Blaze's Abbotsford charges in court July 16th

Castanet is reporting that flysh*t was sentenced to five and a half years in jail in Kelowna court last week, but he still faces firearms charges in Chilliwack later this month. He went to the wrong house with a shotgun to collect a drug debt. McWhirter was prohibited from possessing firearms at the time, stemming from two domestic assault convictions in 2012. Two domestic assault convictions. "On July 16, McWhirter is scheduled to begin a trial in Chilliwack Supreme Court on two weapons charges, and a breach of bail charge. McWhirter was out on bail on his other drugs and weapons charges at the time of these alleged offences." You are such a Loser.

Linda Hepner asks Trudeau for $10 million

The Peacearch News is reporting that "Surrey mayor asks feds for $10M to combat gang problems." Yeah right, she wants $10 million alright. To go on another junket before she leaves office. She hasn't done a thing to combat gang violence while in office so why is she going to start on her way out? This is just more smoke and mirrors. She's going to say we tried to combat gang violence but the federal government wouldn't fund it. It doesn't take any extra funding to arrest the drug dealers in Shakerz or on the Surrey Strip. You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. Good riddance to Surrey's Worst.

Rich Coleman has allowed gangs to flourish in BC

Rich Coleman's head is on he chopping block. His past misconduct is finally catching up with him. Laila Yuile has cited Sandy Garossino as well as the Peter German report linking Rich Colman to disbanding the Police Task force that investigated organized crime in Casinos after it came out with a damning report about the Hells Angels laundering money in BC Casinos. However, this is nothing new. We told you so. Now other media outlets are picking up on the story.

That's not all Rich Coleman did to help gangs flourish. Rich Coleman disbanded OCABC in 2004. OCABC was the regional organized crime task force that targeted the Hells Angels criminal activity in Operation Phoenix. Prior to Operation Phoenix, which the RCMP deliberately sabotaged, Allen Dalstrom said "when it came to organized-crime investigations, the RCMP had done “f--- all here for 25 years”. So the province set up a task force to finally investigate organized crime in BC and Rich Coleman promptly shut it down. Again.

That's still not all. Prior to the Kelowna Summer Jam, Pat Fogarty said the Hells Angels aren't the problem in Kelowna, it's the other guys we have to worry about. When the OMGU proved him wrong, Rich Coleman and the Christy Clark government disbanded the OMGU. Ever since then gang enforcement in BC has been compromised and the gang task force stopped targeting the Hells Angels criminal activity. They just focused on seizing the proceeds of crime without lifting a finger to disrupt street level drug trafficking. They just wanted to collect a fee for letting it prosper.

Then the compromised BC Gang task force's spin doctor claimed "Lack of criminal designation for Hells Angels in B.C. allows biker gang to flourish." That was simply untrue. The lack of criminal organization status didn't prevent the OMGU from successfully convicting David Giles and Johnny Newcome in Kelowna. Seizing the proceeds of crime is a smoke and mirrors distraction. Gangs in BC are flourishing because the OMGU was disbanded and the compromised gang task force stopped targeting the Hells Angels drug traficking.

To fix the problem we need to bring organized crime back into provincial jurisdiction because the federal RCMP don't want to touch it. We can keep the Surrey RCMP as long as they are willing to enforce the law and stop street level drug trafficking. That is the New York model. I was there.

Rich Coleman should be in jail along with Wally Oppal.

Second mayor in the Philippines shot dead

CNN is reporting that "A second town mayor in the Philippines has been shot and killed by an unknown assailant, a day after one was assassinated by a sniper in a brazen daylight attack. Mayor Ferdinand Bote of the town of General Tinio in Nueva Ecija province was gunned down by a motorcycle-riding suspect in nearby Cabanatuan City on Tuesday afternoon, police told CNN Philippines. Bote appears to have been the victim of a drive-by shooting, in which he was struck multiple times, while riding in his beige Toyota Fortuner, according to the police report. Bote was declared dead on arrival at MV Gallego hospital and an investigation has been launched."

Adam MacGillivray runs for Surrey city council

It's nice to hear that Adam MacGillivray is running for city council. I know him and I support him. Stuart is a nice guy and is very intelligent. It's just that I disagree with most but not all his political positions. Adam however, is rock solid.

Dr Zheng Shuen and the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China

I received an email from the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China expressing their concerns that Dr Zheng Shuen, a specialist in forced organ harvesting in China will be speaking at the TTS2018 in Madrid today.

The letter states "We are a group of legal professionals, academics, ethicists, medical professionals and researchers with an interest in advancing knowledge about China’s system of organ procurement and transplantation and promoting ethical medical practices in China. We are extremely concerned to note that Dr. Zheng Shusen is participating in TTS 2018, scheduled to speak on July 2 in a plenary session. (https://tts.guide/webapp/lecture/15) This will be the second time Zheng has appeared at a TTS conference. His first appearance in 2016 occasioned widespread controversy. Below we set out a series of facts about Dr Zheng in support of our urgent request that he be precluded from the conference on the grounds of multiple, serious and prolonged breaches of international ethical standards regarding organ transplantation."

The letter which is signed by a long list of professional academics states that "Zheng has personally performed thousands of transplants during a period when very few, if any, cadaver organs were sourced from voluntary, non-prisoner donors."

We have talked about this before. Communist China's longstanding practice of organ harvesting from political prisoners. This dark evil is very real. Anastasia Lin spoke about about it and was banned from participating in the Miss world pageant because of drawing attention to it. She was in a movie filmed in Vancouver that explained the problem called The Bleeding Edge.

I myself have attended and written about Falun gong protests in Vancouver. The Epoch Times has covered the genocide clearly but the main stream media barely mentions it. Ethan Gutmann has spoken out about it. We need to face this because it is real. Ethics matter.

