Trevor Aaronson: The Terror Factory

In his new book, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism, investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson analyzes 10 years of terrorism cases that were prosecuted in the United States after Sept. 11. By assembling a database of the cases and going through court records, he concluded that the FBI, which receives $3 billion per year for counterterrorism, is "the organization responsible for more terrorist plots over the last decade than any other."

As interesting as his book is, it only deals with the entrapment cases like the Toronto 18 or the recent Via Rail scandal. That isn’t what Operation Northwood was. That isn’t what Operation Gladio was. That isn’t what happened to the USS Liberty. We still need to open our eyes and examine false flag attacks because they are very real. Especially when they want to use them to take away our liberty.

Speaking of which, the AG claims Canada can’t account for $3.1 billion in anti-terror funding. Losing that much money is grand theft. I wonder how much of that money was spent on entrapment or is that recorded in the other budget.

Are We Catching Terrorists? Or Creating Them?

The BC Election and the Christy Clark Lie

The other day I had the misfortune of waking up to another ridiculous Christy Clark add on my clock radio perpetuating the same lie and perpetual misconception. There are two things that bug me. One is the lie. The other is repeating that same old lie fifty million times on TV, radio and even at the Super Bowl. Those other ads weren’t during an election and were paid for with tax dollars. Something Stephen Harper doesn’t seem to have a problem with. Spending tax dollars on political propaganda. That is so big brother.

I’m not going to say much more about the BC election but I will say this: Christy Clark and the BC Liberals are one big lie. It is amazingly hypocritical for her to repeatedly play on an old and outdated stereotype. Oh the NDP will tax and spend. That’s exactly what they did. The gas tax was a tax increase. The HST was a tax increase. They taxed things that were previously tax except. The BC Liberals have been an enemy of small business and BC rail was nothing compared to Campbell Heights and their criminal destruction of BC Hydro.

It concerns me when Adrian Dix is asked if he will balance the budget and he says no they will work towards a balanced budget. Yet part of me is wondering if that just means he’s being honest where Christy Clark lied and committed fraud. In their last fudge it budget the BC Liberals predicted a balanced budget after several years of budget deficits. Only their projections were fraudulent. It included selling public assets and even included revenue from BC Hydro.

Under Gordon Campbell, the BC Liberals not only destroyed BC Hydro, but pushed British Columbia over the most fiscally irresponsible cliff in recorded history. They privatized the power brokers that sell power to BC Hydro. As a result, the private brokers who are mandated to make a profit for themselves at consumers and taxpayers expense, started selling power to BC Hydro at above market prices. This has created a fiscal emergency at BC Hydro. Every year they keep deferring the ballooning debt to hide it’s existence. For Christy Clark to extract revenue from BC Hydro knowing of that growing debt is absolute fraud. It is not a balanced budget.

Clearly, the BC Liberals are the most corrupt government in the history of the Province. This whole paid advertizing thing is absolutely out of control. Yes it happens during an election, but when they use tax dollars for election ads when there is no election, that is the misappropriation of tax dollars. Stephen Harper is a fiend of that as well. Using tax dollars to brainwashing us with HST lies was fraud. Christy Clark is the New Kool Aid kid. Gordon Campbell reincarnated. Remember when Gordon Campbell sent out BC Hydro cash rebates to voters right before one election? Knowing the fiscal emergency he created within BC Hydro, that was yet another fraud in that shameful legacy.

I certainly don’t endorse any political party in BC blindly. I think no one trusts any politician in BC any more. Yet I don’t share the same fear of Adrian Dix that Christy Crunch does. I do think replaying on that same old stereotype that the NDP will tax and spend is really getting irritating when that is exactly what they did. I agree with the president of the B Liberals in Surrey who said most of us are thinking the NDP can’t be any worse. Right now the BC Liberals are still out of control. The Surrey high jacking of the candidacies is evidence of that. Tied directly to Godzilla’s council.

I do like John Cummins and agree with much of what he has to say. My only concern is what happens when he retires? Who’s going to take his place? Is it going to be another Stephen Harper to destroy the party like he did after he took over for Preston Manning? At least the BC Conservatives survived the BC Liberal infiltration. That was a dirty deal indeed.

John Cummins predicts Adrian Dix will win the election and that as the BC Liberals fade away, the BC Conservatives will rise again. I hope so. Unfortunately, I think it might be wishful thinking to predicted corruption will fade away. Somehow that kind of corruption always seems to weasel it’s way back into the spotlight one way or the other. Looking at individuals I have to say Bruce Ralston is a popular choice in Surrey. He is trustworthy and cares about his community. What a refreshing novelty that is.

