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Rudy Guiliani

Giuliani Shocker: Innocent Black Man Framed!

By Robert Lederman, April, 2000

Just two days after calling Federal law enforcement officers who returned Elian Gonzalez to his father, Nazi Storm Troopers, evidence has surfaced indicating that Paris Drake, the Black man arrested and charged in the highly publicized brick attack on Nicole Barrett on 11/16/99, could not have been the young woman's assailant.

According to the 4/25/2000 NY Post, police officer John Cassidy has told the D.A.s office that Drake was inside the Manhattan South precinct at the time of the attack reclaiming a radio that had been confiscated by the police. NYPD records also confirm that Robert Fluken, the police informant who fingered Drake and claimed that he had confessed to the crime while they were in a holding cell together, could not have been telling the truth because they were arrested on different days and were never in the same cell at the same time.

Immediately after the attack Mayor Giuliani announced that the assailant was a Black mentally ill homeless man. The Mayor then ordered a massive sweep of the City's homeless resulting in hundreds of arrests. No physical evidence of any kind linked Drake to the attack and a sole eye witness who eventually identified Drake in a police lineup admitted she'd only seen the assailant from behind.

Despite having no history of mental illness or homelessness, Drake was paraded before the media by Giuliani and NYPD Commissioner Safir who claimed that excellent police work had cracked the case. While Drake has a long history of arrests for minor crimes he had no history of violence and insisted that he was innocent.

Giuliani's NYPD policies are currently under Federal and State investigation. After claiming that the Justice Department had used violent and excessive force in the Elian Gonzalez case and making the Storm Trooper analogy, the Mayor was immediately rebuked by The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, which demanded an apology from Giuliani.

Under Giuliani the NYPD has been continuously accused of making deliberately false arrests as part of its zero tolerance campaign; of illegally stopping and frisking hundreds of thousands of inner city males based on their race; and of using excessive force resulting in the police shootings of a number of unarmed innocent people.

In response to the Mayor's accusations of excessive force in the Gonzalez case, NY City Council members and reporters have begun releasing information showing that under Giuliani the NYPD has smashed down the doors of the wrong apartment numerous times while executing drug search warrants and frequently fired shots at innocent unarmed families with children while inside their homes. Critics of the Mayor have also pointed out his well-documented history of using riot police, sharpshooters and helicopters against non-violent demonstrators and his part in leading a racist riot by 10,000 police officers from the steps of City Hall in 1992 while running for Mayor.

While Giuliani continues to furiously attack the Clintons and the Justice Department for removing Elian Gonzalez from his relatives in Miami and returning him to his father, children's advocates have begun pointing out that the Mayor and agencies under his direct control have taken thousands of children from their natural parents and placed them in unsupervised foster care, often with no more justification than an unconfirmed accusation by a neighbor or ex-spouse. Shortly after demanding the arrests of homeless people in connection with the brick attack on Nicole Barrett the Mayor began requesting that children be taken away from homeless mothers for no other reason than their refusal to submit to his controversial workfare program.

"All homeless families in New York City's shelter system will soon be warned that if they fail to work or meet other shelter and welfare requirements, the city may seek foster care for their children, Giuliani administration officials said Friday"-NY Times 12/4/99

Considering his own record of flagrantly abusing civil liberties and of using the police as a weapon against his political foes, the Mayor appears to be following a very risky strategy in denouncing the way Federal authorities have handled the Elian case. While he may correctly believe that calling Federal police Storm Troopers will win him some points and additional campaign donations from Americans on the far right, he may just have opened a can of worms that will eat away at what little credibility he has left.

Speaking of losing credibility, the Mayor has reached a new low, claiming that:

"My involvement in this case predates any political situation. You might remember that I was the person that excluded Fidel Castro from celebrations for the United Nations way back in the mid-'90s, long before any thought of running for office. This comes from things that I really believe very, very strongly." -Post 4/25/2000 Hill Slams Rudy For Blast At Feds

Giuliani ran for Mayor in 1989 and again in 1993, both periods of time clearly predating, "the mid 90's". His credibility in assessing the repressiveness of any nation's government is also clearly in question. Giuliani forcibly returned hundreds of Haitian political refugees to their almost certain deaths while he was a United States Justice Department official declaring that repression in Haiti under the murderous reign of Jean-Claude Duvalier, "does not exist". --------------------------------------------------------------

