Kelowna Police Brutality

Here's a story that a few people do care about. It's another case of police brutality in BC that generated an angry rally of not thugs but concerned citizens. A Kelowna rally of concerned citizens expressed their outrage over a video of a Kelowna police officer kicking a compliant suspect in the face while he was on his knees.

Now there's three points I'm going to make. Fist, responding to a call of shots fired in a public place is an obvious concern. What kind of shots and who were they aimed at? For all we know this could have been a wacko shooing innocent civilians.

However, it wasn't. Thus the lofty goal of innocent until proven guilty. Thus the role of the courts to hear evidence. The bottom line is no matter what the possibilities were, the suspect was on his knees and compliant.

This video is just one of many that show the bizarre nature of policing in Canada. It's a plague of kick the cat. Kicking suspects when they are on the ground being compliant while they refuse to face or confront gang members who are the real threat to society. No disrespect to the Gang Task Force. They are sincerely trying to address the gang problem. Yet it's hard for the public to overcome stereotypes when they see regular officers fail to confront gang members but kick other suspects in the head when they are on the ground.

The good news is that the public rallied and protested. It's about time. Practically Every police force in BC has been caught doing this lately. We had the delta cop with the New west cop in charge of use of force training get hammered drunk before they assaulted and robbed a newspaper delivery driver in Vancouver.

We had the VPD give the wrong guy the boots in Vancouver. We had the Victoria police officer caught on tape kicking compliant suspects on the ground and we even had an Abbotsford police officer caught on video kicking a suspect in the head while he was on the ground. This kind of arrogance needs to stop.



Seeing this video makes me wonder about the APD investigating the Kelowna assault. The public concern is good because something needs to be done. The Ottawa incident shows us how large the problem really is.

This is why it is important for us to squarely address the organized crime problem in BC without over reacting and creating some bizarre kind of "Patriot" act that will empower the wrong people to continue abusing their role.

Nevertheless, the fact that people cared enough to show up and protest peacefully was a good sign. Rioting and looting is just insane. This protest was very credible and received instant attention. The other cases haven't but at least it's a step forward. Nevertheless, there still needs to be a greater role by a civilian body to investigate alleged crimes by police.

On that note, NDP MP Nathan Cullen has introduced a private members bill to create an independent civilian oversight agency for the RCMP. The bill has not yet been debated in Parliament.

I do however think it's very said the police publicly claimed that their recommendation of assault charges had nothing to do with the rally. It perpetuates the arrogance that the police feel they are above and beyond public accountability. If something happens that angers the public enough for them to hold a public rally, one would hope that in a democratic society where the public pays the wages of the police, the police would listen to the public concerns. Perpetuating the whole arrogant stereotype that the police don't care what the public thinks because they are not accountable to the public is very undemocratic.



Turns out the second Kelowna police brutality complaint was against the same officer. The cop who kicked the guy in the face while he was kneeling on the ground was the same cop accused of a wrongful arrest where he dragged a guy out of his vehicle and punched him in the head. Const. Geoff Mantler.

BC Casinos Laundering Money

A couple of new stories come to mind and although they are not as significant as David Giles' connection to Dave Revell's cocaine and Russell Penner's meth labs, they are worthy to note. I remember reading two stories about BC casinos the other day and I thought both stories being published on the same day was somewhat ironic.

Someone sent me a link to a news article about money laundering at BC casinos. I kinda have to shake my head and ask if this really surprises anyone? I'm not going to go off on a religious tangent about the evils of gambling but do the math. Organized crime has always been attracted to the industry.

I remember my brother talking about going to Vegas many many years ago and being able to bet on virtually any horse race in the world. He said they had closed circuit television of almost all the various horse races except for one crooked race in Mexico and Exhibition park. He claimed they didn't cover those two races because there was rumours of corruption and fixing. Kinda like the now defunct VSE.

Without debating whether or not any of these gambling casinos are rigged or fixed, no doubt organized crime, which is rampant in BC, would love to use the industry to launder drug money. No real big surprises there. Let's face it, any industry these days would likely love to launder drug money. In fact fining banks for money laundering has become a large source of tax revenue for the US.

