Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:15:59 -0600 (CST) GUN CONTROL: Liberal Thinking: Death or injury to those who can't use martial arts or other non-lethal means of self-defense-- The young, the old, the infirm, the disabled, the weak, the small, and the pregnant--are simply the necessary sacrifice we must make to criminals, to avoid the risks of letting honest, law abiding people be armed.
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SO HOW DO THEY COME UP WITH 6,000 TRACES? MAY 30, 2005 – BREITKREUZ’S ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT REQUEST TO THE CANADA FIREARMS CENTRE Please provide, from the most current records available, copies of the directives, procedures, policies, costs and benefits with respect to tracing of firearms. June 15, 2005 – “NO RECORDS” SAYS CANADA FIREARMS CENTRE JUNE 23, 2005 – BREITKREUZ’S LETTER OF COMPLAINT TO THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER Please find attached copies of our original ATI request dated May 30, 2005 and the Canada firearms Centre’s non-response dated June 15, 2005. Tracing firearms is one of the government’s most often stated benefits of the firearms program. Here are a few examples:
FEBRUARY 20, 2006 – EXCERPT INFORMATION COMMISSIONER’S LETTER Although no relevant information was located, the investigation has satisfied me that the department conducted a through search for records. (There you have it! There are NO RECORDS of any successful trace, of any firearm, at any time! EVERYTHING regarding the usefulness of the registry in tracking and tracing firearms was a total liberal fabrication. 2 BILLION dollars for a less than useless, make-work, paper pushing project, totally and irretrievably wasted. And STILL people are being persecuted by this farce. There should be an order in council IMMEDIATELY putting complete amnesty for everyone and their legally obtained property currently affected by these 'paper crimes'. There is no reason to continue the unwarranted persecution and upholding the "instrument misery" this farce has become.) Good riddance to gun registry, NTI says The new Conservative government’s decision to scrap the gun registry has given the president of Nunavut’s land claims organization “new hope” that firearms officials will stop “harassing” Inuit beneficiaries who were supposed to be protected by the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. “I’m looking forward to new changes so that Inuit will get better access to ammunition they need and the firearms they need on a daily basis,” said Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. President Paul Kaludjak. NTI is organizing a meeting with the new federal Justice Minister Vic Toews, one of three members of Parliament charged with finding a way to kill the gun registry as quickly as possible. The other two members of that committee are Garry Breitkreuz, a Saskatchewan MP and former Conservative gun registry critic, and Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Security. NTI and the Government of Nunavut have had a legal challenge outstanding against the federal Firearms Act since November, 2000. That lawsuit is still “engaged,” Kaludjak said, although in five years, no date has been set for a court hearing. Ideally, NTI will be able to scrap that lawsuit once the registry is dismantled, but Kaludjak said his organization will wait and see what the Conservatives intend. (Perhaps, because these pin headed 'gang bangers' are causing all the problems, they should, after being arrested and convicted, send them to the Nunavut wilderness for a few years. Northern Canadian Prisons situated in areas only accessible by aircraft will make guarding these assholes easier, and life a lot safer for everyone else. Who knows, after a few years they may even become 'real' men! And besides, bringing a little 'industry' to NTI won't hurt either.. It's a win..win.. situation) Bystander Fired Deadly Shot, Not Officer East Baton Rouge Sheriff's spokesman Greg Phares says Officer Brian Harrision was escorting a funeral procession Friday when he pulled Temple over and wrote him a ticket for breaking into the procession. According to Phares, that's when Temple attacked Harrison. Police say Perry Stevens was walking outside of the Auto Zone on Greenwell Springs Road when he heard Harrison yelling for help. Harrison was reportedly on his back with Temple on top of him. That's when Stevens went to his car and grabbed his .45 caliber pistol. According to Col. Greg Phares, "[Mr. Stevens] orders Mr. Temple to stop and get off the officer. The verbal commands are ignored and Mr. Stevens fires four shots, all of which struck Mr. Temple." Perry Stevens fired four shots into Temple's torso. Officer Harrison had already fired one shot into Temple's abdomen. With Temple still struggling with the officer, Perry continued to advance toward the scuffle. "He again orders Mr. Temple to stop what he was doing and get off the officer. Those commands are ignored and he fires a fifth shot and that hits his head. The incident is over with, and as you know, Mr. Temple is dead."(In this case, the officer was very lucky. Had this been a 'Canadian' Police officer he would very likely have been killed by his assailant. Or, his rescuer would have been arrested, charged with murder, and thrown in prison. At that point, even MORE outcries of "ban handguns" from Ontario's 3 stooges would be heard, and repeated, by left wing nanny state newspapers all across the land.. Yup, he's very lucky he wasn't a Canadian Officer..) True cost of gun registry will shock, Day says Ottawa -- Canadians will be shocked by the true coost of the federal government's ill-fated gun registry, says new Public Security Minister Stockwell Day. He said figures bureaucrats have shown him during briefings for his new portfolio are much higher than previously thought. "Some of these numbers, when we get out all the numbers and when the Auditor-General releases them all very soon, eyebrows are going to go up," he said yesterday. The most recent estimates put the figure in the hundreds of millions of dollars, bringing the total cost of the gun program to more than $1-billion.