Bridgewater RCMP officer charged with sexual assault

Wow. After three days in custody, a Bridgewater RCMP officer has been released from jail into the care of his mother. The officer must live in Ontario except when he has to attend court. He is not allowed back in the province without contacting the special team investigating the allegations against him.

The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the complainant, is charged with assault, sexual assault and uttering threats between Dec. 1, 2010, and Aug. 7, 2012. He has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of the case.

From Delta to Bridgewater. What on earth is going on?

Planetary Alignment

I knew there was a meteor shower last night but I didn’t realize there was another planetary alignment. I was up before sunrise this morning and saw two bright starts lined up on either side of the crescent moon which appeared to be lining up with where the sun was preparing to rise. With an orange horizon above the mountains, it was a pretty awesome sight.

It reminded me of the night a few months ago when Venus was supposed to be lining up with one of the planets. We’re sitting on top of Holyburn ridge watching the sun set. I’m like, Venus is easy to find because it’s the first star you see on the horizon right above the setting or rising sun. Only that night we didn’t see it. We saw something a bit further up in the sky aligned with the moon.

OK so according to Sky and Telescope dot com it looks like I saw Venus and Jupiter lined up with the moon. Looks like the same thing will happen tomorrow morning too. In a week it looks like Mercury will be seen closer to the horizon lined up with Venus.

People get all freaked out with the Planetary alignment that some speculate coordinates with the Mayan calendar at the end of the year but planetary alignments happen all the time and the sky doesn’t fall. It is cool to see though.

David Giles pleads guilty to DUI

And one for the road. David the rusty vibrator Giles, also known as Skeletor, has been pretty quiet lately. Other than the DUI we heard he was charged with back in August 2010. Turns out he recently plead guilty, was fined $1,000, prohibited from driving for a year and ordered to pay a victims surcharge fee of $150.

I’m not sure what the victim surcharge is about. I thought he was just seen weaving down the road like a drunk after he escaped from the loony bin. Perhaps there’s more to it. Prohibited from driving for a year is a bitch. Although I doubt he’ll be driving much longer. No doubt one of his nurses from the seniors’ home will be happy to give him a ride after his rub down.

Don't forget everyone, if you see him behind the wheel, dial 911.

Three Bandidos arrested in Berlin Bomb Plot

TBM Fresh Start, the organization of former gang members out of Denmark is reporting that Three Bandidos (2 danish and 1 swedish) have been arrested in Germany on their way to Berlin to plant a bomb for a former Bandido, who crossed over to become a member of the Hells Angels in Berlin. We had heard about some Bandidos in Berlin crossing over. So much for loyalty. It’s all about the money. Betrayal and greed.

Here’s an English version of the story.

Hey, TBM have their own blog.

Meth lab busted in East Van

Two arrests were made at the infamous Balmoral Hotel dive in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside after VPD raided a drug lab. The Vancouver Province is reporting that people are under the impression it was a meth lab and that everyone could smell the chemicals from across the street.

We know the last set of meth labs the OMGU raided before last Christmas were run by bikers which in BC means the Hells Angels. We know that the Hells Angels had a large meth lab in Kelowna a while back which was a major production point for the Okanagan.

We know that Greg Domley, the president of the Salem Hells Angels who was also the East coast president has been incarcerated for trafficking meth in Massachusetts. The Hells Angels were bringing crystal meth from California to Massachusetts. So I wonder who was ultimately running the meth lab in the Balmoral? Crystal meth is a very damaging drug. It’s made with Drano and several other highly toxic chemicals and really messes you up.

Goldman Sachs caught committing fraud again

I finally tuned in to the Lang and O’Leary Exchange last night. It was filled with news about bank fraud here, bank fraud there. It was astounding. Goldman Sachs has been caught committing fraud again but the SEC aren’t going to press charges.

Why is that? Because they are Obama’s largest campaign contributors? Or is it because Henry Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs became the US treasury secretary under George W. Bush. Maybe because Don Regan, former Merrill Lynch CEO was caught on video telling president Ronald Reagan to hurry up as seen on Michael Moore’s movie Capitalism a Love story.

