420 - 101

Well today is 420 - April 20th. The day everyone celebrates their right to get stoned. No doubt the Art Gallery in Vancouver was packed. The Vancouver Province ran a timely article on how adolescents shouldn't smoke pot too early or it will effect their IQ. A true statement most pot activists used to whole heartedly agree with. Those who lobbied for the legalization of pot used to say not for minors because everyone knows minors shouldn't smoke pot. That is until the misinformation gurus claimed that pot is the wonder cure for everything.

The truth is if adolescents smoke pot it can impair their IQ and their brain's development. Not so much for adults with fully developed brains but let's face it, anything that gets you stoned, baked or wasted can't be good for you. Smoking anything is bad for you. That's why the leading cause of death in house fires is smoke inhalation.

I know there is a huge campaign to legalize pot and in my opinion it's driven by a great deal of misinformation about how pot is good for you because pot cures cancer. Previously I likened the obsessive argument to the drug soma in the book Brave New World. Soma was a wonderful drug that tranquilized the masses while the government took away their civil liberty.

Now I will be the first person to admit that mandatory minimum sentences for possession of or for smoking pot is absolutely ridiculous. There is a colossal difference between pot and crack. Way too many people smoke way too much pot now but that is their choice and their business. Crack and crystal meth is very different. That is a social problem because the harm and addiction it does devastates entire communities.

However, on this special occasion, I will reiterate one fact about the pot labeling in the States where it is legal. The packages have a percent content of THC and CBD. CBD is actually good for you. It helps reduce seizures in people with epilepsy. CBD doesn't get you stoned THC does. So although smoking anything is bad for you and oil is better than smoke, pot that is high in CBD and low in THC does have medicinal benefits. Only because it doesn't get you stoned it's not very popular. You'll notice on the labels the pot people buy has a high percentage of THC and only a trace amount of CBD. That's because the majority of the stoners at the Art Gallery today don't want to get healthy they just want to get stoned. Peace.



PS: Please don't spam my blog with comments about how wonderful pot is for you. You'll have to do that somewhere else. I think they'd love to hear that at the Art Gallery today.

Another man shot dead in Surrey - Update

News 1130 is reporting that there was a shooting in Surrey just before 3:00 AM this morning at 126th Street near 88th Avenue. A man who was shot at the scene died at the hospital.

CTV is reporting that IHIT is also investigating a suspicious death at a home in the 13800 block of Hansen Road. Police were called to the residence in the early morning hours on Saturday, where a 57-year-old man was found dead by his roommates, IHIT said.

News 1130 is reporting that twenty-two year old Arun Paul Singh Bains was killed at 126th Street and 88th Avenue just before 3 a.m. Sgt. Dale Carr stated the string of recent shootings is over dial a dope rings. The Surrey Six was over a dial a dope ring. Jamie Bacon asked Corey Lal to pay him $100,000 tax for dealing on their turf. Only it wasn't their turf it was the Hells Angels. Larry Amero was friends with Jamie's brother Jonathon at the time and members of the Independent Soldiers, who work for the Hells Angels, met with the Bacon brothers at the Castle Fun Park in Kevlar to plan the Surrey Six. I have heard of the UN shooting rivals like the Bacon brothers but I have never heard of them shooting someone for running a dial a dope ring on their turf.

Update: Well this is an interesting twist. The Vancouver Province is reporting that Arun Paul Singh Bains, the drug dealer who was shot dead is Surrey NDP MLA Harry Bains nephew. Now Harry Bains is a good guy and anyone can have a family member go astray. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson's step son was charged with drug trafficking. The interesting twist is the last name. I realize Bains is a common name but Jasmohan Singh Bains was convicted of cocaine trafficking connected to the BC Rail case. He was Liberal MLA Dave Basi's cousin.

Don't worry folks, just low level drug dealers. Nothing to worry about here rolleyes.

The Glacier on Baker

I hiked up to the saddle at the top of the Roman Wall on Mount Baker yesterday. As soon as you got above the tree line it was 360 degrees of supreme awesomeness. It was a nice break from the toxic wasteland of gang nonsense. I usually go a little later in the year - early summer but wanted to see what the snow was like this time of year.



