The Ly’n King of the VPD

The Ly’n King of the VPD

 

 

Constable Brian Montague

Media Relations Officer

 

 

N.B.:  

Shortly after I published this post Constable Montague replied and said he wasn’t going to deal with me any more. He also advise the above picture is not him and asked me to remove it. 

I replied:

As far as the picture goes I got it from Google Images after a search for ​"Constable Brian Montague VPD" and all the pics with that name are that guy.

I said you're a liar and I'm more inclined to believe Google. The picture stays until you can provide another. I suggest you call Google and complain or provide me with another that you approve of. Until then, the picture stays as is!

 

 

 

Greetings again Constable Montague:

I am truly disappointed that you have failed to contact me. You made the mistake of putting your direct telephone number (Brian Montague T: 604-717-2807 ) at the bottom of your reply to my questions to the Mayor, the Chief and you about why the raids on the Jim’s Weeds Dispensaries and the SWAT team tactics used with no justification.

 

A reply from a Media Relations Officer was completely unexpected. I may only be a Blogger (http://goan-smee.blogspot.ca/) but I like to think of myself as half-assed decent Investigative Journalist asking a lot more relevant questions than the National Media lot who claim the title.

 

I replied to you and informed you who I was, the reasons for my complaint, and advised you I would phone you the next day tenth of September and did!

 

I have now phoned you twice, requested a return call, left my phone number and waited. Dead silence for over a week. Why did you bother to reply? I never expected one. If it was a compliment for the “fascinating approach”, Thank you!

If that was the only reason and you had no intentions of answering any questions then Fuck You! I truly wanted to deal with a Cop Mentality first hand. I have a degree in Psychology but no experience with the Abnormal.

 

I don’t want to talk any more because another Cop has a looser mouth than yours and disclosed what’s up. I was told by a VPD drug squad member that they are actively investigating all the clubs and dispensaries (prioritizing based on community complaints) by sending in undercovers to see if medical diagnosis is required as well as if minors are able to purchase. So it is advised that these protocols be adhered to.

 

Which brings me back to Jim’s Weeds and no probable cause and a couple of questions that you will never answer because your primary function is damage control and you would not be in your position if you were not a very skilled professional liar and distorter of the truth.

 

Your primary function is to put a lid on the problem until it goes away. The misuse of the exemptions in the Access to Information Act allows you to declare that there is an investigation in process and then claim any disclosure of information could damage the result. There is no time limit on investigations and given enough time the video showing the three cops beating the shit out the woman in the wheelchair will be forgotten and no answers or explanation are required.

Unfortunately no-one will ever find out what was accomplished by raiding Jim’s.

From the news reports Some unknown source complained that there was some unknown customer who was buying very cheap pot from Jim, and then in defiance of Jim’s rules, reselling to unknown youth in the neighbourhood. Jim did nothing but sell to a qualified customer.

If that was true there was no probable cause. But I will never find out, it’s under investigation and you would never answer truthfully answer questions like:

1. Did you have a warrant based on these anonymous allegations? I doubt it!
2. Did you find anything incriminating during the raid? I doubt it?
3. Were any unlicensed or under age customers present? No!

If there had been Jim would still be in jail!

4. What did you find that justifiged seizure of the shop’s contents?
5. Was there a probable cause for that? I doubt it!
6. What evidence did you get from the pot plants you seized?
7. Did you return them before they died? I doubt it?
8. Quite obviously you never discovered any evidence of a crime or there would have long since been charges:
9. Have you returned all the seized products? I doubt it!
10.  Are you going to try to charge Jim for storage? Probably: he’s got no place to put since you bastards forced him out of business.

Jim was an example of what all Dispensary owners should be: the best of the whole lot. He was damned near a saint to his customers. He was a source of accurate information about Medical Marijuana use. He could determine what your condition needed and recommend something that would help relieve the symptoms you were having! He could tell you the genetics of the source and for many of them a verifiable estimate of its cannabinoid ratio and content.

His only crime was selling the best and cheapest pot in Vancouver (at times as low as $3/g. for poor people) and probably in Canada by running an online supply line to other poverty stricken victims from coast to coast. The VPD busted Jim just as the Halifax Nazi’s are currently busting Christopher Enns and Farm Assist for persecution on a technicality.

