OPP & Ontario Government Deny Canadian's their Rights under the Charter

Yesterday in my post on Lux et Veritas  The ongoing disgrace of Caledonia, I outlined the disgraceful behaviour of the Liberal Government of Ontario and the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) in abandoning their duty to uphold the law.

To recap, the OPP under the direction of the Ontario Government and Premier Dalton McGinty abandoned lawful property owners to run the gauntlet of Six Nations insurrectionists who illegally took over development land and terrorised home owners.

I called them insurrectionists, but in fact the epithet thugs is probably more appropriate.

Not only where these tax-paying citizens of Canada abandoned by their democratic government, but the thugs were treated with a hands-off approach by the OPP because they are natives, and it seems clear that the OPP chief (Fantino) was taking his orders from Dalton McGinty.

My language was restrained compared to the editorial from November of last year in the NP (National Post) from which I took my title,  "The ongoing disgrace of Caledonia":

"Nothing symbolizes the pathetic gutlessness of Dalton McGuinty's government, or that of the provincial police force that is nominally sworn to protect the province's residents, than the saga now playing out in a Hamilton courtroom. The fate of a lawless Ontario enclave, it seems, now rests not with the province's politicians or its police, but with a pair of scrappy Caledoni litigants who have the guts to take a stand.

I have no complaint about calling the Premier "gutless" because his actions were gutless, but in fact it is far are worse than gutless.

but in fact it is far are worse than gutless.

By his policies he actively denied people in Caledonia their rights as Canadian Citizens under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It seems clear that McGinty hired Fantino as OPP chief to follow his orders and policies after the previous OPP chief was displaced following an initial OPP action to put an end to the lawless thuggery of the Six Nations 'warriors'.

I don't think that denying someone their rights under the Charter makes Dalton McGinty subject to a charge under the criminal code, but I do know it is a disgrace, and I think he should be held accountable. I would think dereliction of duty would be a start. But it seems that politicians are never held accountable.

The charter is designed so that ALL Canadians of every ethnic heritage, every religion, every skin colour are entitled to equal treatment under the law.

The Charter is designed so that one no one group gets preferential treatment over another group; whether one group is of Chinese descent, Native American descent, European descent, African descent, or whatever - it shouldn't matter under the Charter.

The principle under the Charter is that everyone should get equal justice regardless of 'race, national or ethnic origin.'

Here is my comment on Christie Blatchford excellent article in the Globe and Mail yesterday.

 OPP & Ontario Government Deny Canadian Rights under the Charter

Apart from allowing insurrection and unlawful behaviour by natives, the Ontario Government and the OPP have actively denied the citizens of Caledonia their rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, specifically Article 7 and 15.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees every citizen ....

Article 7. “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof ....”

The OPP failed to protect the life, liberty and security of the people involved; the Ontario Liberal Government should have ordered the OPP to do their duty or call for Federal help if the OPP wasn’t up to the task.

Article 15. “Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination ... based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour ....

”The native people were given preferential treatment over the non-natives, and allowed to abuse them; that constitutes a clear contravention of Article 15.

The OPP clearly discriminated against non-natives who were not provided with equal treatment under the law on the basis of “race, national or ethnic origin”Non-natives should have been treated equally under the law and were not, therefore the OPP were clearly at fault and were responsible for denying one section of the community equality under the law in preference to another section of the community.

The OPP is required to uphold the law and the Charter not flagrantly ignore it.The master of the OPP is the law. The chief of the OPP is not the water-boy for the ruling Liberal Government. 

It’s not Fantino’s job to carry-out Liberal policies – his job is to see that the laws of Canada and the Province are followed.The Liberal Government of Ontario has a responsibility to ensure the OPP chief does his job. Each is part of the check and balance for the other, however it appears they were working in collusion.

Gurth Whitaker
Calgary

Hasan Called War on Terror ‘War Against Islam’

Bosnian Muslim Waffen SS.

"Hasan Called War on Terror ‘War Against Islam," Classmate Says
by Justin Blum for Bloomberg (here)

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas, regularly described the war on terror as "a war against Islam," according to a doctor who was in a graduate program with him.

While studying for a masters degree in public health in 2007, Hasan used a presentation for an environmental health class to argue that Muslims were being targeted by the U.S. anti-terror campaign, said Val Finnell, a classmate.

"He was very vocal about the war, very upfront about being a Muslim first and an American second," said Finnell, 41, a preventive medicine doctor in Los Angeles, in an interview today. "He was always concerned that Muslims in the military were being persecuted."