(The shocking thing will not be just the 'cost' which we always knew was far higher than the lieberals ever revealed. The Shock will be the graft, kickbacks, missing money, and outright theft. But, considering the Lieberals track record that surfaced during the adscam inquiry, and their unspoken motto of "Your Cash is Our Cash", why should Canadians be shocked? The Registry was a social engineering project, than had nothing to do with public safety, born of a lie, and initially funded by cash which completely by-passed parliamentary scrutiny. The majority of the 'first' billion was funded under the table, in true lieberal fashion. The shock, to most 'urban' Canadians, will be how they fell for the lies, and kept re-electing these incompetents time and time again..) Tories paint bulls-eye on long-gun registry The Conservative government has created a committee of two cabinet ministers and a backbencher to figure out how best to kill the long-gun registry as soon as possible. Registry critic Garry Breitkreuz, who is working with Justice Minister Vic Toews and Public Security Minister Stockwell Day, said he has been given wide leeway to deal swiftly with the registry. “I wouldn't be fighting for what I'm fighting for if I didn't think that would be the case,” the Saskatchewan MP said in an interview. “We couldn't have had two better appointments because they're giving me the opportunities to put in place whatever is needed to stop the flow of money right now.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised voters during the election campaign that the long-gun registry would be scrapped and money redirected to public safety. When the Liberals added the registry to the federal gun control program in 1995, they said it would cost taxpayers no more than $2-million. But the most recent estimates put the figure in the hundreds of millions of dollars, bringing the total cost of the gun program to more than $1-billion. The Conservatives have called the registry a waste of taxpayers money that targets duck hunters rather than criminals. Mr. Breitkreuz would say little about how the government will kill the registry while maintaining background checks it promised on would-be gun owners. “I still have to work through Stockwell Day and Vic Toews so I can't tip my hand as to what we're doing but we're working on that.” The Tories promised to reinvest savings from scrapping the gun registry into hiring police and assisting victims of crime, but may find there is less cash available than meets the eye. The gun program consumes about $90-million a year in direct costs while a single campaign promise to hire an additional 1,000 Mounties would add $50-million to the federal payroll. There are no cost estimates on campaign promises such as defending victims rights and improving gun safety. (The best news EVER!! Garry said " he has been given wide leeway to deal swiftly with the registry" Garry has been fighting this farce for years, and there is no one better qualified to dump this white elephant than Mr. Breitkreuz... THE COUNTDOWN HAS FINALLY BEGUN) NRA Tells Conservatives to 'Remember New Orleans' "If the U.N. gets its way, we'll be just like those poor souls down in New Orleans whose guns were confiscated by force. They were left with no 9-1-1, no police, no protection and no way to protect themselves," LaPierre said. "That's the United Nations' dream for America." Videotaped interviews with several New Orleans residents whose firearms were confiscated by police were also played during LaPierre's speech. They included remarks by one man who was beaten by robbers while police allegedly stood by and did nothing. Officers later returned, the man claimed, and confiscated the gun he had armed himself with in case the robbers returned. While LaPierre is angry over how police officers treated lawfully armed citizens in New Orleans, especially as armed looters and robbers ravaged the city, he said the experience has created a new rallying cry for those who support Second Amendment rights. "New Orleans was the first place in American history to disarm peaceable citizens, house-by-house, at gunpoint," LaPierre said. "And I promise you this standing here today: We at the NRA are going to make sure it's the last place it ever happens. "Never again can Michael Bloomberg or Rebecca Peters or Mike Wallace, or the United Nations, or the Brady Center, or anywhere else say that honest citizens don't need firearms because what happened in New Orleans proves beyond a shadow of a doubt what we've said all along," he continued. "The next time some arrogant politician looks at you and says, 'Why does anyone need to own a gun?' I want you to look them straight in the face and say this: 'Remember New Orleans!'" LaPierre exclaimed. "'Why do you need to own a gun?'" he continued. "Remember New Orleans! "'Aren't you just being kind of paranoid?'" LaPierre asked on behalf of the hypothetical politician. "Remember New Orleans! "'Why does anyone need right to carry?'" he added. "Remember New Orleans! "'What makes you think our government would ever try to confiscate your guns?'" LaPierre asked. At this point, he was joined by a roaring chorus from the audience: "Remember New Orleans!" "'Is the Second Amendment really relevant in the 21st Century?'" he asked, allowing the audience to reply, "Remember New Orleans!"