In White Rock Don Pitcairn from Surrey Shirts and the Naked Truth is running for the Green Party. I think he deserves a chance. Although I do not agree with the Green Party’s position on legalizing all drugs and take offense at the use of the word prohibition when discussing crack or crystal meth, federally, Elizabeth May is indeed a beacon of light. As Preston Manning recently said, protecting the environment is being fiscally responsible.

Dave Hayer was the only one from the BC Liberals who I thought might have been a keeper. Unfortunately he's off to join Harpers’ insanity. I’m shocked and saddened by the fact that Dave Hayer is delusional about Gordon Campbell and the HST. That poison kool aid is a powerful thing. Dave Hayer is supporting Peter Fassbender from the Surrey high Jacking. I’m not. That guy sat on a committee overseeing the RCMP contract negotiations when his son was a member of the RCMP. That was a conflict of interest. His hijacking of the Surrey candidacy was toxic just like their quest for a new garbage incinerator. It’s just more air pollution burning toxic waste.



Rich Coleman is an anti Christ. Getting rid of the RCMP department that investigated money laundering in BC Casinos was a criminal act. Saving that money didn’t help them balance their budget. It made his subsequent position overseeing gaming and casinos in BC very conflicted indeed. That guy should be in jail. I guess my point is here today that I do not fear Adrian Dix like the corrupt politicians do. He cares about crime and he cares about the community. I do hope that as the BC Liberals fade away, the BC Conservatives will rise again without the Harper hijacking that plagued the Reform party. It may be wishful thinking but they say hope floats.

Body found in Pitt River

A body was found floating in Pitt River May 1st. The body was found at 7 a.m. by someone on the water, not far from shore near Harken Towing. For those who aren’t local, the water flows from right to left on the map. I was hoping to get an id on the body but it doesn’t look like that’s forthcoming but will update when it does come. It could have even come from Pitt Lake.

It’s reminiscent of the body that was found under the dock in Kelowna. No foul play was suspected. Oh really? Usually when there’s a boating accident, someone in the party notices someone in their boat fell overboard. They say sometimes it’s a suicide. Oh really? Someone tried to commit suicide by jumping off the floating bridge. That’s not very high off the ground.

Update: Turns out this body was from that car accident in Chilliwack March 10th. Police recovered a woman's body in the river from the car accident but called off the search for the man's body after a few weeks. In the past, other bodies found floating in the Fraser were the result of homicide. Joshua Hendrick from the Crew in Prince George was one and Lisa Francis was another. Those both happened in 2009.

Prince George Police murder unarmed man on his own property

The family is unhappy with a decision from a police watchdog committee that has cleared the police in the shooting of Greg Matter in Prince George. The bizarre thing is he was unarmed and shot dead on his own property where SWAT showed up with machine guns. Kinda like the recent Prince George lockdown we talked about. Don’t get me wrong. SWAT does have it’s time and place. When doing a raid on a Hells Angels clubhouse for example. Not for an unarmed civilian in his own home. That’s not just overkill, it’s murder. It doesn’t matter what some committee calls it.

Seemingly there was an incident on his property a few days prior. Again, the incident was a few days before so there is no emergency. He got in a fight with his brother who came onto his property in violation of a restraining order. He chased him off his property with his car then punched him. The brother leaves then contacts the police. Based on his testimony alone, they decided to charge him with dangerous driving and assault with a weapon. Remember, the brother was trespassing on his property in violation of a restraining order. It was his home.

The police call him and try and meet with him but he refuses to talk with them. The charges aren’t just minor, they are absurd. In the States people will shoot at trespassers without hesitation. Shooting a family member would indeed be extreme but chasing him off his property is not. Greg didn’t want to talk to the police because he shouldn’t have been arrested.

So what happens? The police bring in SWAT and murder and unarmed man on his own property. A 15 year vet who had been treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and just wanted to be left alone. Not only that but the police assaulted his mother on their property before they murder her son. Looks like those assault charges never went anywhere either. Prior to that the police refused to let a family member and his psychiatrist be present to diffuse the situation. This isn’t just a mistake. This is murder. The watchdog committee has completely lost any credibility whatsoever. Not only that, they refused to disclose evidence to the family during the proceedings. That is illegal. This is how our Charter Rights are disappearing right before our very eyes.

All of this swarms around the tendency of the police to completely freak out when someone doesn’t obey their direct command at the snap of their finger. Case in point, the Kelowna assault where the cop kicked buddy in the face when he was on his knees. Thankfully that officer now has a criminal record for assault. That situation was ridiculous. He orders the suspect to get down. The compliant suspect gets down on his knees. All the way down the ego maniac screams. OK Buddy says and as he starts to lower himself completely on the ground he gets kicked in the face. He didn’t obey the direct command fast enough apparently.