"When a reporter offered to read Mrs. Clinton's statement for Mr. Giuliani, the mayor cut him off. "I don't really care what she said," he said. The mayor then began a nearly 15-minute monologue about the case, including recollections of his time as the third-ranking official at the Justice Department in the Reagan administration. As associate attorney general, Mr. Giuliani was in charge of drug enforcement, prisons and immigration. "So this is not a new issue for me," he said. He repeated his contention that Elián should be granted asylum from a totalitarian government, and added that New York City would never remove a child in a custody case in such a manner. "We don't use machine guns, we don't use people dressed up in war armament," Mr. Giuliani said. But he did not use the term "storm troopers," as he had over the weekend. The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, a nonpartisan group representing 17,500 federal agents and officers, issued a news release yesterday expressing its "strong disgust" with the characterization and saying that anyone who used the word "storm trooper" owed the officers an apology...Speaker Peter F. Vallone, a Democrat, provided City Hall reporters with a copy of a 1995 Daily News article describing "Any Time Baby," a 50,000-pound armored personnel carrier that was used by the Police Department to evict squatters from three buildings on the Lower East Side. Around the same time, City Council aides made available to reporters a letter, dated Monday to the mayor from Councilwoman Christine C. Quinn, a Manhattan Democrat, who wrote that she was "surprised" to hear about Mr. Giuliani's "newfound concern" about the use of excessive force by law enforcement. Ms. Quinn said that Mr. Giuliani's statements were "somewhat at odds" with his record, and mentioned in particular a 1998 World AIDS Day vigil at City Hall in which participants were watched by sharpshooters on the roof of City Hall." -NY Times 4/25/2000 Seizure of Cuban Child Is Grist for Senate Race

"At a time that cried out for healing, the mayor chose to [make] divisive attacks on the United States law enforcement officers," the First Lady said in a statement. "Calling U.S. law enforcement officers 'storm troopers' is extreme and unwarranted."..."You do not send in people with automatic weapons and machine guns in a custody case involving a 6-year-old child," Giuliani said yesterday after attending a graduation ceremony for 292 firefighters at Brooklyn College. "There were 10 better ways to do this than the horrifying, unprecedented and unconscionable way in which the Clinton administration decided to do this," he said, noting his background on immigration issues while an associate attorney general. Meanwhile, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, a nonpartisan 17,500-member group, expressed its "strong disgust and dismay over the use of the term 'storm troopers' to describe federal agents." The mayor had toned down his rhetoric, referring to the law enforcement officers involved as "people dressed up in war armament" and aiming his attack at higherups." -Daily News 4/25/2000 Giuliani's Exploiting Elian Tale, Hil Says

"Locally, the condemnation chorus is led by Mayor Giuliani, who was not at all ashamed to declare: "I think about the Statue of Liberty and watching those pictures on television of American law enforcement agents being used and looking like storm troopers ... to rip a boy away from a family that's caring for him." Up violins. C'mon. Having been the target of radical rhetoric himself, Giuliani should be more rational in his choice of words. Having been in law enforcement, he should support enforcement of the law. The mayor's strategists must have migraines today. Their boy is playing right into the hands of the opposition, giving Hillary Clinton even more ammunition for the Senate race. In a statement issued yesterday, she expressed relief that Elian had been reunited with his father, noted that the raid had been "accomplished rapidly and without injury" and - bingo! - said of Giuliani: "At a time that cried out for healing, the mayor chose to exploit this situation by making divisive attacks on the United States' law enforcement officers. Calling [them] 'storm troopers' is extreme and unwarranted."-Daily News Editorial 4/25/2000 Elian's Joy Makes Them Miserable

"Under fire from critics, including a federal law officers' group, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani yesterday refrained from using the term "storm troopers" as he did repeatedly over the weekend to depict agents who carried out the Elian Gonzalez raid...As the mayor, in Brooklyn, conducted his daily news conference, the 17,000-member Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association issued a statement expressing "our strong disgust and dismay over the use of the term 'storm troopers' to describe federal agents." Giuliani did so more than six times Saturday, saying one could not "miss" the Nazi imagery, and drawing charges of hypocrisy from his critics in light of past warnings to them not to politically cheapen the memory of Nazi Germany's victims". -Newsday 4/25/2000 Rudy Drops 'Storm Trooper' Line By Dan Janison. STAFF WRITER

