Victoria public drug use out of control

So what can we do? Well, fist step is to get involved in civil elections and elect people like Larry O'Brien and not reelect people like Philippe Lucas who thinks the solution to the problem is to hand out free crack pipes. Obviously, that is not working. You don't use tax dollars to buy alcohol for alcoholics. That is not in the addicts best interest and it certainly isn't in societies best interest.

I saw the problems in Victoria when residents were complaining that the needle exchange wasn't an exchange any more. The idea behind a needle exchange was an addict trades in a used needle for a new one in attempts to stop needles from ending up all over the streets and play grounds. Then some brain surgeon changed it to sheer distribution of free needles so used needles were being dumped everywhere at taxpayers expense. That is insane.

Then you have the problematic nature of enforcing drug laws when you have a needle exchange. You can't really charge someone for selling heroine if you are handing out free needles in that area so the drug laws aren't enforced. You sure can't arrest someone for using a needle the government just gave them for free.

And of course if you're letting people use and sell heroin in the area you can't really say heroin is OK but crack or meth isn't. So as soon as a needle exchange starts up the use and distribution of crack becomes rampant. Especially when they let addicts inject cocaine in the Vancouver safe injection site.

It is clear that these programs are not working. It is clear that addictions are increasing as is the crime associated with feeding a drug addiction. What we are doing is insane. We need to draw a line between pot and crack. Stop handing out free crack pipes. Needle exchanges are exchanges. If someone doesn't hand in a used needle they don't get a new needle.

We need to stop letting people smoke crack in public and we need to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for selling crack or meth and enforce them. It is really that simple. That is the New York model. I saw it work.

Social housing yes. Free drugs no.

Homes not Drugs. That is social responsibility.

UFC in Vancouver with Chuck Liddell

Lets get ready to rumble!!!! UFC in Vancouver tonight with Chuck Liddell - gotta love that. Make sure you take lots of pictures with your cell phones of Chuck's biggest fans - Nomad Bob Green and his quarky cousin from that /70's show Len Pelletier. Who knows, maybe Randy Jones will be standing on the red carpet with his pal Russell Peters. This is going to be a great event.

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Well Chuck Liddell did well. He caught one on the chin and lost but he fought well and as a commentator said he has carried the sport for many years. Indeed he has. A noble legacy indeed. I got off work early but by the time I made it to the bar the fight was over. I wanted to see the Cro Cop fight too but missed that one as well. It's a tough sport. Reversals can happen at any moment. That triangle submission was the perfect example.

Just remember that it was Royce Gracie who put the sport on the map. I remember guys like Oleg Taktarov. Russian Sambo ankle locks. Gotta love that. Now it's more steroids and ground and pound. Hopefully as the sport evolves we'll see more martial arts. Either way, a big salute to Chuck Liddell for a solid legacy that no one can take away from him.

Quebec union leader's truck torched

Yves Mercure, the new president of the construction wing of the Quebec Federation of Labour just had his pick up truck torched outside his home.

Jocelyn Dupuis, the former president was accused of fraud. The arrest was part of Operation Diligence, a probe that resulted in the arrests of several people in November who were allegedly part of a network created by Hells Angel Normand Marvin (Casper) Ouimet, 40, with the goal of seizing control of several masonry companies. Marvin is the guy that really needs to put his shirt back on:



Marvin is still wanted on a Canada wide warrant. The fraud is one thing but the real issue appears to be the claim that the Hells Angels have taken over the construction industry in Quebec and made it part of an organized crime ring. Well at least they're branching out from selling crack and GHB. Unfortunately it looks like it's just money laundering for those drug businesses.

Adam Scorgie and the Business behind Getting High

Well looks like Kelowna resident Adam Scorgie won some awards for his movie called The Union: the Business behind Getting High. It's a great movie and there are a few things I want to comment on. First of all, I think hemp farms for paper would help save the rainforests and help solve global warming.

Second of all I think there is a big difference between pot and crack or meth. Big difference. The problem as I see it is that the Hells Angels are taking over all the grow ops, trading the BC bud for cocaine in the US and selling the cocaine as crack here in Canada. That's where the big money is. However, that's what the gang war is about and is why people are ending up dead. Crack and meth also f*cks up our communities as well. Not to mention all that date rape drug and crystal meth. Much.

Nevertheless, the movie makes some good points. Privatizing prisons? What is up with that? Making a profit from prisons by turning them into work camps and slave labour? Work camps for prisoners is one thing and a great idea for early parole as opposed to mandatory statutory early release but making a profit from prisons is bad. It removes the incentive to rehabilitate prisoners. The corporation makes more money when more people are in prison. It is a conflict of interest.