(Canadian cities have been lucky 'so far'! If for example Toronto was hit with an earthquake, the devastation would be horrible. But what would be more horrible, is the roving bands of thieves that would think nothing of killing you for a jug of drinking water. These poor victims of 'exclusion' as Paul Martin called them, would now vandalize your home and possessions to sustain 'their' lives at the expense of yours. If Socialist such as our current Ontario liberals leaders, i.e. the three stooges Millar/Bryant/McGuinty get their way, YOU will be ripe for the picking.) Political Maneuvering as Gang Control Following the lead of the Premier, Ontario's Attorney General Michael Bryant also proposed a provincial handgun ban. He stated that "Nobody needs to have a handgun in their house and nobody should because of the dangers caused even by safe storage of these "weapons of human misery". The Attorney General also stated that "the average citizen simply cannot safely store a handgun" and noted that "no matter what lengths collectors go to store their weapons, thieves are going to steal them and sell them on the street to the highest bidder". "I think the time for handgun collections in people's homes have come and gone." "Maybe there was a time when this was safe, but no longer". It is seldom that one hears the head of law enforcement for a province make such an open and complete confession of absolute defeat. The citizens of Ontario are no longer safe in their homes, nor are their possessions, and that is now the permanent state of things. There is nothing the "average citizen" can do about it either. Thieves will steal them, thieves will sell them and there is nothing he or the police can do about it. Accordingly, the only possible solution is to remove the property of the law abiding. Unable to even contemplate eradicating the gangs, Bryant shifts his efforts to the law-abiding to prevent theft by confiscating what the thieves want to steal. It is a breathtaking admission of the failure of political will. A complete abandonment of any hope for effective governance and all in the face of a few hundred gang members. One wonders if this brilliant new approach will be applied to other crime problems like bank robbery, car theft and the heisting of women's jewelry.(Well, there it is..There is absolutely no hope that the Ontario government has any control over protecting you or your property no matter what it is.. A complete abdication of responsibility. "There is nothing the average citizen can do about it" So, pack up your jewellery, televisions, cars, silver and all other valuables, and send them to the government to prevent the absolute certainty that they will only be stolen from you. Remember, its for YOUR safety, if you have nothing left to steal, you have nothing left to fear! You know what? Michael Byant IS an ASS, and has just confessed that he is totally incapable of doing his job..Wow.. Everything you would expect from a pack of weenies in a Liberal government eh!) Raid nets 4 more stolen weapons One by one, Ken Foster's beloved handguns are being tracked down.Four more of the Oshawa gun collector's prized weapons were seized during a raid Friday at a home in the city's south side, Durham Region police said yesterday.One of the handguns was found stuffed in a flowerpot, police said, and two suspects are in custody. That brings to six the number of handguns police have recovered from the cache of 40 stolen from Foster's home 11 days ago when thieves kicked in the back door of his home while the 67-year-old pensioner was in hospital recovering from a stroke. Darryl Ronald Heather, 19, and Shannon Christine Howitt, 24, both of Oxford St., face 27 gun-related charges, including tampering with serial numbers.Last week, police in Toronto recovered two of Foster's handguns during a high-risk takedown after two men were seen putting a suspicious bag in the trunk of a car near Manning Ave. and Bloor St. W. Foster is one of a number of gun collectors in the GTA hit by thieves in the past few months leaving police wondering how the thugs know where the large gun collections are. On Friday, thieves broke into collector Gary Gordaneer's Mississauga apartment and made off with 45 firearms."It kind of makes you wonder where they are getting the information from," said Det. Steve Jones of the Durham Region Gang Enforcement Unit, adding he is confident there will be more seizures and arrests. Increasingly, gun collectors have been pointing a finger at the Canada Firearms Centre — the federal gun registry — as the cause of leaks to thieves. But a spokesperson for the gun registry said yesterday that its computers are closely monitored and no one has ever hacked into the computer."They (gun owners) should be confident their information is safe," the spokesperson said.(Ya right! are THEY willing to bet 'their' lives on that? They expect us to! CPIC has been breached, and there are 'still' over a hundred ongoing investigations into those breaches. To say the 'gun registry data' is secure is just plain bullshit. What about the OPP database in Orillia? Was THAT compromised and downloaded as the rumours say? and above all, when will Ken Foster get his property back?) Judgement Day For
Jonathan Login follow-up
Good News All
charges dismissed.
Judge Douglas
Dismissed all charges and gave a 2 and 3/4 hour summation as to why the charges
were dismissed and in most cases, stated case law to enforce his decision.
He left no doubt in
anyone's mind that Jonathan had been wrongly accused, charged and
persecuted by the police and the crown.
One thing of note,
not one of the police officers involved had the decency to be there
and shake his hand and apologize for over reacting and putting his family
through this hardship for 3 years and sixty some court appearances. Sixty
some days that could have been better spent with his family.
The cost in legal
fees are $150,000.00 and he owes a balance of approx. $100,000.00 after our
last fund raising drive. His family still need financial help and we are
asking everyone to please help. Donations can be made by making a cheque out to
the Canadian Shooting Federation for the Jonathan Login defence fund and either
sending them to The Wolf's Den Sporting Supplies at 7560 Con.8, R. R. #1 UTOPIA,
Ont LOM1TO or by sending them to the Law office of Paul Shaw in
Collingwood. The Canadian Shooting Federation has opened a trust fund for
the family and will supply Tax Receipts.
Jonathan's family
has been devastated by this travesty and desperately need our help to get back
on their feet.
Remember this could
have happened to any one of us or our sons or daughters.
This has and is
showing what the sporting community can do when it stands together.
