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Sermonette:
March, 2003
About libel and malice
. . .Through
a two-way looking glass
You see your alice. . .
. . . Charged
with insults and flattery
Her body moves with malice
Do you have to be so cruel to be callous . . . (From Beyond Belief,
Elvis Costello)
A few years ago, and probably
still displayed at the top of some of these pages, injusticebusters claimed to be experts on defamation.
Since that time I would acknowledge that there are probably several
people and groups out there who are more expert on this topic
than we are.
On the question of defamation
and Brian Dueck, there is probably no one who knows more than
we do. He lost in his efforts to criminally prosecute me, Rob
Klassen and Richard Klassen in 1994. The fact that he was able
to instigate criminal charges against us from his position as
Saskatoon Police sergeant at the same time he was facing civil
allegations in a lawsuit launched by Richard Klassen remains
an act of malfeasance for which he has not yet been held to account.
Malfeasance is the abuse of
one's office to commit a crime. This crime, in the case of a
cop, is called operating under colour of law. I allege Brian
Dueck is guilty of it and I also allege Winnipeg cop Loren Schinkel
is guilty of manufacturing evidence in the case of Monique
Turenne.
Brian Dueck, who is now the
ranking superintendent in the Saskatoon Police, has wisely backed
off in pushing his charges of defamation. In the lawsuit against
him and others, Don McKillop, the government lawyer acting on
behalf of the others is pressing ahead with a defamation counterclaim
against Klassen.
This would have to be based
on the fact that the plaintiffs in QB 271 (1995) have alleged
that the prosecution team of Richard Quinney, Matthew Miazga
and Sonja Hansen pressed forward with charges against the plaintiffs
of gross child sexual abuse knowing that the charges were preposterous.
In other words they knew that Dueck had manufactured his case
and pushed their case to court just the same. When prosecutors
do this, it is called malicious
prosecution. In recent years a few prosecutors have been
nailed for this; at the time of this particular piece of ugliness,
Richard Quinney bragged to anyone who would listen and was quoted
in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix as saying such a case had never
been won.
McKillop has not been fazed
by the recent court trends to frown on malicious prosecutors.
He has been quite prepared to commit malfeasance himself. The
debacle over the state
of his files was the subject of some discussion in court,
in the newspapers and on these pages last year. He had previously
attempted to have Klassen's claim in the lawsuit thrown out because
of alleged violations of the Rules of Court on this website.
His snitty response to losing has been to up the price per page
for photocopying the materials his office is obliged to provide
Klassen in the discovery process. Is that malice or malfeasance
or both? Mature it is not.
Michael,
Michelle and
Kathy Ross were
disturbed, disadvantaged fetal-alcohol damaged pre-adolescents
when Dueck, Bunko-Ruys, Quinney, Miazga and Hansen tricked them
into making accusations against people to whom they have all
now apologized. Thousands and thousands of dollars were spent,
from the cost of the Thompson "special needs home"
to therapy money for Bunko-Ruys to salaries for court workers
to prep and accompany them. When the cases finally fell apart
and charges were stayed, the Ross children were cynically used
once more. The proclamation that the children were "too
traumatized" carried with it a subtext that the government
cared about them and was taking care of them. In fact it was
only taking care to keep them separated so they couldn't compare
notes about how they had been tricked and then to starve and
manipulate them again. Add callous to malice. Of all the money
that has been spent to use these kids and then cover up that
use, precious little has been given to them. They continue to
have to struggle for every penny they get from Social Services
-- cheques which no one is able to live on, as demonstrated by
the numbers of petty criminals on welfare traipsing through the
courts each day -- and receive no meaningful counselling for
their traumatization. Traumatized they are but not by the Klassens
and Kvelloes.
Peter
Klassen spent four
years in Bowden penitentiary for crimes manufactured by the defendants
in the lawsuit. He is illiterate. He is not a plaintiff in the
claim. A lawsuit
he filed along with Michael was turfed last year because the
pleadings were not correctly formed.
McKillop has now stated in
open court that he intends to pursue his clients' counter-claim
of defamation against Richard Klassen while dropping it against
the other plaintiffs. He must be doing this because he believes
he has a reasonable chance of succeeding, the last of the prerequesites
for a government lawyer to proceed with any claim. There is no
evidence and no case. Keeping that counter-claim alive is just
another way for the government to intimidate Richard Klassen.