Ah but I digress. Adam is a local Kelowna boy. Did he know Britney Irving? How about making a movie about the whole truth BEHIND the business of getting high? Who killed her and why? What about Geoff Meisner? These cases are related. What started off as nice people selling some harmless weed has seen some bad people come in and start killing people because they want to trade the pot for cocaine to make more money. That is the real business behind the business.

Here's a Youtube trailer. Oh don't worry, there's more to come. But there are a few facts that I do disagree with in the film first. They quote the number of deaths due to smoking in a year and the number of deaths due to alcohol in a year. Then they get some crackerjack quack in a doctor's outfit that claims there are zero deaths a year from smoking pot. Hold the door. Smoking one cigarette will not kill you. Yet smoking causes cancer which results in people dying every year.

Smoking pot causes cancer too. Especially because it's unfiltered smoke. In fact the medical statistics are such that smoking pot is 70% more cancer causing than smoking tobacco. The difference is that *most* people don't smoke as much pot as they so cigarettes. Usually someone would smoke one joint a day as opposed to a whole pack of cigarettes. However, there are a lot of people out there that smoke way too much pot. Smoking pot causes cancer just like smoking cigarettes does so saying people die from smoking cigarettes but not from smoking pot is false and misleading.

The other quote is about deaths due to alcohol. We know alcohol damages the liver. Nothing wrong with a social drink once in a while. Yet we all know someone who is or was an alcoholic. Do we know anyone who is a pothead? Someone who smokes way too much pot like every day? That does have physical effects on the body and the brain.

Another cause of death with alcohol is drinking and driving. Some people drink alcohol and then drive. Some of those people end up killing themselves or worse killing someone else. Smoking pot will not kill you or give you a hairy palm but it does impair your judgement and your ability to drive. Driving under the influence of pot is just like driving under the influence of alcohol. To say that no one has ever died from someone driving while under the influence of pot is absolutely false.

Turns out it was Adam's step father that put up the money to make the movie. His late father Bud used to own Cheeta's nightclub. I'm sure the fact that a A.C. Scorgie lives near a large grow op in Kelowna that was busted is completely unrelated. In fact there were six grow ops in the Ellison area. Young kids and guns were found in the region as well.

'Hood under siege?

The cover of today's Vancouver Province reads: 'Hood under siege referring to another shooting in Surrey, this time in Clayton Heights. OK so they're going for the drama.

Clayton Heights is not the hood. Abbotsford is not the hood. These are the suburbs where wealthy drug dealers can afford to live. The hood is where the rest of us who can't afford to live in those neighbourhoods live.

Nevertheless, the murders have started to spike again.

The Surrey Now ran a follow up article stating: Surrey neighbours stand by their 'hood'.

Surrey Rally Against Injustice

There was a rally against injustice today at Surrey Central. It was in response to a recent court decision where a murderer was set free. The parents of the murder victim did not attend but friends and relatives did. One member from the support group they started called Families Against Crime and Trauma calmly and sincerely spoke to the media expressing her opinion and her feelings about how justice has failed in this case.



One little girl made her own sign and told the media how parts of us are gone now. Indeed she is right. When a murder is set free, we are all diminished.



4 Witnesses did not lie. Justice Failed Matthew.



Looks like Surrey has a new gang shirt:







Here are some more photos from the rally. The call has been made for a Judicial Review of this decision. Not just this decision but all the bad decisions coming out of BC courts lately. We need to turn the tide on the bad jurisprudence. That process begins here.



This is a copy of the Quin Verdict Review Petition.

The mother of the victim wrote a powerful book about her heart wrenching task of watching the video of her son's savage beating and murder which concluded the last six minutes of his life. Witnesses testified that they were screaming for the large male to stop beating the small boy. He felt his pulse said he's not dead yet, then walked away to meet his girlfriend Quinn. Video footage shows him return to the body and slit the boys throat ending his life. Witnesses testified they all heard Quin say to her boyfriend, if you love me, you'll kill him.

Body pulled from Okanagan Lake in Kelowna

Around noon today, workers in Kelowna replacing decking at a marina at the foot of Queensway found a body floating under the dock. It has yet to be determined whether the body is that of a male or female, however, police believe the body has been in Okanagan Lake for some period of time.

Everyone is wondering if it is Geoff. Either way it's a sad discovery. Kinda like all those human feet washing up on shore around Vancouver. It brings a solemn feeling to a beautiful lake.