I think I’ve run out of steam so I’ll leave you to stew in your own juice. It’s actions like yours that have turned all police in North America into potential enemies of the public at large. This is being published as a warning never to trust a cop or tell them anything. To do so puts your rights and freedom at risk!

Now I Wait For You To Knock on My Door

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

CANADIAN JUSTICE IS JUNK- PART III

TRAINING THE TROOPS

or

How The Constabulary Creates A Blue Brother

This is very long: almost three thousand words but that is because this is a very complex subject with many inputs that have to be considered. The creation of a cop takes about 5 years and during that time he is exposed to a carefully planned training program that is designed to wipe out his personality as a member of normal society and fill his mind in “Cop Think”. Read it carefully and stop along the way and wonder how you would cope with the regimen. Also think about what can be done to restore the system because the product it is producing stinks.

The first thing a Canadian citizen should understand is that the Blue Brotherhood is not the creation of our Canadian Cops but is international and applies to Constabularies everywhere. Our Canadian version has become an aberration and exceeds the norm as will be explained later. At this point we have come to the point where there is a knock on your door and there is a Cop, a member of the Blue Brotherhood, who wants to ask some questions. To continue:

You stand in your doorway and you look at this Brother in Blue wanting to talk: 

Ask yourself:

1.    Who is this guy?

2.    Where’s he coming from?

3.    What kind of a person am I dealing with?

The answer to those questions was fairly well volunteered by an older Police Officer speaking as a member of the Brotherhood when asked about the effects of a career in law enforcement on officers in general:

“One of the only things that is universal about almost all cops, is the fact that we age too quickly, see too much pain and suffering, lose our trust for almost anyone because EVERYONE lies to the police, and we lose our social grounding. It is very hard to believe that the world is basically good when you spend year after year seeing only the worst parts of it.

That is where it gets really hard, because sometimes we think out friends and families are trying to 'get over' on us, just like the shitbags we deal with at work. That hurts even the strongest relationships. Our ability to see beauty and innocence gets pretty heavily trampled on, and that really hurts when you are raising kids. Thankfully, most police officers learn to live compartmentalized lives: Those who don't die from alcoholism, heart disease, or suicide at an early age.”

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This personal assessment of the damage to self by a career in law enforcement is supported and borne out by the work of Professor Jerome Skolnick, the currently accepted authority who describes the police working personality: what many people, and police themselves, often describe as the police personality. The working personality is characterized as:

1.    distrustful of outsiders

2.    cynical

3.    conservative (not necessarily politically, but resistant to change)

4.    suspicious

5.    pessimistic

6.    pragmatic

7.    prejudicial

8.    and holding other widely-shared attitudes about and beyond the mainstream view.

What the hell happened here? What: in the course of about ten years on the job, turned the top 2% of the ideal recruit crop into a collection of miserable curmudgeons? What happens in the course of this career to render such psychological damage?

What follows is a vivid portrayal of career in law enforcement that I freely plagiarized from the work of Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith of the Chicago Police Department. She is a nationally recognized authority on training and the working personality and I have simply transformed one of her papers into a wake-up call lecture that should be given to every new class of recruits before their training begins

The Road to Remorse and Regret

Good morning Recruits: 

My name is Sgt.  XXX and today I am here to give you an orientation into what the course of your life will be if you do join the Force with the intention of a life time career. The first thing I want you to understand is that your entire life will change in the course of your training and so will your personality and outlook on life. Much of that change will be due to defensive reactions to unpleasant pressures to conform to the system and avoid discipline for failure to do so. Following I am going to chronologically outline what you can expect to encounter in the course of your career and some good advice on how to react and assess each development as it occurs.

Most of us start the academy with a servant’s heart. Remember the old LAPD motto “To Serve and Protect?” That’s all of us, that is supposed to be what cops are all about, but pretty quickly into your law enforcement career, it becomes less about “them” and more about “us.” We separate ourselves from the rest of society, even from our family and friends. But it doesn’t have to be that way, if you learn why this common police pitfall occurs and how to avoid it.

Remember, less than two out of every one hundred police applicants ever become cops, so as soon as you get hired, you start to feel like you’re a member of an elite group. And you are! There are few professions where we are expected to potentially lay down our lives as part of the employment agreement. However, that elitist feeling you have in the academy can be just the beginning of your “us v. them” mentality.