There were a lot of back country skiers. Their bindings are multi purpose. Going up they put skins on for traction and their heel rises like a cross country ski as they power up the slope. Then when they get to the top they take the skins off and the heel locks in like a downhill ski as they ski down. It's pretty effective.



As I started to climb the side of Hog's Back two back country skiers and I were neck in neck. I just had my crampons. At first they were struggling and I just powered up the morning ice. Then as the sun came out and the snow softened, they powered past me and left me in the dust.









A couple of years ago I went through an open house at a local temple. It was very nice inside. They had lots of paintings inside of the outdoors around BC. I liked the pictures and thought that is why I like to go to those places and see them in person. It's very peaceful.

In the Surrey Winterfest I talked about Finian's Inferno and Finian's Paradise which described my journey through the dark world of crack exploitation and ended with the magnificent ice carvings at Lake Lousie. There is a lot of beauty in the world that we often take for granted.

Recently I had a blog reader write in and ask me if I thought the people were ever going to wake up and revolt against all the CIA's drug trafficking and the Corporate Media cover up. My response was simply nope. I don't see it happening simply because no one really cares.

For me it's different. It's a little bit like Martin Luther King who said "As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent."

Crack and crystal meth are plagues like herpes. As long as I know about the exploitation of people like Janice Shore and Dianne Rock, I can never be comfortable living in an Ivory tower without saying something about it. It is what it is. There's a better wold out there if we have the courage to embrace it. Peace.

Vaisakhi Cease Fire

Today is Vaisakhi. It's a pretty big event here in Surrey. Alright solders, use your brain. There'll be lots of women and children present. No shootings at Vaisakhi. The Bacon brothers are pieces of sh*t. Don't be like them.

Body found in Burnaby Intersection - Update

Global reported that at 3:00 AM yesterday morning a uniformed officer on routine patrol in Burnaby found a dead man's body dumped in the intersection near Moscrop and west of Smith Avenue.

Update: CTV is reporting that the body is of 33-year-old Elmer Libertino. Officers believe Libertino travelled from Surrey, B.C., by public transit to the area of Kingsway and Boundary between 2 and 3 a.m. Libertino has no criminal record or contact with police, and he has left behind a grieving family who want answers about what happened to their loved one. He was "lying in a pool of blood" and his death has been ruled a homicide.

Former Hells Angel president talks about his drug career

In the US, Fox 59 is reporting that Pat Matter, former president of the Minneapolis chapter of the Hells Angels, admits the Hells Angels are a criminal organization and explains how he made a fortune selling crystal meth for the club. He coauthored a book with the cop that finally convicted him called Breaking the Code: A True Story by a Hells Angels President and the Cop Who Pursued Him. The book details, in alternating chapters, Matter’s history as a biker boss and Omodt’s struggle to bring him to justice. Now that bike doesn't look like a freaking Goldwing.

Nanaimo Hells Angel convicted of extortion

Speaking of Nanaimo, The Nanaimo News is reporting that full patch Hells Angel Robert Frederick Widdifield was sentenced to five years in prison for extortion. Widdifield was convicted last December and has finally been sentenced. Widdifield's co accused was another full patch Hells Angel Rajinder Singh Sandhu who is South Asian. Singh? Jatts don't sell crack.

Bill Fordy is a Flaming Idiot

God help us. CTV is reporting that the Surrey Police chief is a flaming idiot. That is, if you can do the math. Bill Fordy spoke to the press recently complaining about how many of the people being shot at in Surrey recently aren't being cooperative with police. Go figure. So instead of posting pictures of the shooters, he is posting pictures of the people who have been shot at. You are such a f*cking idiot it is astounding.

The Surrey Leader is reporting that one person said "Don't worry about it, no need for you cops to be here." No kidding. Since Bill Fordy is completely useless, there is no need for him to be here. He admits the rash of recent shootings involves two groups fighting over drug turf. If you had a brain you'd tell them, alright, since you guys are creating public violence we are going to hit you in the pocket book and start arresting all the drug dealers selling in public in Newton and outside the Front Room. Oh but no, Bill Fordy won't do that because he is a f*cking idiot.

