It Is Time To Stop Rent A Cop Nonsense
It is lucrative for the recipients but it calls the administration of justice into question.
A store can hire a cop or a film festival can hire a cop and they work for the person who hires them except (nudge nudge wink wink) they enforce the law. They wear
a policeman's uniform and carry a policeman's weapons.
Many times during the Toronto festival these rentacops stop traffic and pedestrians
to allow so called famous people to move freely while ordinary mortals have to wait.
Simply wrong. When a renta cop breaks the law or tries to allow what they were hired
to allow, do not obey. Guns and laws are made for everyone. People pay taxes and if
the taxes are not enough pay more taxes. Cops are servants of us all not just a
privileged few
Examples of abuse abound, in stores where a person who complains about a product or
an ad they are ushered out. Legal but wrong. Ball games they wander the stadium
watching the play and doing the bidding of the highest bidder. It is sort of like
having CN security guards...wrong , wrong, wrong
Companies have designated constables, note the word constables and not police
officers. Also note they are sworn to protect the company not you or me and act in
an arbitrary manner.
Talking about renta cops and security guards. Capreol's own CN security guard is at
it again. She is enforcing not zero tolerance which is silly in the extreme but strict zero tolerance whatever that is but probably silly also.
Cass has a hard time dealing with armed security guards. I am at a disadvantage. I
retaliate without a gun with intelligence and knowledge
English is also a problem. I wonder what happens when someone enforces just zero
tolerance instead of a strict zero tolerance? The CN security guard in Capreol was
quoted as saying the strict zero silliness rule would be enforced when she was
interviewed by the Sudbury Star. I ask again, what is just zero tolerance?
She noted to the Star reporter who did not question her remarks that someone
reported someone went around the gates. I do not believe for a moment anyone
routinely goes around crossing arms. If someone did indeed tell the security guard
that I would suggest they are fibbing. If the gates are down for ten hours one would
certainly have cause to do so although they would be breaking a law. Tut tut. What
if they were down for fifteen minutes could they go around then. The what about 10
minutes etc? Cass was at the crossing at Suez recently and a worker waved me
through, so I drove through as did many other cars. If the worker had not been there
should I have stayed there forever? The same things happens when signals malfunction
whether at Maley or elsewhere.
FYI if you get stopped by a CN security guard on a mission to warn about the her
importance or the importance of obeying light at crossing etc, sue them. An easy few
hundred dollars I would think.
Now lest someone say the security guard is trying to prevent an accident or she is
stopping you for your own safety, I ask would you like to be arbitrarily stopped by
a Roma security guard and told it is dangerous to trespass on their property or
drive to Copper Cliff and be stopped by an Inco security guard and told the same
thing. Nonsense, it is arbitrary detention by a private security guard and wrong.
Some people ask why I pick on the CN security guards so often. Cass answers simply
because they are in our face and the most visible egregious example of this unfair
privileged quirk of the elite. It is wrong to give a private citizen (CN Railway) a
gun and extra ordinary powers that you and I cannot have. Hard copy papers stop a
story when the news values stops selling papers. Cass will stop when the injustice
of it all ends and security guards from CN/CP/ONR etc are put in the same class as
Inco security. Fine men without guns.
Cold Dead Hands
Charlton Heston has died. He was a lightening rod for silly left wingers who feel
they have a monopoly on the truth.. they don't have.
Heston was dramatic and firm in his belief that everyone in the Republic of Handguns
had a right to bear arms as said in the constitution. Doesn't seem too far wrong.
Either change the constitution or follow it. Cass may not agree but Cass may not
always be right.
Heston was a republican and worked hard for the causes he espoused. Decent is a word
Cass would use to describe him. Not a bad word to be remembered by. He was stubborn
maybe but decent and good.
Heston was married to the love of his life and remained so for over 60 years. They
had been married 64 years when he died.
Heston drew as much publicity for his crusades as for his performances. In addition
to his NRA work, he campaigned for Republican presidential and congressional
candidates and against affirmative action. What is wrong for standing up for what
you believe. The left has had their harbingers of doom and gloom for years trying to
influence society and Heston thought he had a right to espouse his values. There is
nothing wrong with thinking government should stay out of the hearts and minds of
individuals and that people should stand on their own two feet. He was not without
sympathy for those less fortunate. He felt society not governments should help them
and give a helping hand not a hand out.
He resigned from Actors Equity, because of the union's refusal to allow a white
actor to play a Eurasian role in Miss Saigon. He quite rightly said that such an
action was "obscenely racist". and Cass agrees. If a Jew can play Mary Mother of
Christ then a White person should be able to play a Eurasian. It is called acting.
He like many his age backed war once it was declared and again, it was an honest
thing and one doesn't have to agree with his stance to agree with his right to have
that opinion. He attacked CNN's reports from Baghdad as "sowing doubts" about the
allied effort in the 1990-91 Gulf War.
A lot, all was written about a man they called racist, red necked etc but he was
saying what you and I say about different issues. He also agreed; there is nothing
wrong with being white and Charlton Heston was a good white guy.
