Everything wrong with gun laws

is shown by how cops treated this Military Veteran

Welcome to my weekly news He was thinking about his For 45 years Ive been a good
Bulletin! As always, I will be safety and that of his neighbour, model citizen. Ive never had a
including links to online resources he said, when he took his shotgun need for a lawyer until now.
Text like this means you can click (unloaded) into the back yard It seems the evidence of
on it to view a resource online if with him to investigate. three kids who were out drink-
you want more information about He never left his property, and ing carries more merit than my
the topic that is being discussed. he never pointed his shotgun at neighbours word and mine.
Now for the latest... anyone. Its sickening, but true. So far
his legal fees have cost him alot,
and he still has the prospect
It disgusts me. And it sure I did everything by of jail time hanging over his
shows whats wrong with our head.
justice system. the book to protect His neighbour was charged
Criminals have rights, the with assault for detaining
rest of us do not. myself and ensure the drunken youths until
The criminals, in this case the RCMP arrived.
three teenagers who were my property wasnt On the bright side, they
trespassing, probably in say there hasnt been a
preparation for a break-and- being stolen. vandalism problem in the
enter, are being coddled by area since that night.
RCMP. Go figure.
Lawrence Manzer, the man who A week later he was shocked In the meantime, Lawrence
called 9-1-1, is now the alleged when the RCMP came to his door Manzer is waiting on his next
criminal and faces charges. and arrested him. court date to find out what will
The teenagers he called the In a trend that seems to be happen to him.
RCMP to report got a $175 fine. gaining ground with police forces That will be on December 6th,
In the early hours of the morn- across the country, the RCMP a day where we are guaranteed to
ing last March 28th Lawrence was was taking the word of the actual be submerged under our annual

woken up by the telephone. His
neighbour was calling to tell him
there were some prowlers in the
area.
ey
criminals over that of honest dose of anti-gun hysteria and
citizens like Lawrence and his
neighbour.
venom.

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Did You Know?
... that you can get yourself into very big trouble
by posting a comment on Twitter or Facebook?
Comments that, if spoken between friends face-to-
face mean nothing, has turned into a legal night-
mare for a couple of Brits.
I think people dont have any idea of the potential
legal ramifications of things they post on the Internet,
said Gregor Pryor, a digital media lawyer at Reed
Smith in London. Anything you post on Twitter can
come back and haunt you.
Please be very careful what you post online. It can
come back to haunt you in ways you would never
imagine. Free Speech is free these days only if you
can afford to defend it in a court of law.
Read more about this case here.
Found on the net...
I came across a link to a document in Google Docs
that horrified me. And then I found the National
Post story that confirmed it.
Its the ruling that forces Ezra Levant to pay a
government censor $25,000 in damages for, as one
blogger called it, the offense of criticizing a censor.
Giacomo Vigna is a lawyer for the Canadian
Human Rights Commission.
If you are interested, you can read more about our
official censors and their lack of humor here.
HUNTERS BEWARE!!!
This is from the November 26th edition of the
Ottawa Sun:
From Nov. 1 to Nov. 15, Ministry of Natural
Resources conservation officers checked some 650
hunters in the Kemptville region, uncovering 63
violations which resulted in 30 charges, 33 warn-
ings and seizure of three firearms.
If youre out hunting this season anywhere in
Canada, please make sure you have all the legal
paperwork for you and your firearms.
Nothing ruins a hunting trip faster than jail time.
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Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Ongoing Court Cases
The full list of cases can be found here.
Ive listed two of the more important cases from a
freedom of expression standpoint below:
Galloway et al. v. Minister of Public Safety and
Emergency Preparedness et al., Federal Court of
Canada
This case raises critical issues regarding Canadi-
ans freedom of expression including their right to
hear others and freedom of association. It involves
a preliminary assessment by the government that
a British Member of Parliament who was invited
to speak in Canada was inadmissible because the
government claimed he had engaged in terrorism
and was a member of a terrorist organization.
* Read a summary of CCLAs position
* Read CCLAs factum
Warman v. Lemire, Federal Court of Canada
This case concerns the constitutionality of the
hate speech provisions in the Canadian Human
Rights Act. In a ruling released in September 2009,
the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found that the
Acts hate speech sections were unconstitutional,
and refused to apply the provisions. That decision is
now being judicially reviewed in the Federal Court.
* Read CCLAs factum
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Katey Montagues Rights and Freedom Bulletin Issue No. 13 -- Nov 27, 2010
R. v. Gomboc, 2010 SCC 55
The Supreme Court released a decision in the
Gomboc case on Wednesday that affects your right
to privacy and your right to be free of unreasonable
search and seizure.
Brian Bowman, on his blog BrianBowman.ca,
writes about privacy issues, access to information
and other cutting edge legal issues. He writes:
The police had asked a local utility company to
attach a digital recording ammeter (DRA) to the
electric meter on a home in order to monitor electri-
cal usage. The data gleaned from the DRA and from
other sources was then used to obtain a warrant to
search the home.
The search resulted in exposing a marijuana grow
op. The defence argued that the installation of the
DRA infringed the privacy rights of the accused to
be secure against unreasonable search contained in
Canadas Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
A critical factual consideration, on which much of
the disagreement in the case turned, was the degree
to which the use of DRA technology reveals private
information. The SCC ultimately decided that DRA
technology merely indicates electricity use, not what
the electricity was used for, so it was a reasonable
loss of privacy. [emphasis mine]
Heres an excerpt from the decision:
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The central issue in this case is thus whether the DRA
discloses intimate details of the lifestyle and personal
choices of the individual that form part of the biographi-
cal core data protected by the Charters guarantee of
informational privacy. The evidence available on the
record offers no foundation for concluding that the
information disclosed by the utility company yielded
any useful information at all about household activities
of an intimate or private nature that form part of the
inhabitants biographical core data. [..] Instead, the
DRA data merely yield an additional piece of informa-
tion to evaluate suspicions based on an independent
evidentiary foundation police already have about a
particular activity taking place in the home.
A final factor affecting the informational privacy
analysis is the fact that Gs interest in the electricity
use data was not exclusive. Gs electricity consump-
tion history was not confidential or private information
which he had entrusted to the utility company. As the
supplier of electricity, the utility company had a legiti-
mate interest of its own in the quantity of electricity its
customers consumed. Consequently, it is beyond dispute
that the utility company was within its rights to install
a DRA on a customers line on its own initiative to
measure the electricity being consumed.
While a territorial privacy interest involving the home
is a relevant aspect of the totality of the circumstances
informing the reasonable expectation of privacy deter-
mination, the Charters protection of territorial privacy
in the home is not absolute.
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