Ontario rejects safe injection sites

Three cheers for common sense. The National Post is reporting that Public-health experts had barely released a hefty report Wednesday urging Ontario to open five safe-injection sites for drug addicts when the province’s Health Minister weighed in.

Deb Matthews stressed that the province has no plans to implement the experts’ recommendations, as once again the forces of politics and science collide over the contentious idea of giving narcotic users a legal place to shoot up.

This isn't a matter of science versus politics. It's a matter of extremists versus common sense. Giving an alcoholic alcohol is not scientific. Today the Vancouver Province ran an article claiming that a new report recommended five new safe injections sites for Ontario. That is absolutely absurd.

Extremist wants another safe injection site

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Intel tying Harkat to 'al-Qaida banker' untrue

Information from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used by Canada to link accused Ottawa terrorist Mohamed Harkat to "al-Qaida's banker" was untrue, according to a retired senior CIA official. As published in Today's Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province.

The man "wasn't the senior member of al-Qaida that we had assessed. He wasn't even a member of al-Qaida," Glenn Carle, who interrogated the man at secret CIA "black-site" prisons in 2002, told a gathering to promote his memoir about the case, The Interrogator: An Education.

Yet as recently as 2010, Canadian Security Intelligence Service evidence before the Federal Court of Canada continued to point to Harkat's relationship with Haji Pacha Wazir as evidence of Harkat's ties to the bin Laden terror network.

1) Information from the CIA was false. No big surprise.
2) Interrogated the man at secret CIA "black-site" prisons. WTF?

Secret CIA black site prison. False information from the CIA.
Isn't anyone going to do the math?

The Interrogator: A CIA insider’s crisis of conscience. In a secret prison, a true believer in the war on terror realized he was tormenting an innocent man. Tormenting or torturing? Isn't this what due process and the Constitution is for? Sarah Palin does not understand the constitution. She's not the only one.

When he still fails to reveal anything, the CIA sends both the prisoner, known as Captus, and his interrogator to Hotel California — the CIA’s most secret detention centre — where the prisoner is tortured. Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.

Greek Austerity on 60 Minutes

Not to flog a dead horse but there is more talk on 60 minutes about Greek cuts and complaints and continued criticism of Greece having lived beyond it’s means yet there is little talk about the investment fraud that created the Greek financial crisis. Since Greece could still fail and drag other economies down with it, it is imperative that we look at the investment fraud that created the manufactured emergency.

Jochen Zeitz, the outgoing chief executive of Puma, claimed: "This is about systematic evasion and embezzlement." What was public money is now, mysteriously, become very private money. What was public money became private money. Then it disappeared. Just like Enron or MCorp.

Tax loopholes of U.K.'s richest stun minister

Finance Minister George Osborne was left "shocked" after an analysis of the tax returns of multimillionaires, which he ordered, found that they were exploiting loop-holes to pay little or nothing at all.

A confidential study by Revenue and Customs found that the very rich were using aggressive avoidance schemes to reduce their income-tax rate to an average of 10 per cent - less than half the amount paid by the average Briton.

Hello!!! This is what we are saying. It's not a matter of the poor being jealous of the rich. It's a matter of the rich ripping off everyone else.

Does anyone know what time it is?

The other day I was driving out to the valley and the words of that old song came to mind, does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Not long ago I met with someone of influence who had just discovered my blog a few months prior. They said one minute you’re talking about gangs, the next minute you’re talking about Syria. You’re all over the map. I’m just interested in the stuff about the gangs.

I smiled, sighed and said I know. I can see which pages on my web site and blog get the most traffic. When I write about the gangs or post a picture of a gang member, the traffic on those posts is off the hook. Whenever I write about politics or conspiracies, the traffic on those blog posts doesn’t even register. Nobody cares about that stuff.

I think part of it is attention span. Although hot political issues are regularly in the news, people usually have a five second attention span when it comes to politics. When you mention the word conspiracy most people automatically shut off instantly.

There are a few people that feed off conspiracies, the more extreme the better. But those are far and few between. People in general are starting to wake up and ask questions about important issues like the third tower in New York and the CIAs involvement with drug smuggling, but all in all the vast majority of people just don’t care. Period.

For me it’s kinda simple. I don’t like crack being sold in my community and all the off the hook violence that goes along with it. Stopping the crack dealers from selling crack in public is the first and most important step. That’s the one that really matters. No matter who is supplying the crack dealers with the crack, cutting down their sales by preventing the forest fire from burning wild and not letting them sell crack in public, helps fight the cause regardless of who is supplying them.

