2005 updates: As of March 22 Don Smith is awaiting reserved decision on his appeal | Monique Turenne was extradited and is in a Panama City, Fla. jail fighting to have Schinkel's perjured statements disclosed | Dueck retired with full pension and the Saskatchewan government is appealing the malicious prosecution finding

 

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Sermonette, June 2004

 

A tale of three cops: Dueck, Gobeil and Schinkel

 

 

Now that Dueck has been thoroughly exposed (although we believe he should be in jail) we have some idea of just how much effort it takes to expose a corrupt cop.

 

As I was posting up the transcripts of Dueck's exams for discovery, I had cause to consider all the different tactics I have tried on the internet to bring this case to the attention of the public. I have linked to some of the efforts over the past six+ years.

 

Dueck spared no expense to go after those of us who were trying to tell the truth about him. Of course, he was not picking up the tab. The city was. He had people criminally charged for defaming him even when those people were telling the truth. During the exams for discovery in the civil claim against him he had private investigators try to entrap Richard Klassen into breaking the rules of court.

 

During the year and a half he investigated the Klassens, Kvellos and Ross, Ross and White, he worked on no other files. He put in many hours of overtime. He did not keep a notebook.

 

As far as we know he is still on the city payroll, on paid leave.

 

There are two other corrupt cops we have our sights on. They have also pursued innocent families with false allegations, lied under oath -- and continue to hold their jobs.

 

Malice and persecution of the Smith family in Ontario

 

Scott Gobeil in Fort Frances, Ontario has even pursued the Smith family to Kenora, where they moved last year to spread false stories to Lorna Smith's employer.

 

The Smith family was not ever guilty of any crime. Don Smith ran a legal enterprise consisting of a satirical website where he used live models to practice "special effects" in video format. He used live models who enjoyed the work and were not exploited, They were all above the age of consent.

 

Smith's children were not aware of the website.

 

Yet Gobeils attempted to have Smith's children removed from him and then had Smith charged with obscenity, even though Smith had gone to every effort to make sure his site conformed to acceptable community standards.

 

Gobeil illegally searched the Smith house and found nothing illegal. He seized from the Smiths thousands of dollars worth of equipment which has never been returned.

 

He lied on the witness stand. He spread false rumours in the community about Smith's activities, resulting in the family being shunned by their church. Although all of the material in Smith's internet enterprise was adult in nature, the community had the impression tht the case involved child pornography. Nothing could be farter from the truth.

 

The Smiths were so demonized that even the defence lawyer, Darren Sawchuk from Winnipeg, backed off from giving a viforous defence. From what I witnessed, he seemed to be embarrassed by his client and overly willing to believe information given to him by the Crown, which had, of course, received it from Gobeil.

 

 

This page from Sawchuk's notebook, after an in-camera meeting with the Crown, outlines a plea agreement he wanted Don Smith to take.

 

Of course the prosecutors in this case were more than willing to put a dishonest case before the court and that they did. They presented a brain-dead judge with an emotional case, presenting Smith's website as posing an imminent threat to the safety of women. They hired an expert to say so. Certainly no victims were presented because there were none.

 

In his closing argument, Howard Leibowich state that the website stated as its purpose "showing beautiful women being killed." That was a preposterous lie. But jude H. Pierce (she of vrain-death) picked up on it and used it in her instruction to the jury. Needless to say the jury had been selected from a community which had been systematically poisoned to believe the Smith's were "evil."

 

Now Smith stands convicted (an appeal is underway) and as part of his sentence his family is not allowed to have internet access in their home. The government of Ontario holds copyright to Smith's creative material.

 

Brian Greenspan has agreed to represent Smith in his appeal, but he has been very slow to move. Meanwhile the family remains in limbo. Their children are denied access to the internet because part of Smith's punishment was to have all access to the net removed from his home. His wife Lorna is also punished: as a professional, she must keep up with developments in her field and this is done by internet. The two have pondered absurd solutions to this very real problem including a sham divorce whereby they would split the residence and Lorna and the kids could have the internet in their part of the home!

 

Greenspan's appeal against the harsh sentence was turend down two years ago -- with the understanding that the appeal against conviction would be held in a few months. However, Greenspan became busy with other matters and failed to file a factum. He has now turned the writing of the factum over to another lawyer in his office who does not seem to have any passion for the clear civil liberties issues at stake in this case.

 

 

The stress which has been placed on Don and Lorne Smith (above) is beyond what anyone living in a free and democratic society would expect.

 

Dishonest prosecutors and lazy lawyers will be the subject of a different sermonette. We have to remember that most injustices arise with the police investigation. A good investigation is less likely to bring forth false charges. A malicious investigation will bring forth malicious charges.

 

Maliciously investigating Monique Turenne

 

The other corrupt and malicious cop we have our eye on is one of Jack Ewatski's favorites in the Winnipeg Police Service.

 

He may be worse than Dueck.

 

Schinkel actually manufactured a nine page statement from Monique Turenne after holding her for questioning for nine hours the night before her husband's funeral.