Your first couple of years are consumed with learning the job. You spend a considerable amount of time around veteran officers, trainers, and supervisors trying to learn the profession and earn the trust of your peers. As Dr. Kevin Gilmartin, PhD. talks about in his book Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement, a new officer begins to rely on the friendship and support of other officers, usually to the detriment of their “non-cop” relationships. Because there is so much to do and learn, and so little time to devote to your personal life, new officers find themselves socializing only with their co-workers. Old friendships may begin to fade way, not intentionally, but after all, are any of your “old” friends willing to meet you for a beer at seven o’clock on a Tuesday morning when you get off work? Not likely.

There are no grey areas. The law enforcement officer works in a fact-based world with everything compared to written law. Right and wrong is determined by a standard. They have a set way of going about gathering the proper evidence for the law and can justify their actions because they represent the "good and right side." In the real world, clear rights and wrongs are not as likely to occur. The newspapers are an opinion-based system, the court system is an opinion-based system and, needless to say, relationship decisions and proper parenting techniques are opinion-based systems. 

Adjusting from right and wrong, a black-and-white system, to opinion-based systems is very difficult and requires a complete change in mental attitude.
“The average cop will see more human tragedy in the first three years than most people will see in a lifetime” according to Dr. Ellen Kirschman, author of I Love a Cop. As we become a competent veteran officer, we develop a macabre sense of humour and are forced to control our emotions at all times. We view the world as a violent place full of idiots, con artists, and liars. We become sceptical, paranoid, and hyper vigilant, and we look down on those who do not share our cynical and alarmist view of the society. Not only do we cease most of our “pre-cop” friendships, but our family relationships may begin to deteriorate as well. We become distant and dark-spirited, even when we’re at home. We complain that “my family doesn’t understand,” and we may become overly strict with our kids, not wanting them to be exposed to the outside world that we know is violent, dangerous and unpredictable. Eventually, your family may grow weary of your “us v. them” attitude and decide they’d rather be with “them” rather than being a part of “us.”

You need to be in constant emotional control. Law enforcement officers have a job that requires extreme restraint under highly emotional circumstances. They are told when they are extremely excited, they have to act calm. They are told when they are nervous; they have to be in charge. They are taught to be stoic when emotional. They are to interact with the world in a role. The emotional constraint of the role takes tremendous mental energy, much more energy than expressing true emotions. When the energy drain is very strong, it may make the officer more prone to exhaustion outside of work, such as not wanting to participate in social or family life. This energy drain can also create a sense of job and social burnout. 

It’s no secret that cops have a 75% divorce rate, a high rate of alcoholism, and we die twice as often by our own hand as we do by felonious assaults. After all, if you go from a fun-loving, idealistic, service-oriented rookie to a dark-hearted, cynical veteran, you’re not going to be much fun to be around, and eventually you won’t like yourself anymore than anyone else does. So don’t let it happen!

Your FTO may know everything there is to know about impaired drivers, but why has he been married and divorced) three times? Your favourite sergeant is a wonderfully supportive mentor to you, but why does she end every shift sitting at the bar of the local gin joint? Sometimes the most qualified cops on your agency are also the least successful when it comes to their personal lives. As delicately as you can, try to find out why. Ask them if they could do anything different, what would it be? And then listen to what they have to say.

This can be tough to do. Your “normal” friends are either going to be “weirded out” by your new profession or they may become distant, intimidated, even hostile about you becoming a cop. However, don’t give up on all of them. Your true friends are going to accept you, for who you are, just make sure to touch base with them and occasionally get together; and when you do socialize with them, don’t spend all your time together telling cop “war stories.” Ask about their job, their life, their problems, concerns, and successes, and then really listen. Don’t make it all about you, even if they try to. In other words, don’t get mired in your own self-importance.

Be proactive about your emotional well being. Make sure that physical activity is part of your regular routine. There are two kinds of stress, “distress” and “eustress”. Develop positive addictions, like running, basketball, hunting, and photography, anything that makes you feel good and is good for you. Also make sure you spend time around good, positive people. Go to church, do volunteer work, coach a kids soccer team, do charity work. Get involved in activities that remind you that not everyone is a drug dealing, child molesting criminal, and that in general, life is pretty good. Remember, you took this job to help the community, not isolate yourself from them. One of the great things about policing in a free society is the tradition of being “of the people,” not “over the people.”