All of this swarms around the egomaniac command culture that seems to trickle down from the top of that organization. Back in the day it was “Up against the wall” or Spread em. Hands on the car while they were frisked and cuffed. Now the police apparently insist the suspect lies on the ground for them to step on them and kick them more comfortably. In the case of an unarmed suspect, making him lie on the ground to be cuffed is not necessary.

In the Prince George case the police’s ego obviously couldn’t handle the fact that the suspect was refusing to talk to them when the charges were stupid. He didn’t obey their direct command so they had to bring in SWAT. No they didn’t. Now they have simply committed murder. An unarmed vet on his own property. They were obviously freaked out by the fact that he was a vet and might have weapons. Then maybe they should have taken the family’s advice and let he meet with the police with a family member and his psychiatrist. Denying them that request is like denying someone a lawyer for interrogation. I’m not going anywhere with you alone because I don’t trust you. Now we see why. The police in Prince George need to rethink their use of SWAT for nonemergencies. Depot needs to change as well.

Sergeant in Surrey Six investigation charged with theft

I know I said I wasn’t covering the Surrey Six trial and I’m not. However, this breaking news is a new twist to the confused drama regarding that investigation. All the news outlets are covering this one including Kim.

Derek Brassington has been charged with theft under $5,000 related to an off-duty incident alleged to have occurred in Burnaby on March 30. CTV is reporting that Court documents reveal the incident is linked to merchandise stolen from Canlan Ice Sports in Burnaby. Not very bright to say the least.

So it would appear the theft charges are completely unrelated to the Surrey Six trial. This is the guy that has been accused of sleeping with one of the witnesses in the Surrey Six investigation. The officer has now quit the force. Last November it was reported he was still on the payroll while the other charges against him went to trial.

Winnipeg Hells Angel sentenced to 11 years for cocaine trafficking

In Winnipeg, Dale Sweeney, another former president of the Hells Angels just received an 11 year sentence for cocaine trafficking. Sweeney was arrested along with his brother Rod last March in Project Flatlined. So Dale Donavon (Deli) gets released after serving his sentence for cocaine trafficking and another president goes in. That’s the revolving door alright. Clearly showing that the drug trafficking is the primary business of this criminal organization. Crackhead Crackhead.

White Rock Hells Angels pleads guilty to cocaine trafficking

White Rock Hells Angel Brent Douglas Milne pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine Tuesday in Surrey provincial court. Brent was caught with just under a kilo of cocaine last May. Abbotsford Police drug investigators executed a search warrant at Milne’s Langley home after an investigation into cocaine trafficking in Abbotsford. The lawsuit alleges that over 13 years, Milne built his equity in the property with drug profits.

So here we have another White Rock Hells Angel charged with cocaine trafficking tied to Abbotsford which would have been in support of the Bacon Brothers drug trafficking network. Just like Larry Amero’s support of the Bacon Brothers. Larry has been charged with being part of a large cocaine trafficking in Montreal.

Randy Jones and his brother Trevor have been implicated in a cross border drug trafficking network in a US Indictment that implicated Tbarz. Randy had Tbarz registered in his mother’s name but now claims it’s under new management. Not.

What we see here is the revolving door of the White Rock Hells Angels drug trafficking network.

Haney Shooting

Blog readers comments about a shooting at Haney Place Mall on scan BC have been confirmed. The Vancouver Sun is reporting that last night at 8:00 PM a man was shot at the mall and pronounced dead after being airlifted to the hospital. Kim Bolan has mentioned it on her blog. Name of the victim has not yet been released nor and information about it being targeted or gang related. We know that the Hells Angels are very much involved in that area. That’s the chapter that ran Piggy’s Palace and was involved with the Pickton farm.

The Vancouver Sun has confirmed that the victim was Claude DeGuire.

In 2008 a Maple Ridge drug dealer brutally raped and assaulted a sex trade worker and told her her husband had a drug debt to the Hells Angels and his life was in jeopardy. The initial report in the Vancouver Province has expired but I did report on it at the time. Around the same time Victor Joseph Reis was charged in a brutal rape in Maple ridge. The victim claimed he showed her pictures of himself with members of the Hells Angels to intimidate her. All frighteningly reminiscent of the Pickton Farm. Another local source claimed that prostitutes can’t work in Maple Ridge unless they work for the Hells Angels. I still haven’t heard any follow up on La JJ’s.

Police have two suspects in custody

Kim Bolan is reporting that Edward Marke Antonsen from Maple Ridge has been charged with second degree murder in the shooting. IHIT said the shooting was related to the drug trade. The Maple Ridge news implied that Deguire was once associated with the United Nations gang.

