Recent Vancouver Gang Violence – The Exterminator

We all know about the 2009 Vancouver gang war which peaked a few years after the Surrey Six murder. Now let’s take a look and the recent outbreak of Vancouver gang violence. It started in 2011 and has started to heat up again recently. The most famous of which was the murder of the despised Jonathon Bacon in Kelowna. After that, there has been a series of exterminations.

Not likely in retaliation because it is very unlikely the Dhure or Dhak group had anything to do with the Kelowna hit. It appears that one small group of drug dealers that don’t work for the Hells Angels are being exterminated. Unlike with the Independent Soldiers or the Red Scorpions, they aren’t trying to take over this group, they are wiping them off the face of the earth simply to maintain exclusive control over the Vancouver drug trade.

Khun-Khun September 16 2011

Billy Woo October 2 2011

Stephen Leone October 22 2011

Sandip (Dip) Duhre January 17 2012

Sean Beaver and Stephen Leone’s brother January 21 2012

Tom Gisby April 28 2012 murdered in Mexico

Nicholas Lucier May 1 1012 arrested in Mexico

Ranj Cheema May 2 2012

It all reminds me of the infamous words of Eric Sandburg to Agent 22 from a Hells Angels puppet club in Winnipeg called the Zig Zag crew when he was visiting Vancouver. Eric Sandburg told the Hells Angels associate that he could get him any gun he wanted and that they were ready to wipe out all the competition in Surrey. Indeed they were. Not only is the Hells Angels violent control of the drug trade concerning, but so is the deranged level of violence that goes along with it.

Jarrod Bacon sentenced to 12 years

Jarrod Bacon has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug conspiracy charges. His brother Jonathon was gunned down in Kelowna with Larry Amero and his other brother Jamie is on trial for his involvement with the Surrey Six Murder. Jamie was also an associate of Kevin LeClair. Kevin was shot dead and trained at Revolution in Langley which has ties to the Hells Angels.

Nicholas Lucier busted in Mexico

Nicholas Lucier who was wanted by police in connection with a lage cocaine bust in Victoria back in 2009 has just been arrested in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. This is the same town where his associate Tom Gisby was gunned down last week.

Another Vancouver gangster bites the dust

The Vancouver gang war has reignited and there is a lot of new information coming in. Long time gangster Ranj Cheema was shot to death in front of his parents’ East 61st Avenue house Wednesday. The 43-year old was once an ally of the late Bindy Johal, before turning against the admitted trafficker. He was also an associate of the late Tom Gisby and others who have been shot and/or killed in recent months. Cheema was a one-time associate of Tom Gisby, killed in Mexico Saturday. He also was close to Billy Woo, killed and dumped near Squamish last fall.

It's hard to pin down who is who in all the former Indo Canadian gang violence. For many years they were killing each other. That was in the days of Bindy Johal. Things have changed considerably since then. Now the Hells Angels control everything. The Independent Soldiers are no longer Independent. The common thread in all these recent murders is an association with the Dhures and a former association with the Hells Angels. Being close with Billy Woo would also imply a Hells Angels hit list connection since Billy Woo used to be affiliated with the Hells Angels but was likely executed for his Dhak connections.

Yet Kim Bolan is reporting that before Cheema went to jail in 2008, he was a rival of Sandip (Dip) Duhre, who was gunned down at the Wall Centre in January. That one doesn't fit the puzzle. The common thread is that the Hells Angels are wiping the Dhure and Dhak group off the face of the earth to secure their violent monopoly on the Vancouver drug trade.

A Balance between the Extremes

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. I really think it’s important that we see through the ridiculous stereotypes and find a balance between both dramatic extremes so we don’t get led astray by either side or rather either extreme.

There was some discussion in the Vancouver Province today about how the minimum wage has finally been raised to a humane level after being frozen by the Campbell government for so long. One person wrote in with the ridiculous perception that minimum wages are a Marxist ideal and we need to pay people what they are worth. Don’t get me started. Human beings are worth a lot more than ten dollars an hour. Greed redefines worth in terms of how much money we make which is absurd. Here we have a coveting Capitalist who wants to get rich by employing slave labour. Saying a minimum wage is Marxist will create a knee jerk reaction. People will say, well if that’s Marxism then I guess I’m a Marxist. Only it isn’t Marxism, it’s common sense.

Many people define capitalism as democracy. However, that isn’t necessarily true. Capitalism can also be described as greed. Always wanting more than someone else. Technically, imperialism could be defined as capitalism. The old era of colonization where you conquer a country and exploit them with taxation without representation. That is what the Boston Tea party and the American Revolution was all about.