It Already Is A Shrine And Already Remembered
Cass doesn't mind any veteran getting a medal...Cass objects with all her might the
idea that I or anyone not associated with Vimy could wear the pilgrims medal....The
people in 1936 were all veterans. The people in 2007 were for the most part partying
teens who were sent by a misguided government who ignored the WW11 veterans who
would have deserved a trip without bullets flying to the battle grounds of France.
Eventually, Christopher Sweeney hopes, the anniversary of the Battle at Vimy Ridge
and April 9 will be synonymous.
From the Globe and Mail "I want it to become as familiar to Canadians as Mother's
Day or Father's Day," says Sweeney, a director of the Vimy Foundation, a non-profit
organization that seeks to raise awareness of Canada's significant role in the First
World War battle. Sweeney is also the designer of the foundation's pilgrimage medal,
an item that has struck a chord in Parliament. Today, on the 91st anniversary of the
battle, caucuses from all political parties will be wearing the commemorative medals
during Question Period." Well if the caucuses had any brains they would have said
thanks but no thanks to such a public relations scam. Medals being worn by legion
officers and former officers, cadets and other quasi military bodies and
organizations belittle the service of those who belong to the military and those
regarding Vimy belittle those that died some ninety years ago.
Again from the Globe and Mail "On the medal, the word "pilgrimage" appears for a
symbolic reason. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, built on the former
battleground in France, was unveiled in 1936. At the unveiling, 8,000 Canadian First
World War veterans returned to the place they had fought two decades before.
"They were described in the press at the time as 'pilgrims,' " Sweeney says. "They
were making a pilgrimage to the slaughtering fields of Europe. And they were all
given a medal, called the pilgrimage medal, to celebrate their return to Vimy"...
Note, they were veterans and only veterans were given the medal.
I do not want to rain on Mr.. Sweeney's parade but when I saw the first photo of the
medal without reading the inscription, I said I said Arab country, martyr. Simple
because the colours are the colours of the flags or Afghanistan, Palestine UAR and
probably many other Arab nations. The red stripe was for the blood of martyrs.
Turned out, I was wrong but then so is Mr. Sweeney in giving out a pilgrims medal to
a civilian and not asking for permission from those who lived through war and who
were not offered a chance to be pilgrims.
Cass has been there and Cass was moved to tears. There are still thousands buried
from both sides in the grounds that are deeded to Canada. let that be our
remembrance and not some public relations ploy.
Pirates Let Go Because They May Be Punished
Here it is, justice gone mad. British sailors from Royal Navy warships are not
allowed to detain pirates because if they are turned over to Somalia or some other
government they might be beheaded or have a hand cut off and therefore they can
claim asylum here.
In Canada it is illegal to search people coming into contact with prisoners; result,
drugs are rampant in jails. In Canada it is illegal to hold illegal immigrants,
results hundreds of thousands over the past years are in Canada. We do not say that
many because every once in a while we declare them not illegal. In doing so, we stop
decent people who want to come in the front door.
Race ought never be a consideration for not giving a job nor should race be a
consideration for giving a job. Sending people to be tortured is not government
policy but we cannot take 100,000 pirates or drug dealers because they would be
tortured in their own land,.
May I suggest, they do not sell drugs or raid ships on the high seas?
Justice O'Driscoll and Justice
One more reason for you and I to fear our system of justice and the courts, Crown's
and lawyers in general.issue of the extent to which the trial judge should enter the
arena," Mr. Lockyer said. Mr. Baltovich assessment of the learned Justice O'Driscoll
was much more kind than my thoughts are.
We are all painfully aware of the Bain murder and the Baltovich trial which if we
had capital punishment would have seen him dead as would be Guy Paul Morin and
several other innocents who were good upstanding citizen with no criminal past or
connections to draw them into the web of deceit and denial that is our justice
system.
Both these men were persecuted by the police because they did not act as the police
thought they should act or react to murders.
The Justice forgetting what his role was during the McBain murder trial; gave a
charge to the Jury that baffled myself and others although without legal training
were shocked with what they heard. One nonsensical statement of O'Driscoll while
refuting a statement by the defence that Baltovitch could not have driven Bain's car
because it was a standard was that all males could drive a standard. What O'Driscoll
did was become a part of the adversarial system as many judges do but not always
with the disastrous results of this case. Judges should be adjudicator, explain the
case and the law and allow the jury to decide based on what was said not what the
judge believed should have been said.
In its ruling, the appeal court cited numerous examples of Judge O'Driscoll
conveying his doubts about the defence position or holding it up to ridicule.
"Suffice it to say that taken cumulatively, they indicate the trial judge's contempt
for the defence position. In our opinion, that view would not have been lost on the
jury," the court said.
From the Globe and Mail: "I think that some inquiry commissioners - who are always
judges or retired judges - demonstrate a reluctance to examine the role of the
judiciary in wrongful convictions," Mr. Lockyer said yesterday.
