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We helped Mike file a lawsuit just before Christmas. Some of the writings and drawings Michael did while he was in the clutches of the authorities who took him from Dale and Anita's and put him in the Thompson home, written while he was being encouraged to make up stories of Satanic abuse at the same time his violent sexual acting out was permitted, are hilarious and give us some amazing insights into a creative mind. The word which crops up most often in Michael's juvenalia is the word "Help!" We hope to have them posted soon.

We also now have the medical records of all three children as well as their full Social Services files. From these records we are able to establish that Michael has been truthful with us.

We also have been able to see which drugs were given to him (he was stabilized on Thorazine for thre months before the trials of his parents and Don White -- no doubt to inhibit his tendency to yell out Bingo numbers in the middle of the courtroom as he had done at the preliminary hearings.) We have confirmed that he was telling us the truth when he told of being whisked to City Hospital and circumcised without ever having been consulted. And we appreciate hisdetermination to prove wrong Judge Mary Batton's prediction he would not likely live beyond the age of 13.

Most importantly, we have observed that Michael is not violent and has taken advantage of whatever truthful information he can find to take charge of his own emotions. His path has been made more treacherous by coming to terms with his homosexuality, but Michael is clear about his sexual identity. He aspires to be a drag queen and his wonderful sense of style suggests he would be successful.

We have also observed him continue to say he is sorry for the lies he told and that he is remorseful for his sexual attacks against his sisters and others. We believe him. As he said on fifth estate, he is the one who deals with his own demons and he is doing that.

Michael's letters and drawings: Letter written in Carol Bunko's therapy room when she "stepped out" | Signature on the back of this letter | "Knifes" | Black candle | Blood diagram | Sorry | Michael's angels and devils | Spinning his wheels

Michael reunited with his birth parents after he left Regina. Diane Ens had promised to get him together with his father for years and then always arranged for something to go wrong -- telling one or the other that the other was sick and cancelling at the last minute.

Finally Michael sold his stuff, got on a bus and came to Saskatoon because he feared his father would die. He wanted to clear up two matters: to come out as a gay man to his parents and to apologize to them for telling lies at their trials. This picture was taken in 1997 after he accomplished this.

Good on you, Michael. You're a class act.

Michael, together with Peter Klassen filed a lawsuit in January. It was dismissed in February, shortly after John and Johanna Lucas had suits dismissed. John Popowich settlement

During April, injusticebusters and Star Chamber passed out leaflets and CDs.

Sexual Abuse video (starring Michael!): Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1993 conversation between Richard Klassen and Social Services' head Sheila Gagne (Before the lawsuit was launched.) Dictator Dueck: His dictation tapes to the police stenographer: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Each section will open in its own window. Funnier than South Park. (These load quickly on High Speed. If you do not have high speed, please be patient. They are worth the wait.)

 Revitalizing the archives

From 1998 until 2002, injusticebusters was in the throes of identity crisis. What was it? What were we doing? We grappled with editorial policy at the same time we were learning the nuts and bolts of building and posting a website. Once we had a secure, paid site I had full editorial control, although I talked regularly to Richard Klassen who was forced to move his family several times and did not always have access to the internet. Rick's pages: one | two

We posted our earliest and later actions.

Early versions of the site can be found on the Wayback Machine.

I began following other threads to stories of police and prosecutorial misconduct and the site's character took on another facet: a newsclipping scrapbook where stories could live longer than they would in print form. I also began picking up other stories of wrongfully convicted people. It was an explosion. By 2003 there were over 700 pages. I also had contact with several other people (Don Smith, Leon Walchuk, Monique Turenne, the Vopnis) and kept these stories going.

It was the story of the Ross children's treatment at the hands of the Saskatchewan government which grabbed the attention of The Fifth Estate. The civil claim (The $10M Lawsuit as we called it) was only mentioned briefly at the end of their show which aired in November, 2000.

When Richard Klassen began to make progress in bringing his civil claim to court, the government and police defendants alleged he was breaking the rules of court by publishing discovery material on the internet.

MacNeil clinic (the document which started it all)

The Thompson Papers

Carol Bunko-Ruys reports

This claim was absolutely false. However, rather than risk being thrown out of his civil claim, Klassen undertook before Judge Mona Dovall to sever all ties with the website.

The court fights:

Les Perreaux report

QB271

These pages have links which lead to other pages from that era. Now that some of the dust has settled, I have been going back through the material we had posted in the early days. In the spirit of keeping the scrapbook alive, I have been reformatting and placing links. The original material remains intact. I hope the information, which chronicles our struggle is useful to you.

The identity crisis is over. We know who we are --Sheila Steele, March 28, 2005