Watch the Toronto
Sun, (Mark Bonakowski column) for follow up as well as the Publications from the
National Firearms Association, the Ontario Federation of Hunters and Anglers as
well as W5 National Investigative Report for follow-ups.
Spread the word and
keep the faith.
Yours in
conservation and sportsmanship.
The Wolf's Den
Sporting Supplies Limited.
Thanks.
Carl & Gary
Banting
Wolf's Den Sporting
Supplies
(705)
424-4867
An AMAZING coincidence! A Mississauga gun collector was likely targeted, police say, but how thieves knew a large cache of firearms was in his apartment remains the focus of an intensive investigation. Although investigators haven’t discounted the possibility that a breach in the federal gun registry could be leaking sensitive information to criminals, police sources say this theft is more likely the work of loose lips. Premier Dalton McGuinty said yesterday the gun theft is yet another reason to ban them. “It’s the right of an individual who collects legal guns versus the rights of others not to be shot with a stolen legal gun. I’m with those people who say our right not to be shot with a stolen legal gun trumps the rights of collectors to collect legal guns.“The attorney general tells me that we have about 100,000 (hand) guns owned by collectors in Ontario. That’s 100,000 potential opportunities for theft and 100,000 potential opportunities for those guns to be misused and abused.” Attorney General Michael Bryant has called on Ottawa for a handgun ban, warning that Queen’s Park will seek the power to act if Ottawa doesn’t. Last year, Toronto recorded 52 shooting deaths — a record — prompting Mayor David Miller to call for a ban on handgun ownership in the city. He says recent gun seizures by police x have proven the “direct link” between break-ins at collectors’ homes and guns on the streets. Friday’s theft, believed to be one of the largest ever against gun collectors in Ontario, was the second major theft of weapons from firearms enthusiasts in recent weeks in Greater Toronto. On Feb. 3, 40 handguns were stolen from Ken Foster, 67, while he was in hospital.(Isn't it convenient for Michael 'ban everything I'm afraid of' Bryant, and Squinty McGuinty to suddenly see all these gun collectors targeted for break-ins, at exactly the same time they are politically grandstanding to ban the private ownership of handguns. Where are the 'leaks' indeed? Beyond the information sieve known as the "Gun Registry", the Ontario law that says 'uncleared and unknown' employees of stores such as WalMart and Canadian Tire are required to 'record' who buys ammunition, along with their addresses. Some feel there is a very convenient leak in the Ontario government supplying this information to the street! After all, if collectors were not being targeted to substantiate the claim that stolen 'legal' firearms were the problem, there would be no problem. It's the leaky Records of who has collections that's causing the problems, Not the firearms which many have been around for years and years without this level of problems. You want to stop the thefts? Then eliminate the 'government' source of the leaked information! All of this is just far too convenient to their political agenda, to simply be a coincidence! To top this off, rumour has it the entire handgun database of firearms and their owners was downloaded from the OPP Orillia Headquarters computer last month, by persons unknown. Perhaps collectors better start WEARING one of their firearms when at home.. Remember! If it only saves one life!) Also see Thieves targeting gun collectors) Judge rules police takedown, strip search unconstitutional A Provincial Court Judge yesterday ruled a police takedown and public strip search of a Baxter man who was legally hunting groundhogs was unconstitutional and illegal. The ruling came almost three years after Jonathan Login, 32, found himself face-down in the driveway of his rural home in Baxter, Ont., surrounded by a team of OPP and military officers with high-powered weapons trained on his head. Next thing he knew, his pants were down around his knees while a gloved officer performed an anal cavity search as his weeping wife and children hugged and kneeled on the ground in terror, and neighbours looked on. “The arrest was unlawful and unconstitutional,” Justice Jon-Jo Douglas said as lawyers and Login stood before him. “The police had not a wit of evidence to suggest he was operating a firearm dangerously.” It was a case where almost everything went wrong, despite good intentions, the court heard, when Login, a skilled and licensed hunter, donned his army fatigues and went hunting rodents in the fields behind a rural Baxter public school, with the permission of the landowner one day in May, 2003. A concerned soccer coach with a group of kids playing near the field called 911 just to make sure all was well. A dispatcher sent a “guy in fatigues with big gun in the schoolyard,” message to police, triggering a flurry of police vehicles at “break-neck speed,” sirens blaring, to what they thought was another Columbine horror. In the meantime, the oblivious Login finished hunting and lazily drove home, where he met the officers in his driveway. “Please don’t shoot. I have two kids,” said a panicked Login as he lie on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back. The officers found his rifle properly stored in his vehicle, then, according to the judge, illegally entered his home and basement where they found some ammunition and a partly disassembled rifle, and charged him with improper storage. In the end, the judge dismissed the charges and ordered the police to give Login’s seized hunting rifles back. “It’s about time,” Login said with a grin and a sigh of relief outside the court. “Now maybe the message will get out there: stop treating law-abiding gun owners like criminals.” A year ago, Login and his lawyer tried to press charges against three of the arresting police officers, but the Crown withdrew them. “Our battle isn’t over yet,” said his lawyer, Paul Shaw of Collingwood. “This family went through quite an ordeal and police should be held accountable,” he said. “One can only imagine the tragedy if a finger slipped and hit the trigger and killed Jonathan or one of his kids,” Shaw said. Login has since launched a $2.5-million lawsuit against the OPP