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We’re Back Where We Started

Unfortunately Canadians are not living in a free society and the Constabulary successfully biased the Access to Information Act of 1985 with a series of exemptions regarding Investigations. The majority of officers have adopted a tradition of being “over the people” and responsible to no one for anything they do, on or off the Job

So here we are with you, in your doorway, facing a cop who wants entry and to talk to you about something. 

You stood in your doorway and you looked at this Brother in Blue and asked yourself:

·        Who is this guy?

·        Where’s he coming from?

·        What kind of a person am I dealing with?

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At this point you have answered the first two of your questions:

Who is this guy?

He’s a kid who has been ripped out of normal society and forced into another by the Constabulary. He will robotically obey orders, not question his superiors’ judgement, and he will most certainly report his obedience to those orders in meticulous detail. He will never depart from those details regardless of consequence.

Where does he come from?

He comes from on the job training in how to relate to the public: all civilians are suspect criminals in his mind. He’s been trained to lie and is a skilled interrogator in command of any interview with a civilian suspect. He can present himself as a member of any class or occupation to elicit an admission of some fault and is skilled in the use of leading questions to confuse his victim. Any request for information by a cop is prompted by a desire to establish guilt. He doesn’t care whose and he is fishing for information that can move the subject of his questioning into the suspect category if he even admits a connection to another individual suspected or caught in a criminal activity.

Knowing just this about the officer should be enough to deter any cooperation from a witness but the biggest deterrence of all is his belief that he can violate the law and your rights in his attempts to establish your guilt and he is immune from prosecution by doing so.

 That belief combined with the support of his brotherhood is validated by the exemptions of criminal investigation from the normal channels per the Access to Information Act, The Brotherhood has the power to control the whole Justice system, and that will be the subject of my next post 

CANADIAN JUSTICE IS JUNK- PART IV – THE BROTHERHOOD

Until then

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

This is Your Future: Old Age and Loneliness

A Wake-Up Call for the Boomers Kids

Time is Short

I was going to address this to what is called the Boomer generation only to find they are all old farts like me. The Boomers were born in the period 1946 to 1964 and now range in age from 49-67. They’re all too old to benefit from any advice I give because they are now learning the same difficult lessons I have had to absorb. First and foremost, Freedom 55 was a ridiculous idea and its failure revealed our whole generation’s lack of knowledge about how to manage money and plan for the future. If you’ve reached 60 without banking or investing that you can count on for a comfortable retirement, think again, there’s a rough road ahead

If today, you find yourself at retirement and you haven’t got that nest egg in a much protected state, then count on a shortage of yolk down the road. My son was born in 1964 so I guess I’m aiming this at all the Boomers little brats, not the parents. All of you readers who have reached the age of 50 are looking at a future where you will need to take advantage of all the Canadian Social Benefits that the Cons are determined to chop away at knee level. I’m not surprised at where we are in this country. for the last thirty years I have been watching an amoral control freak crawl his way up the political guts of our society to a leadership role. Yes, I’m talking about Harpo the Hypocrite.

A couple of readers have asked me:

Why do I hate Stephen Harper? What do I have against him? Well, here’s the axe I’ve been grinding and have been for 3 decades. I would give a million dollars to have the privilege of being first in line to piss on his grave.

In 1989 we were living in Red Deer, Alberta in the heart of redneck Religious Fundamentalist country with its ignorant belief and prejudices. My son was a homosexual. He was born one, he grew into a talented artist: I knew who he was and accepted the fact. I think it was September when Lee had to go to a dentist and was turned away because he was contagious, he had HIV.

Our leader Mr. Harper was not really into politics as yet but was gathering his base with a thunder and lighting campaign based on religious bigotry and intolerance and somehow he got my attention and I started listening to him. It was not fun hearing my son was being punished by God for his evil ways and perverted conduct but the son-of a bitch would not shut up. It took my son 7 years of hell to die of AIDS when it fried his brain, and we had to watch the process, listening to the vitriol of an asshole on the radio vilifying our son. According to his belief structure my son was a sinner being punished for his perversion and choice of homosexuality and Harpo condemned d him to Hell. I can’t forgive that.