We heard a bit about the construction industry in Montreal. Why we've even hear tales of the NYSE being used to launder drug money. The Royal Bank Of Scotland admitted to money laundering. Jersey Shore appears to be full of it.

Then there was the other earth shattering revelation that came out in the paper the same day. The news reported that the BC government is giving huge subsidies to the BC Casinos. The government funding the laundering of drug money? Why is it that I find that humorous and not very surprising? Does anybody really care?

Leslie Douglas Greenwood

One of the people charged in Kirk Mersereau and his common law wife's murder has just had another accessory to murder charge laid against him. Another Leslie. Except this guy has Leslie for his first name not him middle name like MacCabe. That is confusing.

Gerald Leslie MacCabe was charged with accessory after the fact in Randy Mersereau's murder for helping his alleged killer Jeff Lynds escape custody. Leslie Douglas Greenwood has just been charged with accessory in the killing of Charles Maddison (this was the innocent victim).

So far the charges against Leslie Greenwood are:

- First-degree murder Kirk Mersereau (October 2000 shooting death)
- First-degree murder Nancy Christensen (October 2000 shooting death)
- Attempted murder Randy Mersereau (1999 car dealership bombing)
- Accessory after the fact to murder Randy Mersereau
- (new charge) Accessory to murder Charles Maddison

Someone told me to mind my own business and stay on my side of the country because everybody in Truro knows what goes on in Truro. Well if that's the case then who killed Rusty and his wife? If everyone knows then do tell. Don't perpetuate the lie. Rusty deserves support not the Hells Angels.

Sean Bad Dog Brown

OK this is kinda bizarre. Sean Brown was kicked out of the Rock Machine and has now teamed up with Vagos in Cali. Oh but wait, Rock Machine kicked him out because they thought he was a pussy and that he didn't want to upset the Hells Angels or move back into Quebec. Quebec was the heart of the Rock Machine.

Anyways, Vagos sign him up to bring the group to Canada. Well Ontario at least. Only Vagos are friends with the Mongols and are waring with the Hells Angels in Cali. They must not have read Sean's resume. They call him Chris Brown. I think it's because they think he's a bitch.

Get this, Vagos' logo is of Loki, the Norse god of mischief. It kinda looks like a demon but that is the same name Hells Angel Sean Wofle had tattooed on his stomach. Only Meryl Norman Wolfe's tattoo looks more like the name Lola.

I'm not saying war with the Hells Angels so you can sell crack, pimp hos and extort people for a different club. I'm saying report the Hells Angels for selling crack, murdering and extorting people.

The Rock Machine are trying to distance themselves from accusations of drug dealing which is good. However, when someone writes a letter denying they sell drugs then signs it as a 1%er that makes the whole letter hard to believe. "I don't sell drugs but I'm a criminal."

When I was young the old timers here used to say HD 1%. HD standing for Harley Davidson, 1% standing for cream of the crop - the elite. Not everyone rides a Harley. Now we find out the historical origin of the term. The AMA was saying 99% of the people out there who ride motorcycles are law biding citizens. 1% of the bikers out there are deranged criminals. After that the Hells Angels started to proudly wear 1% patches claiming they are the 1% of society who are deranged criminals.

That really isn't anything to brag about. The term was supposed to mean cream of the crop not bottom of the barrel. Now it clearly means bottom of the barrel and people who use the term are misguided.

If we want to save the MC in Canada we need to separate ourselves from the crack dealers and the murders not just say we have. We need to walk the walk not just talk the talk. That would include avoiding the term OMG. MC is fine. The courts should ban the HAs from using the term MC. Let them have their patch. Just make them remove MC from it. OMG also implies criminal activity.

I still say the Buffalo Soldiers MC is the example to follow. They say right on their web site we are not a 1%er club. Somehow when they say that, I believe them. They're just a good group of motorcycle enthusiasts. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Guthrie McKay and Lisa Dudley

This is sad. Guthrie McKay, a sports bike rider from Mission and his girlfriend Lisa Dudley were murdered back in September of 2008 in what police claim was likely a targeted hit. What were 81ers doing at his kids' fund raiser in 2009? Returning to the scene of the crime again?