Remembering Rob and Cindy Stanley

Speaking of injustice and bad prison conditions, we need to remember Rob and Cindy Stanley. They made a mistake. They went sailing and got caught smuggling 200 kilos of cocaine from the South Pacific to Australia. Yes that is a huge amount of cocaine. Yet locking them up for 300 years or giving them the death penalty won’t touch the Hells Angels or their drug trade. They'll just get another mule.

In the mean time they are suffering undue hardship in horrible prison conditions in a country that was neither the destination nor the point of origin of the drugs. They weren’t even in New Caledonia. They were on the water north west of New Caledonia.

When I look at those small but clean cells in the new Edmonton prison I think about Rob and Cindy. Letting them rot away in those horrible conditions just isn’t right. The Hells Angels don’t care but I do. Surely there is something we can do. Surely Amnesty International can speak on their prison conditions. They should either be transferred to a Canadian prison or to an Australian prison. They should not be left there. That just isn’t right.

Conditions at New Caledonia's prison prompt concern in France

Gerard Jodar Campaigns for Change in New Caledonia’s Prison Conditions

French Officials To Assess New Caledonia Prison Conditions

Violence fears at 'inhumane' New Caledonia jail

Western Highway

Last day of skiing today. Seymour were selling lift tickets for ten bucks. Saw a couple of deer on the way up the mountain today. All this talk about New Brunswick and Nova Scotia has got me thinking. I have a lot of ancestors buried in some of those small towns. I’m saddened to hear these drug dealing hillbillies are turning that wonderful land into just another sea of greed and corruption. Hummers and trips to Mexico from exploiting others in the drug trade. It’s a shameful life so it is.

Here on the west coast we don’t have many folk songs so we don’t. Not like in the Maritimes. Yet one we do have is Western Highway by Gerry O'Beirne. Rita and Mary Rankin sang it on their Lantern burn CD. Here’s another couple on youtube that did a fine job of it as well.

Changing the words slightly I have to declare: I am a rider on a western highway, from the mountains unto the sea. I’m just a rider on a western highway but right now I am free. Free to think. Free to speak. Free to act. Free to choose. Free to move. Sailors’ rights. The seas be ours and by the powers where we will we'll roam. Word. Hoist the colors.

Drug bust and home invasion on PEI

Five people have been charged with a home invasion that occurred last year in Emyvale on PEI. On May 28th, 2012, a residence in the Emyvale area was broken into by two masked men. Once inside the intruders tied up, assaulted and robbed the victim involved. Both intruders were in possession of firearms during the robbery. Police said it was a targeted offense.

One of the people charged was Jason Yeo. Jason was charged in a cocaine trafficking network on PEI last summer. Last month three more people were arrested in Emyvale drug busts. Dean John Fairhurst was charged in that bust. He was on parole after serving a six year sentence for cocaine trafficking. Less statutory release.

Outlaws spotted in New Brunswick

(See update) More than a dozen members of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gang from Ontario, wearing full colors, showed up coming into town from the Trans Canada Hwy into Moncton New Brunswick today. RCMP intercepted the bunch and only got a half dozen of the bikes to pull over (ran names and plates) on Elmwood drive near a club called IROCK but the rest of the OMG bunch took off fast and refused to stop for police. RCMP asked for lots of backup to catch them to run the rest of the names and plates.

Lots of Bacchus together and partying today at the Pollet River Run in Albert County and will be at clubs later tonight. The usual place they Party is the Old Cosmo but the Liquor inspector just shut them down, rumor is they got caught with Beer in the bar from Quebec.

Jeff Gallant, also known as scab face, is the owner of the Old Cosmo (called OC for short). He’s on the dirty and was arrested with two pounds of cocaine. It’s connected to the Knockwood and Keirsteadcase case who were caught with 16 kilos of cocaine in the walls of their trailer in Texas. After the Outlaws appearance word is Jeff and Bacchus have ordered in a new supply of depends. Tell me Jeff isn’t related to Leo. That would break my achy breaky heart.



Perhaps the Outlaws will make it out to the South Shore in Nova Scotia and visit what’s left of the Freedom Riders. The Darksiders are still bullying that same senior couple they assaulted at a local Tim Hortens. The husband is dying of cancer and they are still bullying them. They won’t even let them ride their bikes without colours in peace. The Outlaws don’t bully seniors and don’t stop non 1% MCs from wearing patches. Perhaps a free market is a good thing.

One blog reader reports: Accident right by the Bacchus clubhouse just on scanner, ATV accident, male in 40's. ATV? I guess the Bacchus rejects need training wheels. Police used the term Oscar Mike Golf as in OMG and the street the Buttkiss clubhouse is on. Oscar Mayer Wieners if you ask me. Don't look now, they're asking for breath tech... OK now they're using cell phones.