in damages over allegations of false imprisonment, false arrest, trauma to his wife and child, and three years of illegal harassment. OPP has refused comment until the 30-day appeal period has passed. (YAHOOOOO.. What the police did in this despicable situation is unbelievable. Wolfs Den Sports , has been leading the charge to help Jonathan right from the very start. and the Banting Family is to be commended in their unfailing, unwavering stand against this blatant disregard for the Logan family by the Nottawasaga OPP. A successful 2.5 million lawsuit will be just the kick in the ass needed to show some police 'forces' just because they have lots of 'tactical' equipment, that rarely gets used, there is no reason to pull it all out in a display of absolute overkill) OTHER LINKS TO MORE INFO AND BACKGROUND ON THIS STORY *Police Out of Control *OPP Officers charged Ministry fits with Day’s concerns for safety and security The government plans to go ahead with its general campaign commitments, which include an emphasis on respect for law-abiding citizens and protecting them from those who don’t respect them or their property, he said. “Serious repeat offenders need to realize they will be thinking about their crimes for a long time in a corrections system that is geared to dealing with that type of individual,” he said. The government will also move ahead on changes to the gun registry, which he said has cost hundreds of millions of dollars and not reduced homicides, which have gone up 12 per cent in the last two years. “We want to see more resources deflected from a gun registry that isn’t working to see more police on the street and preventative programs, like youth at-risk programs, that work,” he said. “We want to not be going after innocent, law-abiding citizens such as sports shooters and hunters; we want to go after that bad guys.” That means mandatory sentences for crimes with guns and more aggressive action on gun smuggling at the border, he said.(I Hope Michael "ban everything that scares me" Bryant is paying attention. Stock Day's saying: "protecting them from those who don't respect them or their property" would I hope would apply not only to the criminals, but weenies like Bryant as well. Bryant was probably the kid in high school that was shoved into a locker six times a week, and now feels all powerful! Hopefully this stupid registry is gone before Turkey season! There are a lot of guys and gals, that want to participate, but currently don't know where their trusty shotgun is.. I have a feeling most will re-appear when the insanity ends.. Gee just think, a criminal justice system, that actually goes after criminals, and not just make them! Why didn't the liberals think of that? Oh ya, I know! they had a completely different agenda, they only 'called' it public safety.) Gun Registry Plan Blasted OTTAWA -- A suggestion by Justice Minister Vic Toews the minority Conservative government could make an end run around the House of Commons and use a cabinet order to dismantle the federal long-gun registry is drawing fire from Opposition MPs. "I would be surprised if that would be something they would seek to do by way of executive fiat," former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler said yesterday. Joe Comartin, the NDP justice critic, contended the Toews approach would short-circuit the democratic process. "If a decision is going to be made to terminate that program, that decision should be made by the entire House," said Comartin. (The so-called "end run" may not even be necessary after Sheila Frazer releases her audit on this liberal farce. Any party left seeing to support the level of theft this 'registry' will be shown to represent, will be booed out of the house. The LAST report, had to be cut short because the auditor general could not uncover the 'truth' about many, many, paper and money trails that just seem to vanish. If the Liberal could not keep themselves from laundering adscam money back to themselves when only a "few hundred million" was involved, the temptation of their "entitlements" would have been monumental when BILLIONS were ripe for the pickings.. My personal opinion is: The Losses, Costs, Kickbacks, and Payoffs involving the Gun Registry, will go down in Canadian History as the biggest, most expensive scam, ever pulled on Canadian Taxpayers. When the report is finally made public, any 'honest' liberals that were backbenchers during this period, should cross the floor and sit with the government in an act demonstrating sheer revulsion of their previous leadership. Will that happen? Maybe, but I doubt it..) Registry on Last Legs It was one of the biggest financial boondoggles of the 1990s. But now, after years of public backlash and auditor general reports highlighting the program's disastrous financial management, Canada's failed long-gun registry will be coming to an end. It's not a question of "if" the new Conservative government winds down the gun registry, which has cost taxpayers well over $1 billion to administer, with no benefit to show for it. It's a matter of "when" and "how" -- questions the new federal Justice Minister Vic Toews gave the Winnipeg Sun some insight into. "We've been very clear in terms of our desire to abolish (the gun registry)," said Toews. "How we can actually accomplish that remains to be seen ... but we'd like to move on that as quickly as possible." It's unclear whether the Tories would have enough support among opposition MPs to repeal the long-gun registry through legislation. But even if they don't, Toews says there's one avenue he's exploring that would not require the consent of the House of Commons. Toews says he may be able to gut the program by repealing the gun registry's regulations, which could be done by cabinet. Legislation is passed by Parliament. But the regulations that give them meaning and detail are controlled by cabinet. "Whether that change can occur through regulatory means -- that is, by the governor general in council (cabinet) -- or whether it needs legislative changes remains to be examined," said Toews. "The governor in council could repeal those regulations and put other regulations in place." And the long-gun registry would go the way of the dodo bird. Finally. "Whatever we do when it comes to repealing the long-gun registry, there will be an