However, in at least one case, the commissioner had no choice. In 1994, when Ontario
attorney-general Marion Boyd called a public inquiry into Guy Paul Morin's wrongful
murder conviction, she said it would not be permitted to examine the conduct of the
judge at Mr. Morin's 1992 retrial. The Morin defence team considered the conduct of
Mr. Justice James Donnelly of the Ontario Court's General Division to be unfair and
prejudicial. Think Donnelly and think Truscott at the same time
Most newer judges are not enamored by the police. Old judges seem to think the
police have special knowledge they try to convey...It was like the old breathalyzer
days when the code word was uncooperative and Crown Judge and defense didn't think
it wrong.
. Dalton McGuinty appears to favor calling an inquiry. Cass would hope he does.
The Supremes Did It Again
It seems the police have been hog tied again buy the SCC. Sniffer dogs used to find
drugs in schools and save many children from a horrible future have been ruled
illegal. Apparently this Court where members seem to be living in a different world
do not understand the detection of drugs protect our children. Cass admits the civil rights of individuals may be violated in a minor way but that violation should be
allowed because of the greater good for society the same as road checks for impaired
drivers is allowed. If ever the public's right to safety is more important than
freedom of an offender It is when a person sells or takes drugs into a school It is
a privilege to attend school and that privilege ought not to be without obligations.
The cases involved evidence of narcotics detected by sniffer dogs at an Alberta bus
terminal and an Ontario high school. The court ruled the evidence cannot be used
because the individuals involved had a reasonable expectation of privacy, the
Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a pair of 6-3 decisions on Friday.
"Cass would say the children in the schools have a right to be safe and where there
are drug deals there are hoodlums. The safety of the students has precedence over
the rights of those who would sell hell to our young people. Cass would also say the
checking of buss passengers who might be loading a bomb should be allowed. One does
not have to take a bus but if they do certain limitations of and on their freedom of
movement should be expected.
Sieg Heil Until They Were Losing
A Mr. von Boeselager, supposedly disturbed by the Nazi campaign of extermination
against the Jews and by German atrocities that he witnessed as a lieutenant on the
Eastern Front, joined an anti-Hitler conspiracy in 1942 and later took part in the
plot being organized by Col. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Von Stauffenberg is
the much lauded Nazi who tried to kill Hitler to secure a better peace for Germany
when he and others decided the Fuehrer was losing the war on all fronts and victory
was not possible.
Note the von in von Boeselager's name. Hitler was not too happy by the vons in
Germany. He was assigned to get explosives ready for the July 20th attempt of
Hitler's life. On July 20, Colonel von Stauffenberg carried a briefcase stuffed with
plastic explosives and a timed detonator into a conference being held at Hitler's
headquarters in East Prussia, and placed it under a table being used by Hitler.
Unfortunately or fortunately depending where you are now, von Stauffenberg did not
use all the explosives prepared and as a result, the accidental moving of the
briefcase allowed the reduced blast to be deflected away from Hitler and he
survived.
The Valkyrie plotters had planned to take over Berlin and take charge of the war and
the country. There was no nonsense of a democratic revolt. these were people saving
their own skins and their country's which honours them a bit.
Had the assassination succeeded, Mr. von Boeselager was supposed to lead men back to
Berlin and take part in a general uprising against the Nazi regime, code-named
Operation Valkyrie.
Most of the approximately 200 conspirators, including Colonel von Stauffenberg, were
rounded up and executed, while others committed suicide. No one apparently revealed
Mr. von Boeselager's role in the plot. That surprises Cass.
Anyway, he is dead and there are lots of questions and no answers.
One question Cass would ask is why the Churchill regime did not help kill Hitler and
end the war. I know revenge is a powerful master but thousands of Canadians and
other died because Hitler was allowed to wage war for two years.
24 Sussex Drive
The government spent a fortune on consultants to tell you what Cass printed here
three years ago. 24 Sussex is a hole and needs repairs.
Cass, you will remember was invited to 24 Sussex as part of a PR program and was
shocked at what was jokingly called the PM residence. The kitchen was small and
poorly appointed, cupboard doors were falling off the hinges and carpeting was
something one would expect in a teen agers room...leopard skin on the stairs for
gawd's sake.
Now the auditor general has said it needs 10 million in repairs. Wow, a revelation
people will pay attention to. Well it had better start soon because the building is
falling down on its tenants. The tunnel leading to Trudeau's swimming pool must have
caused laughs to Barbara Streisand and other puffs that Trudeau took for a swim
there. It really looked like it was out of a Boris Karloff movie. Indeed, I doubt if
two people could comfortably walk side by side. I do not know if Maggie was still
smoking pot at 24 Sussex when the tunnel was put in but if she was, I suspect she
designed it. Her little retreat upstairs was a master piece of silliness but that is
for another story.
Fix 24 Sussex, leave the upkeep to the NCC and then we could all hope to be invited
to a home we can be proud of.
Have a good one,
Cass