I didn’t realize the Pollett River Run was a run down the river in a boat. I thought it was a motorcycle run. That looks like a really fun event. Be sure to pack out what you pack in. They even have mud flats like Stake Lake here in BC. Stave Lake mud flats are pretty red neck. It’s wild.

Update: We are getting mixed reports on the outlaw versus Outlaws thing. The same thing happened in a report about Kelowna. Local Bacchus are denying the Outlaws came to town and are claiming the police pulled a bunch of them over and referred to them as outlaws not Outlaws. I’m still trying to get a confirmation from someone local who has actually seen them other than heard what was said on the police scanner.

I'm still working on this. Reports still claim the police were running Ontario plates which means they weren't Bacchus.

Bacon shooters in court

All three accused of shooting Jonathon Bacon and Larry Amero in Kelowna were in court last Thursday on April 25th. Lawyers are still waiting for disclosure and the matter has been put off to June 20th. The trail is in Kelowna and the accused made a video appearance from Surrey Pretrial.

Kelly Hayes is reporting on the matter for Global now. Michael Kerry Hunter Jones of Gibsons; Jason Thomas McBride of North Vancouver; and Surrey resident Jujhar Khun-Khun are each facing one count of murder and four counts of attempted murder. The Daily Courier reported that compared to the two men sitting next to him Thursday, Khun-Khun looked tiny. I still say he's taking the fall for another but won't name names. Let the evidence be presented.

False flag attacks

One for the road before we get back to local gang stuff. I’ll tell you why we have to talk about false flag attacks. A) Hitler used them twice to start the second world war and B) Other administrations have used them in our day. Hitler burned the German parliament building and blamed it on terrorists so he could get the powers of a chancellor. Then he burned a German radio station and blamed it on Poland to justify invading Poland. False flag attacks have been used before.

Someone said to me the other day they watched a show about a conspiracy theory regarding 9/11 and they debunked all of it. No they didn’t. I told the person you can’t debunk Operation Northwoods. That document is a historical fact. He didn’t know what Operation Northwoods was. Exactly. You can’t say the 9/11 truth movement is wrong if you’ve never looked into Operation Northwoods. You can just say you don’t care.

Someone said to me they don’t care about what happened 50 years ago. That is foolish and offensive. That’s like saying you don’t care about the Vietnam War or the holocaust because it happened a long time ago. History repeats itself until we learn from it.

We need to talk about Northwoods over and over again. We need to talk about how that insane plan got so far to make sure it never happens again. We need to talk about how that plan wasn’t just proposed it was actually implemented in Europe as Operation Gladio. No dope smoking hippie made that up.

We need to talk about Northwoods because it was implemented during the Six Day war on the USS Liberty. Instead of shouting remember the Maine which most likely was another false flag attack we need to remember the USS Liberty. We need to remember the fact that President Johnston recalled the air support for the USS Liberty when it was under attack because he wanted that vessel sunk. The only thing that saved them was a Russian spy ship that witnessed the fraud. Recalling the air support was a huge betrayal of the public trust.

There are two issues at the heart of 9/11. The history and the science clearly points to the possibility of it being a false flag attack. The science is very simple. Debunkers argue that the traces of thermite found in the 9/11 ruble could be explained by chalk. No it can’t. The 9/11 commission said the third tower collapsed at freefall speed due to heat and fire. No it didn’t. A steel framed tower doesn’t do that from fire. The only way a steel frame tower can collapse at freefall speed is if the load bearing beams are blown out at the same time. You can claim terrorists must have put explosives in the load bearing beams before the attack and I will have to agree. But you can’t say the towers fell at freefall speed from two and no planes hitting them. That doesn’t fit the science. The Shanghai apartment fire in 2010 was much worse yet it did not collapse at all let alone at freefall speed.

Iraq was a huge mess. It was invaded based on a lie. A premeditated lie MI 6 gave to the media under Operation Mass appeal. Another huge concern about Iraq was the two British SAS agents who were caught with a car loaded with guns and explosives dressed as Arabs who instead of stopping for a police checkpoint, murdered the allies before surrendering. Instead of explaining what secret mission they were on, England leveled the jail they were detained in and broke them out without a trial.



We still need to ask ourselves what on earth were they doing with a car load of weapons and explosives dressed as Arabs? We cannot believe they were on a sting operation trying to catch terrorists. As soon as a real terrorist got close to them they would have recognized the disguise. I submit that there is only one logical explanation as to what they were doing. It fits in with the perpetual use of false flag attacks.

Obviously not every act of terrorism is a false flag attack yet many of them are and that is something we need to discuss. Especially if the are going to throw away the Charter of Rights and take away our civil liberties.