The purpose of the American Revolution was not to say we don’t want England to tax us, we want to become our own empire so we can conquer and tax others. The purpose of the American Revolution was to establish a free republic where democracy, free speech and human rights are protected. Provide for the common defense meant to help others find democracy and freedom. It didn’t mean exploiting others through greed. The oil wars have started to change that. That is why the constitution is in jeopardy.

It’s not about the poor being jealous of the rich. It’s about protecting the poor from being exploited by the rich. When the rich steal from the public purse by committing investment fraud, that is wrong. When the rich pay zero income tax while the poor pick up the tab, that is wrong. Those are valid concerns. Yet throwing out the baby with the bath water is not the answer. Waving the Communist hammer and sickle is concerning.

My father used to say Communism works in theory but it doesn’t work in practice. That’s because historically we have always seen some rich elitist take over the workers revolution and change the agenda by poisoning the dream. Under Stalin, the striking university students would face riot police using live ammunition. People could argue that the striking students in Montreal wouldn’t be striking in a Communist dictatorship because university would be free. Yet if you’re grades weren’t high enough you wouldn’t be let in. The bottom line is that free speech and lawful assembly did not exist in Stalin’s empire. It wasn’t a free republic. In East Berlin, when the Berlin wall was still up, the machine guns pointed inward. To prevent it’s citizens from escaping.

Stephen Harper likes to throw around the socialist word a lot. He said if you don’t vote for me, you’re a socialist or a separatist. Again that’s counter productive. I don’t agree with Harper so I guess that makes me a socialist. Yet there is a better way.

Instead of saying Capitalism represents democracy because that isn’t necessarily true, we need to establish that a free republic represents democracy. Empires or dictatorships don’t. Within a free republic you can define boundaries. You can protect individual rights and aspire to collective rights at the same time. This is within a constitutional government. Like Maximus helped set up for Rome in the movie Gladiator.

This whole nonsense of breaking windows and vandalizing things concerns me. If that is your quest you can not only count me out, but you lose my support as well as a great deal of public support. Responding with a clenched fist that says, I don’t care what the public think. I will break things and hold them at ransom, is wrong. That’s no different than the capitalists. The only difference is that you want to be the one on top exploiting others.

I will however say this: Neocons always run around like chicken little and cry the left will tax and spend, the left will tax and spend, the sky will fall if we vote for the left. Yet their own pork barrel politics is taxing and spending more than the left ever did. The only difference is they spend it on different things. Neocons spend the money on their rich friends who give them kickbacks by donating to their campaign. The left spend it on the elderly, the disabled and the homeless. The left builds the kind of world I want to live in.

Harpers obsession with big business and oil monopolies is anything but a free market where small business can participate. Big business squeeze out small business and prevent them from existing. Historically it was big business which funded and high jacked Communism in the past. We need to remember that. Stephen Harper is on the wrong road. He is not a Conservative.

Mayday Madness

A lot of madness going on this May Day across the globe. I would like to clarify that although I have a special place in my heart for Quebec, I am concerned about the nature and scope of the University Tuition protests in Montreal. Everyone would rather spend tax dollars on schools and hospitals instead of on investment fraud, wars and prisons. Yet tuition in Montreal is the lowest in the country. Planning protests at night can’t be blamed on government infiltrators who cause violence to discredit the cause. A political protest shouldn’t look like a Vancouver Cannucks riot. We in Vancouver are ashamed of and furious with the senseless looters in the Stanley cup riot. Likewise, I understand the majority of Quebecers support Charest in the tuition dispute.

Again, I do think the concerns about tuition have merit and should be discussed. I just don’t support the use of vandalism to jump that cause before other important causes in the queue. I don’t see Australia as a Communist country. Yet their university education is paid for. Other countries in Europe, the same thing. I don’t think that is a goal within immediate reach for Canada but I think it is important to acknowledge and is a worthy goal to aspire to. Education is good.

The Greek protests are especially concerning. The Greek financial crisis was the result of investment fraud. What was once public money became private money and then disappeared. We are seeing the same thing happen here with BC Hydro. We are told Madoffs in Greece were springing up like popcorn without a lid. Goldman Sachs was involved in that fraud. That makes former executives from Goldman Sachs serving in the US government very concerning.

The Occupy movement returns. The Occupy movement has many valid concerns. Yet we need to support the democratic process. The Canadian bank bailout has finally made the news. Harpers spin doctors are still denying it happened. That kind of nonsense is very disturbing.

