keystone cops reminds me of the movie "Crocodile Dundee" when a man brandishes a knife at the hero... and Crocodile Dundee responds "you call that a 'knife'?".... So Fredericton City Council calls that souped-up pickup truck a safe way to transport bystanders out of harm's way for over a third of a million dollars??
ReplyDeleteHow about getting serious... the attached image is a Czech Armored Personnel Carrier on sale now starting from about $17,000... it has eight wheels, goes underwater up to 6 meters, carries up to eight people, can resist any weapons available in Canada and cannot be burned or rolled. You can buy twenty (20!) of these for the price of that childish pickup truck, paint them all psychedelic pink (to let the suspect know the end is near) and use them to evacuate a whole town, drive right over a suspect's barricade or through the front wall of his home and even give a 20-tank escort to the next Gay Parade...
The $17,000 better choice:
http://www.mortarinvestments.eu/products/armoured-vehicles-4/btr-60-8#currency=USD
The wastefulness of the council in not either buying a superior used vehicle like this, or simply seeking backup from Base Gagetown (the biggest army base in the Commonwealth, 30 minutes away) or adding reasonable armor to an existing 4WD police vehicle, boggles the mind... but then again, who cares? It's not Irving's sacred money we're talking about... it's just a matter of pickpocketing the defenseless taxpayer yet once again! ;-)
Bravo Fredericton City Council!