7 Alberta jails locked down after walkout

MSN news is reporting that “Seven Alberta correctional facilities are in lockdown mode today after guards walked out across the province overnight. Guards working there say their concerns about safety inside the facility are being ignored by the Alberta government. They're also protesting the suspension of two union members who sources say have objected to the working conditions.”



Privatizing the prisons is NOT he answer. Funding them is. However, the guards concern here seems to be over the design of a new facility where the pods are open. It puts guards face to face with inmates. I’m not sure what that means. It appears that the cells have doors. I’m not keen on the idea of having no privacy sitting on the toilet. Yet getting a new facility is a good thing.



Although I agree we need prisons and we need to spend money on them, I don’t think prisons are the answer. Although I agree someone should get more than house arrest if caught trafficking cocaine for the Hells Angels, I don’t think exceptionally long prison sentences are the answer. They’ll just get another mule.

I think we simply need to dispel the misconceptions we have about drug trafficking and stop letting the dealers sell crack in public. Three months in jail with no drugs for a prolific offender who steals to support his addiction is not excessive. Three months in jail with no early release for selling a small quantity of crack on the street is not excessive. It is however, something and it is our moral obligation to do something to curb this insane plague than is overcoming us.

My father was big on prison alternatives. Rehabilitation isn’t the primary issue, public safety is. Yet rehabilitation is an issue. Obviously everyone would rather spend tax dollars on schools and hospitals than prisons. No one really wishes that on anyone. Prison is in essence, a time out for kids who never grew up. There’s one homeless man in Surrey that repeatedly tries to get caught stealing things so he has a place to stay for the night. Housing, training and addiction treatment not perpetuation are constructive things we should spend money on.

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Update: After a five day illegal strike the Union representing prison guards in Alberta has struck a deal with the Province and workers will return to work 7:00 AM Wednesday May 1st. Sheriffs and court services had joined in on the strike and that situation still appears to be a complete mess.

Getting rid of the HST has saved taxpayers millions

Local papers report that getting rid of the HST is costing the City of Surrey $4 million. Which really means, the HST was indeed a tax grab and the city was getting an extra $4 million from it. In reality, it has saved the residents of Surrey well over $4 million in extra taxes. Something Godzilla will quickly want to make up to pay for the furniture in her new Ivory Tower. We knew they wouldn’t spend money on HST adds if it was indeed a reduction in tax like they claimed.

Translink funding has become an election issue. BC Conservative leader John Cummins prophetically said: “The problem with TransLink is that the board is unelected and not accountable to anyone. They extort a fee out of us through the hydro levy, the parking tax and tolls for bridges and tunnels. They have their own police force and they're a secret organization and they have no public input.”

“The Liberal government eliminated the board of elected representatives and replaced it with a board with no track record of fiscal management. There are significant inefficiencies in the way TransLink is run and they need to tighten it up.”

“I think we're taxed enough. TransLink is getting sufficient income to move ahead with some of these projects [such as rapid transit for south of the Fraser River and along Vancouver's Broadway Corridor], without additional money.” Ah yes, the sweet sound of truth and logic. Harry Bains, NDP Transportation critic said: “We need to change the governance mode by bringing the locally elected mayors or councillors back to the board so they can use their expertise and knowledge and plan transit along with land-use planning, because transit and land use go hand in hand.”

Wrong, land use is a factor but the over budget mayors council has created the problem. They want to burn money at taxpayers’ expense and raise taxes to justify their new found jurisdiction. Stop duplication and let the mayors mind their own business. Spending their own money not someone else’s and balancing their own budget. Harry Bains is right about the fact that TransLink is always running out of money shows that bad decisions are being made.

Barrack Gold Shareholders

Barrack Gold is in the news. Shareholders just rejected a $17 million executive pay bonus plan by an 85% vote during a restructure cutting half a billion dollars in operational costs. They only made $923 million last quarter instead of $1.1 billion. Barrick said the main reason for the lower profit was lower gold and copper prices and reduced volumes sold during the quarter. Sounds like price fixing to me.

The vote however was symbolic and the board has the final decision. Barrack CEO Jamie Sokalsky said the board would "carefully consider" shareholder perspectives. “Founder” Peter Munk owns less than 1% of the total equity of Barrack, yet controls the board appointments.

The very unhonorable Brian Mulroney is on the Barrack board of directors along with Nathaniel Rothschild. Lyin Brian is chairman of the International Advisory board. George Bush was on that board during the Bre X scandal but has been replaced by John Ellis Bush. Oh Johnny has been involved in a brave bit of fraud as well. Let’s not forget how Stephen Harper used his government to influence a decision in favor of the conflicted company.