In 1997 my employer went bankrupt and we went through a very tough time when we needed help from the system and actually got it. EI saved our ass. Late that year Mr. Harper, the Great Pretender, gave a speech to a collection of right wing American fundamentalist business tycoons at an event in Montreal. In it he describes his appreciation of the Canadian social network and Canadians inattention, greed, and acceptance of a public dole. That alone displays some of the evil thinking he again needed in designing the MMPR. I quote:

“First, facts about Canada. Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of living substantially lower than yours, a massive brain drain of young professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate of the United States.

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”

The reality is boys and girls you children are going to experience what remains of our beloved compassionate system of giving a shit about your neighbor. Harpo has a majority and with his bigoted understanding of how to fix shit I will not hazard a guess as to what ruins will remain after his tenancy is ended.

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

An Open Letter To Matt Mernagh

An Open Letter To Matt Mernagh

The TheSmeeGoanGuy strikes again

I hope I Found A Crack in His Armour

Attn: Matt Mernagh

Good Morning Matt

My name is Blaine Barrett, with a nom de plume TheSmeeGoanGuy

I’m a Medical Marijuana Advocate with a blog and Dr. Rob Kamermans is one of my near and dear causes. When you commented to Tom Blackwell about Rob Kamermans you made a minor slip of the tongue that I have to challenge. You made a couple of way out of line comments about a man you obviously know very little about.

You owe Dr. Kamermans an apology!

It was stated:

“Yet the fees for signing marijuana forms did rankle some of Dr. Kamermans’ patients.”

Where did that come from? Who!

There has never been one complaint from any patient regarding the matter of fees. That is because if you were one of his patients you would know that if you told Rob you had a problem and needed a refund there would never be an argument. You are his patient! You have a problem; His fee is hurting You: to refuse a refund would be to do You harm!

“FIRST! DO NO HARM!”

That is the whole fucking reason he’s in this mess!

He honored his Oath as a Physician!

Does anyone have a problem with that?

He signed applications in a futile but commendable attempt to relieve the Hurt being caused by the refusal to do so by 67000 of his fellow Physicians on the advice of the Canadian Medical Association.

They consequently have turned their backs on him!

He can expect no support from them!

 “They seemed exorbitant,” said Matt Mernagh,

a prominent medical-pot activist.

His Greed and Criminality is the product of Cop propaganda and you’ve apparently bought the slander. You demonstrate your ignorance of fact when you comment about his intentions and apparent greed as evidenced by the outrageous exorbitant fees he was charging.

What is reality about this Greedy Criminal shit?

Pay Attention: It’s a lesson in elementary Mathematics!

It’s common to hear $250 cited as his fee. Correction! That’s one of his fees. That was what he charged to make a House Call in Halifax. He intentionally saved his Halifax patients half the return fare to come to him in Ontario, and he saved them a hell of a lot more when you look at fares from BC.

You might also consider that the average cost of a signature was ($500,000/4100 signatures) = $120. That’s not too bad is it? It’s a lot lower that the outrageous exorbitant $250 Halifax Home Call and that brings up a question: What were the minimum charge and the lower fees that dropped the average that much?

I can’t answer that but I have someone who just did. This morning I got an e-mail from my friend and ally Jon. He has Crohn’s disease in all its nasty ways and it’s bad. He lives near Rob and is a long time patient. He is outraged by the treatment being accorded Rob and is extremely critical and sensitive to anything written about his doctor. He disappeared on us for two weeks we feared he’d died but there was no way to contact anyone to find out. He popped up two days ago and won’t say a damn thing about whatever happened but he read the Kamermans column he felt compelled to supply a few missing details that answer

What was the minimum charge and the lower fees that dropped that much?

Jon’s Criticism of the Blackwell Kamermans Article

From: jon

9:22 AM  July 28, 2013

to me, tblackwell

B.

A Very good and fair article.

Few things i did not see addressed, local & regular patients paid nothing, zilch, zero for signings of MMAR forms, i know of many that were not even asked and a handful of others that traveled to see him and did not have the cash to pay because of being on ODSP or other pensions / assistance and he just signed for free or on condition they donate to the local food bank.

The only 2 doctors advocating and actively signing at that time were Rob Kamermans and doctor David Saul (see the order entered by the College of Physicians and Surgeons against David Saul - -  an older and longer haired near-clone of Kamermans in looks and advocacy) and both became overwhelmed by demand from patients that could get no offer of help anywhere else.

Dr.Saul also did not charge many of his patients unless they could afford and offered.