 

Schinkel signed an affidavit stating this was a true statement and gave it to authorities in Panama City, Florida where it was presented to a grand jury which held secret proceedings to indict Monique Turenne for murdering her husband.

 

When injusticebusters first published this information more than two years ago, Jack Ewatski wrote me by registered mail defending the actions of his corrupt officer.

 

Of course Ewatski has also been defending the actions of his officers in the Driskell case, in the Kevin Tokarchuk shooting, and came forward in Tom Sophonow's case only when it was clearly in his interests to do so. --Sheila Steele, July 23, 2004

 

Yesterday, Monique Turenne's appeal to the Manitoba Court of Appeal was turned down. The media has not properly investigated how extradition agreements between the U.S. and Canada have been enforced. In this case, the eagerness of Loren Schinkel to provide perjured testimony for an equally corrupt cop in Panama City, Florida have not been considered. Of course, the law allows loopholes where corruption marches through and is saluted, not exposed. Turenne's counsel has been unable to obtain disclosure on the Florida investigation. When asked why they would not turn it over, they have replied "Because we don't have to."

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.
William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell

Truth suppress'd, whether by courts or crooks, will find an avenue to be told. Sheila Steele, injusticebusters.com

If you hold the mouth of Truth, It will burst out its rib-cage. Somali proverb

Truth crushed to earth will rise again. --William Cullen Bryant

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More Sermonettes

2001

January: Legal Treachery to keep Dueck's lies safe

2002

March, 2002 -- Gay Bashing still a legal sport in Saskatoon -- Even when it turns to murder

 

2003

 

Feb. 1: Where we stand

Feb. 15, 2003: Has Saskatchewan learned anything?

March 1: Connecting the dots

March 23, 2003: From Micro to Macro

March 25, 2003: About libel and malice

March 27: Gangs of Saskatoon: the police and prison guards

April 28, 2003: The Naked Truth

May 5: How low will they go?

May 15, 2003: Come clean Calvert, Cline!

May 30: Still smearing Milgaard - defamation is alive and well on the lawn of the Regina legislature and Precendent has been set as we reclaim our institutions

June 11, 2003: --Eric Cline carries on a corrupt tradition

Nov 7: Courage -- the only reward is justice

November 20: Just following orders

November 24: Mayor Atchison, community policing and graffiti

November 25: Michael Jackson

November 30: Corrupt officials must be severely punished: otherwise they just keep on putting the administration of justice in disrepute!

December 1: Christmas comes early for injustice warriors

December 4: Wide open Saskatchewan?

December 16: Crawling through the tunnel of justice since 1991

December 24: The Crown keeps right on breaking the law

December 30: Who will find justice under their tree?

 

2004

 

January 1. 2004: Unprecedented publicity and Happy New Year

January 8, 2004: Malice still afoot

January 10, 2004: Shame and mugshots

January 14, 2004: Telling more truth about the undefamable: McKillop and Quennell, the static duo

January 17, 2004: Fifth Estate returns and A working class hero is something to be

January 22,23, 2004: Justice is still prevailing -- it is just taking longer and Bits and pieces are now coming together to tell the story of the century

January 27, 2004: Telling the truth about the undefamable, restoring reputations to the defamed.

February 5, 2004: Negotiations and strategies: getting an intransigent government to remedy its damage

February 10, 2004: How many lawyers does it take to ruin a province? and Lawyer continues to treat people's lives as a cruel game: monopoly?

Febrary 16, 2004: Calvert is not King Arthur

March 29, 2004: Counting down to the damages trial

April 16, 2004: The internet, the courts and now the movies -- We will so what it takes to get justice

May 1, 2004: If Frank Quennell is any example of what former Justice Minister Chris Axworthy called "evolving," Saskatchewan is ready to kiss justice good-bye!

May 27, 2004: Some observations on Saskatchewan and justice

June 7, 2004:Media coverage of Monique Turenne's story illustrates journalistic laziness

June 8:, 2004 -- The police not only failed to serve and protect Don and Lorna Smith and their children but set them up for false charges and community shunning

September 2, 2004: A tale of three cops: Dueck, Gobeil and Schinkel -- with an update on how they get away with criminal obstruction of justice

November, 2004: Wilfred Hathway, Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns -- RCMP stings offensive to community standards

November 11, 2004: Rogue Platoon? Identifying the rotten apples in Saskatoon Police Service and why we need a full public inquiry into our whole justice system

November 28, 2004: Can Justice Minister Quennell take a few more steps? The Prosecutors' office is still harbouring crowns who put the administrative of justice in disrepute

November 12, 2004: Saskatchewan Justice in chaos: The Stonechild report suggests it is.

November 28, 2004: The price for being a good judge or a good prosecutor

December 30: When the government interferes with the judiciary, we know a Police State is a dangerous possibility (The government appeal of the Klassen/Kvello decision)

 

2005

 

Jan 1, 2005: Chewed up digested and spit out

Jan. 5, 2005: More on chief Sabo

February 18, 2005: Tunnel vision: Darren Koehn, Wilf Hathway and Leon Walchuk

March 2: Fixing the system: Time to quit talking and implement previous commission recommendations

March 19, 2005 : Injustice as ShowBiz