The key point to remember here is that Peter Munk isn’t really the founder. He was the partner of the founder. Munk and arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi created Barrack gold and Munk was made Chairman of the board. Adnan Khashoggi distanced himself from Barrack gold after his involvement in Iran contra went public yet he remained a shareholder and many other key players are still involved. In essence, Barrack gold was created by an arms dealer tied to Iran contra. Barrack gold is even tied to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Matt Taibbi on the banks price fixing.

FIPA is the final nail in Liberty’s coffin

We have learned by sad experience that NAFTA chapter 11 is an insane attack on Canadian taxpayers and their liberty. It has nothing to do with free trade. It is a compensation clause where corporations can sue the government in secret tribunals if the government makes any law protecting the environment or public services that would inhibit a corporation’s ability to make a profit.

We have seen a long list of compensation awards that are not only ludicrous, but are burning tax dollars for nothing and creating a huge financial burden on tax payers for ridiculous reasons. One example is SD Myers Inc. That company received $6 million compensation in tax dollars because it wanted to import PCP toxic waste into Canada and the government created a law banning such. Banning their dumping of PCP in Canada inhibited their ability to make a profit and resulted in a compensation award from one of these insane tribunals.

The same concerns arise with TILMA and now with FIPA, the new free trade agreement with China that has nothing to do with free trade. Stephen Harper even had the audacity to put out a commercial attacking Thomas Mulcair for not supporting the secret attack on our sovereignty by saying he doesn’t support investment or free trade. That offensive lie is what drives Harper’s caucus.

Last year Rick Mercer expressed his concern about the way this dirty deal went down. A secret agreement signed with China in Russia. Mercer pointed out that, while the North American Free Trade Agreement requires six month’s notice to withdraw, the Chinese deal requires 15 years. He claimed “This fetish for secrecy has to stop.”

The Council of Canadians has called the deal a “corporate rights pact” because it would lead to lawsuits that would force Canada to weaken its environmental regulations. It called on Canada to follow Australia’s example and stop negotiating these sorts of clauses into trade agreements.

Don Davies submitted a motion against the insane agreement and Gerald Keddy said Davies doesn’t agree with investment. Not so. Elizabeth May, the beacon of light, has also spoken out against the corrupt agreement. Not only does it remove our sovereignty, it is also an assault on the environment. Elizabeth May supported the NDP motion to stop FIPA on Monday. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and the Harper government did not. Thomas Mulcair 3, Justin Trudeau 0. Stephen Harper - go directly to jail.

Giving Communist China control of our oil was absolutely insane. We are now funding China’s military expansion and helping North Korea become technologically capable of following through with it’s threat to nuke America. Giving Communist China control of our sovereignty with a insane agreement that has nothing to do with free trade is the final nail in Liberty’s coffin. I call heaven and earth to record this day that Stephen Harper is more of a Communist than Pierre Trudeau ever was. Word.

So this is how liberty dies

Sadly, Ottawa passed the controversial terror bill allowing preventative arrests and secret hearings. It gives security agencies “exceptional” powers to probe terror plots. Sadly the Vancouver Province headline reads Bill to help prevent terrorism passes. That is not what this is about.

NDP MP Randall Garrison, the party’s public safety critic, said police have conducted successful terror investigations- including Monday’s break-up of an alleged plot to attack a Toronto-bound train - without the special powers obtained in Bill S-7. Indeed.

Sadly Justin Trudeau’s Liberals supported the bill. Clearly Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are no different that Michael Ignatieff’s. It is so sad to see him burn his father’s sacred Charter of Rights. It’s sad to see anyone piss on a free republic.

The bright side is that the Bloc, the NDP and Elizabeth May all voted against it. It was the Harper government and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals that signed this dirty deed. Thomas Muclair 2, Justin Trudeau 0. Stephen Harper, go directly to jail. Ironically, it was vote number 666. I kid you not.

Alexandre Boulerice, a member of the NDP from Quebec said: “Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin my speech, which will end the day, by pointing out the irony of this situation. We can already hear Conservatives outside the House accusing the NDP of being soft, of not believing that safety is an important issue and of being soft on crime. It is the same old tune. However, this is their bill.”

“Although we might be hearing them outside the House, we are not hearing them much in here. They are not here; they are not talking today. The NDP members are the only ones standing up to say that they care about the safety of Canadians and the Canadian value of respecting rights and freedoms. As the official opposition, we take this issue much more seriously than the Liberals do. They will stand with the Conservatives and vote in favour of a bill that will undermine our civil liberties. We find that particularly disconcerting.”