By stating his intention to proceed in front of a Queen's Bench
judge, McKillop is insinuating to the public that he knows something
that they don't.
What could he possibly know
that is not already public knowledge? That several of us postered
and demonstrated to bring this case to public attention in 1994?
That John and Johanna Lucas were convicted of defamation (against
Dueck) and that Richard and I were acquitted of similar charges?
That we all implicated Quinney, Miazga, Hansen and Bunko-Ruys
as accomplices in Dueck's crimes against the Ross children? That
they have engaged forensic laboratories in countless hours of
reconstructing posters scraped from poles and looking for fingerprints
that might somehow tie Richard Klassen to some of the more "stark"
presentations of the truth?
The Ross children, now young
adults, have all recanted on national television. Almost a year
has elapsed since the last showing of the last Fifth Estate
update. We all know that the even the most gripping of stories
recede in memory so I am once again bringing some of these matters
to the forefront. Mark the month of September on your calendar
for the trial in QB 271.--Sheila Steele, March 25, 2003
Update: September 2004 (John
Lucas is charged with having defamed QB Judge Paul Hrabinsky,
Rent-a-crown lawyer Rod Donlevy and malicious cop Brian Dueck)
On January 8, 2004, Saskatoon Queen's
Bench Judge Larry Kyle imposed the following conditions on John
Lucas:
1. To keep the peace and
be of good behaviour.
2. Appear
in Court when required to do so.
3. Have
no contact directly or indirectly with Justice Paul Hrabinsky.
4. Have no contact directly
or indirectly with any Judge or any Court in the Province of
Saskatchewan unless required by law.
5. Not phone or contact the
offices of any Court in the Province of Saskatchewan unless required
by law.
6. Have no contact with Rod
Donlevy or with anyone associated with his place of employment
either directly or indirectly.
7. Not to publish or cause
to be published in any format including electronic format, nor
to distribute or cause to be distributed or displayed any material
referring to Justice Paul Hrabinsky or any Judge or Justice of
any Court in Saskatchewan without the express written permission
of this Court.
8. Not to publish or cause
to be published in any format including electronic format, nor
to distribute or cause to be distributed or displayed any material
referring to Rod Donlevy or any other member or past member of
the Law Society of Saskatchewan without the express written permission
of this Court.
9. Not to publish or cause
to be published in any format including electronic format, nor
to distribute or cause to be distributed or displayed any material
referring to Brian Dueck or any other member or past member of
any police force without the express written permission of this
Court.
10. Not to place any poster
in any public place without the express written permission of
this Court.
11. Not to be in the City of
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan except for Court appearances or for medical
appointments with consent of the Crown. ( "or
for the purposes of meeting with counsel or prospective counsel"
AMENDED BY JUSTICE G. N. ALLBRIGHT THIS 13TH DAY OF FEBRUARY,
2004 . )
12. Not to communicate in any
way on a website or e-mail with anyone regarding his Court case,
or anything that pertains to child sex abuse in the Province
of Saskatchewan. He can download but he can't upload information
on his computer in relation to these matters.
13. The following was designated
# 13 by the accused, John David Lucas
On July 6th, 2004, The Honourable
Chief justice W. F. Gerein, varied the above ORDER with the following;
"Order that the Undertaking
is Amended by adding that Mr. Lucas may attend at any time in
the City of Saskatoon for the purpose of visiting his wife at
the Royal University Hospital while she is having to renam there
as well as to accompany her to any consequent medical appointments"
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 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
- Who we
are:
Publisher Sheila
Steele
- Co-founder: Richard Klassen
New:
injusticebustersblog. Participate!
Our activism
contributed greatly to the good vibes which happened around the
civil trial.
Index
to the stories on this website
This is not
regularly updated so if you are looking for a particular story
and you have a name or keyword, please use the site search engine(at
the bottom of the page) which IS regularly updated
Index to Saskatoon Police stories
This is a pretty good scrapbook
for the 1998-2002 period.
- More Sermonettes
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- early commentaries
mixed in with news reports
2001
- January: Legal Treachery to keep Dueck's lies safe
- September: Hatchen and Munson trial
2002
March, 2002 -- Gay Bashing still a legal sport in Saskatoon
-- Even when it turns to murder
- First conscious
sermonettes
- 2003
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- 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?
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- 2004
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- 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)
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- 2005
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- 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
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