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Rick
Klassen
Counting
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As of Friday the 25th of January 2002, I received 500 more pages
of material that should have been disclosed at the time we were
charged. The disclosed material that I have read within the last
day, has given us even more evidence that Dueck and his entourage
allowed those children to be raped all for the sake of their
manufactured case against us. The local media has continued to
ignore this case, but what they don't understand is that it is
not going away.
Thursday night,
out of anger, I emailed the Star Phoenix asking them if they
were going to continue with their cover-up. Almost immediately
I received a reply claiming they were now having meetings with
their lawyers discussing the possibility of breaking the publication
bans, only time will tell.
Their worst
nightmare is themselves. . . ."
The same day
Rick was in contact with the government lawyer, Don McKillop,
who assured him he would have full access to the box of "mislaid"
documents. Monday, Jan. 28 he drove to Regina where a much-changed
McKillop told him he would never win his claim against the crown
prosecutors, that he had never been convicted in a court of law
and that he'd have a "better chance" with the politicians
to "make this go away."
Of course it
is them who want this to go away. Now that we have this material
out into the light, a great many people will be scrutinizing
the crown's actions more closely. And if more criminal wrongdoing
is found, it will be some of them who "go away."
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Since his life
was turned upside down in 1990 Rick Klassen has achieved one
of his main goals: this website which he and Sheila Steele launched
in 1998 managed to get the attention of fifth estate producers and with the showing of
Scandal of the Century Nov. 29, 2000, the story which the Saskatchewan
government had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep
secret was made public. The broadcast created so much public
interest that fifth
estate
is doing a thorough update which will be shown January 23, 2002.
The story itself is all over this website, but some of our earliest
efforts to publish the facts can be found here and here and here.
On November
7, 2001 Rick set out to achieve another important goal: to end
the $10M
lawsuit
he was responsible for launching in January, 1994. He and solicitor
Ed Holgate parted ways and Rick set about to obtain the discovery
material which Holgate had failed to get and failed to understand
the importance of.
The costs have
been enormous. Moving from Harris (where he was driven out by
ostracization, verbal attacks, discrimination against his children
in school and a vicious vandal attack on his house) to Altona,
Manitoba and then back to Saskatoon were financially ruinous
and unsettling to his family life. His physical health combined
with the demands of this case have forced him to stop his painting
and decorating business.
Since November
7 Rick has spent over $2000 in photocopying alone as he paid
the government and police defendants for photocopying of the
discovery material -- which turns out to be diosclosure material
from the trials which he should have had for free ten years ago.
He has burned thousands of dollars worth of gasoline driving
between his home, Regina and Saskatoon to tend to the case. He
has been told to his face by a prosecutor- defendants' lawyer
that he won't be able to afford the financial costs.
Still along
the lines of personal humiliation, he has spent a half day in
a discovery session being grilled about his life before the charges
and being told "he wasn't worth anything before and he isn't
worth anything now.".
Rick has a
solid team working with him. Somehow he has managed to keep his
life afloat. Donations are essential. There will be no tax-deductible
receipts for those who respond to this appeal. There will be
the satisfaction of having helped a cause which is important
to every citizen: busting a real injustice.
SCOTIA BANK
OUTLOOK, SASKATCHEWAN BRANCH # 40238 ACCOUNT# 00183-25 SAVINGS
ACCOUNT
Kayla |
Kari Klassen
being interviewed by Dueck in Red Deer, 1990
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During April,
injusticebusters and Star Chamber Publications distributed over
four thousand leaflets and 150 compact discs. The entire legal
community and all the media have had the material for several
days. In typical Saskatchewan style, the media is silent although
many lawyers have come gone out of their way to get their copies
of the CD which have become an instant hit. We have posted the
material on the CDs here so you won't be left out if you didn't
go by either court house or the police station in Saskatoon where
they were given out for free as part of a promotion of the truth. Sexual
Abuse video: 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
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Park. (These load quickly on High Speed. If you do not have high
speed, please be patient. They are worth the wait.)
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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
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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
Publisher : Sheila
Steele
Got something
to say about this or any other stories on this site? Go to injusticebustersblog Participate!
- injusticebusters
court advice :
- How
to walk yourself through the justice system
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- Why
you should dump your preliminary hearing (written July 1998 and still valid)
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- Sermonette:
The
Naked Truth -- (You
will find links to many more sermonettes in the sidebar on this
page
Another target
of Dueck's malice: : Wilf
Hathway
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.
Inquiry into the malicious prosecution of David
Milgaard untanling 36 years of Saskatchewan police and Crown
misconduct: : Opening day 1 | 2
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- Stephen Williams:
Canadian writer subject to Stasi-like treatment by Canadian police
- Terry
Arnold: : Snitch a
suicide?
