WHEN A GOVERNMENT FEARS ITS OWN PEOPLE
by Jane Gaffin
The jaws of night had clamped shut over the glowing home where a petite
woman alone prepared the hearth for Christmas. Her 56-year-old husband
was away shopping that fateful evening.
Then came the enormous rapping. The woman opened the door, invitingly.
Her unexpected guests were a female and two male officers, clad in
regulation uniform; a fourth was garbed from head to toe in menacing
black.
All were packing heat and drugged on adrenalin.
They forced their way inside, threatening arrest if the woman didn't
leave. Put out of her own home into the dark and cold, her main concern
was to somehow get word to her husband who might be coming up the road
any moment.
Meanwhile, the four mauraders tracked around the immaculate house in
muddy jackboots and went to work trashing the place like common burglars.
They broke locks and ripped down paneling--even to the hot water tank!
>From the basement walls, they crowbarred securely-mounted displays of
various-sized cartridges and deactivated gun parts that served as
teaching tools.
They made many trips to and from the house, stashing an enormous pile of
pirated booty in the vehicles clustered in the yard.
By now, the husband was watching the sickening scene from a distant
vantage point. It would take weeks, maybe months, to evaluate
losses.
Among the long list of items seized was a collection of firearms,
ammunition, gun powder, files, records, registration papers, diaries,
journals, gadgets, portable search light, and so forth. One stormtrooper
fancied a scrimshaw power horn, hanging from the gun-room wall as an art
object, as well as $500 in cash.
This terrifying assault could have been staged under the brutal
dictatorships of Hitler's Nazi Germany, Josef Stalin's Soviet Russia, Mao
Tse-tung's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Suddam Hussein's Iraq, or Big
Brother's totalitarian regime described in George Orwell's "Nineteen
Eighty-Four".
But it didn't happen during any of those terrible periods of history.
This looting happened in Jean Chretien's Canada.
Anybody, Anywhere Kanuckistan is susceptible to the same brutish
treatment by the state powers as was experienced by Brian and Carol Ward
of Qualicum, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on December 18,
2002.
Similar episodes occur all too frequently across this country, but seldom
does the general public hear when members of a national police force go
beserk, preying on unprepared citizens. The mainstream press shies away
from these ugly incidents.
The police should be busting down doors of the thousands of undesirable
foreigners who disappeared underground with their illegal AK-47s,
bomb-making materials and contracts to kill. That would be too dangerous,
though. The police might get hurt. Hardened criminals bite
back.
If, however, some officers are bound by sworn oaths to protect ordinary
civilians from bodily harm and their private property from trespassers,
why aren't all officers duty-bound by the same ethics? Why do some RCMP
officers spin out of control so far that ordinary people need protection
from THEM?
Maybe the Wards should have called 911. Can't get police back-up? Send in
the firefighters with their high-pressure hoses to water-log those four
puppies. "Oh, gee, boys and girls, sorry to curtail your fun by
flooding your cruisers; we thought they were on fire."
A retired RCMP officer, formerly posted in Yukonslavia--the home of the
infamous raid on the Allen Carlos family in February 2000--shed light on
the shameful behaviour of police abusing their descretionary power. They
use the law to put pressure on, and get even with, anyone they don't
like, he wrote.
"Not all policemen are bad. But there is more pressure to use the
laws to harass those they see as 'subversive', 'anti-establishment' and
'anti-polce'. Politics and politicians are now interfering with the
former independence of the police."
Well, maybe so. But history has an uncanny way of repeating itself. The
day will come when those same hypocritical government cops, prosecutors
and judges - hiding behind uniforms, suits, robes and titles with
impunity and no conscience - will have to face a jury comprised of their
former victims.
The pitiful pleas of "I was just following orders" didn't wash
at Nuremberg, where Nazi SS officers were sentenced to dangle from hemp,
and it didn't wash 52 years later when the last of the lot was flushed
from behind their disguises.
Courts determined former Nazi SS officers, old and infirm in 2001, were
not "just following orders" but did shoot and fatally beat
helpless prisoners "just because they had a lust for power and
murder".
In the Viel case heard in Ravensburg, Germany, presiding judge, Hermann
Winkler, said, "...everybody should know that even after a long
time, they will be called to account."
Also facing the jury of victims will be any Benedict Arnolds who turn
against the civil rights advocates to cut backroom deals with the devils
in the so-called Justice department. Traitors to the cause won't be
allowed off the hook with, "Oh, shucks, guys, we meant well when we
were giving away your rights."
Tell it to the provost. Next?
When the public does hear about police raids in this country, the initial
reaction from individuals who depend on coffee shops as a main news
source, and from reporters who are conditioned to believe all police and
prosecutors are of sterling character, will inevitably be: "The guy
must have done something wrong."