Then he has the audacity to say the two groups are south Asians and Somalins. Somalins?! F*ck off!!! Adam Lakatos and Derrick Bequette are not Somalian. Of course South Asians are involved. After Larry Aamero and Jonathon Bacon were shot in Kelowna, the Hells Angels went on a rampage in 2011 wiping the Dhurry Dhak group off the face of the earth. Randy Naicker was a South Asian. He was a Hells Angels Associate just like Rob Sidhu was. The Hells Angels are quite capable of hiring a brown guy to shoot another brown guy. All these shootings started when Skeeter's bother was found dead.

So let's look at Bill Fordy's incompetence for a minute. He refuses to arrest drug dealers selling hard drugs in public and spends a great deal of his spare time at police functions where a great deal of alcohol is served. Tell them about the police drink up when you shoved toilet paper up your ass when you were naked, set it on fire and wiggled your ass in front of everyone trying to put the fire out. At least they gave it the right name - the dance of the flaming a*shole. No heterosexual male wants to see that and when you do that in front of female coworkers, that is sexual harassment. I can't wait to finally read that court transcript.

Tell them about the sex text your female coworker recently sent to the entire group by mistake instead of to just you. Gotta hate it when that happens. Why do the RCMP keep promoting complete idiots? It would seem it's because they don't want them to actually do their job and arrest the drug dealers like Richard Barszczewski. Let's talk about the climate of unprofessionalism in the RCMP shall we? Bill Fordy is at the root of it. TRANSFER!

Anyone who is from Surrey knows we don't have a Somalian community here. We have a huge IndoCanadian (South Asian) community but the Somalian community here is virtually nonexistent. Yes more brothers are moving into Surrey but it is still a very small percentage and certainly not enough to take on the Hells Angels. Calgary has a larger Somalian community than Surrey does likely because Lakeside Packers used to bring them in as slave labour and house them in a tent city over in Brooks. Surrey does have a large enough IndoCanadain community to take on the Hells Angels. That's why the Hells Angels keep recruiting them and actually gave one a patch in Naniamo. The Hells Angels used Greg Wooley to take over the drug trade in Montreal's black community. Like Chris Tucker said, follow the rich white man.

Still more shootings in Surrey

Scan BC is reporting that #Surrey #RCMP are responding to 93 Ave & 153 St for reports of shots fired into a vehicle at that location. They are also reporting that #RCMP are investigating a reported shootout between multiple moving vehicles. One vehicle involved in a crash in the 6900blk 148 St. Update: News 1130 is reporting that Mounties say people in two cars opened fire at each other along 66th Avenue and 128th Street early this morning (Wednessday).

Arrest Warrant Issued for Colin Lamontagne - Update

The Times Colonist is reporting that "Nanaimo RCMP have issued a province wide arrest warrant for 39-year-old Colin Lamontagne, who is wanted on gun and drug charges. The charges stem from a major drug bust at homes in Ladysmith and Nanaimo on Dec. 4 where police found clandestine labs producing GHB, also known as the date rape drug. Police say they found a significant amount of drugs, guns, weapons and stolen property."

We remember Colin from his association with the Veterans MC in Landysmith. In 2011 we posted pictures of Colin posing with the president of the chapter. Locals at the time expressed concerns about a Veterans MC sponsoring drug dealers like Colin. They assured us that although Colin had a trouble past he had changed his ways. Evidently not.

When a Veterans MC sponsors and endorses drug dealers it's really hard not to get the impression that they are in reality enforcing for the drug dealers. Veterans are great but anyone who uses the military to sell drugs is just like a dirty cop. One is no better than the other.



Update: The Times Colonist is now reporting that the police are also looking for Colin Lamontagne and his girlfriend Chelse Burns with regards to the suspicious death of Shaun Alexander McGregor in a Fernwood apartment last week. Chelse Burns was Colin's coaccused in another drug trafficking charge in Agassiz April 2013.

Drive by shootings in Surrey and New West

CBC is reporting that police reported a silver sedan firing shots at a small red car on 128 Street at 60 Avenue just after 7:00 PM last night. Linda Hepner is refusing to comment.