Sure arresting the big time suppliers is the idea but that doesn’t happen very often. Addressing the issue on the front line and making the fire burn underground so to speak is the only way to actually contain the fire and preventing it from consuming everything around us.

For me it’s simple. The Robert Shannon conviction and the Trevor Jones indictment clearly shows that the Hells Angels are hugely responsible for most of the BC Bud going down south, being traded for cocaine and brought back to Canada to be sold as crack. Those were two huge operations that continued for a long period of time. As soon as someone gets busted they just find another mule and the process continues business as usual.

That’s why it’s so important to wake up and find out what the Gary Webbs, Al Martins and Chip Tandums have been saying for years. Operation Fast and Furious was nothing new. They just got caught again. It’s not just republican versus democrat. Both sides can and have been infiltrated. It’s about electing honest people to office. Try not to scoff. The idea of an honest politician sits about as well as the idea of an honest lawyer. Yet there are some. Chuck Cadman was an honest politician. Ever since, the group that tried to bribe him has continued a steady campaign to thwart democracy under the illusion of fiscal responsibility which is anything but.

We need to rise above left and right stereotypes and look at issues. Instead of saying we support fiscal responsibility and tax reduction we need to do it. The HST is a bad tax. Taxing things that were previously tax exempt is a raise in taxes. Of course we all have to pay some tax, but the idea of the big corporations or the extremely rich paying no tax at all is simply wrong. Donald Trump is a prime example. It was shocking to see how far he and Newt Gingrich came in their quest to be the Republican nomination for the president of the United States. It really is scary how gullible and misconstrued people can be.

I know nobody cares what time it is but it’s about time we did. In one generation what was affordable for a single income family is totally out of reach for a double income family today. Tyrants are stealing our pensions as we speak. The Canadian Bank bail out was a complete fraud. We need to address these issues for our children’s sake. It’s all about sustainability. Saving for our retirement. Not clear cutting all our natural resources so there is nothing left for our children. Sustainability is not a dirty word repeated by freaks and extremists. It is common sense. It is social responsibility.

Call of Duty Black Ops

Call of Duty is a popular video game on X box. Call of Duty Black ops is one of the popular versions of that game. The title is an oxymoron. Call of Duty implies answering the call to serve your country. It is a noble service and sacrifice to defend freedom. Yet there is nothing noble or good about a black op. It robs freedom.

The interesting thing is the term has become popular. At least people realize the term exists. It’s unfortunate how some are trying to glorify black ops as though they are a good thing when they are not. The end does not justify the means. In the beginning, black ops were performed to attain a good objective under the misguided belief that the end justifies the means when it does not. Then, after that line was crossed, black ops were continued simply to make money to satisfy their greed as opposed to fund raise for a good cause.

Oliver North and Richard Secord wanted to raise money to fight Communism in Nicaragua. So they sent them arms in exchange for cocaine. Just like in Operation Fast and Furious. The cocaine was sold to raise money for the cause. Gary Webb published the Dark Alliance. He found the actual LA crack dealers that were selling the Contras cocaine for them. The allegations were not new. It all came out previously in the Kerry Committee. Gary Webb just connected the dots and found the link between the contra cocaine and the crack dealers on the streets of LA.

When the Director of the CIA held a town hall meeting in LA to appease public concerns, former LAPD officer Mike Rupert took the stage. He said that as a former LAPD officer I can tell you the Agency has been selling drugs in this country for years. The audience gasped. Notwithstanding the subsequent character assassination Mike Rupert went under, he calmly and articulately cited a few examples.

He sited Operation Watchtower. Hard to find information on that op since the attack poodles are rewriting history on the Internet and have come up with a few unrelated operations and given them the same name. Retired Navy Intelligence officer Al Martin knew what Operation Watchtower was. It has been well documented.

Mike Rupert also cited Operation Pegasus. David Guyatt has documented that operation as it involved former CIA operative, Gene "Chip" Tatum who has recorded his testimony that he flew cocaine into Mena, Arkansas under the guise of medical supplies for Governor at the time, Bill Clinton.

Without diving into the depths of the assassination squads that we all know exist, the recent interview of the head of MOSSAD refers to that, I still want to focus on the agencies involvement in arms dealing, drug smuggling, money laundering and investment fraud. That repeating pattern still threatens our sovereignty as we speak.

