Dispelling the myths about organic farming

December 20, 2011 — xanthippa

If I had live off the food I grew myself, I would starve to death.

It’s that simple.

One of my husband’s favourite jokes is that if somebody wants to kill a plant without using any herbicides, all they have to do is ask me to look after it:  within days of my most ardent efforts to meet its every need, the plant will simply give up and die.

We have a most beautiful rock garden in our front yard:  my husband and kids made it, because (they said) they could not take yet another year of dead plants in front of the house as I tried over and over to grow some flowers…

Even the rabbit refuses to eat plants I try to grow for him in the back yard:  he’ll eat their farm-bought equivalents, but not the ones from the backyard…

(The only exception to this rule is a rosebush I have:  I have tried to kill it for years – even digging up all its roots and everything – but it just keeps coming back bigger and stronger…)

I explain this to underscore the wonder with which I regard all humans who are actually capable of growing food.

When I was little, my grandmother and her boyfriend grew most of their food:  this was unusual in the industrialized part of the world I came from, but organic farming was his passion and both were really, really good at it.  I always wanted to help – but I was only permitted to help with harvesting, banned even from watering plants (see reason above).

Ever since I had a choice, I have been buying my food from local farmers:  most of it organic.

Yes, I had heard all the things about ‘organic farming’ not producing better or tastier food than other farming methods.  Yet, for me, this was a conscious indulgence!

I really did not care if the peach tasted better because it was organic or because I thought it was organic…

And I did run experiments on my family by buying identical cuts of meat from the supermarket and local farmers and cooking them identically (say, the barbecue, and so on):  they very consistently preferred both the taste and the texture of the meat I purchased from local (‘organic’ or ‘near-organic’ or ‘least-harmful-practices) farmers.

This suited me very well:  I like the idea of supporting local farmers directly, eating food that was not shipped here across large distances, of knowing and developing a trust relationship with the people I got my food from… (I even went out to the farm where my beef came from, to see that yes, the cows actually walk around in the field and eat grass, and so on.)

While I would not think less of people for not following these practices, I relished in being able to do so myself.  I was not doing it because I was convinced my kids would get sick from eating supermarket food – I did it because I could and I enjoyed doing it.

Of course, whenever I could help it, I would never touch genetically modified foods:  the ‘safety tests’ performed on these are woefully inadequate and I do not believe they demonstrate these foods are safe for human consumption.  For example, most tests are run for less than 10 years – which means that cumulative damage which would show up after 15-20 years of consumption of these foods has never been examined, much less demonstrated to be safe.

In addition, the predatory practices by ‘some’ GM developers have truly very frightening implications.  For example, inserting the ‘terminator gene’ (which prevents 2nd generation seed from germinating, thus ‘protecting the IP’ of the seed’s developer – and ensuring the farmer must purchase new seed every planting season) into the highly mobile pollen rather than the location-controllable egg part of the seed is understood (by IP patent lawyers – I asked) to be an overtly aggressive move, signalling the conscious potential for the weaponization of GM seeds.

But, that is a different story altogether…

Perhaps it is with a bit of satisfaction that I read the following article:

“The results are in from a 30-year side-by-side trial of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania’s Rodale Institute. Contrary to conventional wisdom, organic farming outperformed conventional farming in every measure.”

…

“But even without a price premium, the Rodale study found organic systems are competitive with the conventional systems because of marginally lower input costs.”

I do not know how good this study is and if the article is representing its findings accurately. But, it is interesting and worth the read.

If it is even partially true, we may need to re-evaluate what we think we know about organic farming…

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Jewish Defence League on Freedom of Speech and Section 13

December 19, 2011 — xanthippa

BlogWrath has the full press release:

“The Roth Institute report is one more worrying reminder that anti-Semitism, the congenital disease afflicting the Jewish people, has metastasized. This new strain is particularly conducive to the currently dominant multicultural environment, especially in western Europe.”

This is a very serious problem which all free-thinkers must tackle.

The whole press release is well worth a read.

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Ezra Levant and Marc Lemire on Section 13

December 17, 2011 — xanthippa

A few days ago, I have brought you the reports on these hearings from Free Dominion.