The Harper government was found in contempt for hiding details of the budget from parliament. They wanted to and in fact did, pass a budget without revealing the costs. That was unprecedented. Every step of the way more expenses are appearing and the Harper government is denying and rationalizing every single huge addition to their wish list. The costs of the fighter jet fleet is but one example. The more we dig the more we find out it costs. One military official said they were the wrong type of jets to defend the Canadian arctic. That’s because they aren’t for defending Canada. They are for invasive corporate oil wars.

Now when the bank bailout news breaks, they deny it and say it is a conspiracy theory to fuel leftists in the occupy movement. Well I’m sorry Mr. Harper but real conservatives are concerned about pork barrel politics and fiscal dishonesty. That was the era of Brian Mulroney that we broke off from. That is the era Mr. Harper merged with to get elected.

We wanted an Albertan in Ottawa. Unfortunately, Mr. Harper doesn’t share Albertan values. Alberta is a prosperous province. They don’t have sales tax. That stimulates business. Harper does the opposite by introducing the HST which taxes things that were previously tax exempt. That was unAlbertan.

Since Alberta is prospering, they now pay the premiums for their residents’ medical insurance. That is a wonderful idea. That isn’t socialism. It’s building a better society that we can be proud of. I am really concerned with Stephen Harpers obsession with propaganda and his defiant abandonment of Reform principles of polling the electorate. The robocall scandal is yet another example of this bizarre obsession.

In steps Conrad Black. Why not pour gasoline of the fire of insanity. Conrad Black was recommended to the Order of Canada by none other than Brian Mulroney. That shyster stole $30 million from Canadian taxpayers by committing perjury. He was tied to Iran contra through Trans World Arms and a host of other scandals. That kind of insanity is madness indeed. It’s maddening, but it is also infuriating. Taxation without representation and warrantless surveillance is what wars are fought over.

And then there was Seattle. A friend at work today asked me if I was in Seattle last night. I smiled and said why was their agro. He said they were rioting. It looked as ridiculous as the Stanley Cup riot. I shook my head and said no, I don’t support that. I believe in free speech and lawful assembly but looting and vandalism is not only senseless, it’s counter productive. It destroys the original cause completely.

Likewise, I understand there were some local skirmished in Vancouver last night. Lighting a fire in the middle of Commercial drive was stupid. The drive is a hub for nice restaurants and cafes as well as being artsy. It’s where the Italians go to celebrate or mourn Italy’s standing in the World Cup. No doubt the extreme right would be more than willing to pay provocateurs to cause trouble.

Nevertheless, I do think some trouble makers are there on their own accord. General Strike. People have been calling for a general strike since the Woodwards squat just because. There are a lot of valid concerns and some really important issues on the table. This is too important to let it slip away by a few idiots who want to cause trouble just because they enjoy the mob mentality.

In contrast, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello lead the Occupy march in New York on May Day supporting his guitar army. Now that is inspiring.

Je t'aime Quebec

This letter from a former MP about Quebec is offensive. Quebec is a wonderful province with a vibrant culture and history. Their history is a part of our history. This kind of divisive propaganda comes right after Quebec made a huge step forward in embracing federalism by supporting Jack Layton. I think the hateful former MP is just upset with their freedom of association. Salut Quebec. Je me souviens!

Canadian Banks received $114 billion taxpayers bailout

Speaking of Government fraud, turns out the Canadian Bank Bailout that Harper said we didn't do was $114 billion not $65 billion. This is why they raised the agre of retirement. Meanwhile Harper's spin doctors are still denying it ever happened. I'm sure there's a job for Conrad in there somewhere. Perhaps the new HST commercials will also proclaim Conrad Black's innocence. The Financial Post on the secret bailout.

CONrad Black: Stop the Greed

Speaking of fraudsters and criminal diseases, CONrad black is finally getting released from prison. Harper is welcoming him in to Canada despite the fact that he gave up his citizenship and has a criminal record. Why not? After his right wing takeovers of all the media outlets, perhaps Harper will put him in charge of his own Fox News North. Better yet, since Stephen Harper likes to surround himself with fraudsters with criminal records perhaps he'll give CONrad Black Bruce Carsons old position as senior advisor. After all, Harper pulled a few strings for the RCMP to over look Bruce Carson's criminal record for fraud, why not Conrad?

W5 did an interview and shocking episode on Conrad Black the other night. The only thing truthful in that interview was Conrad black’s arrogance. The news isn’t supposed to be spin. It is a shocking reminder of how tainted the news really was when Conrad Black was busy buying up all the media outlets in a monopoly of censorship.

At one time Conrad Black even owned the Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver Province. The one common occurrence when he acquired news outlets is how biased the reporting became in those various outlets. Layoffs and downsizing were common place in acquisitions and mergers. Many claimed that if you ever wrote an pro labor editorial, You were first in line for a lay off.