effective firearms program in place that is meant to deter crime," said Toews. "We have always maintained that we need effective crime control when it comes to dealing with firearms." (The dodo bird was a loss to the world, the gun registry will only be a loss to Wendy Cukier's pocket..By the sounds of the rhetoric coming from Ontario's Queens Park lately, she seems to have found another patsy to fund her worthless organization in the form of Michael "ban everything I'm personally scared of " Bryant. There are lots of Liberal, NDP, and Block MP's, that if not whipped by their party, will vote to put a bullet through the heart of this farce and end it's suffering. After all, it's been bleeding money for years, and the Liberals have done nothing but keep pumping even more money into it's lifeless body! It's time to pull the plug. This farce was created, supported, and sustained by hiding the majority of it's funding from Parliament, and lying to the public about it's value, cost, and utter uselessness. This was a Liberal social engineering plan, and nothing more. It never was about public safety, but only the hiding off, and redirecting of money from the Canadian Treasury, to ???? Well, perhaps Mr. Gomery should get busy again! It's refreshing to see a government that actually realizes Gun Control is NOT Crime Control!) Can glue end high-speed police chases? The Los Angeles Police Department will try a sticky solution to stop high-speed car chases. Chief William Bratton, who has called the city the high-speed chase capital of the world, said L.A. is trying out a high-tech/low-tech system to end police chases of fleeing suspects. The high-tech part is a miniature global positioning system, an international satellite-based navigational aid, attached to a radio transmitter, that allows users to pinpoint a location within metres. The low-tech part is a sticky sphere about the size of a golf ball holding the global positioning system, radio transmitter and battery. Made by a Virginia company called StarChase, whose claim is "ending chases, not lives," the system enables police to fire the sticky ball at a fleeing car using an air-powered launcher. ('Sounds' like a good idea..Until of course, the first innocent bystander is killed or wounded by a "stickyball" fired from a police cruiser ..)  Toews says scrapping gun registry a priority Canada's new justice minister, Manitoba MP Vic Toews, says his party has a priority to eliminate the federal gun registry. Toews has long been a vocal opponent of the registry. Tuesday morning, on CBC Radio, he once again outlined his party's opposition to the registry. "The long-gun registry, of course, has been a colossal waste of money, with no demonstrable affect on gun crime. We want to bring in laws that target criminals, rather than targeting duck hunters and farmers, as the gun registry does," Toews said.(We have been waiting 12 long years to hear a statement like this!!! For the FIRST time in Canadian history, we have a government that truly understands what GOOD gun control consists of. And it does not consist of persecuting the law abiding, regardless of how much spin the Anti's give it with their warped statistics, and outright lies... Garry B. should now be made the Parliamentary secretary to the Justice Minister, with a mandate to kill C-68, and direct gun control efforts towards the criminals. There is no one in this government that knows more about the current situation than Garry, and we trust him!!) Why we should shoot down the gun registry If the government is going to tackle the gun registry fiasco, it should not be afraid to wield the axe on the Canadian Firearms Program. If it only scraps registration of new long guns and certification turns out to be just another name for licensing, then the resulting tinkering could end up actually raising program costs. And worst of all from the point of view of wasting taxpayers' money would be the prospect that a future government might be fooled into re-establishing the gun registry on the grounds that it wouldn't cost very much since many of its program components would be still around. If C-68 is to be killed, it's best to drive a stake right through its heart. Patrick Grady is an economist with Global-Economics.ca. Larry Comeau is a retired RCMP superintendent.(The ENTIRE farce must go! Once gone, it will be political suicide for anther band of Lying Liberals to try pulling the wool over the eyes of parliament, and proceed with another round of under the table funding for 'gun registry II' The next time another Allan Rock tells parliament that a registry of firearms can be done for some ridiculously low figure, and that claiming costs will be over a billion dollars is just "trafficking in fictions", the public will know. Fool me once same on you, fool me twice shame on me! As long as this list is available to 'someone' the lives of law abiding firearms owners will be in jeopardy from the highest bidder looking for guns! Just like they are now!) The cartoon(s) that shook the world You could call them the caricatures that shook the world. It began a week ago when Denmark's Jyllands-Posten asked cartoonists in September to create some satirical drawings of Muhammad because the country’s media was self-conscious about criticisms of Islamic terrorism. In the last week, other European papers picked up and published the cartoons and the result has been unprecedented rioting throughout the Islamic world. (Mohammed may have "run out of virgins" but the quantity of humourless, self righteous idiots, seems to go on unabated. Not being a religious person myself, I can only surmise that if you agree with rioting, and If'n you ain't Muslim, then you ain't Shiite :^) Has the registry become a shopping list for criminals? O.F.A.H. lashes out at Attorney General for blaming law-abiding gun owners Attention: News Editor, Government/Political Affairs Editor ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Feb. 6, 2006) - The latest home invasion seems to have targeted another licensed gun collector and the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters is seriously questioning the security of the computer-based gun registry. "This and other recent break-ins has us wondering whether computer hackers and violent criminals are using the gun registry more than the