Here is Ezra Levant, interviewing Marc Lemire himself about that same hearing:

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SOPA: uniting the internet against collusion by big business and big government

December 15, 2011 — xanthippa

SOPA

Sounds so innocuous:  Stop Online Piracy Act.

After all, ‘Pirates’ are all ‘bad’, so anything to get them off ‘our internet’ must be ‘good’, right?

We, surely, the Orwellian language is only a part of the trick here.

The SOPA hearings are being held today and it is difficult to believe that anyone who does not directly benefit financially from this legislation would be willing to support it.  The effect of this legislation would be to chill free speech in ways to give Richard Warman and his Section 13 co-oppressors wet dreams in perpetuity!

Right now, even with the ‘moderate’, much less draconian legislation in place, the copyright infringement laws are being used to silence critics of big business – or even just independent voices (lest they become critical in the future).

In this example, a DMCA claim was used to censor a daily tech news episode which criticized a big-music corporation:  under the law, a mere DMCA claim was enough to force a takedown of the episode for a minimum of 10 days.  If you are running a daily news show, 10 days is an eternity…  At least, under the DMCA rules, the news show could appeal to a judge…

And, of course, we all know that the US government has been known to censor a blog for over a year, denying them due process of law to get their property restored and name cleared.

Just to add injury to injury:  not only are you guilty until proved innocent under SOPA, getting to court to prove your innocence will be much harder.  And even if you were victorious and the courts found you innocent of all charges, you would not have a recourse to sue for damages suffered as the result of the false SOPA accusation!

Is this type of legislation even needed?

The Swiss government certainly does not think so:  they have gone the opposite route.  After studying the data for a long time, these legislators have concluded that downloading music/videos for personal use is not just perfectly legal, they claim it actually channels money away from copyright holders and  helps the music/movie industry in the long run.

Even US judges are suggesting that if you buy a DVD, you just might be allowed to rip it under ‘fair use’ doctrine!

And what about the people who have been the most vociferous about the need for crippling the internet in the name of copyright protection?  Surely, they themselves do not indulge in the very behaviour they wish to stamp out with knee-jerk legislation like ‘three accusations and you are permanently banned from the internet’, right?

Well, not exactly.

“French President Nicholas Sarkozy is a man who has championed some of the most aggressive anti-piracy legislation in Europe. But today it’s revealed that the occupants of his very own office and home are responsible for a nice selection of pirate downloads using BitTorrent. Three strikes? Those with access to the Presidential Palace’s IP addresses have already doubled that quota. “

But, surely, those entertainment legacy industry movers and shakers who have lobbied the legislators for SOPA – the ones who claim that downloading movies and music for free would bankrupt them – surely they are not doing this themselves, are they?

Of course they are!

“With increasing lobbying efforts from the entertainment industry against BitTorrent sites and users, we wondered whether these companies hold themselves to the same standards they demand of others. After some initial skimming we’ve discovered BitTorrent pirates at nearly every major entertainment industry company in the US, including Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Entertainment and NBC Universal. Busted.”

And those ‘evil Pirates’ – they must be up to even more vile things…

…but only if you call building a school and bringing high-speed internet connection to a small farming village (which only had one dial-up connected computer for the whole village before) to be a bad thing…

Let’s hope the unanimous screams of protest from the citizens of the internet get heard!

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Mark Lemire and Section 13: report from Federal Court hearing on 13th of December, 2011

December 14, 2011 — xanthippa

Free Dominion has a discussion with several reports about the Tuesday hearing in Federal Court in  Richard Warman’s ongoing case against Mark Lemire, which has run into a snag:  the question whether Section 13 of the Human Rights Code (the thought-crime section) is Constitutional or not.

Connie Fournier reports that the cast was large:  from CCLA and BCLA to Doug Christie on stage, from BigCityLib to free-speech bloggers in the audience.  Here is a little quote from her report:

“During this time, the judge listened intently and didn’t interrupt. His face was inscrutable. The funniest moment of the hearing came when the lawyer for B’nai Brith said that Section 13 is “a ringing endorsement of free speech”. Everyone in the audience snorted and snickered uncontrollably. (Probably only one person in the audience was a censor and the rest were free speech supporters or media).”