CBC also reported that police closed the bus loop at the 22nd Street Sky Train station after a shooting at a nearby home early yesterday morning.

Global is reporting that there was yet another shooting in Surrey Sunday afternoon. One man is in hospital with gunshot wounds after being found injured in the 7000 block of 130th Street at 5 p.m.

Suspect stabbing people in the DTES shot dead by police

CBC is reporting that "Police say they shot and killed a man in the middle of a stabbing rampage on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after he refused to drop his knife and began stabbing a woman right in front of them." The video confirms their account which has been posted by CTV.

The Vancouver Province reported that the police responded to a call about a man stabbing people outside First United in East Vancouver. Police fond a man with a knife on the scene, fired a bean bag at him which caused him to drop the knife. Then while police have their guns drawn he picks up the knife and runs over to stab another woman so they shoot him dead. Case closed.

However, there's a bit more to the story. The National Post interviewed the witness who dialed 911. He recently moved to the area from Houston Texas and said “He went crazy and started stabbing people, it was pretty scary.” What the visitor from Texas didn't realize is that kind of thing happens there every day. Tourists often stumble into the area straying from Gastown which is a nice area very close by. Main and Hastings is of course a public drug market that tourists refer to as the Zombie Apocalypse. It remains the perfect example of a failed social experiment.

First United is where many homeless congregate because they offer some meals and sometimes shelter. These are the people the drug dealers exploit. There are a huge number of people in the DTES with mental health issues because they closed Riverview and cut back social programs for the mentally ill. Instead they put them on the street and hand out free crack pipes so they can be self medicated by the predatory drug dealers who give them crack for free then beat the life out of them for payment. It is the epitome of exploitation.

To make matters worse, the City closed the local police station just down the street to public access. That means if a woman is being chased by a stalker with a knife they have nowhere to run. I spoke to a woman in the DTES who said if she was being chased by a stalker she would run outside the police station because they had cameras out front and the stalker would leave her alone because he didn't want to be filmed attacking her. Now they have no place to go. Oh all they have to do is dial 911. The homeless don't have cell phones. It's not the police's fault, it's City Hall's fault for trying to suppress crime statistics and our fault for letting them do it.

Dead body found outside UBC president’s home

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that the dead body of a male in his 50's or 60's was found on the property of the UBC president’s home on campus. The deceased may have been homeless and the police are calling the death suspicious. CBC is reporting that the body was not found near the residence, but somewhere further away in the grounds and that the cause of death has yet to be determined. Very strange.

Another Shooting in Surrey

While Linda Hepner was out to lunch the Surrey Now is reporting that yet another shooting occurred this morning in the 11700-block of 96th Avenue. Linda Hepner said not to worry it's just low level crime. She's a low level criminal for not arresting the drug dealers that are shooting each other over the profits to be made from unfettered public drug dealing.

Linda Hepner is out to lunch

I haven't trashed Linda Heprner since her election because that's like shooting fish in a barrel. We all knew she was an airhead before she was elected and guess what? She was elected. Who's the bigger fool? The fool or the fool that votes for the fool. Dianne Watts, she had us fooled but Linda Hepner, we should have known better. Dianne Watts promised us the world with regards to crime prevention and delivered nothing.

Residents repeatedly complained about an illegal booze can behind Green timbers pub and city hall did nothing. Residents said are you going to wait until someone gets shot? That they did. Their inaction resulted in yet another shooting just like their refusal to arrest drug dealers in Newton despite residents and businesses ongoing complaints. A big shout out to the Surrey Fire Fighters for that nice pamphlet endorsing Surrey's Worst pretending they would be good on crime. Liars.

When the 11th and 12th shooting in 30 days occurred in Surrey Linda Hepner was out of town on another tax paid junket. When she finally came back from her junket the airhead said I'm not the sheriff. Just like Dianne Watts when a teenage girl wrote her complaining about drug dealers in her trailer park. Dianne Watts said gee that's too bad. The landlords should rent to drug dealers. Maybe the police should arrest the drug dealers when residents file complaints? Wouldn't that be novel? Instead of arresting drug dealers Linda Hepner is too busy taking down vote no signs on the Translink tax and spend referendum. That is illegal. No Translink Tax Website

Vancouver oil spill

CBC is reporting that Vancouver's beaches have been made no-go areas after toxic fuel leaked into the waters of English Bay on Wednesday afternoon. It appears to be fuel from a grain ship.