police" said O.F.A.H. Executive Director, Mike Reader, adding that the registry's reputation for computer errors, privacy infringements, and security leaks has been widely acknowledged by police and politicians. "The O.F.A.H. has always warned that, in the wrong hands, a database detailing the whereabouts of every legally-owned firearm in Canada is a potential shopping list for criminals," added Reader. Despite this apparent trend in recent break-ins, Ontario's Attorney General Michael Bryant appears to be more intent on punishing law-abiding gun collectors who have gone above and beyond the legislated call of duty for safely storing their firearms. "Instead of focusing on how thieves are discovering the whereabouts of gun collections, the Ontario Attorney General is demonizing law-abiding historic collectors and target shooters who should expect security protection, not confiscation," said Reader. This concern was echoed by Oshawa Mayor, John Gray, who told the Toronto Star that private gun collectors are not the criminals. He said criminals are the thugs who break into homes and steal safely- stored firearms. Ottawa's Police Board Chair, Eli El-Chantiry also believes the province's Attorney General is off target, saying that he believes "the focus should be on the illegal handgun, not about the handgun in the hand of a collector."/For further information: Greg Farrant O.F.A.H. Government Relations Manager (705) 748-6324 extension 236 greg_farrant@ofah.org/(This only confirms one thing for sure.. Michael 'Can't solve it then Ban it' Bryant, is a total Moron incapable of doing his job. That job is protecting innocent victims of the criminals that are reaping the information about firearms owners from not only the Liberal Gun Registry, but From the ammunition purchasing book guarded by the pimply faced kid at Walmart!.. Ban BOTH the registry, and the ammunition record book, and see a drop in homes targeted for firearms theft. How many Collectors were robbed 'before' the gun registry was initiated? How many people at 'the registry' have had RCMP background checks? I wonder what the going price is for a custom firearms shopping list? Who's next? Perhaps we should be sleeping with 'something' under our pillows? If it only saves one life eh! Actually, a short 12 ga. is much better than a H.G.)  The full cabinet: Jim Flaherty - finance Bev Oda - heritage Peter MacKay - foreign affairs Chuck Strahl - agriculture Rona Ambrose - environment Jim Prentice - Indian affairs Vic Toews - justice Gordon O’Connor - national defence Loyola Hearn - fisheries David Emerson - international trade Tony Clement - health Maxime Bernier - industry Monte Solberg - citizenship and immigration John Baird - treasury board Rob Nicholson - democratic reform Stockwell Day - public safety Carol Skelton - national revenue Michael Chong - intergovernmental affairs and sport Gary Lunn - natural resources Diane Finley - human resources and development Josée Verner - international co-operation, the Francophonie, official languages Jean-Pierre Blackburn - labour Marjory LeBreton - leader of the government in the senate Lawrence Cannon - transport Michael Fortier - public works Greg Thompson - veterans affairs Rock says no to Liberal leadership UNITED NATIONS - Allan Rock, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, said yesterday he will not run for the leadership of the Liberal party. The 58-year-old former cabinet minister under prime minister Jean Chretien said he and his family had concluded there were "many ways" in which he could serve Canada, suggesting he hoped to remain in his current position as Canada's representative at the world body. Many political observers say that may be difficult, however, since the incoming Tory government is likely to consider his former political stripe a reason to remove him and put a Conservative or career diplomat in his place. Mr. Rock, who was briefly a leadership contender to replace Mr. Chretien before dropping out of the race in January 2003, said he would discuss his future with the new government at the "appropriate time," refusing to say whether he had already tendered any letter outlining his intentions or hopes to remain in the UN job. "There has been speculation about whether I would run for the leadership," he said in an interview. "After carefully considering the opportunity, I have decided not to be a candidate. This is a decision I have reached after speaking it over with my wife and children and after deciding that there are many ways in which I can serve Canada."(Allan Rock "Official Minister of incredible waste" has virtually bankrupted every ministry, and organization he has ever been put in charge of. This should be the very FIRST liberal asshole to be unemployed. Remember: If it only saves ONE country".. Mostly though, the 'experienced' rats are all going to abandon the Liberal Titanic, before it hits the 'next' iceberg in it's path. The ONLY people who want the leaders job, are those that have little or no experience and are doing it out of ignorance, or as in "Paris Stronach's" case, the quest for 'power'.. God help us all if the population is stupid enough to elect 'her' as the Prime Minister.. PM B.S. I can hear it now!!) Female Postal Worker Goes ..er.. Postal! A former postal worker opened fire at a mail-processing plant in California, killing six people and then herself, authorities said early Tuesday. One other person was in critical condition in hospital with a gunshot wound to the head. A California Highway Patrol vehicle blocks entry to a U.S. mail facility after the fatal shooting of several workers in Goleta, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 31. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant) The woman began shooting about 9:15 p.m. local time on Monday after arriving at the plant in Santa Barbara, police said. When police arrived, they found two bodies outside the building. Inside were two wounded people, one of whom died later at hospital. Four more bodies, including that of the woman believed to be the shooter, were found about five hours later. The ex-worker had shot herself in the head, said Jim Anderson, sheriff of Santa Barbara County. "We do not believe there is any additional threat to the community," Anderson added. All the victims were believed to be current employees at the sprawling distribution plant in Goleta,150 kilometres northwest of Los Angeles, where about 300 people work. (California, the American state with firearms laws that are very much like Canada's, has ensured that this disgruntled worker was able to kill as many people as she desired, by simply forbidding the victims the tools needed to protect their very lives. She may have got one life, but the others could have been saved by a single armed employee. "If it only saves one life") Jujitsu moves foil teenager's attackers Two would-be robbers tried to mess with the wrong girl in Nova Scotia. The 15-year-old was walking down a main street in the core of Dartmouth, near Halifax, on Monday night when she was approached by two young men. One tried to pull away her knapsack. However, the teenager, fully trained in the 2,500-year-old martial art of jujitsu, used a defensive technique to punch one of the men in the face, knocking him to the ground. When the second man came at her, she kicked him in the groin and punched him in the shoulder. Both men ran away – without the knapsack. The girl told police she may have dislocated the second attacker's shoulder or elbow. Both suspects, about 17 or 18, were wearing puffy jackets with fur on the collars.(If would imagine more than their jackets are 'puffy' now! Had she not had martial arts training, she may very well have ended up as another statistic. Not all women have the ability to do this. Most, the young, the infirm, the elderly, the pregnant etc. would simple be victims with no legal means to defend their very lives. I can't for the life of me, understand why woman's groups are not screaming at the top of their lungs for the means of self defence. Why does a woman, or anyone for that matter, HAVE to be a victim? There are many devices available for self defence, from firearms, to pepper spray, all illegal, because protected politicians feel that if it can be used for self defence, it can also be used for aggression.. Ya, so what? If someone uses it for attack purposes, then they should feel the full wrath of the law. This is hardly an excuse for not allowing it's use to save lives.. Even if it's that now famous "one life saved". Personal responsibility has all but faded away in Liberalized Canada, in favour of the socialist dogma that it's 'never' acceptable to fight back, which seems to suggest that if rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it. Bullshit!!! The sooner a woman can blow a rapist balls off the better. Hopefully this young woman's kick to the groin dislocated more than this assholes shoulder!) Say goodbye to gun registry The new Conservative government has the federal long gun registry in its crosshairs, which has prompted some defenders of the program to plead with the Tories not to pull the trigger on the much-maligned registry. But the cries of clemency coming from crime victims and now police chiefs, as compelling as they may be, must not be heeded and the registry must be put out of its misery. The fact is the registry doesn’t protect officers and citizens as its proponents say it should. The registry, for instance, may show that a place doesn’t have any guns, but officers walking in may discover the owner has a whole cache of illegal firearms. It’s not as if criminals are registering the guns they use to commit crimes. The fact is that gun crimes haven’t been eliminated by the registry — if anything, they’ve gotten worse since the Montreal massacre of 1989. The gun registry didn’t protect four Alberta RCMP officers shot while raiding a farm in northern Alberta last year. It didn’t do anything to protect the people in downtown Toronto hit by stray bullets during a Boxing Day shootout. It didn’t prevent innocent people in Winnipeg, Toronto and other large Canadian cities from being killed by gunmen. All it has done in the 11 years since its inception is cost the Canadian taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars and infuriate law-abiding citizens who know that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. And people will kill fewer people if the Tories do what they say they will do to clean up our streets by throwing people who commit crimes in jail for longer stretches and hiring more officers to stop the illegal flow of guns from the U.S. Every Canadian, including police officers, should be happy with those measures to keep our communities safe — something the decade-old long gun registry certainly hasn’t done.(Bit by bit the truth about this useless farce leaks out. 5000 hits a day from police officers is spouted over and over again as proof the cops use it. What they don't tell you is the registry gets an automatic 'tic' on it's counter every time a cop pulls someone over for speeding, or any other infraction as part of the check, even if firearms are not even remotely connected to the routine investigation. It's simply a paper pushing exercise that benefits no one but the bureaucrats, and the people the Liberals have given lucrative contracts to. There is absolutely no benefit to anyone else, and exists only to give the false impression the liberals "are doing something" other than simply trying to disarm the innocent, and create even more victims. The Liberal gun registry is the pinnacle of all assaults against legal firearms owners, target shooters, and hunters. With it's demise, things should only get better. Particularly with the sunset clauses placed on specious gun laws. Once and for all, we have the chance to rid ourselves of these beyond useless, feel good laws. Laws than benefit no one but the paranoid and devious gun grabbers. Laws that put Liberal funded organizations such as the Coalition for Gun Control, on a quest to line their own pockets in search of a meal ticket on the backs of the innocent victims, killed by criminals and nut cases such as Gamil Gharbi, A.K.A. Marc Lepine. Once the Auditor General releases her report on this monumental waste, the cover hiding the corruption, kickbacks, and payoffs will be yanked back, exposing the fraud that has been perpetrated on all Canadians since Allan Rock came to Ottawa with the belief that only soldiers and police should have guns. Unfortunately, he forgot about the criminals!) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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