Light and Darkness

There was a beautiful sunrise this Easter morning. An orange horizon in a cloudless sky illuminating the coastal mountains. Then the sun breaks bright and brilliant, clear as day. It makes me think of that first Easter when the world was changed over night.

They say that Christ is the light of the world. The light that penetrates the darkness and the darkness comprehends it not. They say that in the last days all the secret works of darkness will be brought to light. Time will tell. It always does.

TBarz probed for links to drug case

Wow, we can only hope. The B.C. Liquor Control Branch is reviewing a liquor licence for a Surrey strip club linked to a man charged in the U.S. in a major drug smuggling case connected to the Hells Angels, The Vancouver Sun has learned.

Trevor Alan Jones, who runs T-Barz Exotic Adventure Room in Surrey, is facing 14 charges south of the border, including conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana, as well as money laundering.

U.S. authorities allege the 41-year-old was the Canadian “boss” of a drug ring that was distributing up to a tonne of pot and 200 kilograms of cocaine a month for several years.

The ring was broken up last year with a series of arrests in several states, and the seizure of almost $2 million US and 1,000 kilograms of cocaine from various locations.

Jones, the twin brother of full-patch White Rock Angel Randy Jones, has been running T-Barz at 10458 137th St. for years. The club is owned by a numbered company registered at Jones’s Langley house.

The only corporate director is Jones’s mother Gladys Ann, who is listed as living at the same 26th Avenue address in Langley. Trevor Jones has spoken on behalf of T-Barz at Surrey City Council meetings, according to public minutes. U.S. court documents describe him as the owner of the strip club.

I guess that's what happens when you put everything in your brother's name. If he owns the bar and if he takes the fall for the drug ring then the police can seize "his" bar. At least Randy stays out of jail. What a Walrus.

Like I keep saying, Randy Jones was the original owner of the T barz domain name. When I went public with that fact he changed it over to his mother's name to hide that asset which would be illegal in a divorce case and removed the 81 reference.

Randy used the e-mail tbarz81 when he first registered that domain which would link it to him and to the Hells Angels. Trevor was the registered owner of dankenergydrinks domain. Only the e-mail used to register it was randy81. Which would mean Randy was in control of it not Trevor.

I do think Trevor should be charged and Tbarz should lose their liquor licence. I just think Randy should be charged as well and both the bar and the Langley clubhouse should be seized under proceeds of crime. It most certainly wouldn't stop the problem but it would help. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men and women to remain silent and do nothing.

Good Friday and the Meaning of Easter

Back in Ireland, mostly in the north, they wear a badge of an Easter lily this time of year to remember the noble sacrifice of the soldiers who died during the Easter Rising in 1916. It was a proclamation and a movement that declared this truth to be self evident, that Ireland was free. The seven noble men that signed that inspired declaration signed it with their blood. They were executed for leading that rising which prepared the way for Ireland to become a Free state then later a free republic.

Remembering that noble sacrifice and that inspired declaration is important. They prayed that Ireland would prove itself worthy of its august destiny and that that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, in humanity, or rapine. A noble tradition worth remembering. I also submit that the Easter lily is also symbolic of the resurrection of Christ. That is another great sacrifice we would do well to remember since his atonement was infinite and struck for our freedom long ago.

I almost had second thoughts about making this post in the event that it might offend someone but then I thought since when did I ever let that stop me. Religion is such a forbidden topic these days. We aren’t allowed to talk about it any more. Yet there is a large Bikers for Christ movement out there. They are represented at most Toy Runs. They even had that Bikers Church in Surrey start up last year.

In fact the mother of that guy in Grand Prairie who was arrested in that cocaine bust went on an on about Christianity as she stalked, harassed and threatened me. I thought it was somewhat hypocritical. Kinda like Big Tony using the Lord’s name in vain. He wasn’t swearing he was just mocking his professed faith with his abominable deeds he filmed and laughed about.

Likewise, Jimmy Hughes is a born again Christian who admits to being a hitman. In fact he brags about it. Yet he refuses to admit to who he murdered when he was a hit man. That refusal mocks God and mocks the atonement. That's not Christianity. That's hypocrisy.

The guy in Grand Prairie bragged about being part of the baseball team, a puppet club for the Hells Angels. They sell cocaine for the Hells Angels and enforce for the drug dealers in GP. Hardly something a Christian would do, let alone brag about. So anyways, here’s my take on Easter.