Turns out there's more talk about Jeff Lynds being involved in Rusty Hall's murder. If Hells Angels attended the funeral of someone they killed, that would be far more rat like than reporting a murderer to the police.

Sadly a neighbour who heard gun shot wounds called the police but nothing happened until four days later. Lisa was still alive but died shortly thereafter. Lying in your own home dieing for four days. That is tragic.

Obviously the call to the police was mishandled. The person should have called 911 directly. When you hear shots fired that is something in process. You don't call the non emergency number for that. If there was such a long delay the neighbour should have called back. However, it's not something that likely happened every day in that neighbourhood. The person said they were 80% sure they heard shots from the house. There is no question the police should have responded and the call was mishandled. A real tragedy. Yet the police didn't shoot Guthrie and Lisa someone else did. That needs to be investigated.

Seemingly a public enquiry into the death was held. That means publication bans on the evidence has been lifted so there is no reason we can't examine and discuss the evidence as to who murdered them and why. That is the ultimate relevance.



This case has inspired me to start an unsolved murder web page. We need to follow up on these cases and report what we know about them to the police. Ratting out a murderer isn't being a rat. Turning the other way is.

Pumpkin Pie and the Swine Flu

Well looks like the Bacon brothers are sure living up to their name. Hording pumpkin pie isn't very gangster so it's not. What a bunch of spoilt brat kids that look like complete idiots. Must we remind you you're in jail? That's pretty much a natural consequence of criminal behavior.

Apathy

Well I'm just about done. A few more digs at the swine flu and the pinhead crew and I'll have said my peace. Don't cheer too loudly. This new guy in my grill thinking he knows everything because he attended a class at university is a real piece of work. What I've learned in my travels they don't teach in university Napoleon.

I'm just one of a million people out there who have a blog. If you don't like it, don't read it. The CIA selling crack is nothing new. Gary Webb wasn't the one that exposed the CIA selling crack for the contras. They talked about it in the Kerry Commission. Gary Webb was the one who showed what drug dealer was selling the CIA cocaine in LA - Freeway Ricky.

After Gary Webb came forward former LAPD officer Mike Rupert stepped up to the plate confirming that the Agency was selling drugs in LA. He was slandered and now posts from the wilderness.com. Former DEA agent Cele Castillo stepped up to the plate and confirmed what he saw and tried to report about the CIA using military planes to trade weapons for drugs from the contras. He too under went a character assassination campaign.

The only person that has talked about the CIA selling cocaine and didn't get slandered was Judge Bonner and Sarah McClendon of course. Sarah McClendon talked about the CIA's drug running in Mena AK like it was common knowledge. Let's not forget CIA drug smuggler Barry Seal. These aren't conspiracy theories, they are documented facts. But here's the twist: no one cares. Everyone knows the CIA sells cocaine and no one cares. That's the sad reality of the matter. FBI whistle blower Sibel Edmonds refers to it as the boiling Frogs.

No one cares because there really isn't anything anyone can do about it. The CIA is a secret society whose mandate is murder to get gain and they have absolutely no public accountability whatsoever. So there really is nothing anyone can do to stop them. They are not accountable. Kennedy tried. Look where that got him.

I remember visiting a cathedral in Galway many years ago. It was beautiful. They had the stations of the cross, candles, statues and everything one would normally associate with a cathedral. Then they had a wall with portraits of their favorite Popes. Right beside the line of Popes was a portrait of Kennedy. I had to chuckle over that one. The Irish sure loved Kennedy.

They have a lot of oral traditions passed down in Ireland. A lot of people there I spoke with talked about the "Last Days" so to speak. They kept quoting a prophecy that said one of the signs of the times is that you won't be able to tell the summer from the winter. It's happening right now they said. Several people said it. Then I started thinking. Where on earth is that from because I don't remember seeing that in the Bible. Apparently the Irish had a lot of oral traditions passed down from Patrick and Columb Cile.



The last days.. nobody talks about the last days any more. Nobody really cares. People were more freaked out about it in the past. Y2K was big for a while. Until nothing happened. I saw a cartoon about someone going back in time and asking the scribe why the Mayan calender runs out in 2012 and he responded with "I ran out of room." They couldn't keep writing a calender forever.