Dr. Rob also throws patient Xmas parties at a local tearoom, does house calls and invites patients over for dinner or to help pick fruit or hang out with him and his wife.   Since being charged he has cut back on his open heartedness but not by much and still calls to patients to see how the new meds are working, to remind of pending appointments or to do 'well being calls' when appointments are missed.

What other doctor calls you to say "the cherries are ripe, come by and pick some?"

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That is a question for you Matt. I think you owe it to him to check out the truth about him. You’re a person of experience in this sort of shit and I think you could do him a great favor! You’re a Celebrity and your large following deserves the truth. Take the time to find it out about Rob and then tell them what reality is!

Both his character and professional reputation need salvaging because of the Character Assassination he’s had at the hands of the police. There is another matter where you could be of great assistance but before I say anything about put on your lawyer hat.

Financially Dr. Kamermans is now in really deep water. His Insurance Coverage for Legal Representation just ran out and he is now in the position of having to defend himself. NFW! That is hopeless. He has none of the basics skills, knowledge, but most of all his character is such that for him to assume an adversarial posture is impossible.  

I don’t know if the man has ever felt rage or wanted revenge.

He needs help and I am confident all 4100 of his patients will join me in asking you to do so.

Please consider my request for assistance for the man. He is ruined. Even if he managed to get the whole pack of bullshit legal charges dismissed he still will have no practice, no employment and a bunch of bills that aren’t going to go away

In conclusion Matt, you think just like the Doc. I can hear him saying what you did about him in the first person:

 “Part of me feels that I’ve been thrown under the bus.

Part of me feels, ‘You kind of did it to yourself.’ ”

 Maybe he did but his intentions were honorable and they made him a victim

 If you extend him some help you will be helping a Doctor who demonstrates the Six Pillars of Character that C.M.A., and the rest of our modern society, have either forgotten or never were taught.

Trustworthiness. Respect. Responsibility.

Fairness. Caring. Citizenship.

The Medical Marijuana Community owes him some payback.

I hope you can provide some.

 Best Regards,

Blaine Barrett

A Request for Consideration re a Class Action Lawsuit

A Request for Consideration re a Class Action Lawsuit

An Introduction and Preface to my Request

I have no idea where this will lead or the consequences of my actions. I have been warned by smarter men than me including John Conroy that I shouldn’t do it, that I’m drawing a great big bulls-eye on my back for the cops to stab.

My Response

Tough shit! This is important!

I hadn’t thought of possible repercussions but I’ve been forewarned, so I’m advising you that if in the future I wind up charged with some heinous crime like domestic terrorism or pornography because of pictures planted on my illegally seized Computer, don’t be surprised.

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Blue Brotherhood,

Today I am attempting to initiate a Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of myself and 4100+ other Medical Marihuana Licensees who had their files seized and held by Sergeant Mark Duval of the OPP after raiding Dr. Rob Kamermans office on January 26, 2012. I am alleging that the holding of those files for this extended period constitutes Criminal Negligence under Section 219 of the Criminal Code.

The following Request for Consideration was sent to severalmajor Class Action Litigation firms in Canada simultaneously with the publication of this Post. I will not identify those firms and by open publication of my request, any and all Class Action lawyers can judge its merits and decide if they would consider representing 4100 sick patients who were intentionally damaged by one police officer acting in the name of the law that he, intentionally or not, broke.

I did this on my own without consultation with anyone because I am a vindictive SOB and too much damage has been done to my Brotherhood of Victims to not demand reparations. I am doing so because if I can convince one of those firms that there is a legitimate case and accept it, I set in motion an action that cannot be stopped even if I croak because there is the potential for great profit if the case can be won. If I assume that a minimum recovery of $1000 per victim would be reasonable with a pool of 4000 victims that is $4 Million and beaucoup bucks for our legal representative if they win.

This is on a straight trade basis: they take on all risk and expense for their possible win and the collection of about 1/3 of the money pool awarded. They shove some money in my pocket; I don’t begrudge them a finders fee even larger if they crucify a few cops and politicians along the way..

Once the case is submitted to a court and accepted, a public notification will be made and anyone who had their file seized will be able to share in any win simply by adding their name to the victim list. There is no cost or necessary effort required and then it is waiting to see. If anything more were required it would be a request to supply the nature and cost of the damage you have suffered in order to estimate the overall severity and impact of harm done by the Negligence.