Several years ago an Indo Canadian woman I worked with asked me why Christians called Good Friday good if that was the day Jesus was killed. I didn’t really know what to say. It’s kind of hard to explain the atonement in five seconds or less.

They say religion and politics are the two subjects people should never discuss, yet they are two subjects that interest me. Obviously there are dark sides to both. People can really mess up politics or religion. There tends to be herds of sheep blindly following either with no clue as to where the road they are on is going.

Although people don’t like to talk about religion or politics, both really do affect our lives. Who we elect to govern us has a profound influence on the type of society we live in. What religion we follow has a profound influence on what kind of person we tend to become. Which brings us back to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Religious or not people have standards. In fact I personally find it easier to trust most atheists than many Christians. An atheist does good because they believe it’s the right thing to do not because they believe they are going to get a reward in heaven. Which leads us to Good Friday and the concept of Christ.

They say Easter and Christmas are the two times of year most people who claim to be Christians actually attend church. Well, it’s like that in Ireland at least. Good Friday is a time of mourning for Christ’s suffering and crucifixion. It is accompanied by Ash Wednesday and Lent which is when people usually try and give up some bad habit.

Although Christ was full of compassion, when I think of Christ I don’t think of a flowery wishy washy weasel. Physically chasing the money changers out of the Temple took strength. Confronting the religious leaders at the time calling them liars, hypocrites and extortionists took strength. To endure the kind of suffering he faced, he had to of had a profoundly strong character. A Muslim friend of mine originally from Fiji once encouraged me to see the movie the Passion of Christ. I was kind of surprised to hear the movie be recommended by a Muslim. He said to me quietly, it’s hard to understand why God would let one of his prophets suffer so much.

Muslims tend to agree that Christ was a prophet sent from God. They just don’t tend to agree on the atonement and the resurrection. Nevertheless, the idea of why bad things happen to good people is important to understand. In this life we have free agency. We are free to make choices. Sometimes innocent people suffer as a result of our choices. Yet life does not end at death and we are all ultimately responsible for the choices we make.

In Catholic cathedrals they have what’s known as the stations of the cross. An artistic recreation of Christ’s journey carrying his cross on his way to be crucified. I have a painting in my home of Christ falling onto his knee under the weight on his cross. He’s looking down in agony after being beaten and mocked with a crown of thorns on his head. He pauses exhausted for an eight count before he rises to continue his journey.



For me it is a profound image. Just as profound as a picture they used to have on the wall at the Harbor Light food line in East Vancouver. It was a painting of Christ walking on the water in Galilee. Peter had called out to him from the boat and asked if his master would perform a miracle and let Peter walk out to meet him which he did. Only the storm began to rise and Peter was filled with fear and began to sink. As he cried out to the lord for help, he reached out his hand. Christ grasped his hand and stopped him from going under. For a lot of people in the DTES it is indeed a profound image.

Often we get swept away with pride. Sometimes when bad things happen it causes us to become humble which means teachable. When we are humble and teachable that is when God can work with us and help us in our journey. That is if we believe in such an entity. In the movie shake hands with the devil, the trailer states, I know there is a God because in Rwanda, I shook hands with the devil. Personally, I shook hands with the devil at Surrey Central.

So whether or not we believe in God isn’t relevant. We all know good and evil exists and we are all free to make choices knowing that the choices we make do in fact effect others. Today I was speaking with a friend who was somewhat frustrated and said what do I have to do to be forgiven? Is it over for me? Is it impossible for me to ever be forgiven? Hardly. Although I don’t believe it’s as simple as saying Abracadabra, I do think it’s possible for anyone to change at any time no matter what they have done in the past.

The Bible says that if we walk in the light, as God is in the light, then the atoning blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse us from all sin. It says all sin not just some sin. I am a firm believer in the motto no matter what your past, you have a spotless future. That is so true. So relating all this flower power to the gang war, is it possible for a gang member who has committed murder to be forgiven? Yes it is. Is it possible for a low life deviant who has committed gang rape to be forgiven? Yes it is. It’s not as easy as waving a magic wand but it is possible. It begins with telling the truth and stop denying everything. It’s not as easy as ratting out all your friends who did the same thing so you can cut a deal and get off without being punished. It starts with a realization how your conduct has hurt others and a genuine feeling of remorse not rationalization for the pain you have caused. Taking responsibility for your actions.