Sure, if breathing is now counted as an illicit activity.
This aggressive ransacking of the Ward home was instigated by nothing
more serious than a paper-trail problem. It is a classic example of the
left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. As well, a firearms
officer and the police disagreed on the interpretation of complex and
confusing laws.
Ward was caught in the vise.
It seems from trying to untangle this complication that the police were
attempting to trace a couple of mystery handguns. One cop said they'd
found the guns; another cop said they hadn't.
Ward was blamed for possessing the guns and was pestered to forfeit them
to the police. On several occasions, Ward and an officer had pored over
an exhibit list of guns the police gave Ward to sell for another fellow
whose property was seized due to an alleged domestic dispute.
Ward had sold one handgun for him. Then the police, doing an about-face,
wanted the other gun returned to them; an officer came to his home to
collect it. In their minds, a third one was unaccounted for.
Smart cops don't rely on FIPS, FAPS, FARTS or any firearms registries as
accurate. Often physical descriptions and owner's names don't match with
serial numbers, which can be assigned numerous times to different types
and models of firearms. The registries are particularly useless for
tracing anything as obscure as ghost guns.
Soon, the police had their knickers in a knot. They opted for a
Ninja-style raid. It speaks volumes that the female constable had to
"shop" to find a judge willing to sign a search
warrant.
The destructive raid was definitely an overkill. After the dust settled,
the mystery gun(s) wasn't part of the plunder. However, they did come
home with a searchlight, wall hanging and cash!
Obviously, they couldn't find much wrong with Ward's storage practices,
either, if all they could conjure up was one feeble violation that wasn't
related to a specific firearm.
Ward's "built like Gibraltar" gun room was as secure as a bank
vault, which, of course, is not impenetrable, as proven by the
cops.
Yet, in the past, courts had recognized the security and occasionally
released guns to be stored by Ward while a defendant awaited a
prohibition period to expire. Maybe this what miffed the Mounties--too
incompetent to store guns for the courts?
Nevertheless, there weas no discernible purpose for the home invasion,
other than to believe the officers were career-motivated. The police knew
the Wards, who are long-term residents of the community. Hell, Mrs. Ward
had raised some of the RCMP's kids in her day-care centre.
Both Wards held Possession and Acquisition Licenses (PALs)--that is,
until the police confiscated the paperwork. Ward was a veteran firearms
instructor, a range master and firearms verifer.
He has taught air cadets to shoot and handle firearms as well as
qualified countless people for firearms licenses. Ward is an early
retiree from the City of Port Alberni, drawing a reduced
pension.
He is now prevented from supplementing his income as an instructor.
Without proper records, neither can he file an adequate income-tax return
for last year's earnings.
Besides saddled with the extra burden of legal fees, the Wards have to
wrestle with the psychological trauma of a house sacking.
People's homes used to be their castles, untouchable by outsiders. Now
open season has been declared by the police, who can enter and pocket
whatever valuables they fancy during these wholesale fishing
expeditions.
The warning signs are blatant. Historically, these type property
violations are followed by cold-blooded mass murders carried out - not by
hoodlums and hate mongers - but by organized government-paid
tyrants.
The pattern leading up to democides/genocides is, first, governments
promote strict gun-control laws as "public safety" and
"anti-crime" measures before completely disarming the
populace.
The night-raid tactics of 21st Century Kanuckistan are identical to
Stalin's Soviet Russia-- even to being shot should victims resist when
dragged from their homes in the middle of the night on a mere suggestion
they might be enemies of the state.
Groundless allegations without a shred of supporting evidence still have
the power to destroy innocent people.
Before Adolph Hitler came to power, the Germans - like Canadians today -
were conditioned to be law-abiding. They rejected purchasing firearms on
the black market, foolishly believing that only hoodlums owned
"hot" guns.
The disarmed Jews didn't fare so well, did they? And it is a scary
proposition that some police still carry the torch for the Nazi mindset,
righteously participating in felonious attacks against good people like
Brian and Carol Ward.
This ruthless behavior is akin to shoving the sharp end of a bayonet into
the heart of this country's freedoms. It is truly frightening what
transpires as soon as a paranoid government like Chretien's begins to
fear its own citizenry.
* * * * *
A Vancouver Island Legal Defense Fund has been established with the
Coastal Community Credit Union, Parksville/Nanaimo, B.C., account number
15210-809-1030-86477, for the immediate use of Mr. and Mrs. Brian
Ward.
Cheques also can be mailed to: Norm Minard, secretary-treasurer, PO Box
207, Coombs, B.C., VOR 1M0
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