If you are a victim don’t do anything yet just let me know you are aware and would like to participate. The waiting to see what happens has started and I’m among you.

I have come to the conclusion that the only way that the Harper cruds can be made to back off is to tell the public the truth about the slime-ball tactics they are employing and arouse enough outrage and support to threaten Harpo politically. One of my main curiosities is just how the mainstream media will play a lawsuit of this nature? Are they curious enough to go and dig up some more dirt: or are they going to ignore it as effectively as they have blacked out the outrageous persecution of Dr. Kamermans?

What led me to start this action? I share a fatal flaw with Dr. Kamermans in that we come from a generation that valued matters of principle. To be a man of Character was a matter of pride and we both had mothers with high principles who drilled its fundamentals into us.

So where does this “Character” get us in this modern day and age.

Not very far at all apparently

Dr. Kamermans saw a population of “patients” with a medical need that he could legally fulfill by signing application. For this he has been arrested and persecuted by the Bancroft police into personal ruin before he has even been brought to trial.

So much for “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”

So where does that leave me?

I have to bear witness!

I am doing so

How will our police state react to my Freedom of Speech?

This simply a test exercise of my Freedom to Speak

Ready

Set 

GO!

A Request for Consideration re a Class Action Lawsuit

My name is Blaine Barrett

I live at 255, 10202-149St., Surrey, BC V3R 3Z8

SIN: 606-283-653

I have a Health Canada License to obtain and possess cannabis

Phn: 604-585-0236

E-mail: Thesmeegoanguy@gmail.com

I have been the victim of Criminal Negligence by Sergeant Mark Duval of the Ontario Provincial Police and his superiors at the Central Hastings Detachment in Madoc, Ont. I am accompanied by 4100 other as a consequence of the arrest of Dr.Rob Kamermans, the seizure of his Medical Files and the refusal and failure to return them to their owners

On January 26, 2012 Sergeant Duval and a force of combined OPP and RCMP officers entered the office of Dr. Rob Kamermans at 2230 Hwy 620, Cob Hill, On  K0L 1P0: arrested him and served him with a search warrant for his office. They were accompanied by Swat Team members armed with assault rifles who immediately secured the area to prevent any terrorist attack and announced their arrival with a parade of cop cars, flashing lights and sirens that no one within sight or hearing could avoid noticing: The objective- Guaranteed headlines.

Dr’ Kamermans and his wife were alone in the office at the time of the invasion. They were arrested, handcuffed, forced to pose in front of a cop car for pictures of their arrest. Sergeant Duval and cohorts proceeded to ransack the office in a search for evidence of some unknown crime. In this process, Sergeant Duval seized and removed 4000+ medical records for inspection of their contents. He knew they were of vital importance to their owners, full of secret information he wanted but covered by Medical Confidentiality: so did all his superiors.

I do not believe that access to the contents of 4000 file can be justified by one single search warrant for a Doctor’s office. The Official Policies of both the Canadian Medical Association and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario state that the contents of any medical file in the custody of a Doctor can only be revealed to medical professional necessary for treatment.

Any outside third party access must be authorized by a warrant for that file. Every file was entitled to secrecy and a warrant. If this was an intentional illegal breach of privacy by the police it was an illegal act repeated every time they stuck their noses into a file. And on and on.

None of that matters to me because I’ve tried to find out for over a year if it was legal and failed. No one will answer at any level of responsibility.

It does not matter whether file secrecy was illegally breached or not, what makes me a victim and entitled to recourse and justice is that Sergeant Mark Duval failed to return files with the utmost speed to the patients to whom they belonged. Every person in the chain of command knew that the failure to return these documents to their rightful owners was to cause great hardship and inconvenience

I am one of the patients who had their applications seized. There is no record of my application because it wasn’t yet in the files: it was waiting for me to get back to them with a replacement cheque. He had not yet signed my application and all my documentation was in the Hold file. I submitted my application in Mid-January and got the call a week later but hadn’t sent a replacement cheque yet because there was no rush. I was outraged by the seizure, inspection and refusal to return the medical files. It was a outrageous invasion of privacy but I couldn’t complain. My file had not yet been formally entered as a Medical File in his records and not yet subject to Medical Confidentiality as private. It was just laying there, wide open.