- RCMP
scenario stings: Brian
Hutchinson starts digging
- Gary
wells: Faulty eye-witness
testimony
- Tulia,
Texas
- Gilmer,
Texas
- Willie
Upshaw
- Wrongfully
convicted in Canada
- Foster
Parent false accusations
- Martensville
- Don
Smith obscenity trial: an obscene conviction
- James
Lockyer
- Hurricane
Carter
- Johnny Cochran speaks up for
Bill Sampson
- Vopnis
- Abdulai
Mohamed
- Nfld Defamation story:
- Wanda
Young
- Racism in the Federal Civil Service
The Terrible Story behind the Atif Rafay and
Sebastian Burns convictions
Trial
set for June 15
We
know part of this disclosure is a forged statement and perjured
affidavit from a Winnipeg cop
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The
Crown is still fighting Fred Poirier -- and they are losing.
Secret Commissions Case from Northern B.C.
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- 2005: In
the United States the proven wrongful convictions just keep coming
at us!
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- Brandon Morin:
- Convicted in Oregon
- of rapes which did not happen
- This website has good information
about Measure 11 -- Oregon's Mandatory Sentencing requirements
which have been in place since 1994. In this case we see how
the combination of a flawed grand jury system and prosecutors
who seek not justice but convictions is a recipe for wrongful
convictions.
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Canadians who
have been wrongfully convicted because of improper investigations
combined with zealous Crown
A round-up of wrongful convictions in Canada
- Robert Baltovich
- Michael
Burns
- Sebastian Burns
- Rodney
Cain
- Wilbert
Coffin
(hanged, 1953)
- Jason
Dix
- Jim
Driskell
- Jody
Druken
- Randy
Druken
- Hugues Duguay
- Michel
Dumont
- Peter
Frumusa
- Walter
Gillespie and Robert Mailman
- Clayton
Johnson
- Yvonne
Johnson
- Herman
Kaglik
- Darren
Koehn
- Kulaveeringsam
"Kulam" Karthiresu
- Stephen
Leadbeater
- Donald
Marshall
- Chris
McCullough
- Michael
McTaggart
- Felix
Michaud
- David
Milgaard
- Guy
Paul Morin
- Shannon
Murrin
- Jamie
Nelson
- Greg
Parsons
- Benoit
Proulx
- Atif Rafay
- Louise
Reynolds
- Thomas
Sophonow
- Gary
Staples
- Billy Taillefer
- Steven
Truscott
- Joe
Warren
- Leon
Walchuk
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- AIDWYC
- Innocence Project (Canada)
- Innocence Project (U.S.)
- Northwest Law Center on Wrongful Convictions
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- Kirstin
Lobato
- Jeffrey
Scott Hornoff
- Willie
Upshaw
- Hurricane
Carter
- Guildford
4
- Birmingham
6
- Amirault
- Houston
- U.S. wrongful convictions:
Exonerateed
- Kirk Bloodsworth
- Laurence
Adams
- Ludrate
Burton
- Stephen
Cowans
- Wilton
Dedge
- Albert
Johnson
- Kenneth
Marsh
- Dwayne McKinney
- James Bernard Parker
- Peter
Reilly
- Peter
Rose
- Sylvester Smith
- Clifford St. Joseph
- John
Stoll
- Marty
Tankleff
- Wilton
Dedge
- Ray
Krone
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- Still working on it:
- Dennis Deschaine
- Dennis
Perry
- Tim
Sandfort
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Blogging
Blogging has been in the news.
It is the new, trendy thing with 40,000 new blogs being created
each day. I established a blog for this website last September
and it is now "taking off." These are a few of the
pages with ongoing discussions.
- Tasering Mary Lutz
- Saskatchewan Centenary
- Quint Blog discussion
- Rotten apples in the Saskatoon Police
- Blogging for choice
- Michael Cardamone witch hunt
- Implement recommendations of public
inquiries
- Stealing from the poor
- Vancouver's killer cops
- Tisdale rapists appeal
- Winnipeg police misdeeds
- Milgaard Inquiry
- Chief Sabo: can he be trusted?
- The Old Boys' Club Must Go!
- Vancouver activists
- John Hudak: Falsely accused mountie
- City of intolerance
- Constable Larry Lockwood: Exciteable!
- Eric Cline
This is a great way for like-minded
people to communicate and share our views. It is easier than
making a website and marginally more difficult than a forum.
People who want to contribute
simply have to punch the "comment" link and they will
be taken to a page with a box which allows them to write their
comment, preview and post it. It takes a while for the comment
to show up and some people get impatient and repost. That's fine,
I trash the duplicate posts and no harm done.
Please, please give it a try.
The internet is distinguished from other media in that it is
really and truly interactive. Blogging makes it possible to express
your viewpoint even if you don't have a computer. You can go
to the library or a friend's place or an internet cafe. Once
you've mastered the basics (and believe me, if I can do it, you
can do it) you will be participating in one of the most democratic
-- and potentially powerful -- media the world as we know it
has ever seen.
Come on. Don't be shy. Join
the Weblog World! -- Sheila Steele, March 20, 2005
Toronto Police paid out $30M in secretly resolved
claims over last five years
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