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Revitalizing the
archives
From 1998 until
2002, injusticebusters was in the throes of an 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.
I began following
other threads to stories of police and prosecutorial misconduct
and the site took on another facet to its character: 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.
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.
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.
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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Early Activism
Action: 1994 Acquitted!
injusticebusters Steele and Klassen postering in front
of the old Provincial Court building, Saskatoon, 1994
Actions:1999: Five
years later, we have sworn evidence that proves we were on the right track,
no criminal defamation occurred in this case, and eleven people
had charges against them stayed not because the children were
traumatized by too much court but because they were all innocent!
Whole new
actions page
on this triumph of tenacity.
The 1993 StarPhoenix
file photos below tell the whole story. Rick and Kari Klassen
are shown picketing in front of the Saskatoon Police Station
in September, 1993 several months before filing their ten million
dollar lawsuit to clear their names. John and Johanna Lucas were
charged with criminal defamation against Dueck at around the
same time. Rick Klassen and Sheila Stele were arrested and charged
with defamation in August, 1994. The Lucases were convicted after
a lengthy proceeding which generated more charges as it went
along as the Lucases were forbidden to poster, picket or even
speak about child sexual abuse after they were first charged.
Saskatoon Sgt.
Michael Grisdale made it his personal business to shut up the
Lucases, going so far as to "confide" to Rick Klassen
that Lucas was a dangerous man who had possibly got away with
murder. So poisoned was the case against the Lucases that not
even Clayton Ruby could get their convictions overturned at the
Supreme Court. Grisdale did not personally speak to Sheila Steele,
but was seen pointing her out to CBC reporter Amy Jo Eamon during
one of Lucas's many breach hearings and while Steele's drug charges
were still pending.
The authorities
did their best to muzzle Steele, as well. Her defamation charges
were quashed by writ of certiorary a year after they were
laid, leaving Klassen to fight on his own. During the year that
Steele's charges were still pending, she was placed on an undertaking
to shut up, which was appealed and upheld by Queen's Bench Judge
Hunter. When the Lucases lost at the Supreme Court in a cruel
April Fool's decision in 1998, the Crown finally dropped its
appeal against Klassen's directed jury acquittal.
Steele was
under undertakings which denied her free speech until August,
1997. It too us until the following summer, when Klassen was
once again free to speak to learn about the internet and get
this site up.
injusticebusters is grateful the StarPhoenix
has published the material which might lead to dozens of Saskatchewan
citizens having their names cleared. (Many pseudonyms are already
cleared by this story!) (Dueck) New on the site: Letter to Roy Romanow
and all Saskatchewan Members of Parliament, July 25, 1993,
sent by Rick Klassen before he ever took to the streets.
Demonstration where we were charged with Defaming
Sgt. Brian Dueck
On August 27, 1994, three people
were arrested and charged with criminal defamation against Saskatoon
Police Sgt. Brian Dueck and contract
social worker Carol Bunko-Ruys.
Sheila Steele carried a
sign which read,
"Sgt.
Dueck and Bunko-Ruys should be arrested and tried for their crimes."
Steele was also charged
with assaulting a police
officer. All charges against her were quashed a year later.
It was a beautiful
day for a demonstration. But by one o'clock, three of us were
locked up in the city buckets so we didn't get to enjoy the rest
of the day.
Marie's grandson and Richard's
nephew, Rob Klassen, who was sixteen and therefore a "young
offender" carries a sign which reads:
"Carol
Bunko-Ruys helped/took part in the rape and sodomy of an eight
year old girl." His sign was identical to the one carried
by Richard Klassen.
Both Rob and Sheila are wearing
pro-legalization of marijuana T-shirts.
Richard
fought his defamation
charges for almost four years.
The charges against Rob were
stayed one year later. Judge Albert Lavoie had the nerve to suggest
that his uncle and Steele had coerced him to demonstrate!
The three who were arrested were not
the only ones who picketed that day.
Time out from picketing at
the Courthouse,Queen's
Bench, Saskatoon
Before we went to the police
station, we picketed the Saskatoon government offices for an
hour.
Sheila's
defamation story
More postering adventures on
Sheila's free speech page
Taking it to
the streets
I wrote a call
for a public inquiry in May 1994 after the police, the police
complaints investigator, and elected officials had refused to
address the issue. I posted it all over Saskatoon streets.
Hey! People
were being charged with ritual Satanic abuse and plain gory sexual
abuse of children in their care. I wanted to know if this was
really happening!
It wasn't.