The political posturing around this disaster is disgusting. The Mayor of Vancouver is blaming the Federal and Provincial government and Christy airhead is blaming the coast guard. The coast guard? Really? They are in charge of oil spills now? We better tell them and equip them whith all this increased tanker traffic in such a small inlet. Why did Stephen Harper just close down a Vancouver coast Guard station in Vancouver? Fire him.

Vatican hit with two scandals

Two bizarre scandals involving the Vatican have hit the media in Europe. The Independent is reporting that a north Italian priest has been removed from office after allegations emerged that he had been surfing the internet to find gay lovers and had been involved in gay orgies.

"In these online interactions, the priest admitted to sexual relationships with other religious figures – as well as members of the Vatican’s elite Swiss Guard – using the internet to find new partners and engage in sexual encounters online. Following the involvement of Archbishop of Taranto Filippo Santoro, the individual involved was immediately removed from office, once the “reliability of the facts” had been established." The Independent also reported that four were arrested after the police busted a gay prostitution ring in the Vatican back in 2010. There were similar allegations in 2013. A former commander of the Swiss Guard made similar allegations in 2014. No offense but I did always wonder about those outfits.

Meanwhile, "Father Gratien Alabi, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is under investigation for murder following the discovery of female bones under the flagstones of an ancient mountain chapel. The bones are anticipated to belong to Guerrina Piscaglia, 50, who disappeared from nearby Arezzo in Tuscany last year, The Times reported. The case has generated intense media interest, with some papers claiming that Father Alabi had engaged in an affair with the woman, a parishioner of his and another priest’s church, and fathered a child with her. Pretty bizarre allegations. There's something about pictures of nude nuns as well. That's pretty sacrilegious.



Locally Metro News is reporting that A former Saskatchewan hockey coach has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting young boys. Ryan Chamberlin, who is 39, pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of sexual assault and one count of child luring. Chamberlin was a hockey coach in several southwest Saskatchewan communities. He had also helped coach a volleyball team at Centennial Elementary School in Swift Current in fall of 2014.

Here's my point. Just because a hockey coach sexually molests young boys, that doesn't mean that hockey is bad, just that particular coach. Likewise within the church. Although the amount of religious hypocrisy is rampant in the church and is one of the reasons I believe in God but am not dogmatic, it doesn't mean God is bad. If someone who makes a promise to serve God breaks that promise, that's not God's fault. Mother Teresa was an amazing person who walked the walk. No amount of religious hypocrisy will ever change that.

Kamloops woman burned to death in Wiccan ritual

The Vancouver Province is reporting that a Kamloops woman was discovered on fire by emergency responders just after 2 a.m. on Tuesday. Firefighters extinguished the blaze but the 40-year-old died in hospital a few hours later. Police initially suspected suicide, but BC Coroners Service investigators believe the death was accidental. According to posts on Facebook, Carr’s death was the result of a pagan ritual gone wrong.

The National post is reporting that a Heather Carr suffered a fiery death in a supposed pagan ritual “gone horrifically wrong.” They claim she was active among Wiccan groups on social media, operating a Facebook group called Being Pagan Out of the Broom Closet. A post on that page said Carr died as a result of “severe burns suffered in a ritual gone horrifically wrong.”

CBC is reporting that Heather was trapped in a rock structure which was on fire in Riverside Park in the early morning hours of March 31.

Easter Shootings in North Delta

The Surrey Leader is reporting that there were two shootings in North Delta last night.

Furious 7

Fast and Furious 7 is out. They've shortened the tittle to Furious 7 perhaps so it won't be confused with the ATF Black Op that sold guns to the Mexican cartel and brought back tons of cocaine into the US as payment. This episode rocks. Jumping out of an airplane in cars is pretty creative. It ends with a nice tribute to Paul Walker. Life does not end at death. Ride hard, Die free. Even Vin Diesel says never threaten a man's family. See you on the other side.