An excerpt from Narrow Back’s  report:

“At 11:00 we returned to hear from the African Legal Clinic. They talked about “irradicating discrimination” for “deeper social concerns” “improvement of the condition of less fortunate people” blah blah, etc. They also talked about S13 as a “conciliatory process”. I just wrote down: “Ha!” “

And here is a part from Mark Fournier’s post:

“A couple of intervenors in favour of state censorship put in their two cents and then Richard Warman got up and complained that just because the CHRC did a terrible job of administering Section 13 his rights shouldn’t be violated. The irony was breathtaking.”

Read the whole reports – along with what people are saying about it – at Free Dominion!

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When can raising charity money for orphans land you in a ‘re-education camp’?

December 14, 2011 — xanthippa

When you live in a land ruled by Sharia!

Zilla of the Resistance has the story.

(Check it out and have a listen to the music:  I rather like the tune I suspect is the ‘swing classic’ ‘Clementine’ done in Indonesian punk – a definite improvement over the original!)

Via:  BCF

Quite apart from this story, it is important for us, Westerners, to understand that in lands ruled by Sharia, ‘charity’ does not work the same way it does in our part of the World.

This does not mean that Muslims are not charitable people:  not at all!

And it does not mean that in countries with Muslim populations, people do not perform charitable acts for the sake of helping their fellow human beings, regardless of race or creed.  They do – and we have many stories of Muslim women helping Westerners (men, women and children) who were in Japanese prison camps during WWII!

Rather, as Sharia rules every single aspect of life of those unfortunate to live under its oppression, so it has very specific and rigid rules for ‘charity’.

Let me illustrate this with an example:  following the Tsunami a few years ago, people in Bengal (I refuse to use the new colonial name for the country) were upset that many Western charities got volunteers on the ground and started providing aid.  The Bengali fear was that these aid groups were there trying to steal their children…

Many in the West were perplexed by this:  why would the people there refuse aid, willingly provided without any strings attached?

Because right now, Bengal is under Sharia.  And Sharia strictly differentiates between ‘Muslim charities’ and ‘non-Muslim charities’.

It is forbidden, under Sharia, for Muslim charities to help non-Muslims – and for non-Muslim charities to help Muslims (though, to be honest, non-Muslim charities do face a lot of regulatory interference under Sharia and are thus prevented from being as effective in providing aid as Muslim charities are).  Therefore, when non-Muslim charities attempted to aid Muslims in Bengal, the response among the population was confusion and fear – and, ultimately, rejection of much help.  The problem was finally resolved by the non-Muslim charities simply giving the money and aid materiel to Muslim charities, who then operated on the ground…

Another ‘perplexing’ example came even more recently, during the terrible flooding in Pakistan.  Even as money poured into the county through Red Cross, there were appalling stories of whole non-Muslim families starving – even in regions where food aid was plentiful.  Again, people in ‘The West’ could not make heads-or-tails of this and many wrote these stories off as propaganda.

Not so.

The primary channel for the aid funds was The International Red Cross.

In Sharia countries, the Red Cross partners with its affiliated Islamic charity, the Red Crescent, and channels all aid through it.

In Pakistan, which is for all practical purposes governed by Sharia, the Red Crescent operates as an Islamic charity under Sharia does.  That means that Mosques are used as the centres from which the aid (from food on down) is distributed.

To most of us, this does not seem particularly odd:  Mosques serve as community centres, so they are centrally located and accessible.  Plus, they have the room to store the supplies to be distributed, so this would be a logical place to distribute aid from, right?

Plus, under Sharia, the Red Crescent is only permitted to distribute aid through a Mosque.  So, it is not just the ‘logical’ course of action, it is the only permitted course of action.  And the Red Crescent did make various statements to the effect that everyone who came to them for aid, received aid!

So, what was the problem that caused the non-Muslims to starve?

Under Sharia, a non-Muslim may not enter a Mosque!

Not being permitted to enter the place from which the aid from Western countries was being distributed, non-Muslims could either starve or convert to Islam…

I suspect there is a lot more about ‘charity under Sharia’ we just don’t know…

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FOI request for FBI use of data secretly collected from smart phones: denied!