Yet hundreds
of people in Saskatchewan believe it happened. That dozens of
foster and daycare kids were being eaten and fucked by organized
groups of adults. Worse, they think these adults got off on technicalities
and are now at large among us. They are wrong. But Brian Dueck
and Carol Bunko-Ruys are at large among us and that is scary!
injusticebusters 1999 actions have included researching
and intervening where possible in the Saskatoon Police drug sting
called Flotilla where
the most brazen and objectionable use of a police agent resulted
in charges of trafficking (for very small amounts of drugs) against
at least 19 people. We see this abuse of citizens (both the agent
and those charged) as completely unacceptable and believe the
higher courts will also view it this way when the full facts
of the case are placed before them. This case is an anatomy of
how
- police construct cases from
the flimsiest material,
- the media give substance to
the case by accepting police PR on its face,
- crown prosecutors use multiple
charges and over-charging to extract plea bargains from terrified
"dealers" at the same time they withhold exculpatory
evidence and
- defence lawyers in Saskatoon
play right along, even to the point of agreeing to delay trial
dates when the Crown loses its witness!
injusticebusters
will follow this case and
show the bones of corruption, which are not the individual officers
of the court involved but the exceptions to proper law which
are allowed because of drug hysteria. The success with breaking
the law to serve the "greater good," that is, the idea
that drugs could be controlled by enforcement at the ass-end
of things, became the rationale for "relaxing" (that
is, breaking) the law in the service of ridding the public of
other hysterically generated social phenomenon:
- satanic child abuse,
- women's right to deny father's
rights because of exaggerated vulnerability,
- outlawing child-porn, making
the infantile and spoiled personalities who pursue such endeavors
more insistent on their right to have it,
- exaggerating the numbers of
actual child-diddlers so the real ones can get lost in the shuffle,
and
- a complete collapse of the
distinction between thought and action.
Everyone is
a potential victim of the war on drugs!
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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
- Publisher : Sheila
Steele
- Co-founder: Richard Klassen
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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)
Our activism
contributed greatly to the good vibes which happened around the
civil trial. (More Links provided below)
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.
Activism
April
1999 picket
1994
picket which resulted in our charges for defaming Dueck
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Pre
civil trial
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- February
2002 hearings
- Dovall fiat 1 | 2 | 3 |
- Court
report
- Crown Lawyer
had doubts (Sp article)
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- The Klassen/Kvello
civil Trial
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- StarPhoenix coverage
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- September 8, 2003: Trial Begins
- September 09, 2003: Pamela Klassen Shetterly's
Testimony
- September 10, 2003: Anita Klassen
- September 11, 2003: Michelle Ross
- September 12, 2003: Sheila Verway
- September 16, 2003: Michael Ross
- September 18, 2003: Ellen Gunn
- September 19, 2003: Terry Hinz
- September 19, 2003:StarPhoenix editorial,
Terry Hinz
- September 20, 2003: Louis Dupuis
- September 27, 2003: Ron Schindell,
Jay Watson
- October 01, 2003: Case
- against the Klassens weak:
documents
- October 02, 2003: Judge asked to dismiss suit: No evidence of
malicious intent: lawyers
- October 2, 2003: Letter to the editor from former "Believe
the children" advocate
- October 03, 2003: Lawyer details evidence of malice
- October
04, 2003: Judge ponders
request to drop Klassen lawsuit
- October
27, 2003: Judge
Baynton's interim decision: Quinney dropped, the rest proceed
- October 27, 2003: Claim goes forward
- October 29, 2003: Brian Dueck
- October 30, 2003: Dueck
- October 31, 2003: Brian Dueck
- November 01, 2003: Matthew Miazga
- November 04, 2003: Matthew Miazga
- November 05, 2003: Matthew Miazga
- November 06, 2003: Sonja Hansen
injusticebusters' daily reports page 1
Final
judgment: Dec. 30, 2003
Post judgment publicity
- articles
and editorials from Jan 6-9
- Sabo's
apology
- Editorials: StarPhoenix, Leader Post and National
Post
- National
Post front page story, Jan. 10
- Sarah
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- Lives ruined by Jason Warick, Feb. 19
- April 15/04: Judge
Baynton warns defendants' lawyers not to delay damages trial
- Dueck
drops his appeal
- Full
transcript of Dueck's examinations for discovery which were part of the read-ins at
the civil trial
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- Pre-sermonette Brash
Comment
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- 1998
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- Fall,
1998: Sask Sympatiko
strikes again
- 2001
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- Muzzling
the media
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- 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
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- 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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