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Liberal leader tells Obama Canada concerned about Khadr

barryartiste — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:10:35 +0000

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Obama wisely sidestepped the issue Liberal “One Trick Pony” Leader Ignatieff brought up about Canada’s Terrorist Omar Khadr! To which Ignatieff replied, when the Liberals take over the country, they will drop on Bended Knee and serve Master Obama. I am sure Obama was thinking, “If you ever Get Elected” I’ll go out and Buy Lottery Tickets!

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Thursday he raised the case of Canadian Omar Khadr in his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at Ottawa International Airport.

Ignatieff told CBC News that Obama was “glad to know” Canadian parties were concerned about Khadr, the only Westerner remaining in detention at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Obama said his administration is reviewing all the cases of the individuals who are still being held at Guantanamo.

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Gang violence will take years to conquer, says president of polic

barryartiste — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:34:45 +0000

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Though the President of Chiefs of Police is earnest in his plan to eradicate Gangs, one thing clearly missing in this plan by municipal mayors is a call to the Federal Government to implement immediate deportation of any convicted Gang Members and their families (who know of their kids gang affiliation) from Canada. Many of these Gangs originate from Vietnam and Asia who bring their special skills to this country. That is a fact!

This Province and the Previous Federal Liberal Government it seems “Sold us Out”, by not doing background checks on immigrants whose criminal past in their native country allowed them to immigrate to Canada!

Another undeniable fact, the media is full of stories of recent Immigrant criminals facing charges or on bail for years in this province convicted of crimes here, where it is learned later they face even more crimes back in their native country!

Any Canadians convicted of gang crimes receive no bail, no credit for time served and go to prison for so long, once they are released they will be using a walker. That will be a deterrent when gangs learn their families face deportation as well, cause many family members know all too well what their kids are doing.

For Canadian Gang Members, knowing they will never see the light of day outside prison and perform hard labour will be a deterrent. My ideal would be Military Prisons like Gitmo, as compared to the luxury of our mainstream prisons.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Gang+violence+will+take+years+conquer+says+president+police+chiefs+association/1308245/story.html Gang violence will take years to conquer, says president of police chiefs’ association
By Jonathan Fowlie and Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun

The Lower Mainland is “years away” from solving the problem of gang violence, a senior police officer said Thursday. But regional mayors drew up a wish list of things they’d like the federal and provincial governments to do sooner than later. “I feel like we’re going to make some headway in the next while, but to be honest, we’ve got a long way to go,” said Abbotsford Police Chief Bob Rich, who is also president of the British Columbia Association of Municipal Chiefs of Police.

Rich said police haven’t had the resources needed to tackle the gang problem. “I honestly don’t think the level of response has been appropriate to the size of the problem,” he said, adding that additional resources announced last week by Premier Gordon Campbell would help.

Metro Vancouver mayors, hosted by Surrey’s Dianne Watts, drew up an 11-point action plan. Most of the points are beyond municipal control and will have to be addressed by the federal and provincial governments.

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Appeal court overturns drug, gun convictions over police mistakes

barryartiste — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:21:01 +0000

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Two time convicted Drug Supplier gets his conviction overturned over semantics by a Moronic Judge who despite this guy was convicted of the exact same offence in 1999 and finds this Drug Supplier Innocent on these new charges, because Police mistakenly trespassed on his adjoining property not listed on the search warrant.

Certainly shows what is wrong with our Crime and Punishment Laws when common sense and a minute discrepancy throws out evidence, regardless of the mountain of evidence against this guy!

One wonder if Immigration Canada can pay a visit on his past Criminal conviction in 1999 and show him the errors of his ways as they send him packing back to Asia!

VANCOUVER – A man convicted of cultivating marijuana and possessing a .357 revolver and stun gun has had his convictions overturned on appeal.

Three judges of the B.C. Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of Michael Donald Ling, finding police made serious mistakes while executing a search warrant and gathering evidence.

“In my view, in this case, to admit the evidence gathered pursuant to this warrant would bring the administration of justice into disrepute in the minds of right-thinking citizens. I would exclude the evidence and in the circumstances enter an acquittal on the counts before the court,” Justice Robert Bauman ruled in a judgment released Thursday, with Justices Ian Donald and Carol Huddart in agreement.