December 13, 2011 — xanthippa

A while back, I  posted about CarrierIQ and its ‘rootkit of all evil’.

In it are links which demonstrate how CarrierIQ has embedded code into smart phones which runs in the background and is not easily accessible to the phone’s user (with no notification to the user that it is running, much less choices to ‘opt out’).  This code records everything the phone is used for and reports this information back to CarrierIQ – even if the user is not in any contract with the company, or has indeed ever heard of its existence.  This information contains:

  • GPS information
  • incoming and outgoing phone calls
  • details of internet access and use, including encrypted data (like passwords)
  • all keystroke information

In another post, I have written about INDECT:  the EU’s proposed regime of continuous surveillance of member states’ citizenry for the purpose of identifying ‘unusual behaviour’, which would then be brought to the attention of police for ‘follow up’.  ‘Unusual behaviour’ would include (but not be limited to):

  • lingering too long in public areas
  • abnormal transit system use
  • internet habits that include visiting potentially ‘antisocial websites’
  • associating with ‘antisocial elements’
  • abnormal shopping habits

(In that post, I also provide a link to an article about CarrierIQ’s attempt to silence the researcher who first published information about its surveillance practices.)

The potential for abuse is so strong, it is difficult to overstate it…it seems that, increasingly, legislation is being drafted and passed all around the world not to safeguard against it, but to take advantage of it.

Here is an analysis (by a lawyer) of SOPA, just one such proposed pieces of legislation (in the USA) and the ways in which it breaches the constitution.

But if you are still not convinced that police agencies are warrantlessly accessing vast amounts of private data collected about citizens without their permission or knowledge, here is another piece of information you should consider:

‘A recent FOIA request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for “manuals, documents or other written guidance used to access or analyze data gathered by programs developed or deployed by Carrier IQ” was met with a telling denial. In it, the FBI stated it did have responsive documents – but they were exempt under a provision that covers materials that, if disclosed, might reasonably interfere with an ongoing investigation.’

Indeed.

Our constitutions were written with the specific purpose of protecting the civil rights of citizens from their governments.  Most of us have forgotten this:  and our governments are increasingly passing laws which circumvent (if not directly breech) our unalienable rights which all written constitutions (starting with the Magna Carta) are but imperfect expressions of.

We need to wake up and oppose this passive tolerance of the increasingly corrupt and oppressive surveillance society – before it is too late!

H/T:  Tyr

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Connection between the EU crisis and Attawapiscat crisis

December 11, 2011 — xanthippa

At a first look, the fly-in only Native community on the shores of James Bay called Attawapiskat has very little in common with the European Union.

Both are mired in financial crises and allegations of corruption, but surely, that is too common these days to claim there is a connection between them, no?

Well, actually…

When one works through the minutiae of surface details, there are some very core similarities beneath.

In case you are not familiar with either one of these two situations, here is a highly abbreviated summary of each:

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The Attawapiskat Native community af about 1800 people is a reservation and as such, governed by the complex and bureaucratic Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.  The ‘rules’ are soul-suckingly bizarre.  For example, the land of the reservation is collectively owned by the Aboriginal Band – so no individual may own any piece of land, like, say, to build a house on, or to look after and improve.

‘The Band’ gets money to both function as a government and as a community (supporting each individual of the band).  The reported amount of money that flows in differs wildly from one source to another and the paperwork seems about as clear as mud.  The Band receives money from the Federal Government, the Provincial Government, Casino income, plus there are claims they also got money from other sources, but that, really, is irrelevant.

The residents are living is sub-standard housing with inadequate insulation (not the kind of home for spending the winter on the shores of James Bay) – but with flat screen TVs…  The same attitude permeates the community:  the school was shut down close to a decade ago because it had been built on a site contaminated by a diesel spill – since then, no new school has been built, but if I am not mistaken, $43 million has been spent on schooling.

Oh, and even though it is a fly-in community (no roads lead there), the chief has had a 60k SUV flown in for her use…which only goes to support the common saying:  ‘the chief’s driveway is always paved’!  (FYI – this also seems to hold true for condominium association presidents.)

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The EU started innocently enough:  as a free-trade zone.  Who could oppose the increased economic opportunities of a Europe-wide free trade zone?