"Giuliani denounced the raid and compared the eight federal agents to Nazi stormtroopers. At least they entered the right house! In 1998, NYPD detectives busted down the door of the wrong apartment in The Bronx and sprayed two dozen bullets. Police spokeswoman Marilyn Mode, admitting the mistake, pointed out that in 1997 only 10 wrong apartments were raided out of 45,000 search warrants. Another wrong-door police raid, in 1997, occurred in a Brooklyn apartment that contained three children. Parents were handcuffed and guns were pointed at their heads. In 1998, Rudy's NYPD paid more than $1,000 to repair the Bronx apartment of Ellis Elliot. The police mistakenly dragged this innocent man - naked - into the street, and fired more than a dozen shots during the terrifying home invasion." -NY POST 4/25/2000 Elian Belongs With His Father by Jack Newfield

"The crackhead accused of crushing a young secretary's skull with a brick is claiming an airtight alibi - insisting that at the time of the nearly fatal Midtown attack, he was across town in a police station house. Defense papers to be filed today in Manhattan Supreme Court complain prosecutors are sitting on information proving career criminal Paris Drake's alibi, and that he couldn't have been in the same holding cell as the jailhouse "informant" who fingered him for the heinous assault. The papers - a copy of which The Post obtained yesterday - also say the sole eyewitness to identify Drake in a lineup also identified a photo of someone entirely different in a prior interview with cops...Sources close to the case said Drake's alibi witness, Officer John Cassidy, has admitted to a private investigator working for the defense that Drake was in the Midtown South Precinct reclaiming a confiscated radio at the time of the attack. Cassidy did not deny the alibi when questioned by a Post reporter, but declined to talk about the case except to confirm he is a witness...More than 100 suspects - mostly mentally ill homeless men - had been hauled in for questioning by the time Drake was arrested Nov. 29 on the word of jailhouse informant Robert Fluken, 26. But court papers and sources reveal that Drake and Fluken - who immediately claimed the $11,000 reward - were arrested a day apart on separate drug charges, and couldn't have been kept in the same holding cell, as prosecutors claim. Also, only one of six eyewitnesses - Manhattan lawyer Laura Weiner - identified Drake in a lineup, and only after admitting she saw Drake from behind, sources said. No fingerprints or other physical evidence link Drake, who has no history of homelessness or mental illness, to the crime." -NY Post 4/25/2000 Brick-Attack Alibi Shocker

"My involvement in this case predates any political situation," Giuliani said. "You might remember that I was the person that excluded Fidel Castro from [city-sponsored] celebrations [for] ... the United Nations way back in the mid-'90s, long before any thought of running for office. This comes from things that I really believe very, very strongly." -Post 4/25/2000 Hill Slams Rudy For Blast At Feds

"MIAMI (UPI) -- The third-ranking official of the Justice Department says he is convinced that there is "no political repression" in Haiti. Associate Attorney General Rudolph W. Giuliani, testifying Thursday at a hearing of a class-action lawsuit seeking the release of 2,100 refugees in Government detention camps, said that repression in Haiti "simply does not exist now" and that refugees had nothing to fear from the Government of Jean-Claude Duvalier". -The New York Times, April 3, 1982, Saturday, Late City Final Edition, Section 1; Page 5, Column 4; Foreign Desk

Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist for the Greenwich Village Gazette [See: http://www.gvny.com/ for an extensive archive of Lederman columns] The Shadow, The Vigo-Examiner [see:http://www.vigo-examiner.com/archive.htm] and Street News, and is the author of hundreds of published essays concerning Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. His essays and letters have appeared in the NY Times, NY Post, Daily News, Newsday, Brooklyn Bridge, Park Slope Courier, The Daily Challenge, Amsterdam News, Sandbox, Penthouse, Our Town, NY Press and are available on hundreds of websites around the world. Lederman has been falsely arrested 41 times to date for his anti-Giuliani activities and has never been convicted of any of the charges. He is best known for creating hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator.

Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics) ARTISTpres@aol.com (718) 743-3722 http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html Also see: http://www.levymultimedia.com/lederman/index.htm for Lederman's essays on Malathion and the spraying of insecticides on NYC

by Robert Lederman

["4/27/2000 NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced on Thursday he had prostate cancer, but it was unclear if his condition would affect his probable Republican candidacy for the U.S. Senate against first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton."]