Ling, 48, who lived at Christina Lake, was convicted in Grand Forks Provincial Court of cultivating marijuana, possession for the purpose of trafficking, unlawfully possessing a .357 revolver, which is a restricted weapon, and possessing a prohibited weapon, a stun gun.

He was also convicted of improperly storing a 12-gauge shotgun and ammunition found at Ling’s residence.

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Five arrested after dramatic morning rescue of kidnapped teenager

barryartiste — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:59:08 +0000

Barry Artiste Op.Ed

Same Shit, Different Diaper, in what our Flaccid Government Calls our fair City, but many Retort as one of the Bestest Places to get Murdered or Kidnapped in the World!

Vancouver police have arrested five kidnapping suspects after a dramatic morning rescue of a teenaged hostage.

The 18-year-old student from China was uninjured as strike force members pulled over a vehicle in which he was riding at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday in Burnaby.

Deputy chief Doug LePard said the young man was targeted when he was snatched from his West End residence Sunday. The kidnappers called the teen’s parents in China.

“During the investigation, we identified several residences in Burnaby we believed to be associated with the kidnapping and identified numerous suspects that were placed under surveillance,” LePard said. “Over the course of the next four days, officers worked 24 hours a day to identify a stronghold where the hostage was being held.

Police threw massive resources at solving the case, including wiretaps, surveillance and talking to officials in China.

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U.S. media struggle through Obama visit

barryartiste — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:47:35 +0000

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Certainly one reporter was correct in stating, This is the most exciting event in Canada’s History of History, judging by the Hype over President Obama’s Visit.

One nice aspect was Obama stating to our Governor General was that he loved Canada and was touched by Canadians reponse to his visit. In addition Obama stated if things do not go so well in the United States during his term as President, Obama stated to our Governor General , he’d pack up the family wagon and move to Canada! Obama also broke protocol and made a side trip to the Historic byward market to shake hands with the crowd, play tourist and buy some baked goods and souvenirs for his family. I guess Ottawa’s wintry weather made an impression on him, watching people skating on the Rideau Canal, touted to be the worlds longest skating rink at over a 50 miles long.

WASHINGTON — One CNN anchor had apparently never seen the Mounties before, and those who recognized one of Canada’s most iconic national symbols noted the absence of their horses.

Others seemed enthralled by how wintry Ottawa was, while some on-air personalities struggled mightily to pronounce “Michaelle Jean” and “charge d’affaires.”

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Hand joins British Columbia’s Missing Feet in Shoreline Mystery

barryartiste — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:27:03 +0000

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

A hand washing up on the shores of Ladysmith, British Columbia, is certainly strange, one wonders if we will start seeing a lot of Hands washing up along our shores?

LADYSMITH, B.C. — A mystery surrounding the discovery of seven human feet along the Pacific coast in recent years is growing deeper with the discovery of a human hand.

Police announced yesterday a man walking along a Vancouver Island shoreline made the grisly discovery on a beach near Kulleet Bay, on the island’s east coast. RCMP in Ladysmith, B.C., are investigating.

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France claims historic Great Lakes wreck

barryartiste — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:59:32 +0000

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Maritime Law titled “Finders Keepers” is in effect, regardless what France states in their quest to recover a 400 year old ship which sank in US waters in the 17th century.

It is an amazing find after all these years, especially in the Great Lakes, many do not know that the Great Lakes can preserve sunken wooden ships almost to pristine condition as oxygen, cold, and lack of wood eating worms make it an ideal place to recover and document shipwrecks.

Certainly I and many look forward to a Documentary, in the National Geographic if it is ever made.

The Griffon, built in 1679 near today’s Niagara Falls, Ont., by French explorer Rene-Robert de La Salle, became the first sailing ship on the Great Lakes but was lost in a storm that year on its maiden voyage. Photograph by: Handout,

Canwest News Service

France claims historic Great Lakes wreck
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 17, 2009

The French government has formally moved to lay claim to one of Canadian history’s most important shipwrecks — if, as a U.S. relic hunter believes, the 330-year-old Griffon has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Michigan.