Since this is a supra-national organization, an independent administrative body was needed to be set up to harmonize the conditions within member states in order to ensure that the free trade is played on a level playing field.  This ‘administrative body’ grew and it grew until it became the European Parliament, complete with a constitution (the Lisbon Treaty), a flag and an anthem:  OK, I am oversimplifying the process – perhaps to the point of error – but the result is a huge bureaucratic machine which increasingly controls more and more aspects of life of the individuals living in member states.

The EU has, in all but the name, become the United States of Europe.

One of the unique features of this political entity is that all the bills are drafted by the bureaucrats and then forwarded on to the parliament.  The parliament debates them, may propose changes, then votes on the changes – and on the changes alone – because the parliament does not have the ability to not pass the bills into law.

It is mandatory for member states to enact all EU laws into their national laws – opting out is not permitted.

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So, what do they have in common?

A very nasty feedback loop:  the people who make the rules are not accountable to the people whom they are ruling!

In both cases, the bureaucracies which control the flow of funds are so insulated from the taxpayers who supply the money that they can spend it witht impunity.

In the case of the Canadian Natives (Attawapiskat may be in the news now, but it is definitely not the only community in this situation), the ‘bureaucracies’ are both the Ministry and the Band Council:  both are irresponsibly spending funds.  Since there are multiple levels of bureaucracy, neither can properly be held accountable…

The Ministry is over-bloated, with bureaucrats justifying their paychecks by shuffling papers and increasing red tape.  The Band leadership has the ability to spend the funds without being accountable to the people on whose behalf it spends it.  It is a tragedy – though hardly an unpredictible one…  The bureaucrats and the ruling elites (paid off by the bureaucrats) control more and more aspects of lives of the individuals within their jurisdiction while those ‘ruled’ have little to no legal means available to them to affect change.

In the EU case, the ruling bureaucracy is also ‘several layers’ insulated from the voters. And, as it exacts great amounts of taxpayer monies from member nation states, it is able to generously fund the ‘ruling elites’ within their member states (or within prospective member states:  Croatia is an excellent example of where the EU amply funds the ‘political elite’ in order to make it profitable for them to support policies detrimental to their fellow citizens).

This means that the interest of the ‘political elites’ is divorced from (and quite possibly in direct opposition to) the interests of the citizenry.  In other words, the bureaucrats and the ruling elites (paid off by the bureaucrats) control more and more aspects of lives of the individuals within their jurisdiction while those ‘ruled’ have little to no legal means available to them to affect change.

In both cases, the political elites receive funds without being accountable to the citizenry.

In both cases, it boils down to ‘taxation without representation’ – and in both cases this reality is shielded by layers of bureaucracy…

No wonder both are in such a mess!!!

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US government abandons due process as it censors a polular blog for over a year

December 8, 2011 — xanthippa

This is truly astonishing – and why SOPA and similar such nonsense must be opposed by all pro-free-speech people!!!

‘Imagine if the US government, with no notice or warning, raided a small but popular magazine’s offices over a Thanksgiving weekend, seized the company’s printing presses, and told the world that the magazine was a criminal enterprise with a giant banner on their building. Then imagine that it never arrested anyone, never let a trial happen, and filed everything about the case under seal, not even letting the magazine’s lawyers talk to the judge presiding over the case. And it continued to deny any due process at all for over a year, before finally just handing everything back to the magazine and pretending nothing happened. I expect most people would be outraged. I expect that nearly all of you would say that’s a classic case of prior restraint, a massive First Amendment violation, and exactly the kind of thing that does not, or should not, happen in the United States.

But, in a story that’s been in the making for over a year, and which we’re exposing to the public for the first time now, this is exactly the scenario that has played out over the past year — with the only difference being that, rather than “a printing press” and a “magazine,” the story involved “a domain” and a “blog.”‘

Read the full story at TechDirt – and weep, because this is not the only such case.

Then get ready to fight against oppression of free speech under ALL its guises!

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Video of the December 3rd 2011 Caledonia arrests

December 7, 2011 — xanthippa

Read the comentary at Voice Of Canada.

This video raises a number of things that I have been wondering about.