So Goldman Sachs gets caught committing fraud again and the SEC doesn’t press chargers. What good are they then? Why do they prosecute the small fish but not the big fish. That doesn’t solve anything. It is a colossal conflict of interest when criminals take high places in government and become the president’s largest campaign contributors. Clearly they are getting away with murder.

The ironic thing about the Lang and O’Leary Exchange is Kevin O'Leary’s heartless capitalism. Amanda Lang points out the obvious conflict of him doing business with Communist China in one of their commercials. He boldly responds with I’m a great Communist as long as I can make a buck off of it. Realizing that it was the big banks and large corporations that funded the communist revolution in the first place, that statement is all too true. The rich criminals took over the social revolution to make sure it wouldn’t happen.

Since we were just talking about commodities fraud they reported that Germany has stopped trading some commodities and asked if that was a wise step for other countries to follow since it has shown to over inflate the price of goods. What a great idea.

Then they talked about how JP Morgan was being sued again for fraud. Last year they paid a $153 million settlement to answer charges that it defrauded investors who bought mortgage securities sold just before the nation's housing market collapsed. They sold a collateralized mortgage obligation in 2007 to ensure that it could get credit-scarred mortgage securities off its books.

Turns out in this new case they are being sued by the second largest bank in Israel. Don’t get me started on the banks in Israel. When I was around 20 I went on a working holiday around the world. I toured Egypt, worked on a kibbutz in Israel. It was awesome. That was before everyone and their dog had a credit card. Back then I didn’t have a credit card I had mutual funds. My parents would withdraw some of my money for me and wire it to me wherever I was.

When I arrived in Israel they said the bank told them they wouldn’t wire money into Israel and that it was one of the few countries they wouldn’t do it in. I was socked. Why on earth not? They implied some kind of problem with corruption. I thought that was nonsense. Israel is safe and technologically advanced proceed with the money wire.

Unfortunately it wasn’t as easy as that. It’s a good thing I was working on a kibbutz that paid for my room and board. Each week on my day off I would call the bank and ask if the money transfer was in yet and each week I got the same answer, no not yet. This went on for a ridiculous amount of time and I started getting suspicious. My parents confirmed that they had sent the wire long ago.

I asked them to get all the details, date, transaction number and so forth. After they sent that to me I contacted the bank and got the same answer. No it’s not here yet. I was upset and said are you sure? Because this is the day it was sent on, this is the transaction number and this is the day it was received by your banks. Oh Mr. such and such. Yes here it is. It’s been here all along waiting for you. Why haven’t you come by to pick it up? I said I’ve been calling every week and you said it wasn’t there.

Vancouver's Ancestral Spirit

Still several stories to catch up on but I’m going to pause and restate the obvious. You don’t have to be a tree hugging vegan to care about the environment or to love your home. I rode out to the north shore last night and as I was crossing the second narrows bridge it felt like I was entering the holy land. Seymour to the right, then Grouse, then Cypress, with the Lions tucked in between, then Horseshoe bay. The mountains, the water. It’s all very peaceful. Ambleside. Lighthouse park.

When I was at the Vancouver Occupy I met a girl from Ireland. As we stood talking a tourist came up to us and asked where we were from. I said I’m from Surrey but she’s from the Holy Land. The lady nodded and said ah, Israel. I squinted and said no, Ireland. It depends on where you’re from as to what’s holy. A lot of people refer to Ireland as the holy land. Yet I keep saying that this land is our home now and that makes it holy too. In more ways than one. First because it’s our home. Second because of the vast nature that engulfs us.

I stopped at White cliff for the sunset. Climbed down to the beach and there were two young guys sitting on a bench playing guitar. Now that’s what I’m talking about I said as I walked past. It was awesome. I pulled out the camera and took a video clip as one of them started playing Wish You were Here by Pink Floyd. You can barely hear the guitar and singing in the background but it doesn’t get any better than that.