Listening to the sound of one hand clapping

Since my book is still a very long way away, I thought I'd throw a post out there to help set the stage and start the ball rolling in the direction of thought that my book will stimulate. When I was young the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was popular. In fact it was epic. I was drawn to it from my study of Zen in the martial arts and the fact that I also rode full seasons on a motorcycle. However, Zen isn't something we really talk about any more.

Clay Roueche did an epic job of describing the Chinese virtues in his Book of Indomitable Virtues. In his book Clay talks about walking with dignity, honoring tradition, loyalty, respect, integrity, responsibility, duty, obligation. The list goes on. This is the ghetto gospel and I support it completely. Compare that with Ricky Ciarniello's The Devil's Butler and there is no comparison. One is light, the other is darkness. One is honorable, the other is not. It's that simple.

Although Zen does share the Chinese virtues of Confucianism, Zen is more of a way of looking at things outside the box so to speak. It's kind of Yoda's outlook on the force. It starts off meditating on riddles called koans like what is the sound of one hand clapping or if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it fall, does it really make a sound when it falls? Obviously there is a left brain or analytical way of looking at these riddles as well as a right brain or intuitive way of looking at them. To examine this we need to define yin and yang.



The circle represents the universe without beginning or end. The light and dark represents the two forces in the universe. In the West we see things as linear and we tend to categorize them as opposites like light and darkness or good and evil. In the East they see them as compliments not opposites like male and female or speed and power.

The curved division between the two means there is no distinct line separating the two. One blends into the other. The light blends into darkness. Noise blends into the silence. The small dot on each side represents the fact that one does not exist without the other. For example, if you have never seen the light, you would never know you are sitting in darkness. Likewise if you have never heard noise or music, you would never know you are sitting in silence. In the martial arts it represents the fact that no matter how fast a technique is, it has some power. Likewise no matter how powerful a technique is it has some speed.

Now back to the riddles or koans. Logically the sound of one hand clapping is silence because it doesn't make any noise but does it? If it claps very fast it could create a rustling in the leaves from the wind. If it claps against another object it could make a sound. In fact if it claps against an Irish drum with a wooden stick, the sound of one hand clapping could in fact be a pleasant melody so it could. We just have to think outside the box.

One of the Zen riddles or koans talks about a baby goose that was raised in a bottle. As the goose grew up it became too big to fit out of the neck of the bottle. The riddle is then, how does the goose get out of the bottle without breaking the bottle or killing the goose? Think about it. The final answer is there the goose is out. Most of us are left scratching our heads saying wtf?

Here's the explanation. As we ponder the question we become the goose in the bottle. As we analyze the problem we begin to think outside the box or in this case bottle. As we look for a solution from the outside in, all of a sudden we realize we are out of the bottle. There the goose is out. This is a somewhat romantic metaphor since for all practical purposes the goose is still trapped in the bottle and unable to fly free. Yet I think Clay hit the nail on the head in his book. Clay states that although the media has tried to define him, his thoughts cannot be contained. He concludes that his body may be in prison but his spirit is running free. There! The goose is out.

Yet again, for all practical purposes, Clay is still in prison. Yet his art and his book has escaped for all the world to see. His thoughts can't be contained and his influence is spreading outside of his cell as well. He wrote his book while in solitary confinement. I find that inspiring. In our day and age when people get discouraged with the simplest of hardship, Clay found himself in a pit of darkness and decided to strike a match and light a candle. The light from that candle is radiating far beyond his prison cell. I have two of his prints on my dining room wall. They fill my home with light. His words and his art is shining bright for the world to see. In that sense the goose is out.

Now we just need to right the wrong of his unlawful arrest and transfer him back to Canada.

That would be the right thing to do.

Shooting in Abbotsford

Global is reporting that "Abbotsford Police say a man is recovering in hospital after a shooting Sunday night. Officers responded to a home in the 2500 block of Birch Street after receiving a 9-1-1 hang-up call at around 6:15 p.m. BC Ambulance crews arrived to find a man in his early 20s suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He remains in critical condition. An 18-year-old man has been arrested and remains in custody."

Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins Mexico's presidential election

The New York Times is reporting that "Riding a wave of populist anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory that upended the nation’s political establishment and handed him a sweeping mandate to reshape the country.

"The core promises of Mr. López Obrador’s campaign — to end corruption, reduce violence and address Mexico’s endemic poverty — were immensely popular with voters, but they come with questions he and his new government may struggle to answer."

The Canadian Press is reporting that "Lopez Obrador vows that profound change is coming, but says individual and property rights will be guaranteed. He promises respect for the autonomy of the Bank of Mexico and says his government will maintain financial and fiscal discipline. He also says contracts obtained under energy reforms will be scrutinized for any corruption or illegality, but there will be no confiscation or expropriation of property."

It will be interesting to see the state of the privatization and nationalization of Mexico's oil. Nationalizing the oil will fund the social programs alright. The whole point of Operation Fast and Furious, aside from making the CIA money through drug trafficking, was to discredit the existing president so they could elect a new president that would privatize Mexico's oil. Perhaps now that decision will be reversed. Mexico First Campaign Could End Welcome for U.S. Oil Giants.

Philippines mayor Antonio Halili shot dead by sniper during flag raising ceremony

CNN is reporting that "The controversial mayor of Philippines' Tanauan City has been killed by a sniper, the city's police chief said. Mayor Antonio Halili, who gained notoriety for parading people arrested on drug offenses, was killed with a single shot to the chest from an unknown assailant, Police Superintendent Renato Mercado told CNN."

GMA is reporting that "Malacañang on Monday condemned the killing of Tanauan City Mayor Antonio Halili, a man described by the Palace as a staunch ally of the government's war on drugs despite his reported links to the narcotics trade." This is why you need due process.