So there we have it. The Hells Angels sell crack, the CIA imports cocaine and nobody cares. Big freakin deal. Ya can't fight density. Like Damian Marley said, "some say it's just a part of it, we've got to fulfill the book." Shit happens and a lot more shit is gonna happen. That's just they way it is. Can't fight destiny. We can just record our dissent.

Glen Heggstad

Speaking of Hells Angels murdering Hells Angels, this Glen Heggstad / Ralph Boger case is interesting. It's another cold case that is gradually coming to light. June 29, 1981 three people were murdered in Cali - Fred Alvarez, Patricia Castro and Ralph Boger. A born again hit man named Jimmy Hughes has been charged with the murder. Since he was just a hired hit man, court documents allege that John Philip Nichols, John Paul Nichols, and Glen Heggstad were conspires who hired Jimmy Hughes to commit the murder. Glen Heggstad and Ralph Boger were Hells Angels. Some sources claim Ralph's friend Fred Alvarez was a member of the Hells Angels as well.

Now this is a pretty bizarre case involving the CIA and all kinds of allegations of illegal activity. In fact, court documents claim that Glen Heggstad was an active participant conspiring to murder Fred Alvarez in order "to prevent Fred Alvarez from exposing illegal activities of John Philip Nichols, occurring at the Cabazon Indian Reservation."

An article about this case by reporter Joe Nelson entitled "Prosecutors allege biggest corruption scandal in San Bernardino County history." San Bernardino County? Isn't that where the Hells Angels started?

OK I may be a bit slow but I think the most obvious question here is what illegal activities was John Philip Nichols involved in on the Cabazon Indian Reservation?

With all the Hells Angels cocaine convictions in Canada it is interesting to note that cocaine and suspicious suicides have followed the CIA for many years. Just ask Gary Webb.

Black and Tans

Not that this has anything to do with the Hells Angels or the Vancouver gang war but don't get me started on the Holy Land. The only good Black and Tan is a drink at the pub.

A friend at work asked me a couple years ago if I ever had a Black and Tan. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I turned to him and cautiously asked what he meant. He said a Black and Tan is when you mix Irish Harp and Guinness. The Guinness floats on top like a B-52 so it looks black and tan. I took a few deep breaths said OK and thought about it for a second. Actually that sounds interesting I said.

Historically the Black and Tans were ruthless oppressors for the British in Dublin. Remember Ireland was a conquered country suffering from foreign occupation. That fact ties in to some of their historical traditions. Take their dance. In Scotland, the Saber dance is done around a sword with the hands raised in the air. In Ireland they danced with their hands at their side symbolic of being oppressed in slavery by a foreign government.

My father's father was born in London. He was of Scottish descent. That clan came to Scotland from Ireland anciently. He served in the trenches of WWI. He met his wife in London who was a Canadian nurse of Irish and Scottish ancestry. Well I started doing some genealogy and found out that he had an older brother who had 10 children that we never knew about.

Turns out there were a whole wack of living relatives over in England we never met. I start corresponding with one guy who had tons of genealogy info. He came to Vancouver and started showing me old pictures. I saw one and asked what it was of. It was someone in a military uniform. He said that was my grandfather's older brother we never knew about. I asked what the emblem on his shoulder represented. He said it was some kind of rifle brigade for the British Army in Dublin.

My jaw hit the floor and my daughters eyes burst wide open in shock. Dublin? I said. British Army in Dublin? I said. All of a sudden I realized why we never knew about that side of the family. Let's face it, WWI and II were pretty clean cut good verses evil. Hitler used false flag attacks to gain control of Parliament and con the German people. Genocide and foreign occupation were not good things. Opposing that great evil was the right thing to do. Yet Ireland...

Foreign occupation is not good. Yet in essence that is what colonization was all about. Taxation without representation. In Canada is wasn't so bad. Loyalists were given land grants to work the land. There wasn't any oppression here except giving natives blankets laced with polio virus was just plain dirty.