Then I rode over to third Beach at Stanley Park passed the Pauline Johnson memorial near Siwash Rock. Quite, peaceful, small groups with lanterns on the beach at night. It was awesome. No doubt Kelowna is awesome on the beach at night too. That reminds me, I do have another Kelowna tale to tell.

Prospect Point has changed. That big wind storm took out several trees right on the coast and now you can actually see the water from there. There was a line up of trailers parked in Stanley Park just past Prospect Point. Who knows what they’re filming now but it’s nice to see the film industry active here. I remember Theatre in the Park and Baird on the Beach. Passed by 2nd Beach and remembered the huge bamboo in the forest between Lost Lagoon and 2nd Beach. It’s easy to miss. I remember flying two string kites at Vanier park and taking the passenger ferry to Granville Island.

If someone owns a home and they put a plot of time and effort into landscaping it, no one would then want someone to dump a load of garbage on their lawn. Protecting the environment isn’t just for eco terrorists. Protecting the environment is like protecting your children. Failing to do so is irresponsible. Vancouver is not as nice as Rio but it’s all we have. We need to be good stewards of that which has been entrusted to us.

The Ron Paul Revolution Lives

I’m driving home from the grocery store today and I look up and see the car in front of me has this large bumper sticker that says Ron Paul Revolution. I smile and look up and there’s another large bumper sticker above it that says Infowars.com. Beside that is another large bumper sticker that says 9-11 was an Inside Job. Even the frame to hold the license plate said infowars.com.

I was gonna honk and give the big thumbs up but when I pulled up beside the car it was a hot young girl driving so I just drove off not wanting to look like a pedophile. I will say it was nice to see. There is nothing more attractive then a woman with a brain and an opinion. There is nothing more inspiring than seeing educated youth willing to stand up for their beliefs. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all. The Vancouver 9/11 Truth Movement have an information booth outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on the 11th of each month from around noon to dusk.

Turns out you can buy Ron Paul Revolution T-shirts. He has a popular blog too.

One of his critics, Paul Constant at The Stranger likened Ron Paul to an "ancient high-school civics teacher" who "puffs up" at the notion of the Constitution as a "living document.” Holy crack pipes batman, what does Paul Constant think the constitution is, a dead document? Now that is sad. Clearly we do need a Ron Paul Revolution to support, sustain and preserve the sacred Constitution.

You can get Ron Paul Revolution bumper stickers and shirts at Cafe Press.

Delta cop sued over sexual assault

I saw this in the paper and thought it was bizarre. Another cop accused of a sexually related offense. Wonderful. When you say the word sexual assault the first thing that comes to my mind is what do you mean – grabbing an ass or actual rape because there’s a huge difference. Don’t get me wrong, grabbing someone’s ass is totally inappropriate. It’s just very different than rape.

This case involves the accusation that there were multiple sexual assaults. The Vancouver Province is reporting that an outside police investigation found that allegations of corrupt practice, discreditable conduct and neglect of duty against Robert Wesley Johnston had been proven. Johnston has been suspended without pay since March 23, 2011.

Now the officer is being sued by the victim in civil court. The writ claims there were several sexual assaults, one of which Johnston allegedly committed on Jones at a Delta police office on Annacis Island, after arranging to have another officer stand guard outside at the time. Here’s the confusing part. The other officer stood guard while he had consensual sex or committed rape because there is a huge difference. To think that he stood guard while the other officer committed rape is astounding. That would involve more than discipline, it would involve criminal charges.

It all started when the officer responded to a domestic abuse call when he told the victim if the man bothers her again she can call him. It’s hard to imagine any cop would go into a domestic abuse situation and commit rape. It is conceivable he could have become too emotionally involved in the case.

I am most certainly not claiming the victim wanted to be raped. That is the whole problem with our complaint process. I’m just trying to figure out what really happened because these are very serious allegations. A police officer committing rape is serious. A police officer was accused of raping another female officer during the security for the Vancouver Olympics.