No doubt certain newspapers have certain biases. It’s called supply and demand. They want to appeal to a certain type of reader so they print editorials geared to that political way of thought. It’s also a great way for a complete wacko to practice censorship in a modern world that guarantees free speech.

Conrad Black coming back to Canada? God help us. That is the last thing we need. That’s like promoting the book cooker from Enron to the book cooker of the Pentagon. All the fraud and embezzlement aside, that is one guy that needs to trim his Groucho Marcs eyebrows. Meryl Normans may well me an extreme but that is just plain nasty.

He was forced out of the global media empire he'd built out of his Toronto offices in 2003 after shareholders accused him of engaging in a $500-million "corporate kleptocracy." U.S. prosecutors charged Black and his associates with skimming some $60 mil-lion from his global newspaper empire between 1999 and 2001.

They were ultimately convicted of stealing $6.1 million by awarding them-selves tax-free bonuses from news-paper sell-offs without the approval of the board of the Hollinger holding company. He served 29 months of a 78-month sentence when the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out the "honest-services" law that had formed the basis of his 2007 conviction, and was released in 2010 while his case was re-examined by the courts.

Conrad Black was convicted of Fraud. After multiple appeals the US Supreme court tossed out the "honest-services" law that had formed the basis of some of his 2007 convictions but not all. The Supreme court tossed out the law. Can you believe it? Black has always said he did nothing wrong. He was the CEO. He was of the opinion everything the company owned, was his. He stole from the company. It wasn't OK just because he was the CEO. He wasn't the owner, Shareholders owned the company. This guy is a fraud and he should not be allowed back into Canada. Harper welcoming him back in is a disgrace. Let's make Harper legally liable for the next taxpayer bailout Conrad Black incurs.

Zion

I would like to clarify that my concerns about Mossad teaming up with the CIA in drug smuggling, money laundering and using investment fraud to raise money for operations, has absolutely nothing to do with them being Zionists. When I was conducting an interview for my story on Earl Brian, the subject referred to one of the people involved and said he was a Zionist tied to the Mossad. The term Zionist has very different meanings for different people. When I first heard the reference I thought to myself, so? I’m a Zionist. Aren’t we all? Don’t we all aspire to build a better society?

I was somewhat shocked to hear some people describe Zionists with a passionate hate. Why on earth would you hate on someone for wanting to build a better society? The misconception arises when people call Zionism when Jewish settlers evict Palestinians from their homes and build Jewish homes on that same spot. That has absolutely nothing to do with Zionism.

Zion is a Biblical term. It’s a quest to build a better society. The city of Enoch was a successful attempt to create the perfect society on earth. The Caribbean brothers and sisters are well familiar with the term. Bob Marley was a Zionist for heavens sake. He counseled us to get up, stand up and fight for your right. The way of the rebel. Wyclef from the Fugees even referred to the lion from Zion just like Bob Matley did. Bob Marley's clothing line is Zion Rootswear.



I totally support the Jews right to a homeland. Everyone deserves a home. Including the Palestinians. The holocaust was a horrific tragedy. As I’ve said before, my grandfather received burns on his back from Mustard gas in the trenches of WWI. Opposing genocide is the right thing to do. Killing Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, Gays or Atheists, is wrong.

The Palestinian conflict is a heart wrenching mess. Gaza randomly firing rockets into Israel, after Israel pulled out of Gaza giving them more autonomy, was absurd. Then Israel using white phosphorus on Gaza in response was extreme. I remember hearing some Canadian trade Unions getting all freaked out calling upon Israel to tear down the wall they built to defend themselves against rocket attacks. I thought to myself how ridiculous that was. If someone was firing rockets at me, I’d build a wall to defend myself too.

The forced evictions are a very sensitive concern. I can’t help but think of the Old Testament verse that says Vex not the stranger that sojourneth with thee. The whole concept of loving your neighbor and treating others the way you want to be treated seems to be sadly forsaken by both sides. Yet there is Neve Shalom / Wahat al Salam – the Oasis of Peace. Where Jews and Palestinians live in the same community based on principles of religious freedom. Imagine that.

Nevertheless, Mossad teaming up with the CIA to smuggle drugs and commit investment fraud to fund raise for operations concerns me greatly. Surely, if a Canadian went to Israel and stole money from Israel through investment fraud, that would concern them too. The problem arises when a secret service has no public accountability. Intelligence agencies need to obey the law and protect human rights. Stealing is wrong. No black op will change that. Keeping an unlawful state secret is unlawful.