It was only two weeks ago that I became aware of Criminal Code Section 219

Criminal Code – Criminal Negligence

·        219. (1) Everyone is criminally negligent who

(a) in doing anything, or

(b) in omitting to do anything that it is his duty to do,

shows wanton or reckless disregard for the lives and safety of

other persons..

Sergeant Mark Duval, The Central Hastings Detachment supervisor and everyone in the OPP chain of command right up to Queens Park and on up to the prime Minister was aware of the arrest and that 4000+ Medical files had been seized and held as evidence, It was front page news and a subject of controversy and discussion at the time of the seizure. Nobody lifted one God Damned finger to stop the crime in progress. It is common and accepted knowledge that Medical Files are not only private but also of critical importance in the treatment of the patient should there be any change in his condition. In times of emergency these are the only source of any medical knowledge of the patient’s condition prior to the current trauma.

Sergeant Duval and everyone in his chain of command knew that there would be serious consequences to the patients who owned them if the files were not promptly returned and there was an emergency. That is simply common sense and a fact. There is no excuse of ignorance on the part of the whole chain that this was a flagrant violation of Criminal Code Section 219 that every law enforcement officer should do no third party harm.

They were fully aware that they would intentionally be creating the risk of great harm in an emergency. What is more contemptible is that this was in search of information that was beyond their legal reach in the top secret files of Health Canada at the Medical Marihuana Access Division. The identities, locations, class of grow-op, capability and size, the most importantly the expiry date of every one of 4000+ Medical Marijuana The last date of issue was before New Years 2012 so every one of them has now expired.

Sergeant Duval is still holding these files and has not returned them, and not one of the superiors above him countermanded his action and ordered their return before anyone suffered any harm from their inaccessibility. What is most contemptible is that all them also was aware that all licenses had a one year expiry and to not return them and deny access to all the extremely valuable medical documentation they contained was an intentional obstruction of the renewal of every Medical Marijuana license.

The resultant harm can now be tallied up and it is time the cops were stopped from arresting and charging medical marijuana grow-ops and possessors when their crime was the direct result of the arresting cops preventing their renewal. It’s a premeditated entrapment.

There have been many more serious cases of patients who have been harmed by lack of access to their medication and I have heard of one death before information requested was forthcoming after great efforts to get its release. A great number of symptom recurrences and physical agony resulting from the inability to grow and maintain an adequate supply of what should have been their legal medication supply.

I think the failure to recognize the consequences of their action was intentional and criminally negligent. Sergeant Duval was aware of the consequences of his actions and simply ignored the damage he was causing. To me this is a wanton and reckless disregard for the lives or safety of others and a violation of Criminal Code Section 219. The chain of command was aware of and ignored his actions and did not order him to cease and desist immediately. They were aware of the damage being done and by failing to correct their subordinate similarly showed a wanton and reckless disregard for the lives or safety of others and are guilty of a similar violation of the Criminal Code.

That is my complaint. I am a victim, I have been damaged and I have a lot of company who are as angry as I.
Blaine Barrett
N.B.
This is not an isolated instance of the intentional disregard of Section 219. It has become common practice for and increasing number of police actions across Canada. As just one of two examples I know of a licensed designated grower whose license expired because of the callous disregard shown in my case. It may be hearsay but it appeared in Facebook.

It was a large facility handling two grows for patients with authorization for large quantities of edible cannabis. The grower was arrested, his crop chopped, all cannabis seized, all grow equipment worth thousands destroyed or confiscated. They were fully aware that the two licenses to grow were large and destined for patients with symptoms severe enough to warrant the size of the licenses: and that the cannabis that they destroyed was a legal medication and to confiscate it was to initiate the recurrence of pain, nausea, and manifold other symptoms.

There have been multiple similar instances of smaller personal and designated grow ops being shut down because of the intentional obstruction of their license renewals.

In a similar vein, the police disregard for the necessity of dispensaries and their arbitrary closure causes great harm and inconvenience to every one of their customers. They don’t sell to the street, they sell only to licensed customers and their closure has the same effect as chopping down a designated grow op.

Today is May 20, 2013 and as I write this the cops are in full scale callous disregard of Section 219 and are still knowingly inflicting harm to innocent third parties per the following Headlines today:

Medicinal pot patients risk safety in search of weed

Closure of a Halifax dispensing club forces patients to seek illegal drug sources

CBC News Posted: May 11, 2013 7:21 PM

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/05/11/ns-medical-marijuana.html