It’s kind of like the Grim Reaper. You can pay me now or you can pay me later. Either way you will be forced to face the consequences of your decisions one day. If we don’t deal with it in this life, we will have to deal with it in the next. Call it karma. That suffering, that torment Christ experienced in the garden of Gethsemane. That pain caused Christ, even God, to tremble and bleed at every poor. So great was his suffering for the anguish of his people.

We call Good Friday good because Christ has paid that debt for us. Yet there are things we have to do and if we don’t do them, then we will experience that pain and anguish ourselves. Hell isn’t a place where God spanks us for eternity telling us I told ya so. Hell is coming face to face with God and experiencing all the pain we have caused others first hand where no lie and no rationalization will save us.

This Easter it is important to remember the resurrection, yet it’s also important to remember the suffering of Christ which led up to the resurrection. After all, he is despised and rejected of men. A man of sorrows acquainted with grief. Because he has felt our pain and sorrow he has graven us on the palms of his hands. Our walls are continually before him. That is why he is filled with compassion and reaches out to help us aspire to something higher. Yet the choice is our. It always is.

Tori Stafford's murder tied to drugs

I hesitate writing about such a high profile case on such a somber occasion but I will because I think it’s important. In 2009 a wonderful little girl was kidnapped and murdered in Ontario. The heart wrenching case has naturally received a great deal of media attention.

I haven’t been following the case but one headline recently struck me. It was the claim that the little girl was abducted and murdered over a drug debt. It is one alternate theory presented to the courts.

Terri-Lynne McClintic has already been convicted murder and her boy friend Michael Rafferty is on trial for his involvement in the crime. Understandably both have turned on each other in court.

McClintic’s lawyer is trying to paint her as an naive Karla Homolka type that went along with the kidnapping because she would do anything for love. Rafferty’s lawyer is trying to paint McClintic as a hardened criminal with a very violent past. Clearly McClintic isn’t as innocent as she would have us believe.

McClintic admitted that a few weeks ago she pounded, kicked and stomped another inmate who was on the floor in a fetal position. ”I confronted her about things she said about me. Things escalated,” she said. She admitted that she had revealed another secret to her godmother during the same visit by the woman: As a child, she had microwaved a pet dog, killing it. She said she was just a child at the time and didn’t know what she was doing.

Then there’s the drugs. Tara McDonald, Tori’s mother and her boyfriend James Goris denied rumours that Victoria "Tori" Stafford's disappearance was linked to an unpaid drug debt involving the couple.

McDonald acknowledged her boyfriend has a criminal record, but said that is all in the past. With a criminal record that stretches back to roughly 2002, Goris has been convicted in the past of drug possession and theft under $5,000. He also recently appeared in court in Woodstock on an unrelated charge.

However, Tara McDonald testified at Rafferty's trial and said she was addicted to OxyContin at the time her daughter was abducted outside her Woodstock, Ont., school on April 8, 2009.

She and her boyfriend James Goris bought their OxyContin a few times from a woman named Carol McClintic a couple of months before Tori was killed, McDonald said. They went to her house twice — one time her 18-year-old daughter Terri-Lynne was leaving the house as McDonald and Goris arrived, and a second time Terri-Lynne McClintic returned home while McDonald and Goris were there, she said.

This account claims that Terri-Lynne McClintic’s mother was the drug dealer that supplied Tori’s mother and boyfriend with the Oxy.

Sadly, Tori’s mother and her partner, James Goris, are facing drug and stolen property charges. Woodstock Police Const. Steve McEwen says "Both those persons...were charged with possession of a controlled substance as well as possession of property obtained by crime." The pair was arrested two months ago, along with 38-year-old Brandon Annis, after a search warrant for their home was executed. Police say they recovered crack cocaine, marijuana, cash and some property believed to be stolen.

This means that the drug debt theory is indeed possible. Which leads us to ask who runs the drug trade in Ontario? We know the Hells angels have had many drug related convictions in Ontario. Who supplied Terri-Lynne McClintic’s mother with the drugs she sold to Tori’s mother? Who controls the crack trade in Ontario if not the Hells Angels? Yeah I just went there.

Either way we can clearly see what kind of devastating effect these hard drugs have on our communities. Phasing out Oxy was a good move. Stopping the public sale of crack in the next.