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas Republican, said she was told by Fort Hood authorities the suspect was about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and had been “very upset and angry” in the past few days.

Finnell said he remembered Hasan “vividly” and said of the shooting: “I’m not surprised, based on the things he said in the past. I’m shocked that it happened, but not surprised.”

In conversations, students challenged Hasan on his statements and he would become “visibly upset, sweaty, nervous,” Finnell said.

Toward the end of the program, in 2008, Hasan gave a presentation that was billed as a survey of the climate for Muslims who serve in the U.S. military, Finnell said.

“It wasn’t really very objective,” Finnell said. “It was like he was trying to prove a point.”

 As I said in my previous post - there should be both screening and monitoring. It is immoral to put innocent lives at risk because of some politically correct ideology of avoiding profiling.

It is clear that there was inadequate monitoring of Major Hasan; here's the conlcusion from my post earlier today (here) "The Liberal Conclusions on Major Hasan"

Nor is it a reason for a witch-hunt. However, there are more than adequate grounds for proper precautions and for; complete shedding of political correctness.

We should remember that it Muslim solders could have been numbered with the slaughtered at Fort Hood. Giving Muslims special treatment to avoid profiling ultimately does not reward loyal Muslims, it only protects the Jihadists and therefore makes their purpose easier.

Gurth Whitaker
Calgary, AB

Child Warriors - A Moving Letter

On Monday the National Post (NP) published a deeply disturbing article: "Taliban Deploy Children, Military Says"

"... three separate explosions in Kandahar in the past few weeks in which as many as 12 Afghan children were blown up as they were being taught how to make or place improvised explosive devices in what one Canadian officer described as an "IED training camp."

 "IED training camp" (Improvised Explosive Devices), what an obscenity. The depths of evil that Islamic terrorists have descended to; the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India; Al-Qaeda in Iraq; Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza and Syria, the list of evil goes on.

Today the NP published a letter in response titled "Child Warriors"; I was very moved by this letter so I am posting it in its entirety, and let it speak for itself.

The Taliban's use of children on their front lines is a tactic taken straight from the pages of the Palestinians' jihad manual. For years, Palestinian terrorist groups have used children as human shields, launched rockets at Israel from preschools in Gaza, and sent children out to do the most dangerous jobs, in the hopes that they would die and the Israelis would be labelled "baby killers."

As former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir noted:

"Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us."

She also stated,

"We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours".

Elana Aptowitzer, Ottawa.

It must be said that the Palestinian tactic of using their children to fight a war by indoctrinating them to become suicide bombers has been rewarded by other Arab and Muslim nations by gifts of money, praise and ideological support. Hamas & Hezbollah, are the proxies for Iran and its chief export which is hatred, and the rockets to to kill civilians.

My thanks to Mrs. Aptowitzer for her letter and bringing the quotes of Gold Meir to light, the letter can be read here.


Lux et Veritas: The Couragious Golda Meir: "The Couragious Golda Meir
A wonderful story about the courage of Golda Meir and the cowardice of Austrian Chancellor Kreisky."


Gurth Whitaker
Calgary, Alberta

Speaking The Truth

"Our Daily Bread" has a notable meditation today:

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is a respected small-town lawyer in the segregated South during the 1930s. When he takes on a case that pits an innocent black man against two dishonest white people, Atticus knows he will face terrible prejudice from the jury. But his conscience compels him to speak the truth boldly in the face of opposition.

The Old Testament prophets were often sent to preach the truth to a stubborn people. “[God] sent prophets to them, to bring them back to the Lord; and they testified against them, but they would not listen” (2 Chron. 24:19). Their message often resulted in persecution and sometimes even death (Heb. 11:32-38).

Read the whole thing, or listen to the narrated version at Our Daily Bread here.

You will also find many excellent resources at the Our Daily Bread site.

Have a blessed day.

Truth and Survival

Beware of Liberal Dreamers

A superb piece by Barbara Kay in Wednesday's National Post sheds light on the issue of "Islamism" starting from 9/11, and goes to the very heart of this still pressing matter.

The root issue is not just Islamic militancy and Jihad, but arguably even more dangerous,  is a distorted response by the west.

Remembering September 11

Remembering September 11

We understand a lot more about Islamic militancy and violent Jihad than we did in the days after 9/11. I recall Prime Minister Blair and George Bush explaining that Islam is a religion of peace. Many believed that at the time.