When I was young I worked on a kibbutz in Israel. That doesn't make me Jewish. However what I saw there was similar to what I saw in Northern Ireland. The insane you kill one of ours we kill one of yours mentality. The old law of an eye for an eye never meant if someone commits murder you randomly murder someone from the same race or religion. That is just another act of murder which perpetuates the violence and the injustice.

Yet that isn't what I'm seeing in the Vancouver gang war. There is some rivalry between the likes of the UN and the Bacon brothers but I don't see it as the root cause of the conflict. It's not like the Crips and the Bloods you kill one of ours we kill one of yours.

The violence in the Vancouver drug war has simply been a fight over the profits from the drug trade. It is perpetual betrayal fueled by greed. I remember being in Ennis County Claire. The owner of a local print shop explained to me about his favorite saint. He said the Irish aren't impressed by wealth. He said if a saint has taken a vow of poverty and has over come trials, that impresses the Irish. I thought that was quite noble. Clearly the Irish in Ireland aren't impressed by Hummers and SUV's.

In Northern Ireland there was a place called Corrymeela where they would bring Catholic and Protestant youth together to get to know each other. Segregation prevents that from happening. In Israel they had something similar called the Oasis of Peace. Both are wonderful examples of people doing something good in the face of something bad.

Our problem in Vancouver isn't that complicated. Ours is just a matter of greed.

Murdering Mothers, Grandmothers and Children

The concept of anyone murdering someone's grand mother is pretty outrageous. Yet we read that Yves Trudeau did so for the Hells Angels. Trudeau murdered Andre Desjardins as well as his girlfriend and his grandmother on behalf of the club.

Outrageous as it is, that is a historical fact. I can tell you the Italians would never do that. I can tell you the Irish would never do that. In my heart I'd boldly declare that the French would never do that either, yet Yves Trudeau was French and Mom had no problem with what he did.

The point is, every country and society has good and bad. Even the French have their social rejects. Let's face it, Yves Trudeau was 5' 6" and weighed 135 lbs. He was a hit man for the Hells Angels who had small man syndrome and was empowered with a gun. Just like Walter Stadnick. Walter was 5' 4".

I find the whole concept of murdering someone's family disturbing. Yet we recently discovered Jeffrey Albert Lynds confessed to murdering Randy Mersereau for the Hells Angels and fingered others for murdering Jeff's brother and sister in law. It is a pattern we see repeating itself with the Hells Angels.

Each case seems to involve luring in a friend then betraying them and shooting them. Just like the Lennoxville massacre. That kind of shocking betrayal appears to be a pattern with the Hells Angels.

Knowing that, one is forced to question the integrity of the Hells Angels who threatened Devron Quast's grandmother. After all who would threaten someone's grandmother? The Hells Angels did. Who would murder someone's grandmother? The Hells Angels did.

That brings us back to Prince George. We are told that no one can sell drugs in Prince George without the permission of the Hells Angels. We know the Renegades are a puppet club for the Hells Angels. We know the Independent Soldiers are now tied to the Hells Angels as well as the Game Tight Soldiers in Prince George.

We remember how William Moore was shot in his car outside his house which was torched in Prince George. Well "someone" burned Joey Arrance's tattoo parlor in Prince George as well as the home of his girlfriend's wheelchair bound mother with her inside. She later died of injuries incurred in that fire. What kind of garbage would do that to anyone?

We know it wasn't an accident because Joey was incarcerated at the time. It's a sick pattern but time reveals truth. Reporting these deviants to the police is not being a rat. Turning the other way is.

That would include people who claim Sonny Barger is some kind of American Hero. That is bizarre. Barger was friends with Otis Garret. He attended his trial. Otis was convicted of running a prostitution ring in San Francisco for the Hells Angels called the Love Nest.

After his conviction, Margo Compton was murdered for testifying against him along with her twin seven year old daughters. Otis Garret was finally convicted of ordering the murder of Margo Compton and her twin daughters. The Arian Brotherhood prison gang testified against them because murdering children was against their code of conduct.

Yet Sonny Barger still honours Otis Garret on his West Vegas web site. Sonny Barger replaced the SS lightning bolts of the Filthy Few patch with the number 666. He was present in the Monterey gang rape. Barger is no hero. If the Arian Brotherhood prison gang can break the silence against the Hells Angels, so can we.