In 2004, U.S. wreck diver Steve Libert discovered remnants of what he suspects is a 17th-century shipwreck at the north end of Green Bay, near the boundary waters of Michigan and Wisconsin.

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BC teen Shoots and Kills Home Invader: East Vancouver

barryartiste — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:31:33 +0000

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

A BC teen with a gun to his head by 2 assailants who mistook the home for someone else, had the tables turned on them, after the criminal shot the teens brother, the frightened teen wrestled the gun away from one of the Home invaders and shot him dead, as the other criminal escaped.

Tragic as it is that this Teen had to take a life, it shows when faced with death, adrenaline and survival takes over.

Bottom line the Teen is a Hero, saving his Brothers life, by snuffing out a criminal otherwise who would serve little time in jail or get out on bail and saving BC Taxpayers the grief of a long and useless trial.

One man dead, teen wounded in east Vancouver home invasionKim Bolan, Vancouver SunPublished: Tuesday, February 17, 2009

VANCOUVER – A man was shot dead and a teenager wounded by gunfire during an early-afternoon home invasion Tuesday at a Fraser Street house.

The body of the dead man lay on Fraser Street where paramedics had tried to save him just after 2 p.m. while 19-year-old Aleem Mohammed was taken to hospital with bullet wounds to his lip and torso.

Vancouver police Const. Lindsey Houghton said police received a 911 hang-up call at 2:15 p.m. from a house in the 6900 block of Fraser.

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Al-Qaeda want prisoner exchange for Canadian diplomats

barryartiste — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:59:08 +0000

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

I have a better idea, release em or we will bomb your country back to the stone age!
Course one or two really, really Big Bombs and a few air strikes should just about do it, as you are not too far off the Stone Age era as it is.

Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Fowler speaks at the World Diamond Congress in Antwerp, northern Belgium in this July 18, 2000 file photo.

Al-Qaeda want prisoner exchange for Canadian diplomats

Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday, February 17, 2009

UNITED NATIONS — Suspected kidnappers of two Canadian diplomats on a United Nations mission to Niger have set a “prisoner exchange” as a condition for their release, Canwest News Service has learned.

This emerges as al-Qaeda’s wing in North Africa Tuesday claimed responsibility for holding Robert Fowler and his Foreign Affairs aide Louis Guay — as well as four Western tourists kidnapped in Niger’s neighbour Mali, near the border between the two countries.

The “prisoner exchange” demand has complicated efforts to free the Canadians, who disappeared Dec. 14 along with their locally hired driver, Soumana Mounkaila.

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Obama orders 17,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan

barryartiste — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:48:20 +0000

Barry Artiste Op/Ed
Sending more troops into Afghanistan, one can be sure is not what Democrats who voted for Obama though would happen, when troop pullouts were Obama’s agenda. One can be certain if McCain were voted in as President and did this, their would be rioting in the US streets, crying, whining, and postualtions comparing McCain to Bush, Yet, somehow when Obama does it, all is quiet on the Western (Lety) front. How Typical!

Photo Inset: Afghan children walk next to a convoy of U.S. army armoured vehicles patrolling near Peshad village, Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan Feb. 14, 2009.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered an additional 17,000 American troops into Afghanistan to reinforce embattled U.S. and NATO forces fighting a deepening Taliban insurgency.

In a statement issued by the White House, Mr. Obama said the decision means the deployment this spring of a Marine expeditionary brigade, with an additional army brigade to follow in the summer.

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Barry Artiste World-Getting it "Right" the First Time!

Liberal leader tells Obama Canada concerned about Khadr

Gang violence will take years to conquer, says president of polic

Appeal court overturns drug, gun convictions over police mistakes

Five arrested after dramatic morning rescue of kidnapped teenager

U.S. media struggle through Obama visit

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Hand joins British Columbia’s Missing Feet in Shoreline Mystery

France claims historic Great Lakes wreck

BC teen Shoots and Kills Home Invader: East Vancouver

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Al-Qaeda want prisoner exchange for Canadian diplomats

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Obama orders 17,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan

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