Let me start by saying I sincerely hope Mayor Giuliani recovers from prostate cancer and does so quickly with as little pain or discomfort as possible. Whatever his faults and whatever his misdeeds he is my fellow human being and as such is as deserving of my empathy and forgiveness as anyone else.

That said, let me not jump on the bandwagon of Giuliani critics, reporters and political commentators who, before even a single day has passed since the diagnosis was made public, are rushing to praise the Mayor's newfound courage, openness and compassion.

This is a man who from his earliest days as an attorney earned a well-deserved reputation for being exceptionally nasty, exceptionally vindictive and heartlessly cruel. A man who is renowned for suppressing public information on the most vital matters of public concern, for misusing statistics and for refusing to answer the most basic questions about his personal life and views. Since being elected in 1993 the Mayor has consistently and with great enthusiasm abused his power to persecute the City's poor, its non-white ethnic communities and especially his critics.

This a man who shut off City Hall to both the public and elected officials in order to stifle criticism; who ordered police to pry the medallions off cabs whose drivers dared to engage in a lawful protest; who after his police shot yet another unarmed innocent Black man while engaging in racial profiling surrounded the grieving participants in his funeral march with an army of heavily-armed police in riot gear.

This is a man who has ordered the false arrests of thousands and who has ordered the illegal stopping and frisking of hundreds of thousands based solely on their skin color. This is a man who has had hundreds of homeless people falsely arrested simply for existing in "his" city; maligned them all as mentally disturbed drug addicts and then ordered his agency heads to take their children from them if they refused to participate in his forced workfare program-a program riddled, according to the NYC Comptroller, with corruption and cronyism.

This is a man who ordered bulldozers to tear down community gardens in the dead of night, who tried to eliminate remedial programs supporting Black and Latino students in the City universities and who used tanks to evict homeless squatters from abandoned buildings.

This is the Mayor who ordered the false arrests of more than seven hundred artists and had tens of thousands of pieces of their original art destroyed without ever bringing a single artist to trial; the man who in 1997 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that visual art did not express ideas and was unworthy of First Amendment protection; the same man who ordered one of the City's oldest and most respected museums evicted simply because he didn't approve of a painting they exhibited.

This is a man who wanted to close City hospitals in poor neighborhoods where they were the sole provider of health care; who attempted to privatize the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) as a favor to a major campaign contributor resulting in uninsured patients being driven at great risk to distant hospitals and who has consistently tried to replace union workers-entitled to guaranteed health benefits and insurance-with uninsured non-union workers many of whom are the victims of his corruption-ridden workfare program.

This is a man who threw hundreds of thousands off welfare by questionable and often illegal means; illegally withheld food stamps from the poor (according to the Federal government); denied drug addicts treatment and cut the budget for schools and libraries while giving his wealthiest corporate contributors more than one billion dollars per year in unjustified tax write-offs.

This is a man who has the taxpayers cars ticketed, towed, seized and sold at police department auctions by the tens of thousands each month while giving campaign contributors free parking passes and even entire streets where parking is reserved for their limousines.

This is a man who illegally unsealed juvenile court records solely in order to sully the reputation of an innocent man killed by the police; who has consistently refused to express condolences or regret to the families and survivors of police brutality under his administration and who has his police arrest children for being ten minutes late to school. Yet, this is also a man who has the nerve to call Federal marshals, the U.S. Attorney General and the President of the United States Storm Troopers when they return a boy to his sole living parent.

While we are sympathetically pondering the frightening specter of dealing with cancer let us not forget that less than one year ago it was this same man who ordered his appointees in the Department of Health and the Office of Emergency Management to repeatedly spray the entire City with an oganophosphate nerve gas, Malathion. This unprecedented mass aerial spraying was supposedly done to fight a mosquito-borne virus that the Mayor's own press releases admitted is rarely fatal and generally leaves those infected with no ill effects whatsoever. As documents since recovered from the OEM prove, both he and his appointees fully knew that this chemical was considered by the Federal government, by numerous scientists and by the legislatures of some states and foreign nations to be a dangerous human carcinogen; an immediate and potentially fatal risk to those with asthma; a likely cause of birth defects, miscarriages and deformities; a major immune system suppresser and a probable cause of long-term DNA mutations in both humans and animals.

The Mayor appeared on television numerous times specifically in order to disinform the public about the real nature of the risks he was subjecting us to. Contrary to the labels on the product used which specifically state it must never be sprayed on humans and that exposure to vapors, liquid or other forms of the chemical should be avoided at all costs, the Mayor repeatedly stated that it was "completely safe" and falsely claimed on a number of occasions that he and other City officials had been directly sprayed with no ill effects.