Here here! Can I have a Je me souviens mon frère? Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

Carol Hughes, a member of the NDP from Ontario said: Mr. Speaker, once again, we have to ask ourselves questions when such a bill is presented. As I said, it is surprising that the Liberals are supporting a bill that will really have a negative impact on the rights of Canadians and their Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

When there is a demonstration, in Quebec or elsewhere, they will obviously use such legislation if they do not agree with the demonstration. We therefore have to ask ourselves the following questions: is the legislation necessary? Are current laws sufficient to deal with the problem of terrorism? Does the legislation violate fundamental rights? We quite simply do not believe that Bill S-7 meets these criteria. I think it is obvious that there is no difference between the Conservatives and the Liberals with respect to the protection of our rights: they disagree.

Thank you sister. Thank you for recording your dissent.

Alexandre Boulerice also said: “Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate my colleague from Halifax on her speech. I would like her to comment on the flip-flop by the Liberal Party of Canada. The Liberal Party is the party that most often wraps itself in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which it says is so important in the history of Canada, and we agree with it on that point."

"Why today will the Liberal Party, the party of the Charter Rights and Freedoms, be going against all the country's rights and freedoms advocacy organizations, which tell us that Bill S-7 is a threat to our civil liberties? Why is it joining forces with the Conservative Party, when we know very well that there is a real chance this bill is unconstitutional and violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? Even the former director of CSIS said that the measures in this bill were neither appropriate nor necessary."

Je vous remercie du fond de mon cœur.

Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party said: "I stand with him in finding, despite my concerns about terrorism, that this current law, Bill S-7, goes too far, and that the existing tools and law in the Criminal Code are more than adequate. I stand with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, the international civil liberties organizations, as well as with the concerns expressed at committee by the Canadian Bar Association, in believing that the bill potentially violates our Charter of Rights and Freedoms and will therefore be struck down later."

God bless Elizabeth May.

In the Star Wars saga, Senator Palpatine used a false flag attack to gain sympathy in the senate so he could become Chancellor. Once he got those powers he used a manufactured emergency to do away with the free republic with the stroke of a pen and created a galactic empire.

In response Padmé said “So this is how liberty dies, to the roar of thunderous applause.” This is exactly what has happened here today. This is a sad day for all of us. Let us have a moment of silence for the death of the Canadian Charter of Rights and the death of our Liberty. Once liberty is lost, there’s only one thing that will bring it back.

Prince George Lockdown

The Vancouver Province is reporting that a Boston-style police lockdown closed a Prince George neighbourhood yesterday, trapping residents inside their homes while RCMP pursued a suspect considered "armed and dangerous." Police said it was done for public safety reasons.

“Several residences were evacuated, the area was blocked off and residents were prevented from returning to their properties. Those already inside were asked to stay there. Deanna Holman, trapped inside the cordoned-off area, had a bird's-eye view from the house she was visiting. She saw camouflaged officers in ‘battle gear’ and green-painted faces lying hidden under trees. ‘Police were all over the place,’ she said.”

That is insane. Prince George is a pretty small town. Overkill is an understatement. The suspect faces charges of uttering threats, pointing a firearm and possession of a prohibited weapon, all as a result of an incident on April 3. Lockdown for that? Fatigues and face paint? These guys have completely lost it. They brought in SWAT and or the military three weeks later and all of a sudden it’s an urgent matter of public safety? I think not.

I remember what it was like living in a neigbourhood in West Belfast where the army regularly patrolled. I remember on one occasion a very young girl was outside her home in the early evening talking to a few friends. An army patrol saunters by and this little girl wearing bunny slippers walks up to one of the soldiers grabs a hold of his weapon sideways, looks him in the eye and says wash your face. He too was wearing face paint.

Prince George is not West Belfast. The Vancouver Province also reported that civil libertarians said personal rights issues were raised. No kidding. A few months ago I was driving home after picking my daughter up from work late at night. There were abandoned police cars at the intersection beside where I live which looked like they were warning people of black ice so I slowly drove around and proceeded home.

Several police officers ran up to my car in a complete panic slammed on my hood and started ordering me around. I responded by shouting out this is Canada not Russia. We have the Charter of Rights. One guy in particular was in a complete panic. I was furious. I told them I live here. Finally a female officer who had some composure said there is a police incident and asked me to wait around the corner which I did. They arrest the guy and left, then the female officer said I may proceed home.

Turns out it was just two guys who got in an argument and someone mentioned the gun word. We saw the guy getting cuffed. I thought to myself, I know that guy. Let me talk to him. These police officers running around in a complete panic is embarrassing. It’s very unprofessional. The police are supposed to serve and protect. I think many of them forget that. Part of it is pride, power and ego but part of it is just total fear of dealing with a gun call. If that’s the case, somebody needs a career change. Running around like terrified Gestapo ordering people around just isn’t acceptable.