The Delta officer was accused of showing another officer a naked picture of the victim on the phone that the victim sent him because he asked her to. He asked her to send him a picture of her naked and she did. OK so what’s up with that? Did he blackmail her into so doing or did she willingly send it to him?

Clearly, the number of inappropriate sexually related activities involving the police lately has revealed the force to be a very unprofessional outfit. That in itself does need to be dealt with. Yet raping someone is off the hook. If that is the case, then criminal charges need to be laid. One has to wonder if she had an affair with the officer and ended up deciding to go back to her abusive boyfriend.

Meanwhile back on the ranch, two Vancouver Police officers are being investigated will face an external investigation into allegations they neglected their duty by failing to warn a Surrey murder victim she was at risk of being killed.

On Nov. 22, 2005, 21-year-old Tasha Rosette was discovered by her sister stabbed to death, five days after a confidential informant told police her boyfriend claimed he intended to kill the young woman, who was four months pregnant with his child and had a three-year-old daughter.

Const. Craig Bentley, working with the gang unit at the time, received the tip and told his supervisor Staff Sgt. John Grywinski, but the two decided to continue investigating it before notifying Rosette. I’m not sure why they would delay in issuing the warning. Normally the gang task force is very prompt with that.

This week Frank Bucholtz from the Surrey Leader wrote about how the sentence handed down to former RCMP Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson is a disgrace. He’s the cop that was involved with the airport taser incident and then killed a 21 year old motorcyclist a year later in a motor vehicle accident where he had been drinking. He bragged about getting off of a DUI by leaving the scene and taking some shots. He did exactly that and Frank Bucholtsz is right. The sentence he received is a disgrace.

Five from Surrey accused of major stock scheme

Well, it looks like Surrey criminals are moving up in the world and setting their sights on bigger pies in the stock market. Deregulation opens the door to stock fraud. To protect our pensions from criminals we need to reexamine deregulation.

The provincial securities regulator is alleging five people manipulated share prices of a company and profited by $7 million in the scheme. The company is OSE Corp, an Ontario company, whose shares are traded on the TSX-V and has a head office in Delta. This corporation is involved in the exploration and production of oil and gas in Ontario (Canada) and in Texas and Montana (USA). Seemingly it was another fake oil and gas company involved in the same old pump and dump. Those people bought the $2 stock that was just about worthless. It's trading now for eight cents. History continues to repeat itself.

Stock Fraud watcher David Baines from the Vancouver Sun has written about it.

State securities regulators around the country warn that oil and gas investment scams are alive and well. High oil prices have created a heightened interest in investments in energy-related business ventures. As more and more people invest in oil and gas securities, the likelihood of oil and gas fraud scams goes up dramatically. Fast talking brokers can trick investors into putting their money in non-existent companies or into buying overpriced stocks.

Clearly criminals are very much involved in the stock market. This is what's creating financial crisis in Greece and around the world, not the desire for affordable housing and affordable medical.

Texas sees spike in oil and gas fraud

Financial Crimes Report to the Public



The fraud is two fold. First we have individuals price fixing fake or over inflated pump and dump stocks. Then we have the huge banks and corporations like Goldman Sachs doping the same thing on a much larger scale going unpunished.

It’s also related to the creation of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in 2000. It is outside the US and operates free from the constraints of US laws. The exchange was set up to facilitate "dark pool" trading in the commodities markets. Billions of dollars are being placed on oil futures contracts at the ICE and the beauty of this scam is that they NEVER take delivery, per se. They just ratchet up the price with leveraged speculation using your TARP money. This year alone they ratcheted up the global cost of oil from $40 to $80 per barrel.

One blog reader related it to the NASDAQ water index‏. Criminals inflating the price of commodities just because they can make a buck off it at the public’s expense. I’ve heard of the water crimes blog but it’s a bit hard for me to follow. The bottom line is this commodity exchange scam is bleeding us dry.

The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff