Holding the powerful accountable depends on how observant you are:

This is still not a settled issue in my books. It shouldn’t be for any Canadian that cares about holding our governments accountable. The story begins with a truly sad event, the Mayerthorpe Tragedy in which four young Canadians were murdered by a crazy, dangerous man.

I was living in Vancouver, not at all interested in political blogging, minding my own business. Upon hearing the news, at first I was shedding tears, for their families. Soon my tears turned to shivers of fear when Zacardelli the Commissioner of the RCMP, climbed on the still warm bodies of the slain Mounties and declared the crime to be the result of increased crime associated with marijuana grow operations.

This touched me personally, as I was awaiting trial for production and possession for the purposes of, to which I had stipulated in Creston in 2003. I had turned myself in to the Creston RCMP when my landlord and I had a dispute over the “grease.” The sergeant remarked that this situation was “Bizarre.”

It wasn’t until Saturday morning, the 5th, when listening to the CBC radio program “The House” that things coalesced. Up until then, since the murders on the 3rd of March, I had begun to fear the upcoming trial and the fact that I had no legal representation and no money. They were using the sentiment of pity for the fallen officers to generate hate in the public for pot growers, and by association smokers. Not many remember those first few days where the marijuana industry was being demonized as the culprit for the crime.

On the program, Anne McLellan, the Minister of Public Safety said, “the Liberal party would never legalize Cannabis because “it makes people stupid” That caused me to scream out a few things and choke on the joint of “train wreck” that I was smoking.

I Googled the Hate Crimes Act of Canada and established that the second part, and the Public Broadcasting Act, were one and the same thing. It states: “No one shall use the public airwaves to generate hatred for any readily identifiable group of individuals.”

I composed a vitriolic email and sent it to the PM, the Justice Minister, The Minister of Public Safety, the CRTC. The only one to respond was the CRTC on the 7th of March. They gave me a file number 233039, because I had the legal right to complain as a member of the targeted group.

The CRTC said that CBC had to answer to my charge within 3 weeks, which they did. See Anne Bolton’s response top me on Google. She said it was the Public broadcaster’s job to articulate the news and the viewer’s job to interpret it. None-the-less, there was never again a linkage of pot growers as being responsible for the crime at Mayerthorpe. But that wasn’t the best of it.

On the 8th of March late at night a small video clip was aired of Commissioner Zacardelli withdrawing his statements linking the deaths of the Mounties with the grow industry and he also apologized for making them. That’s all well and good, but not good enough for me. I actually tried to charge the Hatemonger at the Richmond RCMP, complained at the Human rights commission, and was shrugged off.

The three of them (Zacardelli, Cotler, McLellan) were reading off the same propaganda page, targeting, in a premeditated way, the pot growers/smokers to divert attention from the MOUNTY’S OWN CULPABILITY. While at the same time these guys failed to uphold their oath of office, oath to the Bar, and excused their buddy for taking the fall, Cotler mounted a campaign to persecute David Ahenakew which is still ongoing.

Mr. Ahenakew also wished to apologize and withdraw his statements which had no relevance to today, or were of a danger to anyone. He was not allowed to do so while Zacardelli took a walk. I was not allowed to exercise my citizen’s right to charge him.

There is no rule of law in Canada, rather the Law is applied differently depending whether you are a Native or a Cop, a politician or a pot smoker. The Justice minister and PM cover up crime rather than prosecute their friends. Until Canadians see an example of law abiding officials and police, don’t expect any our lawless attitude to decline. All that matters in Canada for Justice is that you be well armed, or control well armed police.

The end of it was that the government reduced my pot growing charges unilaterally and they allowed me to plead to possession under 30 grams and do 30 hrs community time. I had wanted to test the laws on the issue of the Polygamists being able to raise children for sexual purposes against the laws of Canada, only ten kilometers from the RCMP detachment, while I was not harming anyone else or interfering with their free choices by growing pot. It’s still a valid question today.

Since that time of the magical email which caused Zacardelli to squirm, and which changed the broadcasting history of this country, I have this assumption that I can make a difference by exercising my rights of free speech. I have felt the power of the written word personally.