For example, the uniformed police officers do not display their badge numbers, making it impossible to identify them.  Is this legal?  If so, should it remain so?

Another question:  what recourse does a population have if a police force either refuses to enforce the laws of the land or enforces illegal orders?

In my never-humble-opinion, the only way an organizational corruption of this scale can be tackled is by holding the individuals within the organization personally responsible for their actions, including holding them personally responsible for following illegal orders to the maximum level the law permits.  Yes, this would mean legal action against individual police officers – if not criminal, then civil – even if these police officers are nice individuals.  Still, if they follow an illegal order, they must be accountable for this breech of law.

Of course, these are easy words to type and there is a world of difference between writing this and actually doing something about it.  Still, one ought to gather as much information first…

So, if you are knowledgable on this topic, please, comment and educate me on the laws, rules and procedures – and any other options legally available.  It would be much appreciated.

Because to my way of thinking, this is not a ‘native/non-native’ issue:  this is a policing issue and equality before the law issue!

 

UPDATE:  Here is a comment posted by Mark Vandermaas, which, in my neve-humble-opinion, is important enough to bump it into the ‘body’ of the post:

The scary part of Caledonia is that all the organizations, gov’t and NGO, that should have been pro-active in protecting the rights of the innocent were unwilling or unable to help: Human Rights Commission; Ombudsman (wanted to help, but not allowed to get involved in police issues); the Opposition (oh, how we tried); the Federal govt (not only wouldn’t they help Harper annointed Fantino as PC candidate!); the OCCPS (old agency for Police Services Act complaints); Haldimand’s Police Services Board; Haldimand Council (other than former Mayor Trainer); Cdn Civil Liberties Association (repeatedly begged them for help to no avail).

It would be hard to list here everything we tried, but some of the key things that worked well were:

1. Dr. King’s methods of peacefully confronting injustice and forcing them to violate your rights (techniques that he learned from Gandhi to influence the media and the conscience of the nation. When one protests with dignity and is willing to be verbally abused and assaulted without retaliating there is very little defence to this approach. Using it we actually caused the union radicals, anarchists, anti-Israel groups and native militants to curb their violence and aggression because – as one of them said at an anarchist’s conference, we were making THEM look like the racists by applying Dr. King’s methods. Just as King did not demonize whites, we did not demonize native people as a group (the thugs would disagree, of course). We tried our best to ensure people knew that the thugs didn’t speak for the good people of 6N.

2. Civil Lawsuits to a degree. I say that because while there were some important court victories such as the $20M Caledonia Class Action, the Brown-Chatwell settlements and some victories achieved by us via the small claim and superior courts, the fact is that racial policing is still practiced and the gov’t, 6N and the OPP have never apologized or ammended their policies.

3. Private Prosecutions under the CCofC. You know, of course, that Gary M, despite not being a lawyer, convinced the courts to charge 5 individual police officers for offences such as Mischief, Influencing Municipal Official and Obstructing Justice, and even won a case at the Court of Appeal. This has reigned in their abuses quite effectively, but apparently, they still have more to learn.

We’ve tried just about everything during the last 5 years. in the end, it’s not one magic bullet. It’s ordinary people taking advantage of every opportunity when presented and, as Gary says, ‘withstanding the test of time’ (while you’re being vilified, assaulted, and arrested). And…don’t wait for anyone to come to help. But, that’s the wonderful thing! A small group of committed people with no money, no power and no connections really can make a huge difference.

Having said all this, there were some good people who did help and paid a price for doing so. At risk of leaving someone out and inadvertently insulting them, I won’t try to list them. But one guy who doesn’t get enough credit is lawyer John Findlay of the Class Action, a lawyer who represents us in several cases including one where he helped mediate a solution whereby the OPP union finally admitted in writing they had no evidence we were inciting hate and violence. Couldn’t have done it without him.

Sorry to go on so long. Thks for listening.

Readers who want to know more should visit the Caledonia: No More Nightmares page at http://www.HelplessByBlatchford.ca which has videos and notes from our 2011 presentation of the same name in Ottawa – where you and I met. Thanks for being there, and thks for the coverage.

Mark Vandermaas
Editor, VoiceofCanada
Founder, Caledonia Victimis Project

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