The Mayor set up a so-called hotline in order that the public could contact the Department of Health in the event they had questions or felt any ill effects from the spraying. The hotline consistently gave out false information to more than 100,000 callers and told thousands of people who reported suffering symptoms of chemical illness that it was all in their heads and that the chemicals were completely safe-a statement that, as NY State Attorney General Spitzer has repeatedly warned the Mayor, it is illegal to make.

Considering the facts we can say that viewed in the best light possible the Mayor undertook this mass spraying for political reasons in order to appear decisive. Seen in the worst light possible it appears to have been a deliberate attempt to damage the health of millions of unsuspecting citizens as part of a bio-warfare or Eugenics experiment.

It is inevitable that there will be a public outpouring of sympathy for the Mayor in light of his getting cancer. That is because most people in this City and nation are decent and honorable human beings who want to believe that our leaders are as good as we are. Many if not most of those who are his outspoken critics will inevitably feel compelled to, at the very least, tone down if not altogether cut out their criticism.

It may seem cold of me to suggest that the Mayor and his advisors are planning to exploit his medical condition for maximum political effect and have already begun to do so. However, it seems impossible to ignore the fact that a man who has refused for seven years to answer virtually any question about his marriage, his children, his personal life or the actual workings of his administration is suddenly offering himself up for interviews and press statements with total candor about this exceptionally personal and intimate condition.

The timing of this medical emergency could not have been better for the Mayor from a political perspective. We can now expect countless puff pieces in the compromised media about how Giuliani is showing a new side of himself, how his experience has mellowed him and how he has developed a new sense of compassion for the suffering of others.

Hillary Clinton will not dare to make even the mildest attacks on Giuliani's character now and will instead be forced by circumstances to wish him a swift recovery at every opportunity or risk appearing heartless and inhuman.

Every political figure, minister and talking head who has previously attacked Giuliani as a racist, as a demagogue or as a corrupt panderer to his political cronies is already lining up for their soundbite wishing the Mayor good health and a quick recovery. He in turn is publicly embracing, both literally and figuratively, some of his previously most outspoken critics.

Let us in all sincerity wish this man well but as we do, let us never forget how he has consistently wished us ill. Cancer is a terrible disease that I literally wouldn't wish on my worst enemy-and the Mayor is as close to a worst enemy as I hope to ever have. I truly hope the Mayor will recover-but I for one will not ignore the past seven years of misery and devisiveness he has deliberately caused in this City.

Forgive yes; forget, no. -------------------

Thursday April 27 New York Mayor Giuliani Has Prostate Cancer

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced on Thursday he had prostate cancer, but it was unclear if his condition would affect his probable Republican candidacy for the U.S. Senate against first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

``I was diagnosed yesterday with prostate cancer. It is treatable and at an early stage,'' the tough, crime-fighting Giuliani told a news conference at City Hall. ``It is also at a very early stage of determining what to do about it.''

Giuliani, who turns 56 on May 28, told reporters that aside from the prostate cancer that was revealed by a biopsy Wednesday, he was ``in very good health, in great shape.''

The mayor said it was not immediately clear whether the cancer would affect his expected race against Democrat Clinton in the November election for the Senate seat opened by the retirement of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

``In fairness to me, the Senate race, the Republican Party and to all the parties and everybody else you need some time to think about it,'' said Giuliani, who has not formally declared his intention to run in what has already become one of the closest-watched political contests for years. ``I really need to know what the course of treatment is going to be.''

Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics) ARTISTpres@aol.com (718) 743-3722 http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html

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Inquiry into the malicious prosecution of David Milgaard untanling 36 years of Saskatchewan police and Crown misconduct: : Opening day 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |

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

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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

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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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Kirstin Lobato

Jeffrey Scott Hornoff

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Birmingham 6

Amirault

Houston

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Kirk Bloodsworth

Laurence Adams

Ludrate Burton

Stephen Cowans

Wilton Dedge

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Kenneth Marsh

Dwayne McKinney

James Bernard Parker

Peter Reilly

Peter Rose

Sylvester Smith

Clifford St. Joseph

John Stoll

Marty Tankleff

Wilton Dedge

Ray Krone

 

Still working on it:

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Dennis Perry

Tim Sandfort

 

 

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

 

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

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