In 2007 there was a major drug bust at the same Kelowna Marina. During that four month investigation, six kilograms of cocaine were seized along with more than 400 tablets of ecstasy and $70,000.00 cash.

That case is finally going to trial and has recently cleared it's last hurdle. It comes as no surprise to discover that cocaine ring was tied to the Hells Angels.

At first we were told by the police that none of the accused had any affiliations with the Hells Angels but in April of this year the trial revealed that in another call between the two men, Fraser phones Herrick and orders him to “bring some s**t” to “the clubhouse.” With loud music in the background, Fraser tells him the address is 837 Ellis Street, the property known locally as the Hells Angels clubhouse.

Hells Angel charged with Murder

Jeffrey Albert Lynds from Nova Scotia has been arrested for a double murder in Montreal. He's with the Nomads in Ontario.

Lynds has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and is accused of killing two men in Montreal earlier this year at a McDonald's restaurant.

Police say that one of the shooting victims, Kirk Murray, 47, was a convicted killer. The other shooting victim, Anthony Onesi, 51, was reported to be a bystander.

The slayings happened not far from where Nick Rizzuto Jr., the son of reputed Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto, had been gunned down one month earlier.

Personal Privilege

On a matter of Personal Privilege, I would like to make a clarification. The Kelowna Daily News quoted a comment made on my blog. Which is absolutely fine and fair game. The purpose of my blog and web site is to share information.

However, I would like to clarify that citing an anonymous comment on a blog is exactly that, an anonymous comment on a blog. It is what the courts refer to as hearsay evidence. Nevertheless this kind of hearsay evidence can help us speculate and piece together missing pieces of the puzzle.

It's kind of like how I mentioned in my previous post that a newspaper can quote someone as saying they were abducted by aliens and they are safe from legal liable. Whether or not the story is true in another matter. If someone said it, they said it.

They could have also quoted another comment on my blog where someone said they thought the person responsible for another crime was Elvis driving a UFO.

This is the quote in the paper: "An anonymous writer told a gangster blog that he stole 200 pounds of marijuana and his body was dumped in a nearby lake." They missed the Goldammer part but they got the stolen pot part. Personally I don't believe Geoff stole any pot especially that much. Why would he do that? It doesn't make sense.

Personally I think the Hells Angels would like people to think that to rationalize his disappearance and possible homicide pretending that he somehow deserved it. I think they fabricated that part of the rumor for PR purposes. Just like they did when they claimed Juel Stanton beat up someone who robbed a grow op. They were implying that people who rob grow ops are lowlifes who need to be beaten.

In reality Juels was the one robbing the grow ops in Surrey and taking them over for the East Vancouver Hells Angels. The story of someone else robbing their grow op was false and was fabricated to put the Hells Angels in a better light that the truth did.

That same article in the Kelowna Daily News also said: "Many speculate she made the deal with a member of the Independent Soldiers, an organized-crime gang prominent in Kelowna, Kamloops and the Lower Mainland. Members distribute drugs, launder money and fight turf wars with the Hells Angels."

Now that statement is just plain false and is why the Hells Angels create so many puppet clubs to throw people off their trail. The Independent Soldiers are not independent any more. According to police, now they work for the Hells Angels.

Even Shane Bunting admitted he knew Hells Angels and Independent Soldiers. His neighbours went on to say they saw Hells Angels and Independent Soldiers attending parties at that residence with the previous owner. If Britney was screwed over by the Independent soldiers, she was screwed over by the Hells Angels because a puppet club doesn't do anything with out the permission of the puppet master.

Stirring the Hornet’s Nest

What is free speech? Does it exist in Canada? Sometimes. Slander is saying something about someone that is not true. Often a reporter will be accused of slander if they publish an article about someone that is unflattering. However, if they have told the truth, they have not committed slander and false allegations of slander constitute slander.

Often tabloids will get around that by quoting someone. For example, ”John Doe claims he was abducted by aliens.” If John Doe really did say that they haven’t committed slander. If I quote a newspaper article that says an individual was charged with a crime, that is not slander.

What is the Charter of Rights? Does it really give criminals more rights that citizens and victims? Not at all. Law and order as well as Public Safety are constitutional obligations. Yet when looking at our “Judicial” System in B.C. many people feel criminals have more rights than victims.

Nevertheless, a democratic society has the right to elect governments and lobby them to fulfill their constitutional duty to uphold law and order and provide for public safety.

Concerned citizens have the right to speak out against organized crime in their community. That is as they say south of the 49, an unalienable right.